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The Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society fosters a community for audio professionals, promoting education, networking, and innovation in audio engineering to enhance the quality and accessibility of audio technology in the region.

Rolling Radio: KEXP &ndash; Traditional Radio, and So Much More Panel Discussion Presented by Kevin SuggsLead Engineer Julian MartlewAudio Engineer, Media Producer Jackson LongProduction Manager, Audio Engineer Jon RobertsAudio Engineer andThe Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society Produced By Jayney WallickAES PNW Committee, Recording Engineer Wednesday, October 14 2026 Doors (virtual) open at 3:30 PM PDT (UTC -7)Meeting starts at 4:00 PM PDT (UTC -7) ****************** To attend: This is an Online meeting. We ask you to sign up here for a free ticket, since that will tell us how many people will attend and we can plan accordingly. &nbsp; The Zoom link will be sent two days before the event, via email to all ticket holders who sign up before the end of the meeting. We welcome everyone at Pacific Northwest AES meetings and tickets are free, although there is a way to donate to us without fees. All tickets, paid or free, are otherwise equal. ****************** Meeting details: Join the audio engineers from Seattle&rsquo;s KEXP for a Q&amp;A about the ever-evolving process of producing in-studio performances for broadcast and YouTube. Each year, the small but mighty team records an average of 230 sessions at KEXP&rsquo;s studio at Seattle Center and on remotes around the world. Meet Lead Engineer Kevin Suggs and fellow engineers Julian Martlew, Jackson Long and Jon Roberts in this 90-minute discussion. KEXP is an international community of music lovers and music makers, and a nonprofit organization fostering relationship and community building through broadcast, online, and in-person music experiences.&nbsp; <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.kexp.org/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://www.kexp.org/about</a> We hope to see you there! BONUS IN-PERSON EVENT: Seattle-area participants are also welcome to attend an associated event of this meeting. On&nbsp;Wednesday, October 21st, from 4:30-5:30 pm, a KEXP studio tour will be given for up to 30 meeting attendees. You must register for this event separately in advance. Please only register if you are able to attend:&nbsp; Register for bonus in-person KEXP tour here: <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/aes-pnw-presents-bonus-in-person-kexp-tour" id="isPasted" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/aes-pnw-presents-bonus-in-person-kexp-tour</a> ****************** Our Presenters:&nbsp; Kevin Suggs Kevin Suggs has been recording and playing in bands in Seattle since 1991. His engineering/production credits include The Walkabouts, Cat Power, Tarkio (Colin Meloy), Nels Cline, and a slew of other Seattle bands. &nbsp;He also dabbled in the world of live sound, mixing in the clubs for local bands and even doing a few tours. As a musician (Pedal Steel) he has been featured on recordings by many artists including The Shins, Brandie Carlile, and Rocky Votolato. &nbsp;He was a member of Seattle alt country band Evangeline for over a decade. &nbsp; Kevin started with KEXP in 2003 as a part-time audio engineer. That same year he opened and operated his own studio at his home in South Seattle. Kevin moved into the full-time Lead Audio Engineer position at KEXP in 2017. &nbsp; Julian Martlew&nbsp; Julian Martlew is an audio engineer, composer, producer, and radio announcer from Seattle, Washington. He&#39;s been at KEXP since before the invention of YouTube, recording sessions, producing radio spots and podcasts, and doing live sound for events.&nbsp; &nbsp; He started doing sound in the 90&#39;s at the Duke Coffeehouse in Durham, North Carolina, after bugging the man who was installing a sound system for open mics to teach him to use the board. &nbsp;That man - Charles Jones of Synergen Enterprises, eventually hired him as an assistant on live shows around North Carolina for bands like Dave Matthews, Johnny Quest, and The Spin Doctors. He moved to Seattle to attend the Art Institute&#39;s audio program. There, with the help of mentors like Scott Colburn and Jay Follette, he studied studio recording. &nbsp; &nbsp; After graduation he worked for freelance gigs for Gravelvoice Studios, KEXP, On The Boards theatre, the Tractor Tavern, Village Theatre, Conor Byrne etc. until a few of those places hired him part-time. With the tutelage of Dan Mortensen, he was set loose on the unsuspecting musicians performing at the Earshot Jazz Festival. After 15 years doing FOH sound at OTB, he left when he was hired full time at KEXP in 2020. Jackson Long&nbsp; Jackson Long is Seattle-based recording engineer, drummer and Northwest music enthusiast. He is the Production Manager at KEXP, member of the band BOAT and author of &ldquo;Hiding In Plain Sight: Studios of Seattle &amp; Tacoma&rdquo; illustrated books. &nbsp; His path to KEXP included three years as a technician with Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, serving as a house engineer at Jason McGerr&rsquo;s Two Sticks Audio and teaching recording at Western Washington University in Bellingham. Through all these eras, Jackson has produced records for bands, forming long-lasting partnerships as a trusted collaborator under his studio moniker Hear Me Shimmer. &nbsp; Since 2016, Jackson has led KEXP&rsquo;s team of audio engineers and producers with a focus on workflow, remote broadcasts and special projects such as the KEXP Vinyl Club or show syndication. &nbsp; Jon Roberts&nbsp; Jon Roberts is an audio engineer at KEXP in Seattle, where he has engineered and mixed in-studio sessions since 2022, including performances by All Them Witches, Hermanos Guti&eacute;rrez, and Hiromi&#39;s Sonicwonder. He also works at Studio Litho, where he has recorded Northwest favorites including Death Cab for Cutie, Mudhoney, and The Head and the Heart. Drawing on more than a decade of experience, from the legendary Sonic Ranch recording studio in Texas to the renowned KEXP studio, Jon brings deep studio and live-sound expertise to sessions heard by listeners around the world. ****************** For more info, please visit: <a fr-original-style="" href="https://pnw.aessections.org/" id="isPasted" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://pnw.aessections.org</a>

AES PNW Presents: Rolling Radio: KEXP – Traditional Radio, and So Much More Panel Discussion

80&#39;s Bleep and Boom: A Survey of the First Generation of Hybrid Subtractive Synthesizers Presented by Joe GrissoElectrical Engineer, Music &amp; Audio Designer andThe Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society Produced By Michael AshtonAES PNW Committee, Engineer, Programmer, Musician Wednesday, September 30 2026 Doors (virtual) open at 6:30 PM PDT (UTC -7)Meeting starts at 7:00 PM PDT (UTC -7) ****************** This is an Online meeting. We ask you to sign up here for a free ticket, since that will tell us how many people will attend and we can plan accordingly. The Zoom link will be sent two days before the event, via email to all ticket holders who sign up before the end of the meeting. We welcome everyone at Pacific Northwest AES meetings and tickets are free, although there is a way to donate to us without fees. All tickets, paid or free, are otherwise equal. ****************** Join us as we take a tour through the world of early 80s hybrid synthesizers, during the period when the industry was steadily advancing towards all-digital synthesizers, and the line between digital and analog was not always very well defined.&nbsp; We&#39;ll be nerding out on some of the well-known hybrids like the PPG Wave and Prophet VS, and lesser-known hybrids like the Kawai (not Korg!) M3 and Korg DWGS, and many others from Ensoniq to Fairlight. We&#39;ll discuss what made these instruments valuable and unique, what keeps them relevant, and why companies like Groove Synthesis are still making them today. ****************** Joe GrissoJoe Grisso is an electrical engineer with over 30 years of experience designing music and audio products for companies including DOD/DigiTech, E-Mu Systems, and PreSonus. He is currently working on projects for his own brands Detachment 3 and Rain City Modular. ****************** For more info: <a fr-original-style="" href="https://pnw.aessections.org" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://pnw.aessections.org</a>&nbsp;

AES PNW Presents: 80's Bleep and Boom - A Survey of the First Generation of Hybrid Subtractive Synthesizers

Evergreen Studios - Behind the Scenes of a World-Class Minneapolis Studio Presented by Christian MurphyFounder/Partner/Engineer Joe SadowskiPartner/Engineer/Producer/Song Writer Austin SprynczynatykPartner/Engineer/Producer Colin SmaagaardPartner andThe Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society Produced By Jess BergAES PNW Committee Chair Tuesday, June 30 2026 Doors (virtual) open at 4:30 PM PDT (UTC -7)Meeting starts at 5:00 PM PDT (UTC -7) ****************** This is an Online meeting. We ask you to sign up here for a free ticket, since that will tell us how many people will attend and we can plan accordingly. The Zoom link will be sent two days before the event, via email to all ticket holders who sign up before the end of the meeting. We welcome everyone at Pacific Northwest AES meetings and tickets are free, although there is a way to donate to us without fees. All tickets, paid or free, are otherwise equal. ****************** How did a partnership with the city lead to a world-class recording studio? Who came together to make it all happen? What is the vision for the future?&nbsp; Join us for a lively Q&amp;A with the founders and partners of Evergreen Studios in the heart of Minneapolis. We&#39;ll spend the first 40 minutes or so in interview, then open the floor to audience questions. We hope to see you there! ****************** Christian MurphyMinneapolis-based audio engineer with decades of experience in touring, live sound, and studio recording. He is the founder of Evergreen Studios. In addition to his studio work, Christian consults on large-scale sound system design and installation projects for live venues. Joe SadowskiMinneapolis-based studio engineer and songwriting fanatic. Holding degrees in Audio Engineering and Production, Joe has produced and recorded thousands of songs in all genres. He has 15 yrs experience in education, teaching Ableton Live, Production and Hip Hop. Austin SprynczynatykAustin is a Minneapolis-based audio engineer, producer, and partner at Evergreen Studios. He has spent over 10 years traveling the world with platinum selling artists such as YG, Robin Thicke, and Shoreline Mafia. Handling everything from live audio engineering to production and tour management, Austin possesses a practical understanding of what it takes to elevate an artist&#39;s sound from the studio demos to stadium stages. Colin SmaagaardColin Smaagaard brings extensive advertising, technology and start-up business experience to Evergreen. Colin has played a central role in scaling businesses from scratch, focusing on driving revenue and profitability. Colin&#39;s background also includes senior management and senior sales roles at some of the largest tech companies. For more info, please visit:<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.evergreenstudiosmn.com" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://www.evergreenstudiosmn.com</a> &nbsp; ****************** ANNUAL MEETING NOTICE OF ELECTIONS Before the meeting begins, we&rsquo;ll hold our annual Section business meeting where we conduct any necessary Section business and the election of Officers and Committee members. We need a quorum in order to conduct this portion of the meeting. If you&rsquo;re a Member or Associate Member who has designated the PNW Section as your Primary or Secondary Section, please attend this part of the meeting. The Election Committee put forward this list of candidates for office:&nbsp; The AES PNW Section 2026 slate of committee candidates is as follows: Even-numbered Committee, (two-year term):Luke PacholskiRod EvensonMichael AshtonPete WeiseJames D. (jj) Johnston The following committee members are fulfilling the final year of their 2-year terms: Chair: Jess BergVice-Chair: Micah HayesSecretary: Gary LouieTreasurer: Lawrence Schwedler Odd-numbered Committee, (two-year term):Jayney WallickLuke GoodloomisMatthew SuttonDan MortensenErin Shellman Thank you to our slate of candidates for being willing to support our Section! Candidates may also be nominated from the floor at the meeting, following approval by those present of a motion to open the floor to nominations. All Committee members must be current AES members (not Student Members) as of July 1, 2026, and remain so for the duration of their term. <a fr-original-style="" href="https://pnw.aessections.org" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://pnw.aessections.org</a>&nbsp;

AES PNW Presents: Evergreen Studios - Behind the Scenes

Recording and Audiophile Audio with Jamie Tate of AudioPhonics Mastering Presented by Jamie TateFounder, AudioPhonics Mastering andThe Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society Produced By Luke PacholskiAES PNW Committee Wednesday, May 20 2026 Doors (virtual) open at 4:30 PM PDT (UTC -7)Meeting starts at 5:00 PM PDT (UTC -7) This is an online meeting via Zoom. We welcome everyone at Pacific Northwest AES meetings and tickets are free, although there is a way to donate to us without fees. All tickets, paid or free, are otherwise equal. More info about our section here: <a fr-original-style="" href="https://pnw.aessections.org" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: initial; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://pnw.aessections.org</a>&nbsp; ****************** Why does a recording made in 1966 (usually) sound different from one made in 2026? How much of that difference is due to gear and how much is due to different techniques and philosophies? And what do audiophiles think of it all? Join us on Zoom for a conversation to discuss those topics and more with Nashville engineer and producer Jamie Tate. ****************** To Attend:&nbsp; This is an online only meeting. We ask you to sign up here for a free ticket, since that will tell us how many people will attend and we can plan accordingly.&nbsp; The Zoom link will be sent two days before the event, via email to all ticket holders who sign up before the end of the meeting. We hope to see you there. ****************** About our Presenter: Jamie TateJamie Tate is a Grammy and Emmy award-winning recording engineer, mixer, mastering engineer, and producer in Nashville, TN. Jamie earned his chops recording legendary artists such as Alan Jackson, Brooks &amp; Dunn, John Prine, Marty Stuart, and many others. More recently he has worked with major Country artists such as Justin Moore, Thomas Rhett and Billy Currington as well as with up-and-coming Nashville artists like Jordan Rager, CJ Solar, RaeLynn, and Smithfield. After owning his own studio (The Rukkus Room) for many years, he has now founded AudioPhonics Mastering. He&#39;s known for good vibes, incredible recordings, and going viral.

AES PNW Presents: Recording and Audiophile Audio with Jamie Tate of AudioPhonics Mastering

An Evening with Larry Crane Presented by Larry CraneFounder &amp; Editor, Tape Op Magazine andThe Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society Produced By Erin ShellmanAES PNW Committee Monday, April 13 2026 Doors (virtual) open at 5:30 PM PDT (UTC -7)Meeting starts at 6:00 PM PDT (UTC -7) This is an online meeting via Zoom. We welcome everyone at Pacific Northwest AES meetings and tickets are free, although there is a way to donate to us without fees. All tickets, paid or free, are otherwise equal. More info about our section here: <a fr-original-style="" href="https://pnw.aessections.org" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: initial; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://pnw.aessections.org</a>&nbsp; ****************** What does it take to build a career around the thing you&#39;re obsessed with? Larry Crane began Tape Op Magazine as a photocopied &#39;zine because he couldn&#39;t find the recording knowledge he was looking for. Thirty years later, it&#39;s become the highest circulation publication on music making in the world for musicians, engineers, and producers at every level. Join us on Zoom for a candid conversation about the realities of studio life, the evolution of recording culture, and what Larry&#39;s learned from decades of talking with people who make records. We&#39;l spend the first 30&ndash;40 minutes in interview, then open the floor for audience questions. ****************** To Attend:&nbsp; This is an online only meeting. We ask you to sign up here for a free ticket, since that will tell us how many people will attend and we can plan accordingly.&nbsp; The Zoom link will be sent two days before the event, via email to all ticket holders who sign up before the end of the meeting. We hope to see you there. ****************** About our Presenter: Larry CraneLarry Crane is the editor and founder of Tape Op Magazine (est. 1996), owner of Portland&rsquo;s Jackpot! Recording Studio (est. 1997), a freelance producer/engineer/mixer who has worked internationally, and archivist for the Estate of Elliott Smith. He&#39;s worked with artists like Sleater-Kinney, The Decemberists, Jenny Lewis, M. Ward, The Go-Betweens, Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus, Wooden Shjips, Quasi, David J, She &amp; Him, Gouge Away, and more. His music recording courses at LinkedIn Learning feature over 12 hours of real recording tips and tricks. He&#39;s spoken on and moderated panels about recording for TapeOpCon, SXSW, NXNW, NARAS, AES, and CMJ. He has worked in the past as a record label owner, radio station music director, DJ, record distributor sales, freelance music journalist and bass player (in bands since 1984, including Elephant Factory, Vomit Launch, and the Sunbirds.) In 2019 he was inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. For more info about Larry, please visit:<a fr-original-style="" href="//www.larry-crane.com" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: initial; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.larry-crane.com</a>&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="//www.tapeop.com" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: initial; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.tapeop.com</a>&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="//www.jackpotrecording.com" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: initial; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.jackpotrecording.com</a>&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="//www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/larry-crane" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: initial; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/larry-crane</a> &nbsp;

AES PNW Presents: An Evening with Larry Crane

<p fr-original-style='font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;' id="isPasted" style='font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;'> OpenSoundControl: The Future of Music Protocols Revisited Presented byMichael AshtonEngineer and Founder, Ashton Research andThe Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society Produced ByMichael Ashton Tuesday, March 31 2026 Doors (virtual) open at 5:30 PM PDT (UTC -7)Meeting starts at 6:00 PM PDT (UTC -7) This is an Online meeting. We ask you to sign up here for a free ticket, since that will tell us how many people will attend and we can plan accordingly. The Zoom link will be sent two days before the event via email to all ticket holders, including those who sign up within two days and before the end of the meeting. We welcome everyone at Pacific Northwest AES meetings and tickets are free, although there is a way to donate to us without fees. All tickets, paid or free, are otherwise equal. ********************************************** Bold new techniques, exciting new ways of thinking, exotic technologies seemingly from the future -- all these described computer music in the 1990s. Back then, everyone knew that most music would soon be made with software, and OpenSoundControl emerged as the way to manage it: a new protocol for a new world unimaginable to the developers of MIDI. In this talk, we&#39;ll discuss what OSC is, how it began, some of the many places it&#39;s been used, and how its ideas might continue into the future. We hope to see you there. ********************************************** <b fr-original-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 19px;" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 19px; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit;">About our Presenter: Michael Ashton<br style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -apple-system, &quot;system-ui&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -apple-system, &quot;system-ui&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Michael Ashton is an engineer who spent twelve years in the musical instrument business. After designing guitar amplifiers and DJ mixers, he worked on synthesizer products at Moog Music, where he was system architect for the Moog One, and designed the oscillators. Today he is working on new audio products at Ashton Research, https://ashton-research.com.&nbsp;

AES PNW Presents: OpenSoundControl - Revisited

AES PNW Presents - Reinventing the Horn: A Novel Approach to Directivity Control in a Horn-Loaded Loudspeaker - the Biamp LVH 900 (Hybrid)

Audio Signals vs. the Ear: Time, Frequency, and Bandwidth Revisited Presented byJames D. (jj) Johnston, Scientist and Audio Signal Processing Consultant andThe Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society Produced byJames D. (jj) Johnston Saturday, January 17 2026Doors (in-person and online) open at 12:30 PM PST (UTC -8)Meeting starts at 1:00 PM PST (UTC-8) This is a Hybrid meeting. The in-person session will be held at DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, WA. You are invited to attend in-person if possible. We ask you to sign up here for a free ticket, since that will tell us how many people will attend and we can plan accordingly. In-person participants have a chance to win door prizes! We will have an Audix PDX520 microphone and two B9audio stereo alignment rulers to give away. The winners will be drawn at the end of the meeting. No purchase necessary. Please note the early Saturday afternoon start time. The Zoom link and DigiPen info will be sent two days before the event, via email to all ticket holders who sign up before the end of the meeting. That will let Zoom attendees make a last-minute decision. In-person attendees obviously need to do a little planning. Parking: DigiPen Institue of Technology, 9931 Willows Rd NE, Redmond, WA 98052 The closest bus stop is Willows Rd NE &amp; NE 100th St, directly across from DigiPen. We welcome everyone at Pacific Northwest AES meetings and tickets are free, although there is a way to donate to us without fees. All tickets, paid or free, are otherwise equal. ********************************************** Often, we take our hearing for granted and as audio engineers, ignoring what is perhaps our most important tool is not entirely prudent. jj Johnston, one of our resident experts, takes on an explanation of our hearing as well as hearing-related phenomena, covering the topic from sound production, room acoustics, physiology of hearing and psychoacoustics. This is a lot of material to cover, so the presentation is split into two sessions, with a break in-between. 1:00p - Meeting begins&nbsp; Part 1 &ndash; How sound gets to the brain (at normal levels)&bull;Sound &ndash; how it&rsquo;s created and propagates&bull;Acoustics of rooms&bull;Acoustics of the head/outer ear&bull;Middle ear behavior&bull;Cochlear analysis (30 minute intermission + mingle) Part 2 &ndash; What happens after it goes down the auditory nerve?&bull;Monaural processing&bull;Masking&bull;Pre-echo&bull;Binaural processing&bull;Time correlation,&bull;Frequency correlation&bull;Masking effects&bull;Selective post processing 4:00p - Meeting concludes We hope to see you there, in-person or virtually.<p fr-original-style='font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;' style='font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'> <p fr-original-style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ProximaNova, "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' id="isPasted" style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ProximaNova, "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit;'><b fr-original-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 19px;" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 19px; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit;">About our Presenter:<p fr-original-style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ProximaNova, "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ProximaNova, "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit;'> James D. (jj) Johnston&nbsp;jj received the BSEE and MSEE degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA in 1975 and 1976 respectively.&nbsp; -Worked 26 years for AT&amp;T Bell Labs and its successor AT&amp;T Labs Research.&nbsp; -One of the first investigators in the field of perceptual audio coding.&nbsp; -One of the inventors and standardizers of MPEG 1/2 audio Layer 3 and MPEG-2 AAC, as well as the AT&amp;T Labs-Research PXFM (perceptual transform coding) and PAC (perceptual audio coding) and the ASPEC algorithm that provided the best audio quality in the MPEG-1 audio tests.&nbsp; -Currently working in the area of auditory perception of soundfields, electronic soundfield correction, ways to capture soundfield cues and represent them, and ways to expand the limited sense of realism available in standard audio playback for both captured and synthetic performances.&nbsp; -Mr. Johnston is an IEEE Fellow, an AES Fellow, a NJ Inventor of the Year, an AT&amp;T Technical Medalist and Standards Awardee, and a co-recipient of the IEEE Donald Fink Paper Award.&nbsp; -In 2006, he received the James L. Flanagan Signal Processing Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society&nbsp; -He presented the 2012 Heyser Lecture at the AES 133rd Convention: Audio, Radio, Acoustics and Signal Processing: the Way Forward.

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2025-04-12 Sat. 1pmPDT (UTC -7) AES PNW: A Compleat Tutorial on The Quiet Art of Noise in Analogue Audio Circuits with Jamie Angus-Whiteoak

<div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit">Vinyl Mastering In The 21st Century</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit">Presented by</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit">Joe Nino-Hernes, Mastering Engineer, Sterling Sound Nashville</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit">Produced by</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit">Luke Pacholski and AES Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society</div> <div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit">Despite the meteoric rise in streaming and being nearly left for dead first by cassettes and then CDs, vinyl never died and has been experiencing a revival for nearly two decades. With that revival has come a resurgence in cutting and mastering for vinyl, which has its own unique issues and requirements. Some topics we'll discuss are:</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit">- Basics of disk recording and playback.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit">- Analog mastering in a digital world.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit">- The technical and creative aspects of mastering.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit">- The types of sources provided for mastering.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit">- The journey to becoming a mastering engineer.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit">We will also take a look at Joe's studio.</div> <span fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times-Roman; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Joe Nino-Hernes is a mastering engineer at Sterling Sound in Nashville. Audio has long been a passion of Joe's, from proudly acquiring his first professional tape machine in high school, to restoring a vintage mixing console. After a job selling Hi-Fi equipment, Joe moved to Nashville to become studio manager at The Rukkus Room Studios. From there he was hired by Sterling Sound in 2017, and since then has been cutting records for artists such as Luke Combs, The Black Keys, Norah Jones, and Madonna. <a href="https://pnw.aessections.org/" style="text-decoration-color:initial;-webkit-user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit">More information here.</a> WE WELCOME ALL PEOPLE TO OUR MEETINGS. You don't need to be a member to join us. We will start the Zoom 30 minutes early so we can be sure your audio and video work so that you can talk with us.  We will hang out indefinitely after the meeting to chat with our audio friends.

2025-03-13 6pmPDT (UTC -7) AES PNW: Vinyl Mastering In The 21st Century, with Joe Nino-Hernes, Sterling Sound Nashville, on Zoom

2025-02-25 AES PNW: The "Big Six” Essential Audio Measurements, presented by Brian MacMillan, Audio Precision/Axiometrix Solutions

<div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5">At the AES 1964 convention in New York, Robert Moog first introduced the work he and Herb Deutsch had been doing on voltage-controlled synthesizer modules, and their analogue synthesizer quickly became the cutting edge of music. But the 1980s digital revolution swept them aside, and soon the only place to buy analogue was at junk sales. </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5">Then a funny thing happened: in the mid-2000s, analogue came back, and the instruments and components are very much in production and widely used today. </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5">Join us for an evening of conversation with industry veterans including Trent Thompson, former product marketing manager at Moog Music and now CEO at Lauten Audio. PNW Committee member Michael Ashton will be the moderator as well as the Producer for this Zoom-only meeting.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5">More about Robert Moog: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moog" style="text-decoration-color:currentcolor;-webkit-user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moog</a></div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5">About our Presenters:</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5"> </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;text-align:left;margin:0px;line-height:1.5">Michael Ashton is an engineer who spent twelve years in the musical instrument business. After designing guitar amplifiers and DJ mixers, he worked on synthesizer products at Moog Music, where he was system architect for the Moog One, and designed the oscillators. Today he is working on new audio products at Ashton Research.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;text-align:left;margin:0px;line-height:1.5"> </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;text-align:left;margin:0px;line-height:1.5">Trent Thompson is President at Lauten Audio, a manufacturer of studio microphones. Before Lauten, he spent eight years at Moog Music, where he managed product development and marketing for almost every product Moog introduced during the 2010s, including the Sub 37, modular reissues, and Moog One.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5"> </div>We welcome everyone to our meetings, and do our best to keep them free and accessible to all.

2025-01-30 PNW AES: The Analog Synthesizer Renaissance: 2010-2020, with Michael Ashton and Trent Thompson

<p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Wednesday Dec 11, 2024<p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">6:30pmPST (UTC -8) (scroll way down to see your local time)<p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">"Doors" open at 6:00pm<p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">This is a Zoom meeting only<p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit"><a href="https://pnw.aessections.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color:currentcolor;-webkit-user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank">More information about the Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society</a><p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit"><a href="https://pnw.aessections.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color:currentcolor;-webkit-user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank">and our meetings at our website here</a><p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">We welcome everyone to our meetings and have a goal of keeping our meetings free for all, although we welcome donations and encourage membership in the AES.<p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">It’s 2024 and the audio world lives primarily in the digital domain, but the lust for the good old days of analog remains.  Analog tape decks are often desired, but rarely used due to cost and complexity.  Audio engineers often turn to tape emulators, either hardware or software, to give them that analog sound.<p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">But what is that good old analog sound?  Analog tape has many foibles, not the least of which is ensuring the deck is running at its peak performance.  A well setup Ampex, Studer, MCI or Otari multi track will each sound very good, but they will each be different; even if optimized for the same tape.  All 4 of these brands have good to great midrange to high frequency response, but the low frequency will be different for each deck and will change between 15IPS and 30IPS.  Each will have some distortion from the vagaries of the magnetic material and its interaction with bias and heads as well as sound differences due to different circuit topologies.  <p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">In short, it’s a complex set of compromises which have evolved over the few decades where analog tape was the only medium.<p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Oh, and each instrument is impacted differently.  A snare drum might sound great if you really push it onto analog tape, but an acoustic guitar might benefit from a lighter touch.  <p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">In contrast, digital recording gives you back pretty much what you sent in.  Sending a snare drum harder onto a digital track gives you back a louder snare drum but no difference in character.  <p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Emulators to the rescue!<p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">But how well do these emulators emulate the sound of tape?  Matthew & John will play back tracks of a few different instruments which have been recorded onto tape or run through hardware and software emulators for you to hear how well emulators live up to their tape heritage (or not) and we can have a (hopefully) lively discussion about what we hear.  <p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Our Presenters:<p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Matthew Sutton is the owner of Matthew Sutton – Technical Audio Services, LLC in Seattle.  Matthew’s first exposure to analog tape was at age 7, a little deck his dad brought home from work.  The first tape decks he worked on were Ampex 351, Ampex MR70, and a Scully 280.  Matthew provided warranty services on Ampex, MCI, Otari and Tascam decks through the 1980’s and helped implement the first digital recording systems in the Seattle area, both tape and hard disk.  He continues to provide repairs and maintenance on studio equipment in the Seattle area.  While his discography is somewhat limited, Matthew has engineered recordings on analog and digital over the years.<p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">John Metzler is the owner and engineer at Quiet Please Recording in Seattle.  John has owned and operated Quiet Please since 2013.  Prior to Quiet Please, John worked in many phases of audio engineering and production in and around Seattle.  At Quiet Please, John records in analog on his Ampex MM1200 16/24 track and Ampex ATR102 mixdown deck using his Otari/Sound Workshop 54 mixing console with moving fader automation.  In the digital domain, John utilizes Burl converters into Pro Tools Ultimate HDX and can marry analog to digital with his Endless Analog CLASP system.<p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);width:100%;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="margin:0px 0px 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2024-12-11 Is it Memorex or Is It Emulation? A listening comparison of tape vs hardware emulation vs software emulation, by Matthew Sutton & John Metzler

<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;text-align:center;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">This is a Hybrid Zoom Meeting The in-person meeting takes place at <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;text-align:center;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Digipen Institute of Technology<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;text-align:center;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Redmond, WA<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;text-align:center;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Rescheduled to Tuesday December 3, 2024 7:30pm PST (UTC -8)<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;text-align:center;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">(Scroll way down to see what time it will be where you are) <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;text-align:center;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"><a href="https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/2024-12-11-is-it-memorex-or-is-it-emulation-a-listening-comparison-of-tape-vs-hardware-emulation-vs-software-emulation-by-matthew-sutton-and-john-metzler" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color:currentcolor;-webkit-user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank">Click here to see our December 11 meeting about the sound of recording on tape vs. using tape emulation on digital files.</a><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">jj's Dec. 3 Meeting: Unlike a room made for stereo mixing, or for listening, wherein Live-End-Dead-End (LEDE) is often touted as the solution to provide some sense of space, a mixing space or listening space for immersive mixing should provide few contributions to the sound arriving at the listener, and the sound reaching the listener should be under complete control of the (minimum of 7) speakers in the plane, optionally plus height, proscenium top, or other speakers included as part of a particular listening setup. <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Unlike listening rooms vs. production spaces, an immersive listening room should resemble the mixing room, in that the listening room itself should offer as little contribution as possible.<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">This presentation describes how to design and build such a space, without completely breaking and composting your bank account. <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">For existing spaces, some modifications can be suggested that will make your setup better able to overlay the local space with the desired space. <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">For new spaces, more specific suggestions point to inner and outer wall construction and location.  <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">For all of these spaces, the author suggests using full-range speakers, and leaving the LFE to effects, as originally intended.  <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">A separate discussion on LFE vs. Subwoofer is also planned.<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">To Attend<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">You can participate in this meeting via Zoom as well as in-person. You'll receive the Zoom Link two days before the meeting.<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">“Doors" for both Zoom and Digipen open at 7:00pm PST.<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">We hope to see you there! Dan Mortensen<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">AES PNW Chair 2022-2025<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1731486275/xyfjzuhnfsyqio5jm09o.png" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;-webkit-user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" /><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">

Rescheduled: 2024-12-3 AES PNW: Building A Room for Immersive Mixing -- Presented by  James D. (jj) Johnston

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1728071345/xmzwuy9ykosit3cupytu.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;-webkit-user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" /> <div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit">Join us on Wednesday October 23rd at 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET for a lively and informative discussion about the recent 2024 AES Convention in New York as well as AES Conventions past and future.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit">Calling all AES Convention attendees, panelists, and the convention-curious!</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit">We’d love to hear your AES Convention stories! Join us as we share perspectives and experiences with each other. We’ll go over the history of the AES Convention, how it’s changed and evolved over the years, what it’s like to attend, the art of the hang, and what happens post-convention and beyond.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit">The 157th AES Convention is currently held at The Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, this year on October 8-10, but it's been in a LOT of different places during its history since the first one in 1949. During that time, it's ALWAYS been the place to go to see the latest in audio, and there's been a lot of audio change in that time.  From the AES Show NY website:</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit">“Step into a world of audio innovation and inspiration at AES Show 2024 NY, the flagship event of the Audio Engineering Society. This annual gathering unites over 10,000 audio professionals, enthusiasts, and exhibitors from around the globe. Whether you’re a seasoned expert, a novice, or a student, the AES Show provides a platform for collaboration, discovery, and learning.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit">"Join us in this immersive experience where leading manufacturers showcase cutting-edge solutions, engineers demonstrate the latest products, and a diverse array of workshops, panels, demos, and training sessions cater to both researchers and practitioners. The AES Show creates an environment where ambition is amplified, crafts are fine-tuned, and the entire spectrum of the audio lifecycle is brought to life. Don’t miss this unparalleled opportunity to widen your perspective, connect with industry leaders, and stay at the forefront of audio technology. The AES Show 2024 NY is where passion meets possibility, and where the future of audio is crafted.”</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit">Whether you’re curious about going or if you’re a regular attendee, this is sure to be an insightful and fun meeting as we share stories and history about the AES Convention. We'll look at the many places the Convention has been hosted, of course with a focus on the most recent one. We look forward to hearing your memories of memorable Conventions.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit">Bring your food and drink, pull up a chair, and join the AES PNW Section for an online post-157th AES Convention hang! The meeting will be moderated and produced by Jess Berg, Dan Mortensen, and Gary Louie.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit"> </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit">The Zoom "doors" will open at 5:00p PT / 8:00pm ET. We hope to see you there!</div> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1728071446/di8nsr3w3nnxuclmphjr.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;-webkit-user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" /> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1728071691/fccqle0kcqrdfjr5zucv.png" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center" />

2024-10-23: AES PNW Section Meeting on Zoom: The AES Convention: Past, Present, and Future

<table><tbody><tr><td><div style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:24px;box-sizing:inherit">AES PNW Section Meeting</div><div style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:24px;box-sizing:inherit">September 2024 Meeting Notice</div> <div style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:24px;box-sizing:inherit">Live Sound Improvements at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley</div> <div style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:22.4px;box-sizing:inherit">Presented by</div><div style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:22.4px;box-sizing:inherit">Ted Wright - Jazz Alley house sound engineer</div><div style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20.799999px;box-sizing:inherit">and</div><div style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:22.4px;box-sizing:inherit">AES Pacific Northwest Section</div><div style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:22.4px;box-sizing:inherit">Meeting Produced by Jayney Wallick (AES PNW Committee Member)</div><div style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20.799999px;box-sizing:inherit">Monday, September 30th, 2024</div><div style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20.799999px;box-sizing:inherit">7:30 PM PDT(UTC -7) </div>(Scroll way, way down and see what time it will be in your area when we start the meeting.)<div style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20.799999px;box-sizing:inherit">This is a hybrid in-person & Zoom meeting.</div><div style="box-sizing:inherit"> The virtual doors open at 7:00PM. Dimitriou's Jazz Alley is located at 2033 6th Avenue, Seattle 98121 (This is the edge of Belltown and the north edge of downtown.) Free parking at the Amazon Doppler Garage, on 6th Avenue, between Virginia and Lenora streets. It is free after 5pm and doesn't close until midnight. <table><tbody><tr><td>NOTE: AES is changing its web hosting for our Section's web pages, including PNW. Our current URL will stop working soon.The new URL is: <a href="https://pnw.aessections.org/" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;-webkit-user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit">https://pnw.aessections.org/</a> Please bookmark the new URL and delete the one you've had for the last however many years. </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td>Join us on September 30th at 7:30 pm as we get a sound perspective of Jazz Alley with veteran house audio engineer, Ted Wright! Get a behind the scenes look at the recent audio upgrades at Jazz Alley including, dual Yamaha CL5 consoles, Symetrix system control and processing, and Lab Gruppen amplifiers, all connected through Dante. This biggest change came with the replacement of the line array speakers, with high power full range speakers with FIR filter control. The new speaker system was provided by local manufacturer McCauley and the results are fantastic. Ted will give us a breakdown of the equipment and its use and discuss the challenges of mixing loud bands in small rooms, getting a quick and effective sound check done, and integrating artist equipment into your house system. He will also discuss his acoustic piano micing techniques and strategies. Ted is eager to share his 30+ years of experience in live audio and will be ready to take your questions. Jazz Alley is a fixture of the Seattle live music and dining scene, family owned and operated since 1980. For over four decades, Dimitriou's Jazz Alley has been a West Coast 'must' for all the towering figures in the world of jazz - stars such as Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Betty Carter, Eartha Kitt, Dave Brubeck and McCoy Tyner have all played there. The nightclub first opened its doors in 1980 in Seattle's University District. An intimate bistro setting, it attracted a diverse clientele. Equally popular among college students and die-hard jazz aficionados, you could always find an exciting mixture of personalities and performers. Six years later Jazz Alley relocated to the larger and more accessible club downtown at 6th and Lenora, where we will be meeting; the perfect venue for introducing new fans to world class jazz music while still offering the exuberant atmosphere of the old establishment. "A world class jazz club where music and food, musicians and audience garner equal respect" (The Seattle Times) In 2016, DownBeat Magazine voted Jazz Alley as one of the top 100 jazz clubs in the world. Voted "Best Jazz Club" by the Seattle Weekly and voted Best Jazz Club via King 5's Best of Western Washington poll 8 years running. We hope to see you at our September meeting.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1726520552/zijahpeapmmyydabr2de.png" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;-webkit-user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" /> </td></tr></tbody></table>

2024-09-30 Live Sound Improvements at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley Presented by Ted Wright - Jazz Alley house sound engineer

<p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">At our June Section Meeting and Business Meeting, we will hold our annual Officer and Commitee election, and then PNW Committee member Jim Rondinelli will interview noted Film Music Composer, Producer, and Musician Adam Dorn, aka Mocean Worker. Adam works from his newly christened studio space in the woods of New York. This is a Zoom-only meeting. <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Mocean Worker (pronounced "motion worker") is the recording alias of jazz musician and producer Adam Dorn. <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Philadelphia native Dorn, son of jazz and R'n'B producer Joel Dorn (noted staff producer at Atlantic Records), studied at Berklee College of Music. He adopted the Mocean Worker moniker as a DJ of drum 'n' bass music, and his style evolved to include Electro-Swing, funk, big-band, and swing elements. Dorn has led bands, given high-profile performances, and had his music used extensively in TV, advertising, and film. <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">In 2014, Dorn and Charlie Hunter launched the podcast "Compared To What" and released an album titled It's Pronounced Motion... in Japan. <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Dorn's music has been used extensively in TV, advertising and film, including "Tres Tres Chic" in The Devil Wears Prada and The Pink Panther, "Chick a Boom Boom Boom" in Inside Deep Throat, "Reykjavak" in The Namesake, and "Right Now" in Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer. <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">He also scored the Showtime/BBC film documentary about the life of comedian/actor Richard Pryor entitled Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic. Additionally, his song "Intothinair" from the album Aural and Hearty was featured in the film The Bourne Supremacy. <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Our interviewer, Jim Rondinelli, has suggested a few topics, to lend a direction to the interview. <ul><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Tell us about your experiences as a musician and producer. </li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">What your path from Musician to DJ to Producer to Composer? </li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Your father, Joel Dorn, was a staff producer for Atlantic Records. Does his legacy influence your approach to music? </li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">What is changing in your workflow, right now? </li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">What are the biggest technical issues you encounter when collaborating with others? How do you fix them? </li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Are you using AI? </li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Do you approach mixing different for different delivery media? </li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Whose approaches to sessions most influenced yours? Why? </li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">What gear is critical for the way you work? </li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Do you have any advice for someone considering moving into audio for film or TV? </li></ul><p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Join us for an enlightening and entertaining evening of questions and answers. Your own are welcomed, and you can submit them via the session Chat.<p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocean_Worker" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;-webkit-user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank">Adam Dorn/Mocean Worker at Wikipedia</a><p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Dorn" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;-webkit-user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank">Joel Dorn at Wikipedia</a> ***** Use this chart to decide if the timing of the meeting works out for you, or you'd rather catch the video which will be posted on our Section webpage later: <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1717959825/lbumvbfzhnz4t1ohzpnm.png" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;-webkit-user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" />

2024-06-25 6:00pmPDT PNW AES

This will be a Zoom Meeting.<div style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Times-Roman;box-sizing:inherit"><div style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;box-sizing:inherit">A night of recording tips, mixing trips, and stories from the place where dreams are made real and musical magic is captured forever. Or not.<div style="box-sizing:inherit">Presenter: Producer/Engineer Jim Rondinelli (AES PNW Committee Member)</div>Interviewed by Micah Hayes (AES PNW Committee Member)</div></div> <span fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times-Roman; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Micah will ask Jim about his recording (sometimes mixing and producing) such award-winning albums as  <span fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times-Roman; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">--Wilco's "Being There,"  <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1713685275/gy1hvrexp1ljlcxzujdj.jpg" style="width:363px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;-webkit-user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" /><span fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times-Roman; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">--Weezer's "Pinkerton,"    <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1713685368/rwnsdizyty7ccfv9uu6z.jpg" style="width:363px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;-webkit-user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" /><span fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times-Roman; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">--Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend,"     <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1713685455/hj3ey2n9f9cfwfmmk4ce.jpg" style="width:361px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;-webkit-user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" /> <span fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times-Roman; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">--Everclear's "So Much for the Afterglow."    <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1713685513/taikygi9xpi1szwad6nv.jpg" style="width:361px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;-webkit-user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" /> <span fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times-Roman; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Topics such as equipment choice, musical intention, and what it was like to work with the artists will be discussed. <span fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times-Roman; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">About Jim Rondinelli: <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman">Jim Rondinelli is a dynamic leader and accomplished professional with a proven track record in leading early-stage companies to success. Currently serving as the President of Immersion Networks, he spearheads the company's efforts in revolutionizing audio and metaverse experiences through immersive connectivity solutions.<p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman"> <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman"><span fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times-Roman; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">As a music producer, Jim Rondinelli has collaborated with some of the most influential artists of our time, crafting chart-topping hits and shaping iconic soundscapes that resonate with listeners worldwide. His innate ability to blend genres, experiment with sonic textures, and evoke powerful emotions through music has garnered critical acclaim and a vast global fan base.<p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman"> <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman">Jim's visionary leadership and entrepreneurial mindset have enabled him to navigate complex landscapes and bring disruptive technologies to market. His ability to identify emerging trends and capitalize on them has been instrumental in shaping the future of next-generation audio experiences.<p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman"> <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times-Roman">Throughout his career, Jim has demonstrated a strong commitment to driving digital transformation and empowering organizations to thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. His exceptional leadership qualities, combined with his passion for innovation, make him a valuable asset in shaping the future of immersive audio experiences and the metaverse.============================== TIME ZONES: Our meeting will be at 7:30. Look at this list of representative cities, days, and times to see what day and time it will be for you, and if you want to sign up or wait to see the video: Weds. 4:00pm Honolulu Weds 7:00pm Seattle, Los Angeles Weds 8:00pm Denver, Mexico City Weds 9:00pm Minneapolis, Chicago, Houston, Bogota, Quito, Lima Weds. 10:00pm New York, Santiago, Caracas, La Paz, Asuncion Weds. 11:00pm Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Halifax Thurs. 2:00am Sierra Leone Thurs. 3:00am London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Kinshasa Thurs. 4:00am Paris, Rome, Cairo, Budapest, Cape Town, Tripoli, Khartoum Thurs. 5:00am Istanbul, Jerusalem, Qatar, Athens. Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Nairobi, Baghdad, Riyadh, Addis Ababa Thurs. 7:30am New Delhi Thurs. 9am Jakarta, Bangkok, Hanoi, Phnom Penh Thurs. 10am Beijing, Perth, Singapore, Taipei, Taiwan, Manila Thurs. 11am Tokyo, Manokwari (Indonesia) Thurs. Noon Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane Thurs. 2pm Auckland, Wellington NZ

AES PNW May 29: Studies from the Studio: Staying (somewhat) Sane in Insane Places Jim Rondinelli interviewed by Micah Hayes, Meeting Producer

AES PNW: April 23 6pmPDT Recording the Boston Symphony Orchestra

<div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:22.4px;box-sizing:inherit;text-align:center;line-height:1.5">AES PNW March Meeting Quartz - Approaching the Problem of Audio/Visual sync For Procedural Game Systems Presented by</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:22.4px;box-sizing:inherit;text-align:center;line-height:1.5">Max Hayes - Epic Games</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20.799999px;box-sizing:inherit;text-align:center;line-height:1.5">and</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:22.4px;box-sizing:inherit;text-align:center;line-height:1.5">Audio Engineering Society Pacific Northwest Section</div><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5"> <div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:22.4px;box-sizing:inherit;text-align:center;line-height:1.5">Meeting Produced by Lawrence Schwedler - AES PNW Committee</div> <div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20.799999px;box-sizing:inherit;text-align:center;line-height:1.5">Wednesday, March 34 (-April 3-), 2024</div> <div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20.799999px;box-sizing:inherit;text-align:center;line-height:1.5">7:30PM PDT(UTC -7)</div> <div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20.799999px;box-sizing:inherit">This is a Hybrid In-Person/Zoom meeting. The in-person part will be in Redmond, Washington, USA</div> --Because of a last-minute scheduling problem, we had to move our March meeting from March 27 to a week later, and are choosing to call that March 34.-- You'll receive an email two days before the event with the Zoom link and the physical location. <span fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Have you ever wondered why, as a sound designer, a sound doesn't play the instant you trigger it from game logic? Let's dive into the mechanics of why it doesn't by default, how a system can overcome those hurdles, and see examples of why it is powerful to wield such a solution. <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Max's talk will be an overview of the barriers to sample-accurate audio scheduling, letting visuals and events be triggered by audio, and how Unreal Engine's "Quartz Subsystem" approaches this problem space. <h2>About Max Hayes</h2><span fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Max Hayes is an Audio Engine Programmer at Epic Games with a passion for building tools and technologies to facilitate the creation of immersive and innovative audio experiences. He studied Music Production and Sound Design as dual major at Berklee College of Music before transferring to DigiPen institute of Technology. There he graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Digital Audio. <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Along the way Max has worked as a front-of-house mix engineer, freelance composer for independent films, and an instructor for both guitar performance and music production. Through these experiences he acquired a deep understanding of the creative and technical aspects of audio, which he now applies to his work at Epic Games. <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">At Epic, Max contributes to core audio engine technologies in the Unreal Engine including caching systems, ambisonics decoding, MetaSounds, DSP optimizations, and the Quartz scheduling system.<p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.aes.org/sections/pnw/" target="_blank">More Information at this link.</a>

AES PNW March Meeting: March 34 (-April 3-) : Quartz - Approaching the Problem of Audio/Visual sync For Procedural Game Systems

<div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:22.4px;box-sizing:inherit">Presented by</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:22.4px;box-sizing:inherit">Dan Dugan - Dan Dugan Sound Design</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20.799999px;box-sizing:inherit">and</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:22.4px;box-sizing:inherit">The Nature Sounds Society</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20.799999px;box-sizing:inherit">and</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:22.4px;box-sizing:inherit">AES Pacific Northwest Section</div><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"> <div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:22.4px;box-sizing:inherit">Meeting Produced by Jess Berg - AES PNW Committee</div> <div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20.799999px;box-sizing:inherit">Wednesday, Feb 28, 2024</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20.799999px;box-sizing:inherit">7:30PM PST(UTC -8)</div> <div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20.799999px;box-sizing:inherit">This is a Zoom meeting. Dan and the meeting:</div> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1705960496/xwqkhnqsww71vlqdkibv.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;box-sizing:inherit;-webkit-user-select:none" /> <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">After generations of being regarded mainly as postcard views, the U.S. National Parks have begun to appreciate the value of their soundscapes.  <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">We will see how the Park Service records and analyzes soundscapes, and learn how wildlife is affected by human-made sounds.  <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Starting twenty years ago, Dan Dugan began to document sound environments in four-channel surround, using two Mini-Disc recorders synchronized in post-production.  <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Spurred on by the availability of multi-track recorders for both consumers and the film industry, more recordists are going immersive, but limited in number by the cost and the burden of transporting and setting up so many mikes.  <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit"> We will listen to a tour of immersive soundscapes in<span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit"> binaural audio. You will want to listen on headphones; listening through speakers will NOT give you the same effect! <a href="https://www.aes.org/sections/pnw/"></a><a href="https://www.aes.org/sections/pnw/" target="_blank">More info at AES PNW Website soon.</a>  (Click that sentence to go the webpage)

AES PNW Feb. 28: The Sound of Nature Is All Around; Nature is Immersive! with Dan Dugan

Once Upon a Time in Texas: Film Scoring, Post Production and the Independent Studio Presented by Mark Menza Composer, Musician, Arranger, Music Producer&nbsp; andThe Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society Produced By Pete WeiseAES PNW Committee, Musician, Educator Tuesday, November 17 2026 Doors (virtual) open at 6:00 PM PST (UTC -8)Meeting starts at 6:30 PM PST (UTC -8) ****************** To attend: This is an Online meeting. We ask you to sign up here for a free ticket, since that will tell us how many people will attend and we can plan accordingly. &nbsp; The Zoom link will be sent two days before the event, via email to all ticket holders who sign up before the end of the meeting. We welcome everyone at Pacific Northwest AES meetings and tickets are free, although there is a way to donate to us without fees. All tickets, paid or free, are otherwise equal. ****************** Meeting details: Dallas-based composer and producer Mark Menza discusses the current landscape of the music industry through the lens of his past projects, providing insights into the process of composing and recording for different types of media and live performance, and how advances in music technology have affected the techniques of independent studios. We hope to see you there! ****************** Our Presenter:&nbsp; Mark Menza Mark Menza is a composer, musician, arranger and music producer with a focus on scoring to picture offering composing, sound design, audio postproduction, music supervision, and audio production for all types of media. Mark has worked on the animated franchises Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius [Paramount, Nickelodeon films], and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron TV series as post supervisor; The Ant Bully [Warner Bros], Dragon Ball GT, and Wishbone [PBS]. Mark has scored numerous films, documentaries, games, episodic TV, as well as a spectrum of commercials, and branded content. Mark is also a sound designer and audio post mixer for many independent features, short films, and broadcast work. Additionally he is an Adjunct Instructor at the University Of Texas At Dallas in Composition for Media. ****************** For more info, please visit: <a fr-original-style="" href="https://pnw.aessections.org/" id="isPasted" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://pnw.aessections.org</a> ****************** BONUS IN-PERSON EVENT: Seattle-area participants are also welcome to attend an associated event of our October meeting. On&nbsp;Wednesday, October 21st, from 4:30-5:30 pm Pacific, a KEXP studio tour will be given for up to 30 meeting attendees. You must register for this event separately in advance.&nbsp; Please only register if you are able to attend here:&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/aes-pnw-presents-bonus-in-person-kexp" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/aes-pnw-presents-bonus-in-person-kexp</a>&hellip; &nbsp; KEXP is an international community of music lovers and music makers, and a nonprofit organization fostering relationship and community building through broadcast, online, and in-person music experiences.&nbsp; <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.kexp.org/about " rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://www.kexp.org/about</a> We hope to see you there!

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