AES Open Studios Tours Mixer Sponsors and Raffle Prizes

Thanks to 25th Street Recording, for hosting our mixer, and donating studio time for the winners of the mentoring sessions.

Prize and Sponsors for the AES Open Studios Raffle

Must be present to win. The raffle will be held on September 25, 2015 during the mixer at 25th Street Recording.  All raffle tickets are issued to registered participants of the open studios tour. Everyone should get one raffle ticket for each studio you tour, so the more studios you visit, the more chances to win.

Adobe – One year subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud
Creative Cloud gives you an amazing array of creative tools for producing multiple media projects, with Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Audition and more.

Audition is a powerful audio workstation designed to accelerate video production workflows and audio finishing . Mix, edit and create audio content with a comprehensive toolset, which includes multitrack, waveform and spectral display. The Creative Cloud drawing requires a separate entry card, available at the mixer.

Charlie Wilson
Mixing and Mastering

Give your song the professional polish with a thorough mixing and mastering. This is for one song mixed and mastered (up to 4 hours) by Charlie Wilson at Sonic Zen Records

Fantasy Studios
Classic Black Hoodie

With the iconic Fantasy Studios logo on front and meter on back; a great way to commemorate your day of AES East Bay studio tours.

Audio Engineering Associates – Swag

Get some cred from serious engineers when you’ve got your AEA swag, makers of fine ribbon mics and preamps, handcrafted in Pasadena.

Avid – Pro Tools 12, with iLok2

Pro Tools gives you every tool you need as a musician—from composing and recording to editing and mixing. This latest edition includes a collection of plugins to help you create the unique sounds you’re looking for. The box won’t be present at the event, so we’ll collect the winners contact info for redemption after the event.

Christopher Scott Cooper
Mentoring Session

This is for a couple hours of personalized one-on-one mentoring with Christopher Scott Cooper. The winner and Christopher will work out the mentoring topic before scheduling the session, which will be held at Christopher’s own Blue Seven Audio Studio in Fremont. His particular specialties in audio mentoring and teaching include live sound, studio tracking/recording, mixing and running a business in the toughest industry in the world.
Bio: If it involves sound, Chris has probably done it. A lifelong musician with over 30 years as an audio engineer/producer. Currently teaching live sound and studio production at Cogswell Technical College. His education in music composition, years of touring and performing, many hours sitting behind the desk both in studio and out on the road has provided a wealth of experience to pull from. In addition to Christopher’s live sound and recording work, he’s done audio for games, toys, tv and film, systems installs, and is known for his trouble shooting abilities.
Twelve years ago Christopher built Blue Seven Audio, a high end professional recording studio tucked into a modest space that is both intimate and comfortable, with full tracking and mixing capabilities. He continues to provide live sound services (FOH/monitor), consulting on studio design, acoustics and live sound system installations.

David Bowles
Mentoring Session

A one-on-one mentoring sessions with Grammy nominated engineer David Bowles. Whether you need help with your mixing and processing, or help with microphone choice and placement, this is a chance to spend a couple of hours get individualized help. Winner and David Bowles will communicate to determine the scope of the session, which can be held at 25th Street Recording or another location.
Bio: David Bowles, also known as “Golden Ears”, is a classical and acoustic music recording engineer and producer. He has recorded all styles of music ranging from today’s composers all the way back to the Medieval age. His recordings have won awards and acclamation for their vivid sound and committed performances. Also known for high resolution recordings in surround+height, he has taught at the New York University Tonmeister programme for several years and participated in AES panels on immersive sound technology and application. Other institutions Mr. Bowles has taught at include Indiana University, Peabody Conservatory, the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the Banff Centre. He is a member of the AES, SPARS and the NARAS Producers and Engineers Wing.

Dolby Systems – Kindle Fire HDX with Dolby Atmos

This Amazon Fire™ HDX 8.9 tablet provides Dolby Atmos sound on the go.

Mark Willsher
Mentoring Session

A one-on-one mentoring session with award-winning engineer Mark Willsher. With a broad background in audio engineering and teaching, Mark is flexible to spend a couple of hours mentoring a winner on whatever aspect of audio is wanted. This session can be held at 25th Street Recording, or Mark’s studio. Winner and Mark will communicate, to define the scope of the session prior to scheduling.
Bio: As a music editor Mark Willsher is known for his work with Howard Shore and Peter Jackson on the scores for The Two Towers, The Return of the King, and The Hobbit Trilogy. In addition to film and music production Mark is also a partner at Sound Innovations LLC – which develops cloud-based solutions for music production and archiving. He regularly to The Banff Centre as guest audio faculty, and was acting director of audio at the Centre for the summer of 2008. He is a voting member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), The Recording Academy (NARAS), and the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE).

Mercury Recording Equipment
Swag and Gear

G8 Sum-It 8:2 Module
The Mercury D Series Passive Summing Mixer is a simple to operate, flexible and convenient mixer to have on top of your work station or in your rack. It gives you many options that you can quickly and easily use during a recording session.

Meyer Sound
Meyer Black Logo Shirts and Jacket

Audio engineers can never have too many black t-shirts, but these Meyer shirts or jacket will set you apart from the other engineers.

Michael Romanowski
Mastering

Winner gets three songs (or two hours) of mastering from multi-Grammy nominated Michael Romanowski at his Coast Mastering studio in Berkeley. You can sit in on the session, or just send your songs off to be polished up.

THX – Logitech Speaker System Z623

A THX certified immersive sound speaker system with 400 watt peak power for your home theater, computer, or gaming console, with a 2.1 system of two satellite speakers and a subwoofer .

Universal Audio
Swag and an Apollo Twin

Designer and manufacturer of audio signal processing hardware and DSP software.

Apollo Twin is the first desktop interface to combine superior audio resolution with Realtime UAD Processing – letting you record through vintage EQs, compressors, reverbs, and guitar amp plug-ins, with breathtaking professional results. Legendary analog sound  on your desktop.

 Media Services

SVT is giving 15% off on their next service call to all registered attendees.