SAN FRANCISCO – The 129th AES Convention, set for Nov. 4-7 in Moscone Center, will be the first to feature a Product Design Track. Roger Furness, AES executive director, cited the "perpetual interest" in product development sessions as a factor in forming the first dedicated Product Design Track, chaired by Bob Moses.
Moses and co-chairs Valerie Tyler and Jim McTigue are working to offer broadcast, live sound, game audio, recording, mixing, mastering and education professionals attending the 129th show nearly two dozen workshops, tutorials and master classes.
A product design consultant and THAT Corporation IC program manager, Moses serves on the AES Board of Governors and is a former president.
"We received an abundance of timely Workshop, Tutorial and Master Class proposals," Moses said. "I combed through this material to build a program with more than 20 events focused on audio product development. These presentations provide a broad representation of the issues involved in developing meaningful audio tools for the rapidly changing audio field."
Presentations featured in the Product Design Track include:
Grounding & Shielding – Circuits & Interference – A two-part Master Class led by Ralph Morrison.
iPhone Sound Design – Lessons Learned – Tutorial led by Jeff Essex.
AES 42 & Digital Microphones – Workshop, led by Helmut Wittek.
DSP – Why So Hard? – Tutorial, led by Peter Eastty
Licensing 3rd Party Technology, How To Make It Work For You – Workshop, led by Bob Moses
Designing Microphone Preamplifiers – Tutorial, led by Gary Hebert
An Overview Of Audio System Grounding And Interfacing – Tutorial, led by Bill Whitlock
Additional Product Design Track presentations include:
• Is Your Equipment Design A Noise Problem Waiting To Happen? – Master Class, Bill Whitlock
• Analysis & Modeling Of The Dbx 902 De-Esser – Tutorial, Aaron Wishnick
• Semantic Audio Success / Commercial Applications Of Semantic Audio Analysis – Tutorial, Jay Leboeuf
• Do-It-Yourself Semantic Audio – Tutorial, Joern Loviscach
• Networking For Audio Applications – Tutorial, Kevin Gross
• IEEE 802.1 Audio/Video Bridging (AVB) – Workshop, Lee Minich
• Headphones, Headsets & Earphones – Electroacoustic Design & Verification – Workshop, Christopher J. Struck
• High Resolution Computer Audio – Tutorial, Keith O. Johnson
• Progress In Computer-Based Playback Of High Resolution Audio – Workshop, Vicki R. Melchior
• The Product Designers Ball – A Celebration Of Audio Product Design With Music, Food, And Drink.
"The Convention Committee was universally behind this dedicated track," co-chair Jim McTigue said. "The challenges of audio design in the 21st century require a community ready to meet, debate and share the wisdom of the past and the promise of the future."
For a preliminary calendar of events, including comprehensive abstracts of the events listed above, go to:
