What's New on the AES HC Web Page

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What's New on the AESHC Web Page

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2009-01-23

Updated links for "Motion Picture Sound Engineering" ( intro and book )

2009-01-11
Added "Tape Degredation Factors and Challenges in Predcting Tape Life", a link to Richard Hess' ARSC Journal paper. Squealing tape, and what can and can't be done about it to play those tapes, including a new method.

Updated Obituaries, Index and links to

2008-11-20
Added a link to the newly-available ""Motion Picture Sound Engineering" (intro, and download 40 MB book here).

Removed the agenda for the HC meeting on 2008-10-13 (moved it to "Agendas", below).

Moved "Historical Committee Activities at AES Conventions" to almost the top of the page, and updated, revised, edited, etc these items: 

• Exhibits, talks, presentations, etc
  
• Agendas for Committee meetings: What's planned for the meetings.
• Reports of Committee activities for the previous half year.
• Minutes of  the Committee meetings.

Added Tom Fine's paper "The Dawn of Commercial Digital Recording".

2008-10-01
Added Agenda for HC Meeting on 2008-10-03

2008-09-19
Added 125th Convention "Historical Events" and Historical Committee Meeting time on this page (above).

2008-08-06
Oral Interviews, including Oral Histories are available for purchase at the Historical Committee Web Store. Also see the "AES Celebrates 60th Anniversary".

2008-06-12
Added AES HC Web Store link. Updated Oral History Project.

2008-05-15
Added Meeting Agenda (including HC Report to Governors). Added entry for Library of Congress, Culpeper, in Links, Organizations and Institutions.

2008-04-25
HC meeting time changed to Tuesday, 2008-05-20, 10:00...12:00 h on top of home page.

2008-04-23
Added HC meeting at Amsterdam Convention to top of home page.

2008-04-14
Added advertisement for Historical Events at Amsterdam Convention; reference to "AES Celebrates 60th Anniversary", and that Oral Histories will be available on DVDs; numerous minor rewordings to the home page.

2008-03-20
Added obituary for Ross Snyder

2008-02-29
Added Update on the Ampex Collection at Stanford University

2008-01-07
Added to  Project Leaders page: Stan Tempelaars as Historical Events for the 124th Convention (Amsterdam, 2008-05).

2008-01-01
Added How the Audio Engineering Society Began, and Volume 0 of the AES Journal -- 1947...1952 .

2007-12-06
Added to project leaders: Tamara Horacek as Historical Events for the 125th Convention (SF, 2008-10)

2007-10-26
Updated obituaries: added Travis, Jensen, Lewin, Kettleman (missed before); Pritts, Edwards (new)

2007-10-17
Updated Officers & Project Leaders page.

2007-10-07
Added links to obituaries from Vol 48 & 49

2007-10-05
  Updated Audio Patents Project

2007-09-02
   Added  HC Report to the BOG 2007-09-26

2007-09-27
    Added  HC Meeting Agenda for the 123 Convention.

2007-09-20
    Add details on HC Meeting at the 123 Convention to the main page.

2007-08-10
    Added links to obituaries from Vol 55 Nr 4...7

2007-07-27
    Added Author's Affiliation Index of AES Publications. Know the author's company name, but forgot the author's name? Look here.

2007-07-19
    Added History of Audio Engineering as Told Thru the AES Journal and How It All Began

2007-05-04
    Added AESHC Committee Report to the BOG 2007-05-04

2007-04-24
    Added Intirim Committee Report 2007-02-01

2007-04-21
    Updated Search Patents of All Countries

2007-03-17
     Added links to obituaries from Vol 40...47, and Vol 55 Nr 1

2007-03-17
     Added links to obituaries from Vol 32...39

2007-03-07
    Added "An Afternoon With..." with Hilliard, Putnam, Frayne, Bryant, Klipsch, and Taylor, to "Personal Histories"

2007-02-26
    Added links to obituaries from Vol 22...31

2007-01-24
    Updated AES HC Officers and Project Leaders

2006-10-02
     Added Agenda for the 121st Convention, San Francisco, 2006 October

2006-09-26
    Added Historical Committee reports:

• Historical Committee Report, 2006-09-26
• Museum Project: Request for Information
• Oral History Project Report, 2006-09-20
• "History of the AES" Project, Proposal 2006-09
• Audio Patents Project report, 2006-08-20

2006-09-17
    Added papers on Volume Indicators:

• A New Standard Volume Indicator and Reference Level, by Chinn, Gannett, and Morris. The classic 1940 IRE paper on the development of the "vu meter". Includes the history of volume indicators, the engineering factors in designing the meter, and the text of the original standard.
• Some Questions and Answers on the Standard Volume Indicator ("vu meter"), by Jay McKnight. A personal interpretation of the Chinn et al paper.
• "Measuring the Dynamics of a Standard Volume Indicator (SVI)", by Jay McKnight. A "How to do it" paper.

2006-07-08
     Added Canonical List of AGFA, BASF, and IG Farben Tape Types

2006-05-11
     Added Recording Studios, A Thirty-five Year History and Evolution

2006-04-18
    Updated AESHC officers list.

2005-11-17
     Added Standardization Activity of the AES--the History Before 1982.

2005-11-15
     Added Forensic Audio Engineering: The complete "Watergate" report, formally called "The EOB Tape of June 20, 1972: Report on a Technical Investigation Conducted for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, by the Advisory Panel on White House Tapes May 31, 1974", that is the basis for much of present-day forensic audio engineering and Digital Audio Engineering Standardization History at the AES: The history of the development of the AES digital audio standards, as given in the AES Journal minutes and reports of the Digital Audio Standards and Technical Committees between 1977 and 1984, and in Bart Locanthi's 1986 summary of the Committees' work.

2005-11-14
     Added Historical Developments in Audio Engineering 1877...1977, with 81 references to papers and patents

2005-10-02
    Added Draft Committee Report, 2005-09-29 and Agenda for the 119th Convention, New York, 2005 September.

2005-09-14
    Added Book listings and reviews in the AES Journal, 1990...2002, Index of.

2005-09-14
    Updated Obituaries index: We are now beginning to link directly to the more recent obituaries, by courtesy of the AES Journal.

2005-08-14
    Updated AESHC officers list.

2005-05-27
    Updated Patents of All Countries.

2005-05-20
    Added agenda for the AES Historical Committee Meeting at the 118th Convention, Barcelona, 2005 May.

2005-05-14
    Added Preliminary Draft Project Plan: Audio Patents

2005-05-14
    Added AES Historical Committee Draft Report for the Board of Governors Meeting at the 118th Convention, Barcelona, 2005-06-01

2005-05-06
    Added AES Historical Committee Final Report for the Board of Governors Meeting at the 117th Convention, San Francisco, 2004-11-01

2005-03-11
    Added Splicing and recording tips inside of a 'Scotch' recording tape box, around 1970

2005-01-31
    Added Digital Audio Engineering Standardization History at the AES

2005-01-01
    Added The Education and Tribulations of a Precursory Disk Recording Engineer by Robert J Callen -- Audio engineering in 1925...1928.

2004-12-23
    Updated Index to obituaries appearing in the AES Journal.

2004-11-16
    Updated Manufacturers' Official pages. Added Agenda for the 117th Convention,San Francisco, 2004 October, Draft Committee Report, 2004-10-17, Presentation Schedule for 117th convention, Ampex History Project.

2004-10-13
    Updated Oral History Project and An Audio Timeline.

2004-08-27
     Added Ray Dolby's personal tour of the audio industry and how it changed from analog to digital, a transcript of his 1992 Heyser lecture.

2004-07-08
     Further revisions to History of the AES.

2004-07-07
     Added minutes from 2004 May 10, 116th Convention, Berlin.

2004-07-03
     Revised History of the AES.

2004-06-29
     Updated links to manufacturer's official web pages and release form for the Oral History Project.

2004-05-29
     Added 2003 Oct 11, 115th Convention, New York; completely revamped the Links to Other Historical Sites, and Museum Coordination Project.

2004-05-18
     Added Presentation Schedule for the 115th Convention, 2004 May.

2004-04-17
     Added Committee Report, 2004-04-07. Updated Officer listing. Completely re-worked links.

2004-03-14
     Added the Historical Exhibit at the 116th Convention in Berlin, 2004 May and the revised home page.

2004-03-02
     Added Sel-Sync and the Octopus, Ross Snyder's article from the ARSC Journal, v. 34, no. 2 (fall 2004): 209-213.

2004-01-27
    Updated link to Search Patents of All Countries. Added Search This Site and Its Links and History of James B. Lansing and his company.

2004-01-10
    Added Nagra History

2004-01-10
    Updated Index to Obituaries in the AES Journal.

2004-01-04
    Updated link to Quadruplex Park Museum of Broadcast Technology.

2003-12-24
    Updated link to Recordi ng Technology History  (Steve Schoenherr's timeline, 1877...2000, with a zillion links

2003-12-20
    Updated H.K. Thiele Archive. Added Audio Engineering in Motion Pictures.

2003-11-16
    Added H.K. Thiele Preprint Index.

2003-11-04
    Added Tube Manuals (Acrobat PDF format), Vinyl Record Day, Shure Discontinued Products (Acrobat PDF format), Phonograph Makers' Pages, ELP Laser Turntable, Another ELP Laser Turntable Page, Phillips-Miller Opto-Mechanical System, Chalk Hill Media Broadcast Equipment Museum, and Presentation Schedule for "Vinyl Goes Digital".
    Updated Sound Recording History  (David Morton).

2003-10-22
    Updated the list of AESHC officers.

2003-10-18
     Added 100 Edison Recordings for Listening, Museum of Sound Recording, Museum of Sound Recording, alternate URL, and a fuller description of the status of the Ampex Museum & Historical Collection at Stanford University.

2003-10-16
     Added Edison Cylinder Reproducers, Nimbus Ambisonic Transfer Process, and Nimbus Ambisonic Microphone Setup

2003-10-08
     Added Agenda for the 115th Convention, New York, 2003 October and Committee Report, 2003-10-08.

2003-08-14
     Added minutes of 2003 Mar 24, 114th Convention, Amsterdam.

2003-08-13
     Added Exhibit Report for the 114th Convention, Amsterdam, 2003 Mar.

2003-06-02
     Added Prittl ewell Priory Communications Museum.

2003-05-08
     Added Stef ano Pasini's Turntable and Tape Recorder Page: History, Restoration, Modification.

2003-05-07
     Added link to American Widescreen Museum (history of sound in the movies).

2003-04-16
    Added Search Patents of All Countries.

2003-03-23
    Added Grommes History and Sony APR group's web page.

2003-03-23
    Added When Vinyl Ruled Report to the 109th Convention Committee.

2003-03-14
    Added Plan for "When Vinyl Ruled" at the 115 th AES Convention, New York, 2003 October and Agendas, etc., of AES Historical Committee Meetings.

2003-03-11
    Added Committee Report, 2003-03-11

2003-03-10
    Removed "draft" from 2002 May 11, 112th Convention, Munich. Added:

• 2002 Oct 7, 113th Convention, Los Angeles

• Exhibit Plan for the 114th Convention, Amsterdam, 2003 Mar

• Status of H.K. Thiele Archive as of 2003 March

2003-03-03
    Added interview release form for Oral History Project.

2003-03-03
    Updated oral history project and added Recording Guildlines for Oral History.

2003-02-26
    Updated AESHC officers list.

2003-02-15
    Added Reprints of Classic Books on Acoustics, Electronics, Loudspeakers, Vacuum Tubes, etc., A Bibliography of "Must Have" Tube Electronics Books, and Pro Audio Reference Books.

2003-02-07
    Updated Index of obituaries in the AES journal.

2003-01-23
    Added A History of Audio Engineering and Magnetic Recording Before 1943.

2002-12-20
    Added Auditory Perspective, the classic Bell Telephone Labs paper from 1934 in Acrobat format (4.5 MB file).

2002-12-17
    Added instructions for configuring email clients to send plain ASCII email and not HTML.

2002-12-16
    Updated Guidelines and Officers and Project Leaders.

2002-12-05
    Added Jack Mullin article.

2002-11-19
    Added Paul W Klipsch, The Life...The Legend

2002-11-08
    Added Historical Committee Activities Report from the 113th Convention, Los Angeles, 2002 Oct.

2002-11-05
    Added Twelve Microphones That Changed History.

2002-10-11
    Revised main page and Using the AESHC E-mail Reflector & FTP to incorporate new subscription page.

2002-09-26
    Posted revised Selected Bibliography of Histories of Magnetic Tape Sound Recording; added Committee Report, 2002-09-23.

2002-09-22
    Added Historical Committee Activities Report at the 112th Convention, Munich, 2002 May; added H. K. Thiele Archive documents.

2002-09-05
    Added draft minutes of the HC meeting, 2002 May 11, 112th Convention, Munich; added links: North American Phonograph Company and John Hilliard.

2002-08-11
    Updated the Index to obituaries appearing in the AES Journal.

2002-06-20
    Completely revised and updated the links.

2002-04-30
    Added Committee Report, 2001-04-30.

2002-04-22:
    Added 2001 Dec 1, 111th Convention, New York (Draft).

2002-04-10:
    Added San Francisco Bay area broadcasting history.

2002-03-24:
    Added Histo rical Committee Activites at the 112th Convention, Munich. Added link to the Magnetic Disk Heritage Center. Added link to History of Public Address. Added link to Vintage Broadcast Microphones. Added link to Bill Putnam and Universal Audio.

2002-03-05:
    Added When Vinyl Ruled Report to the 111th Convention Committee and Account of the direct-to-disc recording session by Robert Auld.

2002-01-26:
    Added Stanford's press release about their acquisiton of the Ampex Museum & Historical Collection.

2002-01-06:
    Removed "Draft" from approved minutes of 2001 May 13, Amsterdam, and 2001 Sept. 14 (Los Angeles) meetings.

2001-11-19:
    Updated Oral History Project List of Completed Interviews and List of Recommended Interviewees.

2001-11-19:
    Added Detailed schedule for When Vinyl Ruled exhibit. Added Committee Report, 2001-12-04. Updated link to Electrocompaniet history.

2001-09-19:
    Added Internet Communications for the AES Historical Committee.

2001-09-16:
    Added Russian Microphone Muzeum [sic].

2001-09-15:
    Added Chairman's Projects page.

2001-08-15:
    Added draft minutes from the 110th Convention, 2001 May 13, Amsterdam.

2001-08-05:
    Added link to history of loudspeakers and public address systems.

2001-07-24:
    Posted revised version of A Selected Bibliography of Histories of Magnetic Tape Sound Recording.

2001-06-23:
    Posted A Selected Bibliography of Histories of Magnetic Tape Sound Recording.
    Added links to websites about Revox tape recorders in German and English.

2001-05-06:
    Posted Index to historical issues of the AES Journal.
    Posted revised Oral History Project main page.

2001-05-06:
    Posted Draft Historical Committee Report to the Board of Governors, 2001-05-16.

2001-02-14:
    Posted list of new officers.

2001-02-13:
    Posted revised Guidelines.

2001-02-11:
    Posted scans of 3M Sound Talk Bulletins v. 1, no. 1-v. 3, no. 1. This makes all issues of Sound Talk available on the AESHC web page.

2001-02-07:
    Posted draft minutes of the meeting held 2000-09-24 at the 109th Convention, Los Angeles.
    Posted scans of 3M Sound Talk Bulletins 35-40.

2001-02-06:
    Posted revised index to obituaries appearing in the AES Journal.
    Posted scans of 3M Sound Talk Bulletins 1-34.

2001-01-09:
    Posted the AESHC "Operating Structure" approved 2000-02-23, at http://www.aes.org/ aeshc/docs/opstruct.html.

2000-10-17:
    Re-designed main page; added links for What's New; Books, Videotapes, etc.; How to join the email reflectors; list of current projects.

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