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Technical Committees

AES Technical Committee

Signal Processing

Chair:    Christoph Musialik    (Send E-mail)
Vice Chair:    James Johnston    (Send E-mail)

The Technical Committee on Signal Processing exists to fulfill the Mission of the Audio Engineering Society Technical Committees in areas related to signal processing.

The Committee strives to be aware of any issues related to signal processing that are or will be vital to the activities of the AES, and to make them known to the membership by all means available.

The Committee serves the needs of all AES members through education and information. It does this by participating in conferences and conventions, holding workshops, and publishing information about signal processing as it relates to audio. The committee members, possessing expertise in the field, monitor advances in signal processing technology and applications and present the information themselves, arrange for its presentation by other experts, assist the papers chairs or convention and conference chairs in the determination of appropriate sessions or other demonstrations of the technology, and/or make recommendations to the Standards Committees for further exploration. In addition, the Committee serves to recognize and acknowledge items of historical significance in the field of signal processing.

Areas of Concentration

  • Signal Processing Algorithms
  • --- Sound and Music Analysis
  • --- Sound and Music Synthesis
  • --- Equalization and Filtering
  • --- Delay, Feedback, Electronic Reverberation
  • --- Dynamics and Level Compression
  • --- Audio and Musical Effects
  • --- Oversampling Techniques and Applications
  • --- Soft Clipping, Tube Emulation, and other Nonlinear Techniques
  • --- Frequency-Domain Techniques and Applications
  • --- Applications of Linear Predictive Coding
  • Analog Techniques
  • --- Active circuits for EQ, Amplification, or Compression
  • --- Investigation into Vacuum Tube Emulation
  • --- Soft Clipping
  • --- Delta-Sigma Conversion
  • Digital Techniques
  • --- Delta-Sigma Conversion
  • --- DSP Architecture and Design for Optimal Performance for Audio Application

Recent/Planned Activities

  • 110th (Amsterdam 2001 May) activities:
  • Organized:
  • Workshop: Myths in Audio
  • Paper session Signal Processing for Audio, Part 3


Meeting Report:

These documents do not necessarily express the official position of the AES on the issues discussed at these meetings, and only represent the views of committee members participating in the discussion. Any unauthorized use of these publications is prohibited. Authorization must be obtained from the Executive Director of the AES: E-mail, Tel: +1 212 661 8528, Address: 60 East 42nd Street, Room 2520, New York, New York 10165-2520, USA.

2009-10-2     Meeting Minutes AES126
Description: Meeting Minutes, TC_SP, Munich 2009

2009-5-5     Meeting_Minutes_AES125
Description: Meeting Minutes, TC_SP, San Francisco

2008-9-11     Meeting Minutes Amsterdam 2008
Description: TC_SP Meeting Minutes, May 17, 2008

2008-5-15     Minutes Meeting NYC2007
Description: Meeting Report NYC 2007

2007-9-12     meeting report SP Vienna 2007 May 6
Description: AES-TC on Signal Processing Report Vienna 2007 May 6

2006-11-15     Minutes TC-SP 121th San Francisco
Description: Minutes of TC- on Signal Processing 121th Convention San Francisco Oct 7 2006

2006-1-4     meeting report 119th AES TC-SP
Description: meeting report 119th AES TC-SP, NYC Sat. Oct. 8 2005 Javits Center

2004-5-25     minutes 116th AES TC/SP
Description: Minutes of the 14th Meeting of the AES Technical Committee on Signal Processing 14th Meeting called to order at the 116th Convention, Berlin, 5:00 - 6:00, 10 May 2004

2004-1-16     report TC SP meeting 115th NYC
Description: Chairman's report from the meeting of the 115th AES Technical Committee on Signal Processing

2003-8-25     114th Convention Minutes of SP Committee
Description: Chairman's report from the meeting of the 114th AES Technical Committee on Signal Processing. The meeting was held on Sunday, March 23, 2003 at the 114th Convention at the RAI at Amsterdam.

2003-2-1     TC-SP NYC-2002 report
Description: TC-SP NYC-2002 report The meeting was called to order after the special event on History of Signal Processing.

2002-10-16     113th Convention Minutes of SP Committee
Description: Full proposed minutes of 113th convention Technical Committee on Signal Processing

2002-9-21     TC-SP meeting of the 112th AES Munich
Description: TC-SP meeting AES Saturday, May 11, 2002 at the 112th Convention in at the MOC at Munich

2002-1-15     Report from TC SP NYC-111th
Description: report of the meeting of the TC on SP of the 111th Convention at Nov 30-Dec 3 2001

2001-8-16     report TC SP Asd110th
Description: report on the gathering of the TC on SP at the 110th AES meeting (2001 May 12) at Amsterdam.

2000-10-24     Report from the TC-SP LA Sept 2000
Description: Chairman's report from the meeting of the AES Technical Committee on Signal Processing. The meeting was held on Friday, September 22, 2000 at the 109th Convention in the Los Angeles convention center.


Technical Report:

2002-12-20     Trends in SP
Description: Trends in SP


Committee Members

 Constantine Mouzakis  Nermin Osmanovic  Jim Whitney 
 Fitzgerald Archibald  Robert Redman  Ray A. Rayburn 
 Scott Smith  Stanley Lipshitz  James Johnston 
 John Strawn  Robert Bristow-Johnson  John Vanderkooy 
 Christoph Musialik  Markus Erne  Ronald M. Aarts 
 Conrad Cooke  Soren H. Nielsen  Rhonda Wilson 
 Jayant Datta  Rob Maher  David Rich 
 Jamie Angus  Ted Tanner  Juergen Herre 
 Vicki R. Melchior  Duane Wise  Schuyler Quackenbush 
 James Keith McElveen  Derk Reefman  Chris Weare 
 Dan Yotz  Philippe Depalle  Mike Goodwin 
 Jon Boley  Joerg Bitzer  Brent Karley 

To request membership in this Technical Committee please e-mail the Chair by using the link above.

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