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General Discussion / Re: AES 125th Convention + photos
« on: October 09, 2008, 08:24:10 PM »
This was one very interesting AES show, and probably the best I've every gone to since DBX introduced the K9 card and Rupert came out with moving faders. I wanted to get down to 1340 Mission but didn't have time to pull away between the meetings and going to Alcatraz with Tom the RMGI guy from Holland. I did hear though that people were VERY impressed with the facility. Congrats!
For ya'll who couldn't make it, there's a slew of photos on flickr.com. Do a search under "San Francisco 10-3-2008" without the quotation marks. Somewhere in the pack are the AES show photos plus lots of tourist type stuff around and in the Mascone center, the Marriott on 4th St, and Alcatraz.
The shaven head guy is the RMGI international sales manager from Holland. There's even a photo showing the Tape Project display in the RMGI booth with a mint Technics deck and Sennheiser headphones.
By the way, the young blonde with the long flowing hair in the ATR photos (not Bette..Mike Spitz's wife) is Amey. She's got the cutest.... accent, and was a real magnet getting people into the booth. It doesn't hurt a bit! By the way, ATR Magnetics won the 2008 TEC award for their recording tape. I think this was the "recording devices" category and I *think* it was the very first time a tape manufacturer won for their tape. AMPEX won back in the day but that was for their ATR decks, I think, and not the tape.
Kurt
For ya'll who couldn't make it, there's a slew of photos on flickr.com. Do a search under "San Francisco 10-3-2008" without the quotation marks. Somewhere in the pack are the AES show photos plus lots of tourist type stuff around and in the Mascone center, the Marriott on 4th St, and Alcatraz.
The shaven head guy is the RMGI international sales manager from Holland. There's even a photo showing the Tape Project display in the RMGI booth with a mint Technics deck and Sennheiser headphones.
By the way, the young blonde with the long flowing hair in the ATR photos (not Bette..Mike Spitz's wife) is Amey. She's got the cutest.... accent, and was a real magnet getting people into the booth. It doesn't hurt a bit! By the way, ATR Magnetics won the 2008 TEC award for their recording tape. I think this was the "recording devices" category and I *think* it was the very first time a tape manufacturer won for their tape. AMPEX won back in the day but that was for their ATR decks, I think, and not the tape.
Kurt
Just a heads up for SF bay area members. Oct 2-5th AES ( Audio Engineering Society) is holding the 125th Convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. As usual, there'll be more than one person could possibly participate (probably more than a medium sized group could actually). The tickets for the whole shebang are pretty steep but much cheaper if you join AES.
Most of the "Big" names in mastering are going to be involved in workshops and lectures including some fellows named Paul Stubblebine and Michael Romanowski. They'll be part of a panel discussion called " Revolt of the Mastering Engineers". http://www.aes.org/events/125/workshops/session.cfm?code=W12 Now, what the heck could that be about?
Theres also going to be tours to the Mission St studio so I'm sure the guys have got the feather dusters and squeegees out.
BTW Happy Birthday Paul! And thanks again for all the hard work and insight it takes to pull something like the Tape Project together.