Raffle Prizes & Sponsors for the 2019 AES Studio Crawl

Thanks to 25th Street Recording, for hosting our mixer.

Prize and Sponsors for the 2019 AES Studio Crawl Raffle

Must be present to win. The raffle will be held on September 20, 2019 during the mixer at 25th Street Recording. All raffle tickets are issued to registered participants of the studio crawl. Everyone should get one raffle ticket for each studio you tour, so the more studios you visit, the more chances to win.

Antares

Auto-Tune Pro

Auto-Tune Pro is the most complete and advanced edition of Auto-Tune. It includes both Auto Mode, for real-time pitch correction and effects, and Graph Mode, for detailed pitch and time editing. Other features include automatic key detection with the new Auto-Key plug-in (included with Auto-Tune Pro), Formant Correction, Vibrato Controls, Classic Mode for the “Auto-Tune 5 sound,” real-time MIDI Control, and ARA for closer integration with supported DAWs. Auto-Tune Pro also includes Flex-Tune and Humanize for more transparent and natural-sounding tuning, and Low Latency mode so you can perform in the studio or on stage in real-time. – Mac/PC AAX Native, VST2, VST3, AU

Auto-Tune EFX+

Classic Auto-Tune Pitch Correction with built-in vocal multi-effects and a melodic pattern generator. Plug-in effects include pitch correction, formant shifting, doubling, vocoding, tube-style saturation, ring modulation, filtering, and more. Melodic pattern The Auto-Motion melodic pattern generator lets you create new melodic patterns and hooks by automatically pitch-shifting your original vocal or instrumental tracks. Includes an XY Pad for real-time parameter control. Also includes Auto-Key compatibility and multi-effect patches designed by industry-leading producers, composers, and sound designers: Mike Dean, Jeff Rona, and Richard Devine. – Mac/PC AAX Native, VST2, VST3, AU

These are two separate prizes from Antares Audio Technologies, inventors of Auto-Tune, the music industry standard for pitch correction and vocal effects.

Ben Bernstein Music
Four Hours Studio Time

This prize is for 4 hours with Producer/Engineer/Musician Ben Bernstein at his home recording studio in Oakland. Services offered include: Project Consultation, Songwriting/Arranging, Recording, Editing, & Mixing. A $200 Value! Prize must be redeemed by 9/20/2020.
You can follow Ben Bernstein Music on Facebook and Instagram.

Christopher Scott Cooper
Mentoring Session

This is for a two-hour personalized one-on-one mentoring with Christopher Scott Cooper. The winner and Christopher will work out the 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. Chris recently taught 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.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.

Dave Smith Instruments/Sequential
Sequential Swag

Sequential is led by legendary instrument designer and Grammy-winner Dave Smith, the founder of Sequential Circuits in 1974. In 1977 Dave designed the Prophet-5, the world’s first fully-programmable polyphonic synth, and the first musical instrument with an embedded microprocessor.

LA-220 Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphone

Lauten Audio’s Series Black LA-220 is a large-diaphragm cardioid FET condenser mic with a 1″ pressure gradient capsule, an ultralow-noise JFET amplifier, 120Hz highpass and 12kHz lowpass filters, and transformer-balanced output.

LA-120 Small Diaphragm Condenser Microphone

The Lauten Audio LA-120 is a small-diaphragm FET condenser mic pair with interchangeable pressure-gradient capsules, an ultralow-noise JFET amplifier, and transformer-balanced output. The LA-120 ships with both cardioid and omni capsules and is fitted with a lowpass filter (switchable between 10kHz and 15kHz), as well as highpass filter (switchable between 50Hz and 150Hz).

These are two separate prizes from Lauten Audio, a maker of professional microphones praised by award-winning producers, engineers, and musicians around the world.

Michael Romanowski
Mastering– Three Songs

This winner gets three songs or two hours of mastering from multi-Grammy nominated Michael Romanowski and Coast Mastering.

Music Expo San Francisco
VIP Pass

Winner gets one VIP pass to Music Expo San Francisco, which happens November 9-10 in Emeryville, CA. We also have some Music Expo shirts.

Get exclusive access to Grammy-winner producers, engineers and music industry professionals. For its 6th edition, Music Expo will expand to 2 days to offer more in-depth sessions.  The masterclasses will cover the art of songwriting, producing, mixing and mastering. Our panels will offer inspiring discussions around artists promotion and marketing, streaming and revenue opportunities. Selected manufacturers will show their latest technology.

Nahuel Bronzini
Mentoring Session

This is for a two-hour personalized one-on-one mentoring session on mixing/production with Nahuel Bronzini,  a Grammy Award winning music producer, arranger and sound engineer.Nahuel has worked with a wide range of artists, from writing string arrangements and playing shows and engineering studio sessions with R&B legends Tony Toni Toné!, to engineering Fantastic Negrito’s Grammy Winning Please Don’t Be Dead, and creating multi artists collaboration with Bay Area favorites in his own release entitled  The String Quartet Experience. Nahuel is a multifaceted musician and producer/engineer that feels at home both on stage and at the studio and manages Studio Burgundio.

Novel Brewing Company
Gift Card

Winner receives a $50 gift card to Novel Brewing Company in Oakland, a neighborhood brewery and tasting room with 15 freshly brewed small-batch beers on tap.

Rip Tie
Swag Bag with an assortment of Rip Tie Cablewraps

Rip Tie will also be supplying Rip Ties for our guests at the after-party, while supplies last. For 30 years, Rip-Tie’s patented cable wraps and tie wraps have been the industry standard in cable management. https://riptie.com/

Slate Digital
1-yr-all Access Pass to Plugins (Two passes, for two winners)

Award‐Winning analog‐modeled plugins, sound design tools, synths, guitar amps, demo multitracks, and masterclasses taught by legends. Two winners each gets a full year all-access pass to Slate Digital‘s endless premium plugins and production master classes.

Sound on Sound Magazine
One Year Subscription – Print & Digital

Sound on Sound is an independently owned monthly music technology magazine published by SOS Publications Group, based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The magazine includes product tests of electronic musical performance and recording devices, and interviews with industry professionals.

Steinberg
UR-RT2 Audio interface

The UR-RT2 is a premium four input, two output USB 2.0 audio and MIDI interface with switchable Rupert Neve Designs transformers on the front inputs. Combined with the onboard, high-quality D-PRE preamps, the Rupert Neve Designs transformers deliver a musical, more expressive sound with rich harmonics, which is especially beneficial for vocals, acoustic guitar and other instruments with a versatile dynamic range.

Steinberg is known the world over for its audio software and hardware solutions. The company has been developing, manufacturing and selling innovative audio software and hardware solutions for musicians and producers.

Yamaha
HPH-MT8 Studio Monitor Headphones

Designed to deliver accurate response and high-resolution sound with precise stereo imaging, and faithfully reproduce every nuance of the mid to high-end with tight bass. Yamaha has applied decades of accrued knowledge and expertise in professional and high-end studio equipment manufacturing to the design of each and every acoustic component in these headphones.

From Yamaha Professional Audio.