AES Student Blog

It's time for us to tell you all about all of the wonderful sponsors that support our Student Recording Competition! Expect to see some awesome giveaways by these generous companies at AES 134!

Here we are with yet another great name of audio and also a kind sponsor to the upcoming Student Design Competition and Student Recording Competition in Rome. We are deeply grateful for their support and very exited to give away some awesome prizes to the winners!

www.focalpress.com

Focal Press has been a leading publisher of Media Technology books for 70 years. They provide essential resources for professionals and students in many areas including: film and digital video production, photography, digital imaging, graphics, animation and new media, broadcast and media distribution technologies, music recording and production, mass communications, and theatre technology.

Focal Press delivers to you the techniques that have proved successful for professionals, and inspire you to go further with your craft. Their books demystify ever-changing technologies and help you gain success.

Focal Press - learn, master, create.

We present you another great name of audio, kindly sponsoring the upcoming Student Design Competition in Rome. We are deeply grateful for their support and very exited to give away some awesome prizes to the winners!

www.dsp-quattro.com

DSP-Quattro reaches beyond the boundaries of traditional audio-editing software. In addition to the typical sample-editing tools, it features multitrack recording, simultaneous playback of multiple audio files, real-time hosting of virtual instruments, and real-time effects processing of audio input. ... DSP-Quattro is an absolutely outstanding piece of software and an incredible value. It offers features and performances on par with or exceeding sample-editing software costing four or five times as much.

We present you another great name of audio, kindly sponsoring the upcoming Student Design Competition in Rome. We are deeply grateful for their support and very exited to give away some awesome prizes to the winners!

www.cycling74.com

Cycling '74 creates software for the specialized needs of artists, educators, and researchers working with audio, visual media, and physical computing. Our visual programming tools Max, MSP, Jitter, and Gen serve as the creative engine behind thousands of innovative projects. The company was formed in 1997 by David Zicarelli and has approximately 29 employees and consultants worldwide.

We present you another great name of audio, kindly sponsoring the upcoming Student Design Competition in Rome. We are deeply grateful for their support and very exited to give away some awesome prizes to the winners!

www.audiofile-engineering.com

Combining powerful, elegant and uncluttered audio utilities with unparalleled technical support, Audiofile Engineering is one of the most innovative and experienced audio software developers for Mac OS X and the iPhone. Quiztones is a frequency ear trainer for amateur and professional audio engineers, producers, and musicians. See more at www.audiofile-engineering.com

Jim Kaiser - honorary judge for category 2 (traditional studio recording) 

Since 2000, Jim Kaiser has been the Director of Technology at MasterMix in Nashville, and responsible for surround production and audio restoration.

Kaiser’s career features experience in live & studio recording with artists like Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Gloria Estefan, and Michael Jackson, and technical design of recording and production facilities, including Sony-BMG, East Iris, MasterMix, and Clear Channel Entertainment/Live Nation.

Jim was the Audio Engineering Society President in 2009-2010 and serves on the AES Technical Council, the Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing, and the Nashville Engineer Relief Fund Board. He has been involved in workshops, seminars, and paper presentations at AES international conventions and regional conferences since joining in 1983

Jim Kaiser has been teaching in the Audio Technology Program at Belmont University since 2005.

There is still some time left for us to present you another big name of audio, kindly sponsoring the upcoming Student Recording Competition in Rome. We are deeply grateful for their support and very exited to give away some awesome prizes to the winners!

Women's Audio Mission is a San Francisco based, non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of women in music production and the recording arts. In a field where women are chronically under-represented (less than 5%), WAM seeks to "change the face of sound" by providing hands-on training, experience, career counseling and job placement to women and girls in media technology for music, radio, film, television and the internet.

There is still some time left for us to present you another big name of audio, kindly sponsoring the upcoming Student Recording Competition in Rome. We are deeply grateful for their support and very exited to give away some awesome prizes to the winners!

www.sonicstudio.com

Since the early 1980s, Sonic Studio workstations have been adopted worldwide by motion picture and recording studios, major record labels and high end mastering facilities. On award–winning motion picture soundtracks and more than half of all commercially released CD, Sonic Studio’s customers consistently win Grammy®, Emmy® and Oscar® awards for their exceptional audio work. Sonic Studio continues to lead the way to the ultrafidelity computer based audio of with the Amarra computer music player.

here is still some time left for us to present you another big name of audio, kindly sponsoring the upcoming Student Recording Competition in Rome. We are deeply grateful for their support and very exited to give away some awesome prizes to the winners!

www.merging.com

Switzerland’s Merging Technologies is the manufacturer of hardware and software systems for audio and video production professionals, including the high-resolution multichannel Pyramix digital audio workstation, VCube non-linear HD video playback system, the Ramses MSC audio control surface and Ovation a Media Server and Sequencer. Merging’s products are used where reliability and the highest possible quality are of paramount concern. Merging’s clients include some of the finest recording studios, broadcast facilities, post-production houses and film dubbing suites in the world.

There is still some time left for us to present you another big name of audio, kindly sponsoring the upcoming Student Recording Competition in Rome. We are deeply grateful for their support and very exited to give away some awesome prizes to the winners!

www.izotope.com

iZotope is a research-driven audio technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Its award-winning products and audio technologies are used by millions of people in over 50 countries, from consumers to musicians to major film, TV, and radio studios. Some of the diverse clients include musical giants like BT, Depeche Mode, and RZA of WuTang Clan; radio stations like Boston's iconic WGBH; and TV programming like CBS's Survivor, the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch, the World Cup broadcast, and the GRAMMY awards. Through an extensive licensing program, iZotope technology is also directly integrated into products made by industry-leaders such as Adobe, Avid, and Sony; video games from companies like Harmonix and Ubisoft; as well as a growing number of mobile phone applications.