AES San Francisco Section

Gain Sharing Automixing Moves From Secret Weapon to Mainstream
2014-09-25 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Art Institute of California – San Francisco, 10UN Civic Center Plaza Room 410, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Dan Dugan demonstrated a prototype adaptive threshold automatic microphone mixer at the New York AES convention in 1974. Subsequently he demonstrated a prototype of gain sharing automixing at the AES in Los Angeles. Forty years later, gain sharing automixing is offered as a feature by Avid, Calrec, Protec Audio, SSL, Studer, Yamaha, and Waves. Applications range from the ubiquitous panel discussions at conferences to presidential campaign debates and World Cup commentary. Dugan will outline his development process, explain the math, and demonstrate the performance of his popular algorithm.
Meeting Location:
The Art Institute of California – San Francisco 10UN Civic Center Plaza Room 410. San Francisco, CA. 94102
Check in with security and take the elevator to the 4th floor. Then go right until you reach the end of the hall.

Roger Linn - LinnStrument Demonstration
2014-05-27 19:30 - 22:00 | Cogswell Polytechnical College, 191 Baypointe Parkway, San Jose, CA, 95134, United States
Roger Linn will he is demonstrating his forthcoming LinnStrument, a new human interface for expressive music performance that captures the continuous pressure, X position and Y position of each touch, independently and polyphonically, thereby permitting each finger to simultaneously control a note’s loudness, pitch and timbre.
About the Speaker
Roger Linn is a creator of electronic music products, including the first sampled-sound drum machine, the 1979 LM-1 Drum Computer, as well as the LinnDrum drum machine, both used on countless hit recordings during the 1990s. He later designed the Akai MPC sampling drum machines, considered a major influence in hip hop music production, and the AdrenaLinn beat-synced filter effects processors for guitar.

Active Speakers: Design and Optimization Masterclass
2014-03-18 19:00 - 22:00 | Cogswell Polytechnical College, 191 Baypointe Parkway, San Jose, CA, 95134, United States
Prism Sound and Oxford Digital, in conjunction with Texas Instruments, CJS Labs and Audio EMC, invite you to join this audio engineering masterclass from the Cogswell Polytechnical College in Sunnyvale, CA.
It is a unique opportunity to hear from some of the most experienced engineers in the industry and to learn about their practical experiences in analogue and digital audio design. See the latest developments in technology, and profit from the many decades of collective experience of our panel of experts.
Join us in the room or via live or recorded web cast.
Speakers: Elliott Whyte, John Richards, Anthony Waldron, Christopher J. Struck, Lars Risbo
Agenda
Tues Mar 18, 2014 7-10pm (PST)
19:00 – 19:15
Elliott Whyte , Prism Sound
Audio measurement challenges – a summary and an example
19:25 – 19:55
Anthony Waldron, Audio EMC
EMC Considerations for Audio Products
20:00 – 20:30
Christopher J. Struck, CJS Labs
Electoacoustics and transducers
20:30 – 20:50
Networking & Refreshment Break
20:50 – 21:20
Lars Risbo, Texas Instruments
Developments in Amplifier technology
21:25 – 21:55
John Richards, Oxford Digital
Tuning the sound of consumer audio products

Sweet Blues: A Film About Michael Bloomfield
2014-02-25 19:30 - 22:00 | DreamWorks Theater, Redwood City, CA, United States
Speaker: Ted Leyhe, Cinematographer and Co-Producer of Sweet Blues will be present for a Q&A immediately following the film.
Refreshments and mixing at 7:00 PM in DreamWorks Cafeteria
No food or drink will be allowed in the theater.
RSVP Required: Password for Registration: mb214 RSVP >
About the Film:
The new documentary film Sweet Blues focuses on the musical career of legendary guitarist Michael Bloomfield. A musical prodigy, the Chicago native honed his unique guitar style by playing Southside clubs while in his teens, with B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and many others. Described by Bob Dylan as the, “Best guitar player I ever heard,” Bloomfield’s contributions to Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited launched Dylan’s transition from a folk music to electric rock and roll, and moved rock guitar to the forefront, influencing many of the best known guitar players today.
Bloomfield’s move to the bay area helped shape the late 60s San Francisco music scene. Included are interviews on Bloomfield from the guitaristís friends and fellow musicians, many who are local luminaries like Bill Graham, Carlos Santana, and Bob Weir. The film’s vintage concert footage and audio interviews of Bloomfield, are superbly mixed by Berkeley Sound Artists’ James LeBrecth, whose previous work includes Village Music: The Last of the Great Record Stores, which was shown at our December 2012 meeting.
The film was a 25 year project from director Bob Sarles, veteran of many rock documentaries, and premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October 2013. On dvd, it’s part of a new 4-disc Bloomfield box set, released by Sony in February 2014.
Running Time: 57 minutes

Issues around mastering: an open discussion
2014-02-04 19:30 - 21:30 | Coast Recorders, 1340 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Refreshments at 7:00pm
RSVP: Required (space limited to a maximum of 25 people)
Tonight’s open discussion will concentrate on how the field of mastering has utilized existing analogue and evolving digital technologies. A short recap will show how the field of mastering developed from the age of the LP to the present. The facility as much outboard gear, both tube and solid-state; attendees can compare differences between unprocessed and processed audio.
In addition, we will touch on issues around high resolution recordings. First of all, what defines “high resolution”; secondly, evolving delivery formats; thirdly, how mastering those recordings differs from Red Book Audio format.
Michael Romanowski, Michael Romanowski Mastering
Michael Romanowski is a Grammy nominated Mastering engineer. He is the owner and chief mastering engineer at Michael Romanowski Mastering, based in San Francisco. The owner of the historic Coast Recorders and a founder and co-owner of The Tape Project — an audiophile label that only releases real time copies of original analog masters on 1/4″ and 1/2″ tape. Michael serves as President of the The Recording Academy San Francisco Chapter (NARAS), is chair of the Presidents Council and serves on the National Advisory Council to the Producers and Engineers Wing. He teaches at San Francisco State University, and is an active panelist at conferences such as TapeOp, AES, CES, SXSW, AES Mexico, VSAC and NAMM.
Michael also has begun a series called “Live at Coast” where artists record a live record in front of an audience in the studio. As a big supporter of the local music scene, he also has a podcast with KFOG DJ Renee Richardson called Renee and Romo, where they bring in local musicians to play and talk about their music. Michael has recorded live performances by Kenny Burrell, Branford Marsalis, Santana, Narada Michael Walden, Nels Cline, Todd Snider, Will Kimbrough, American Bach Soloist, The Oakland East Bay Symphony and many others. His extensive Mastering Credits include Third Eye Blind, Pat Monahan, Matt Nathanson, Too $hort, Dredge, The Dynamites, Alasdair Fraser, Jacqui Naylor and many others.
