Live Sound Education at AES Convention

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

I was asked almost a year ago to chair the live sound events at the upcoming Audio Engineering Society convention in San Francisco, which will take place October 2–5 at the Moscone Center. A special live sound symposium will take place on Wednesday, October 1.

The technical program of the convention will include many educational opportunities, including tutorials, workshops, panel discussions, technical paper presentations, technical tours, etc. Many of them are oriented fully (session numbers beginning in "L") or in part (session numbers beginning with other letters) toward live sound.

For more information, registratiion, etc., click on the image at the bottom of this post.

Wednesday, October 1
Wednesday, October 1, 9:00 am — 4:00 pm
Live Sound Symposium: Surround Live VI—Acquiring the Surround Field

Thursday, October 2
Thursday, October 2, 9:00 am — 10:45 am
Session T1 Electroacoustic Measurements

Thursday, October 2, 9:00 am — 1:00 pm
Session P2 Analysis and Synthesis of Sound

Thursday, October 2, 10:30 am — 1:00 pm
Session L1 Sound Reinforcement of Acoustic Music

Thursday, October 2, 2:30 pm — 4:30 pm
Session L2 The SOTA of Designing Loudspeakers for Live Sound

Thursday, October 2, 2:30 pm — 4:30 pm
Session P4 Acoustic Modeling and Simulation

Thursday, October 2, 5:00 pm — 6:45 pm
Session M1 Basic Acoustics: Understanding the Loudspeaker

Thursday, October 2, 5:00 pm — 6:45 pm
Session L3 AC Power and Grounding

Thursday, October 2, 5:00 pm — 6:45 pm
Session W5 Engineering Mistakes We Have Made in Audio

Friday, October 3
Friday, October 3, 9:00 am — 12:00 pm
Session TT3 Center for New Music and Audio Technology, UC Berkeley/Meyer Sound

Friday, October 3, 9:00 am — 11:30 am
Session T4 Perceptual Audio Evaluation

Friday, October 3, 9:00 am — 10:45 am
Session L4 White Space Issues

Friday, October 3, 9:00 am — 11:30 am
Session P5 Audio Equipment and Measurements

Friday, October 3, 9:00 am — 10:30 am
Session W6 Audio Networking for the Pros

Friday, October 3, 9:00 am — 1:00 pm
Session P6 Loudspeaker Design

Friday, October 3, 11:00 am — 1:00 pm
Session L5 Practical Advice for Wireless Systems Users

Friday, October 3, 2:30 pm — 4:00 pm
Compressors—A Dynamic Perspective

Friday, October 3, 2:30 pm — 4:15 pm
Session M3 Sonic Methodology and Mythology

Friday, October 3, 2:30 pm — 4:30 pm
Session L6 Source-Oriented Live Sound Reinforcement

Friday, October 3, 2:30 pm — 5:00 pm
Session P10 Nonlinearities in Loudspeakers

Friday, October 3, 4:00 pm — 6:45 pm
Session B6 History of Audio Processing

Friday, October 3, 5:00 pm — 6:30 pm
Session P12 Amplifiers and Automotive Audio

Saturday, October 4
Saturday, October 4, 9:00 am — 10:45 am
Session L7 10 Things to Get Right in PA and Sound Reinforceent

Saturday, October 4, 9:00 am — 12:00 pm
Session P14 Listening Tests & Psychoacoustics

Saturday, October 4, 9:00 am — 10:30 am
Session P15 Loudspeakers—Part 1

Saturday, October 4, 11:00 am — 1:00 pm
Session L8 Good Mic Technique—It's Not Just for the Studio: Microphone Selection and Usage for Live Sound

Saturday, October 4, 11:30 am — 1:00 pm
Session P17 Loudspeakers—Part 2

Saturday, October 4, 2:00 pm — 4:00 pm
Session TT14 WAM Studios, San Francisco

Saturday, October 4, 2:30 pm — 4:30 pm
Session L9 Digital and Networked Audio in Sound Reinforcement

Saturday, October 4, 2:30 pm — 4:30 pm
Session B9 Listener Fatigue and Longevity

Saturday, October 4, 2:30 pm — 4:30 pm
Session T12 Damping of the Room Low-Frequency Acoustics (Passive and Active)

Saturday, October 4, 2:30 pm — 4:00 pm
Session P20 Loudspeakers—Part 3

Saturday, October 4, 5:00 pm — 6:45 pm
Session L10 Automixing for Live Sound

Saturday, October 4, 5:00 pm — 6:45 pm
Session T14 Electric Guitar-The Science Behind the Ritual

Sunday, October 5
Sunday, October 5, 9:00 am — 11:00 am
Session M4 Acoustics and Multiphysics Modeling

Sunday, October 5, 9:00 am — 11:00 am
Session P23 Audio DSP

Sunday, October 5, 11:00 am — 1:00 pm
Session L11 Loudspeaker System Optimization

Sunday, October 5, 11:30 am — 1:00 pm
Platinum Road Warriors

Sunday, October 5, 2:30 pm — 5:00 pm
Session L12 Innovations in Live Sound—A Historical Perspective

Sunday, October 5, 5:00 pm — 6:45 pm
Session T20 Radio Frequency Interference and Audio Systems

http://www.aes.org/events/125/livesound/

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

BTW, if anyone's going to AES, let me know so we can meet up!

[Interceptor]

What a great program you have put together!

I'm on the program committee for the PBS Tech Conference preceding NAB. I know first hand how hard it is to put a solid conference together. I've got to get more active on the hard tech side again. That means SMPTE and AES.

Jim

[JimmyM]

Bob, let me give you a little advice...I've been to a lot of conventions, and I find the best conventions always have a couple bikini models onstage.

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

Originally Posted by Interceptor

What a great program you have put together!

I'm on the program committee for the PBS Tech Conference preceding NAB. I know first hand how hard it is to put a solid conference together. I've got to get more active on the hard tech side again. That means SMPTE and AES.

Jim

Thanks, Jim. It's a lot of work, but it's also a lot of fun.

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

Bob, let me give you a little advice...I've been to a lot of conventions, and I find the best conventions always have a couple bikini models onstage.

[mrokern]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

Bob, let me give you a little advice...I've been to a lot of conventions, and I find the best conventions always have a couple bikini models onstage.

Yup. And that certainly includes NAB. Holding it in Vegas doesn't hurt either...

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

NAB usually has companies--Sony, Ikegami, Bosch, etc.--showing off their cameras using brightly lit, very colorful sets that usually have a lovely model or two.

[Interceptor]

The eye candy at NAB is pretty impressive. I do enjoy hassling my sales buddies into getting stink eye from the models.

It isn't the same as it used to be, when we all headed out with a fistful of purchase orders and could wheel and deal on the show floor. Those days were WILD. Dag nab Sarbanes-Oxley.