[AES Pacific NW Section - Seatle USA]
Around the Puget Sound, Washington, U.S.A.

Meeting Notice Archive

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Our meeting years follow the school years; hence the listings may appear to overlap. Meetings are shown in reverse month order; i.e. newest first.

2013-2012 Meeting Year

2012-2011 Meeting Year

June 2012 tba
May 2012 tba
April 2012 tba
March 2012 tba
February 2012 tba
January 2012 tba
December 2011 New Requirements in the NEC and How they affect live sound systems
November 2011 Lies, Damn Lies, and Specifications
October 2011(2) Whitespaces - Wireless Mics - Coexistence?
October 2011(1) Bill Putnam - His Life and Legacy
September 2011 Digital Audio in an Ethernet World

2011-2010 Meeting Year

June 2011 Inside a Cellular Telephone
May 2011 Audacity: A Digital Audio Workstation
April 2011 Operating a Public Address System
March 2011 Cables: Fact, Fiction and Fraud
February 2011 Postponed because of snow
January 2011 Rewriting a Digital Audio Workstation
Nov/Dec 2010 Acoustic Centre: Measurement, Theory and Application
October 2010 A Personal History of Perceptual Audio Coding
September 2010 The History and Future of Surround Sound

2010-2009 Meeting Year

June 2010 An Overview of Film Scoring in Los Angeles
May 2010 Let's Listen to a large Line Array
May 2010(2) Audio Perception: Why you hear what you hear
April 2010 no meeting held
March 2010 The Evolution of Analog Guitar Effects
February 2010 New Wave Modular Synthesizers
January 2010 Upgrading the Audio Industry
November 2009 How do they make THAT audio chip?
October 2009 A Memoir of Classic Recordings
September 2009 Personal Listening Environments - Headphones, Headsets, Earphones

2009-2008 Meeting Year

Summer 2009 (part B) A Cardioid Subwoofer Array: Theory vs Practice
Summer 2009 (part A) Summer Meeting Announcement and Elections Results
June 2009 Aspects of Hearing: Ears, Conservation and Hearing Aids
May 2009 Evolution of the Universal Audio Architecture in Windows7
April 2009 Anatomy of a Session: The Technical Aspects
March 2009 Home Theatre vs Cinema Audio Production: The Technical Aspects
February 2009 Current Legal Events & The Future of our Music Industry
January 2009 High Quality Termination and Project Management Fundamentals for Studio Design
December 2008 Anatomy of a Session with Frank Laico
November 2008 Mastering For Broadcast: Real Life Experience
October 2008 Inside a Personal Music Player
September 2008 Inside a Remote Truck

2008-2007 Meeting Year

June 2008 An Evening with Frank Laico
May 2008 Architectural Acoustics 101 for Audio Nerds
April 2008 Adventures in Live Surround Performance
March 2008 Copyright Law and Music/Recording Issues
February 2008 Using Arrays of Loudspeakers for Focusing or Diffusing Sound
November 2007 An Evening With Roy DuNann
October 2007 Whitespace, Wireless Microphones, Digital TV: The Race for Space
September 2007 Audio Technology from a Legal Perspective

2007-2006 Meeting Year

June 2007 Theory and Practice of Console Maintenance and Repair
May 2007 Sound Design for Live Theater
April 2007 Recording the Beatles: The Book, An Evening with the Authors
March 2007 A/B Stereo Recording: Newgrass in the Big Apple
February 2007 Sound Man: from WW2 to MP3, A Film by Scott Budman and Don Hardy Plus: Magnetic Recording - Theory and History
November 2006 An Evening with Jack Endino
October 24 2006 Audio vs Video: same or different?
October 14 2006 Audio? Q&A Panel Discussion
September 2006 Some Lesser Known Facts about Digital Audio

2006-2005 Meeting Year

June 2006 Audio on the PC: Inside the guts of the Windows Audio Subsystem
May 2006 Born Digital: Will Recordings Survive the 21st Century?
April 2006 Loudness vs Intensity: What's the big deal?
March 2006 Indistinguishable fromn Magic: Ableton Live
February 2006 Concepts and Practices for Evaluation of Rooms and Sound Systems using FFT Analysis (part 2)
January 2006 Aido Production and Integration into X-Box Games
December 2005 Hearing Loss Prevention and Education
November 2005 Microphone Techniques for Orchestral and other Classical Recording
October 2005 Three Audio Applications for the Apple Macintosh

2005-2004 Meeting Year

June 2005 Virtual Synths Workshop
May 2005 System Interfacing with Bill Whitlock
April 2005 Everything you always wanted to know about gain structure
March 2005 Audio Anecdotes
February 2005 Subjective Microphone Comparisons
January 2005 The Invention of Optical Digital Recording
November 2004 Understanding Acoustic Feedback and Feedback Supressors
October 2004 Hearing, Acoustics and Soundfields: What can we hear, What can't we hear?
September 2004 Film: Tom Dowd and the Language of Music

2004-2003 Meeting Year

June 2004 A Digitally Steered Line Array
April/May 2004 (3-part meeting) The Science and Voodoo of Electric Guitars
February 2004 From Hear to Eternity: Sampling, Conversion and the Limits of Hearing
November 2003 (expanded version) Tour: Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
November 2003 Tour: Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
September/October 2003 What's All This Mastering Stuff, Anyway?

2003-2002 Meeting Year

June 2003 Active EQs and Crossovers
May 2003 mLan1394: Audio and MIDI over Firewire
April 2003 Audio for Non-Traditional Audio Products
March 2003 Surround Sound Seminar
February 2003 The Decibel, Revisited
January 2003 Concepts and Practices for Evaluation of Rooms and Sound Systems using FFT Analysis
November 2002 Top Ten Signal Interconnection Myths
October 2002 Music for Film: The Composer's Perspective
September 2002 An Evening with Greg Mackie

2002-2001 Meeting Year

June 2002 Soundbridge: Seattle Symphony Music Discover Center AND New Audio Developments at Benaroya Hall
March 2002 Opus 4 Studios: Studio Application of LARES
January 2002 Demonstrations and Recap of 111th Convention, NYC
December 2001 Theatrical Sound Design
October 2001 Sony Pro Audio

2001-2000 Meeting Year

May 2001 Line Array Loudspeaker Technology
March 2001 Lexicon 960L Reverb: This is the Future
November 2000 Saturday Night Fever - Y2K style

2000-1999 Meeting Year

June 2000 MP3 and Internet Audio
May 2000 Design of the Audio Management Unit for the Boeing 777
April 2000 The Truth about Audio Cable
February 2000 Tour: Paul Fritts and Co. Organ Builders
November 1999 Safeco Field Audio System Tour
October 1999 The DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD Formats
September 1999 Concert Hall Acoustics: Dr. Cyril Harris

1999-1998 Meeting Year

June 1999 Tour: The Vintage Telephone Equipment Museum
May 1999 Panel Discussion: Location Sound for Film
March 1999 Design of a 24-bit multitrack digital recorder: The Euphonix R-1
February 1999 Beyond SCSI: Fibre Channel for Audio/Video Applications
January 1999 Multimedia for Microphone Applications
December 1998 Audio for Interaction at Microsoft
October 1998 Tour of Benaroya Hall and 105th Convention Recap

1998-1997 Meeting Year

Summer Newsletter Letter from the Chair and a recap of the past year's meetings
June 1998 An Evening of Sanctuary Acoustics and Sound Reinforcement for Houses of Worship
May 1998 Loudspeaker Line Arrays
April 1998 Evolution of Modular Sound Reinforcement Systems for Touring Use
March 1998 Audio Education and the Future
February 1998 Tour of Carlson Audio
January 1998 Large-Array Subwoofer Listening Workshop
November 1997 Real Networks Media Lab Tour and E.A.S.E Electro-Acoustical Software (2 meetings)
October 1997 Mackie Tour

1997-1996 Meeting Year

July 1997 Recap of the 1996-1997 meeting year
June 1997 Tour of the Bonneville Broadcast Group Studios
May 1997 The IEEE-1394 (Firewire) Multimedia Serial Bus
April 1997 The Art and Science of System Troubleshooting: A Panel Discussion
March 24, 1997 Tour of the LCS Sound System @ Seattle Rep Kreilsheimer Theater
March 12, 1997 Panel Discussion: The Business of Recording in the PNW: Past, Present and Future.
February 1997 Tour: St. James Cathedral Sound System
January 1997 Loudspeaker Listening Workshop
December 1996 Rane Factory Tour
November 1996 IASYS - A new Acoustical Analysis Tool and 101st Convention Recap
October 1996 Maximum Audio Mileage from Amplifier ICs

1996-1995 Meeting Year

May 1996 Tour of the Microsoft Interactive Media Division Digital Backlot
Spring Newsletter Chairman's message, recaps of past meetings
April 24, 1996 Audio on the Internet
April 15, 1996 Key Arena Sound tour
March 1996(2) A Unique Outdoor Sound system for Opera and Symphony
March 1996(1) Tour: Phantom of the Opera Sound System
November 1995(2) Assisted Hearing and the Audio Professional
November 1995(1) Tour: 5th Avenue Theater

1995-1994 Meeting Year

June 19 1995 Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Magnetic Tape
June 10 1995 Perceptual Audio Coding of Wide Band Audio Signals: Basic Principles and Current Applications
March 1995 Symetrix Factory tour
December 9, 1994 An Evening with Roger Nicols
December 1, 1994 Digital Audio using Delta-Sigma Converter ICs
November 1994 Design of Active Studio Monitors
October 1994 Sprint DRUMS Network

1994-1993 Meeting Year

Summer  
June 1994 Audio Media in the 90's
May 1994 What's New in Audio Integrated Circuits
April 1994 Computer Control of Audio Systems, Part 2 (Lone Wolf)
March 1994 Performance Assessment of Reduced Bit Rate Coders
Winter Newsletter
December 1993 Mackie Factory Tour
November 1993 Computer Control of Sound Systems
September 1993 examining a PC-Based Digital Audio Workstation

1993-1992 Meeting Year

Summer Newsletter
Spring Newsletter
April 1993 Nearfield Monitor Evaluations
March 1993 Bad Animals: Studio X - After Completion
December 1992 Audio in Multimedia
October 1992 Advancements in Audio Grade Ferrofluids

1992-1991 Meeting Year

June 1992 Control Room Design
March 1992 System Interfacing
February 25, 1992 Grounding, Shielding, Hums, Buzzes and Things that Go Zap! in your Sound (System)
February 13, 1992 Production Sound for Film and Video
January 1992 Live Sound Reinforcement at Bumbershoot 1991
November 1991 Bad Animals Studio Tour
October 1991 Design of a Digital Audio Workstation
September 1991 Macintosh Based Digital Audio Workstations

1991-1990 Meeting Year

May 1991 Recording the Seattle Symphony Orchestra
April 1991 Loudspeakers, Rooms and Listeners: an Overview of Interactions
March 1991 Computer Music and the NeXT Computer
February 20, 1991 Head Measurement and Recording System (Aachen Head), ASA meeting
February 1, 1991 Quality Audio for Video at KCTS

1990-1989 Meeting Year

June 1990 Tour and Talk: Paradise Recording
April 1990 Basic Stereo Microphone Techniques for Classical Music Recording
February 1990 Microphone Commparison Night AND Narrowband Digital Audio Systems (2 meetings)
December 1989 Rane Corporation Factory Tour

1989-1988 Meeting Year

May 1989 Care and Feeding of Magnetic Tape
December 1988 Compact Disc Player Measurement Clinic

1988-1987 Meeting Year

May 1988
February 1988
November 1987

1987-1986 Meeting Year

May 1987
April 1987
February 1987
January 1987
November 1986
October 1986

1986-1985 Meeting Year

April 1986
March 1986
February 1986
January 1986
November 1985

1985-1984 Meeting Year

June 1985
May 1985
April 1985
March 1985
January 1985
December 1984
November 1984

1984-1983 Meeting Year

June 1984
May 1984
April 1984
March 29, 1984
March 1. 1984
January 1984
December 1983
November 1983
September 1983

1983-1982 Meeting Year

May 19, 1983
April 1983
March 1983
February 1983
December 1982
November 1982
September 1982

1982-1981 Meeting Year

May 1982
April 1982
March 1982
February 1982
January 1982
November 1981
October 1981
September 1981

1981-1980 Meeting Year

June 1981
February 1981
December 1980
November 1980
October 1980

1980-1979 Meeting Year

June 1980
May 1980
April 1980
March 1980
February 1980
January 1980
November 1979

1979-1978 Meeting Year

March 1979
February 1979
May 1978
March 1978
February 1978
January 1978

1978-1977 Meeting Year

n.b. The February 4, 1977 meeting was the Section's first meeting.

May 1978
March 1978
February 1978
January 1978
November 1977
September 1977
May 26, 1977
April 19, 1977
March 1977
February 28, 1977
February 4, 1977

Last modified 12/24/2011.