Location: Shure Incorporated, 5800 W. Touhy Ave, Niles, IL 60714
Moderated by: Jamie Tagg
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor of Recording Arts, Indiana University
Born out of a need to overcome the difficulty of listening exclusively on headphones while working on location, as well as the dominance of headphone listening by today's consumers, Jamie has developed a four-microphone configuration called the Stereo Mic Technique for Augmented Ambience Gradient. This technique allows the recordist to make easy adjustments to the amount of direct and reverberant sound from an ideal microphone placement, capturing an improved sense of spatial envelopment when presented over headphones, while still maintaining quality for loudspeaker listening.
Starting with the idea in application, followed by research and development through extensive experimentation and subjective listening tests, this technique has come a long way since its conception in 2010, and is now being used by engineers in several locations across the country in temporary and permanent installations for stereo and surround archiving and broadcast.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
A singer, pianist, and saxophonist, D. James Tagg (Jamie) received his bachelor's degree in music from the University of Miami in Music Engineering Technology, a master of music in Sound Recording Technology from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and has studied engineering and production with Martha de Francisco at McGill University in Montréal. He has taught audio production at SUNY Oneonta, Syracuse University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and McGill University. He now lives in Bloomington, IN where he is an Assistant Professor of Recording Arts at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.
In addition to the stereo mic technique which is the topic of his presentation (Stereo Technique for Augmented Ambience Gradient), Jamie has developed spatial processing tools through digital signal processing (DSP) for his own use, as well as for THAT Corporation's dBx-TV, used by many major TV manufacturers.
Having recorded three GRAMMY®-nominated albums, received multiple internationally competitive recording awards from the Audio Engineering Society, and having worked across the United States and Canada, Jamie is not only passionate about presenting spatial realism in recordings, but also bringing the heart of the performance to the listener.
Other Business: Dinner (optional, but please RSVP) will begin at 6:30pm. Contact Giles Davis ([email protected]) by Wednesday, October 19th if you would like to join us. Pizza and salad from Lou Malnati’s will be provided. Please let Giles know if you have a preference for vegetarian, gluten-free, etc. Price is $10 for non-members and $8 for members and students (please bring cash).
Posted: Thursday, October 20, 2016
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