Audio Engineering Society
Recaps of Past Meetings - Chicago Section
Key: * = Recaps written editorial style
May 5, 2015 - Richard Heyser - 28 Years Later (video)
March 18, 2015 - AES Tour of the Marcus Addison Cinema and a demo/review of their Dolby ATMOS system
February 24, 2015 - Grammy Telecast Audio - The Most Complex Audio Production in Broadcast Television
November 25, 2014 - An Evening with Fred Breitberg (video)
October 28, 2014 – AES Tour of CBS Radio's Performance Stage & Radio Stations
September 30, 2014 – The Genius of Ben Bauer: 75 Years of the Shure Unidyne Microphone (video)
May 21, 2014 – Francis Rumsey presents Spatial Audio – Reconstructing Reality or Creating Illusion? (video)
April 30, 2014 – Tour of Chicago Public Media/WBEZ
January 29, 2014 – Jon Boley presents The Psychoacoustics of Phase*
December 3 2013 – Brian McCarty presents Current trends in Audio for Visual Media*
November 26 2013 – Plamen Ivanov presents Microphone Array Usage in Mobile Device Multimedia Applications*
September 25 2013 – Robert B. Schulein and Dan Mapes-Riordann present 3D Sound for Personal Entertainment Devices *
July 3rd 2013 – A conversation with George Massenburg; in person
April 23rd 2013 – Don Keele presents Introduction to CBT Loudspeaker Arrays
March 20th 2013 – Frank Wells presents Tales from the Transition – A Console on the Edge
February 18th 2013 – Scott Wyatt presents Electronic and Computer Music at the Experimental Music Studios of the University of Illinois
December 19th 2012 – Wade Conklin presents Application of Microelectromechanical (MEMs) Microphones to Hearing Aids*
November 14th 2012 – Richard Stroud presents Designing a Flat-Panel Speaker.*
July 18th 2012 – Guy Torio presents The Evolution of Audio Technology that Transports the Cinematic Experience into the Home
April 18th 2012 – A DVD viewing of the 2011 interview with Leo Beranek as part of the NAMM Oral History Program
March 21st 2012 – Daniel Warren presents Directivity and Matched Microphones
February 29th 2012 – John Hardy presents The Evolution of Mic Preamps in my Life
December 6th 2011 – Dr Pantelis Vassilakis presents Perceptual Implications of Data Compressed Audio
November 15th 2011 - Tom Jung presents A Firsthand-Look at Five Decades of Audio Development
September 21st, 2011 – Ian Schneller welcomes us into his Specimen workshop.*
June 21st 2011 - Ribbon Microphones: Then and Now.*
June 8th 2011 - Larry Crane: A Life of Recording Gear Mistrust (and Lust)...
Starting June 2011 - Recaps written editorial style are marked with an asterisk (*)
April 2011 and prior - Recaps written editorial style are hyperlinks
April 2011 - Increasing Sample Rates for Digital Audio: Benefits and Tradeoffs.
March 2011 - Why is Concert Sound better than it used to be…or is it?.
February 2011 - Forensic Audio Analysis.
November 2010 - Audio in an RF World.
October 2010 - Gravity Studios Tour.
September 2010 - The Chicago School of Violin Making Tour.
June 2010 - The Hearing Conservation Seminar.
April 2010 - Effects of musicial experience on the nervous system.
March 2010 - Lies, Damned Lies & Specifications.
February 2010 - Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories: Acoustics, Cotton and Cryptology.
January 2010 - ImmersAV Technology™ Creating an Immersive Audio Visual Experience.
December 2009 - Note by Note. The Making of Steinway L1037.
November 2009 - Pioneering Innovations in Festival and Touring Sound of the 1950s and 1960s.
October 2009 - Audio vs. Video.
September 2009 - The Ship in a Bottle-- Rendering an Amplified Venue in Wood.
June 2009 - Kenowerks Studio Tour .
May 2009 - Upgrading the Audio Industry.
April 2009 - High Quality Audio and the Internet.
February 2009 - Sound-for-Picture Recording with File-Based Digital Multi-Track Recorders.
January 2009 - Theater Sound with Blue Man Group.
December 2008 - Piano Tuning and Inharmonicity.
November 2008 - The Quest for the World’s Oldest Recorded Sounds.
October 2008 - Tour of Bob Paquette's Microphone Museum.
September 2008 - Audio Mythbusting.
May 2008 - Digital Audio Networking.
April 2008 - Advanced Simulation of a Condenser Microphone Capsule.
March 2008 - Tour of Audio Facilities at Willow Creek Community Church.
February 2008 - Analog Audio Console Design.
December 2007 - Linear Array Transducers.
October 2007 - The Pro Audio Industry Goes to Washington - 700 MHz and White Spaces issues related to Wireless Microphone Operation.
September 2007 - Knowles Tour and the Evolution of Balanced Armature Speakers for High-Fidelity In-Ear Applications.
May 2007 - Microphones and Ear Simulators for High Frequency Measurements.
April 2007 - A Case Study in Modern Acoustical Design: The Shure Performance and Listening Center.
March 2007 - Radio, Audio, and Technology.
February 2007 - Time-coherent Loudspeakers.
January 2007 - Auditory Illusions: What, Why, and How.
December 2006 - Measuring Sound Quality.
November 2006 - Measurements and Subjective Evaluations of Audio Systems.
October 2006 - An Evening with Peter Scheiber.
September 2006 - Video Game Audio.
July 2006 - Gepco Tour.
April 2006 - Review Of Early Constant-Directivity Horn Development, TEF Measurements, And The Nearfield Paper
February 2006 - Mixing for In Ear Monitors
January 2006 - SiSonicTM – The First Commercialized Silicon Microphone
December 2005 - Adler Planetarium's Starrider Theater Surround System Development and Tour
November 2005 - Shure, Incorporated Technology Annex Tour.
September 2005 - A Vibrational Analysis of the Musical Harp.
July 2005 - Real-World Audio Interfaces and Other-World Myths.
June 2005 - Jay Pritzker Pavilion Tour.
May 2005 - Studio Technologies, Inc. Tour.
March 2005 - Digital Radio in the 21st Century
February 2005 - Fundamentals of Broadcast Audio Processing.
January 2005 - An Applied Approach to Performance Recording.
December 2004 - Binaural Recording: 1932 – 2004 Creating Realistic Sound Fields Using Only Two Audio Channels.
November 2004 - Microphones and Recording Techniques for Surround Sound.
October 2004 - “How To” Surround Workshop.
September 2004 - Pressure Point Recording Studios.
June 2004 - Year-End Banquet and "An Afternoon with Jack Mullin" AES Interview.
May 2004 - The Audible Effects of Converters.
April 2004 - Lost on the Way to the Brain.
March 2004 - Tour of Columbia College's New Audio Technology Center
February 2004 - Audio Processing for Immersive Audio/Video Systems.
January 2004 - RF Interference and Audio Systems.
November 6th 2003 - History and Future of Surround Sound.
October 22nd 2003 - Acoustic Holography.
September 24th 2003 - Clear Channel Communications Studios Tour.
June 12th 2003 - Technology Issues In Surround Sound, Multi-Channel and Multi-Format Audio.
May 20th 2003 - Measurement of Loudspeaker Amplitude Modulation Distortion.
May 6th 2003 - Systems for Stereo Sound Reinforcement - Performance Criteria, Design Techniques, Practical Examples, and Microphone Techniques.
April 2003 - Joseph Henry, Lecture Halls, and Fog Horns: Acoustics in the Service of Society.
March 2003 - Game Audio.
February 2003 - The Mechanics of Hearing Loss: Impact on Sound Perception with Hearing Aids & Cochlear Implants.
January 2003 - Conflicts in Approach to Classic and Modern Audio Recording.
November 2002 - Inventions and Patents in Audio Engineering.
October 2002 - Networked Audio.
June 2002 - Virtual Sampling Technology.
May 2002 - Evolution of High Resolution Digital Audio in an Era of Multichannel Surround.
April 2002 - Audio Power Amplifiers: a Brief History.
March 2002 - Acoustical Implementation in the Real World.
February 2002 - A High Frequency Acoustical Element for Multi-band Articulated Line Arrays AND The EVO powered DSP intelligent loudspeaker system.
January 2002 - Towards a Better Understanding of 1-Bit Sigma-Delta Modulators
December 18th 2001 - Wireless Telephone Design Considerations
October 30th 2001 - Riverbank Laboratories Tour
October 10th 2001 - The EIA-426-B Loudspeaker Power Rating Compact Disc. What's on it? How do I use it?
June 2001 - Exploring Digital Audio
May 24th 2001 - Envelopment in Concert Halls and Listening Rooms - (or How many woofers do we really need?)
May 2nd 2001 - DSP in the Installed Sound Market
April 2001 - Acoustical Design as it pertains to different sizes and types of rooms
February 2001 - Goodman Theatre Tour
January 2001 - MP3 & Internet Audio.
December 2000 - Otoacoustic Emissions (OAEs).
November 2000 - The Unique Performance Properties of Dual Diaphragm Condenser Microphones.
October 2000 - Considerations in Audio Circuit Design
June 2000 - The Audio of Gaming
May 2000 - Loudspeaker Design Panel
April 2000 - Multi-Channel Matrix Imaging Systems
March 2000 - Is This Thing On? (And Which Way is Up?) Practical Aspects of Microphone Polar Patterns
February 2000 - Acoustic Boundary Element Simulation of Nonlinear Alerting Devices
January 2000 - The Acoustic Lever
December 1999 - Speakers on the Other Side of the Decimal Point (The Design and Construction of Speakers for Hearing Aids
November 1999 - Grounding, Shielding, Hums, Buzzes, and Things that Go ZAP! in Audio Signal Processing Systems
October 1999 - Tour of the Motorola Museum of Electronics
May 1999 - The Proximity Effect in Directional Condenser Microphones
April 1999 - Contrary To Local Trends, This Successful Radio Station Was Victim Of Divestiture, Not Consolidation!
December 1998 - Numerical Acoustics for Transducer Development
November 1998 - Chicago's Orchestra Hall Reborn
April 1998 - Perception Based Audio Signal Processing
February 1998 - Source Directionality and Concert Halls
January 1998 - Loudspeaker Distortion Modeling
December 1997 - Studio Technologies, Inc.
November 1997 - The Virtual Orchestra
October 1997 - Auditory Physiology