AES Section Meeting Reports

Steve Philbert, AES Wisconsin, October 13, 2015.

Meeting Topic: Genelec History, Loudspeaker Manager Software, ATMOS, New Nearfield Monitor Technology

Moderator Name: Steve Banik

Speaker Name: Genelec Sales Manager Paul Smith, Frequency Sales Founder/President Gene Williams

Other business or activities at the meeting: 6:15pm Introductions
Church AV Systems and headphone feedback issues (Whitmore), Integrating DMX Software and Cooper Lighting System (White), Video with DJ Pain1 and Easy Drummer VST or BFD (Banik)AES Board of Governors to vote Nov. 1st. Public Forum. Notify Bob Frank the Board of Governors forum is public.

6:28 P.M.: New Business
Next meeting November 17th. Matt Smith of Milwaukee Area Technical College, possibly visit Bob Paquette at the Mic Museum in Milwaukee Select Sound, Dave Lip, Brian Josephs. Reach out to Bob Paquette, propose dates to Brian Josephs (Banik), Dave Lip (Boyle), Elton John's piano tech lives in Verona (Philbert).

Meeting Location: Madison Media Institute, Madison, WI, USA

Summary

6:36 P.M.: Presentation
Genelec coined "active monitor" in 1978 with its first loudspeaker, the S30. Precision tone controls, driver unit protection circuitry, advanced amplifier topologies, and a proprietary HF ribbon driver. Directivity Control Waveguide on mid driver or tweeter, on every product, focuses energy at crossover from driver to driver for smooth transitions and greater imaging. Porting System developed from subwoofers for efficiency-ported box with spiral enclosure as big as the box itself, long flaring tube in rear for airflow.
In 1995, Genelec made speaker boxes with aluminum, beveled edges for smoother, splatter-less sound. Smart active monitoring [SAM], daisy-chained to the Genelec hub, set-up up to 30 speakers in software. Compensation file in mic.

7:15 P.M.: Live Demo of Auto Calibration
Studio Psychoacoustics — consider the 37% rule, squareness of the room, speaker placement, sub-response, side-wall/front-wall, ceiling height/floor/speaker level---place slightly above eye level and point downwards.

8:00 P.M.: Adjourned

Written By: Lauren Schmidt

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