Meeting Report Archive

January 30, 2023 - Mic Cuppers — Dealing With It!

December 5, 2022 - A Repair-centric Approach to Audio Gear Repair: Is there a shortage of technical expertise to meet demand?

November 17, 2022 - What is Bandwidth and Why Do I Care?

October 12, 2022 - The Physics of Microphones: How They Work and How to Apply Them

September 3, 2022 - A Guided Tour of the New Home of the Crocodile Cafe

August 20, 2022 - Women Who Worked at Woodstock 1969... In their own words!

June 25, 2022 - A Very Close Look at the Sound Reinforcement and Recording Systems for Woodstock 1969

May 6, 2022 - Reality is Boring: Expressing Feelings and Movements through Impressionistic Foley

April 20, 2022 - Home Studio Construction

March 3, 2022 - How Seattle Pacific University Creates Streamable Online Concert Archives

February 9, 2022 - An Introduction to Reaper

January 25, 2022 - Masking — What is it, and when does it happen?

December 7, 2021 - Sylvia Massy's Mind Blowing Microphone Museum — Part 2!

November 21, 2021 - Portals: The Secret Weapon of AAA Game Audio Spatialization AND Attempting to achieve in-person AND online meetings

October 18, 2021 - Analog Tape Playback without Wow and Flutter

September 16, 2021 - 1st Annual PNW Audio Trivia Bonanza

June 16, 2021 - Immersion Networks Mix Cubed: a Cloud Based Spatial Audio Platform for Creators

May 17, 2021 - SMAART: History, Applications, Case Studies and the Role of Curiosity in Audio

April 7, 2021 - Recording Songs with Caspar Babypants

March 10, 2021 - Diversity and Inclusion for the AES PNW Section

February 23, 2021 - Motown: In the Studio Where it Happened!

January 28, 2021 - Auditory Mechanisms for Spatial Hearing

November 11, 2020 - Mercury Living Presence - A Technical History

October 20, 2020 - Metadata - Your path to Proper Credits and Payment

September 23, 2020 - Beyond the Flatscreen:  How We Hosted an International Conference in Virtual Reality

August 25, 2020 - Sylvia Massy's Mind Blowing Microphone Museum

June 17, 2020 - Tools & Techniques for Streaming Audio

May 27, 2020 - 3D Audio

April 28, 2020 - Mixing On Glass: Tablet Control of Digital Mixers

February 26, 2020 - Creating A New Loudspeaker Design

January 8, 2020 - Old Problems, New Solutions: Architectural Acoustics in Flux

November 20, 2019 - How To Record an Abrams Tank

October 29, 2019 - Acoustics: The Black Magic of Architecture

September 25, 2019 - The Current State of Production Sound Recording

July 9, 2019 - An Unhinged Evening with Sylvia Massy

June 12, 2019 - Line Mixing for Musical Theatre

May 11, 2019 - 7th Annual DigiPen Audio Symposium

April 24, 2019 - Hearing 099

March 27, 2019 - The Music of Destiny

February 20, 2019 - Video Interview with Bob Ezrin

January 3, 2019 - Audition the 2019 Immersive Audio Grammy Nominees | Joint meeting with the Recording Academy

December 1, 2018 - Pacific Northwest Audio Society Annual Winter Social

November 7, 2018 - Jack Endino Guitar Recording Workshop

October 3, 2018 - Issues in Digital Production That Remain a Problem

September 27, 2018 - New Surround and Immersive Recordings

June 20, 2018 - An Evening with Ron Jones

May 30, 2018 - Lies, Damn Lies and USB DAC Technical Measurements or How to Manipulate Measurements for Fun and Profit

April 25, 2018 - When Timing Audio For Video Becomes Impossible, aka The Impossible Will Take A Little Longer

March 20, 2018 - Seeing Voices: Using Light to Restore and Preserve Early Recorded Sound

February 21, 2018 - Roland Cloud, Gig Performer, plus The Continuing Evolution of the Virtual Studio

January 30, 2018 - To Window, or Not To Window...

December 5, 2017 - Distributed Mode and Balanced Mode Transducers

November 15, 2017 - Ambisonics and the Ambisonic Toolkit

October 25, 2017 - The Brain-Music Interface: The Encephalophone

September 27, 2017 - A Pictorial History of the Columbia Records 30th Street Studio

June 21, 2017 - 3D Sound for Video Games

May 30, 2017 - The Harry Partch Instrumentarium

April 12, 2017 - Theatrical Sound Design: Live, Recorded Playback and Generative Methods

March 20, 2017 - Impedance... Because Resistance is Futile!

February 8, 2017 - The Science of Turntablism

January 25, 2017 - I Have to Mix It in HERE??? | Affordable Acoustical Measurements

December 14, 2016 - What's All This Dante Stuff About Anyway?
or
Audio Networking Using Dante

November 29, 2016 - Drums, Life, and Everything in Between: Understanding the Drum Kit on a fundamental Level

October 12, 2016 - The Evolution of a Home Loudspeaker Design

September 14, 2016 - Modern Medical Ultrasound Technology

June 29, 2016 - Development of a Low Cost Programmable Microphone Preamp Gain Control IC for Pro Audio Applications

May 11, 2016 - Spatial Audio and its Applications

April 18, 2016 - Radio Frequency Coordination for Live Events

March 30, 2016 - The Decibel, Revisited

February 24, 2016 - Reference? What Are You Referring To?

January 9, 2016 - Sampling Rate Conversion - A Saturday afternoon discussion

November 11, 2015 - The State of Audio Education in the Pacific Northwest

October 8, 2015 - An Evening of Reverberation

September 17, 2015 - Rane's HAL Drag-n-Drop DSP Audio Architecture

June 18, 2015 - Algorithmic Digital Reverberators How the technology of artificial reverberation shapes musical aesthetics

May 26, 2015 - History, Technical Aspects, & the Care & Feeding of Ribbon Microphones

March 25, 2015 - Audio Band Measurements

February 12, 2015 - More Topics in Loudness - ?Microdynamics?

January 8, 2015 - The Forza Motorsport 5 Original Soundtrack - An Insider's View

November 6, 2014 - Determining the Subjective Effects of Compression: Techniques, Topologies, and Factors

September 18, 2014 - The Perception and Measurement of Headphone Sound Quality: Do Listeners Agree on What Makes a Headphone Sound Good?

June 18, 2014 - Cardioid Subwoofers: Once A Miracle, Now Easily Done

May 29, 2014 - Noise Regulations: Is it Noise or Is It Music?

April 24, 2014 - The Ribbon Microphone Resurgence and London Bridge Studios Tour

March 27, 2014 - Analog Tape Machines - Basics of Alignment and Calibration

January 29, 2014 - Dynamic Range - How LOW can you go? (Or... What does soft mean, and what does loud mean?)

November 6, 2013 - Weaponized Audio for Enormous Venues OR Can We Outshout the Crowd?

October 24, 2013 - State of the Art in Modular Synthesis

September 24, 2013 - The Circuit Is The Sound - An Engineer's Perspective on Analog Modular Synthesis

June 1, 2013 - Everything You Need To Know About Using Ethernet Cable For Portable Audio-An All-Day, In-Depth Workshop

May 16, 2013 - Transparent One and Audio Entrepreneurship

April 17, 2013 - Audio, Radio, Acoustics and Signal Processing - the Way Forward

March 14, 2013 - The State of the Mostly Modular Art of Synthesis

February 21, 2013 - Power Tools for Pro Tools 10

January 8, 2013 - Vroom - The Interesting World of Racing Game Sound Design

November 20, 2012 - A Soldering Workshop aka Soldering 101

November 8, 2012 - Termination Rights: How Artists May be Able to Undo Old Deals and Reclaim Copyrights

October 11, 2012 - Careers in Audio - a Panel Discussion

September 22, 2012 - Understanding and Interpreting Audio Measurement Tools in a Real Room with a Real System or, What Is That Squiggly Line Trying to Tell Me and What Can I Do About It?

June 19, 2012 - A Closer Look at CBS Records' Legendary 30th Street NYC Studio with Former CBS Staff Engineer Frank Laico

May 17, 2012 - Whitespaces and RF Spectrum News

April 17, 2012 - Audio Technology-from a legal perspective

March 29, 2012 - Desktop Mastering

February 28, 2012 - Game Audio Programming for Android - FMOD vs. Java

January 28, 2012 - The Fourier Transform and ways to use it to measure, characterize, and correct for various audio system issues

December 13, 2011 - New Requirements in the NEC and How They Affect Live Sound Systems

November 9, 2011 - Lies, Damned Lies, and Specifications

October 11, 2011 - Wifi/Whitespace/Wireless Mikes - Can they coexist?

October 4, 2011 - Bill Putnam — His Work and His Legacy

September 22, 2011 - Digital Audio Transport in an Ethernet World

August 20, 2011 - Field Trip to NWAA Labs acoustic test facility

June 27, 2011 - Inside a Cellular Telephone

May 19, 2011 - Audacity, A Digital Audio Workstation

April 26, 2011 - AES Honorary Member Award to Frank Laico and Operating a Public Address System: How to Increase Your Chances of Success with Available Material, Physical and Mental Resources

March 11, 2011 - Cables: Fact, Fiction and Fraud - The Horrible Truth About Wire & Cable

January 26, 2011 - Rewriting a Digital Audio Workstation

December 1, 2010 - Sound Capture Applications in Entertainment and Gaming

November 21, 2010 - An Afternoon with.... Wes Dooley, AEA

November 8, 2010 - The Acoustic Centre

October 14, 2010 - A Personal History of Perceptual Audio Coding

September 9, 2010 - The History and Future of Surround Sound

June 17, 2010 - An Overview of Film Scoring in Los Angeles

May 8, 2010 - Why You Hear What You Hear

May 1, 2010 - Let's Listen to a Large Line Array

March 31, 2010 - The Evolution of Analog Guitar Effects

February 17, 2010 - New Wave Modular Synthesizers: Meet the Seattle Area Modular Manufacturers

January 20, 2010 - Upgrading the Audio Industry (Toole); Subjective Evaluation of Loudspeaker Quality (Olive); Microsoft Studios Tour

November 17, 2009 - How Do They Make THAT Chip?

October 27, 2009 - A Memoir of Classic Recordings with Frank Laico

September 30, 2009 - Personal Listening Environments - Headphones/Headsets/Earphones

August 8, 2009 - A Cardioid Subwoofer Array - Theory vs. Practice

June 23, 2009 - Aspects of Hearing: Ears, Conservation, and Hearing Aids

May 26, 2009 - Evolution of the Universal Audio Architecture in Windows 7

April 28, 2009 - Anatomy of a Session with Frank Laico

March 25, 2009 - Home Theatre vs. Cinema Audio Production, the Technical Aspects

February 25, 2009 - Current Legal Events and The Future of Our Music Industry

January 27, 2009 - High Quality Termination and Project Management Fundamentals for Studio Design

December 16, 2008 - Anatomy of a Session with Frank Laico

November 18, 2008 - Mastering for the Real World: WaMu Family Fourth Audio

October 20, 2008 - How Does Your Portable Music Player Work?

September 24, 2008 - Inside a Remote Truck

June 9, 2008 - An Evening with Frank Laico

May 21, 2008 - Architectural Acoustics 101 For Audio Nerds

April 22, 2008 - Adventures in Live Surround Performance

March 11, 2008 - Copyright Law and Music/Recording Issues

February 27, 2008 - "Using Arrays of Loudspeakers for Focusing or Diffusing Sound"

January 23, 2008 - Acoustic and Psychoacoustic Issues in Room Correction

November 27, 2007 - An Evening with Roy DuNann

October 16, 2007 - Whitespace, Wireless Microphones, Digital TV - The Race for Space

September 18, 2007 - Audio Technology from a Legal Perspective - Running Afoul of Patent and Copyright Laws"

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