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[Scott Dorsey]

Best Sound in Show:
The live piano in the Zenph Studios booth. It sounded like a real piano,
and with the Zenph system playing back a transcription from a Glenn Gould
recording, it was almost like the real thing without the humming.

Worst Sound in Show:
The TEC award ceremony. Really, really bad production work. Feedback
all over the place, sound bites improperly cued which were played when
they shouldn't have been and not played when they should have been.
Powerpoint slides popping up at the wrong time. Whoever committed this
atrocity, especially in front of some of the world's best audio engineers,
should be ashamed of themselves.

Loudest Sound in Show:
If you believe the fellow at the Under Cover booth, some nut from Long
Island just showed up at their booth with an eight-foot guitar and asked
if anybody wanted to hear him play it. We did all hear him play it, even
people that were hundreds of feet away on the other side of a wall. OSHA
standards were violated.

Best Free Stuff:
Not only did RMGI acquire some of the old BASF manufacturing facilities
and their original tape formulations, but in the process they also got a
bunch of their promotional materials. So they were giving out coffee mugs
and tote bags promoting a company that no longer even exists. Needless
to say, they have quite a fine sense of humor as well as of the absurd.

Best New Product:
Studio Projects is manufacturing a console designed by Malcolm Toft.
It's semi-modular, built in 8-channel buckets, and it looks and feels like
a real console but is priced to compete with the low-end music store consoles.
I think this fills a void between the high end and low end gear and I am very
pleased to see something like this coming out.

Best New Product Category:
Analogue tape, with four manufacturers showing products.

Most Awaited New Product:
After six years of promising, THAT Semiconductor finally released
samples of the THAT 1512 mike preamplifier chip. It's pin-compatible
with the SSM2017, but should be a serious upgrade for devices that use
the 2017.

Best Paper In Show:
_Finite Element Modelling of a Loudspeaker Part 2: Applications_. What
made this paper great was less that it was a fairly complete overview of
the use of finite element methods to model loudspeaker drivers, but that
it was presented by John Vanderkooy, who knows his material thoroughly
and actually discussed how things work off the cuff rather then reading
the bullets on powerpoint slides like many presenters. He talked about
the various mechanical elements of the driver and how changing their
shape and material affects the total system behaviour, using the FE model.
By all means if you are interested in loudspeaker drivers you should check
out preprint 6593.

Worst Paper In Show:
_Advanced Multichannel Audio System for Reproducing a Live Sound Field
With Ultimate Sensation of Presence_, preprint 6559. I will not mention
the name of the authors. These folks appear to have the notion that throwing
as many microphones into a room as possible and playing the recording back
using a speaker at each microphone position is innovative. This sort of
thing was done in the fifties, and it was a bad idea then. Sampling a sound
field at random points is not a shortcut to better imaging. Preprint 6559.

Worst Demo in Show:
The guys from Violet Microphones just put four mikes up next to one
another, all into a cheap Behringer mixer. They brought all the gains
up at the same time and handed me a pair of headphones. What with all
the comb filtering between the mikes, it was hard to tell what anything
sounded like at all. Even with only one mike active, though, the key
jingle test was not very well-handled by the things. The fellow doing the
demo did not seem to want people actually handling or checking the products.

Uli Behringer/ Quad Eight Memorial Duplication Award:
Also goes to Violet Microphones.

Worst Demo Space in Show:
The Focal yurt. Great speakers, but the low end inside the yurt was
very, very bizarre.

Best Costume In Show:
James Bentley of Dale Pro Audio.

Best Large Format Console Company Owned By a Famous Rock Star:
SSL, which was also showing a line of rackmount gear based on the
standard SSL 9000 console circuitry designs.

Best Chinese Food:
Danny Ng Restaurant, 34 Pell st. Formerly the Lucky Garden Restaurant.

Best Butt in Show:
Gary Louie of Seattle.
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[John Noll]

You forgot the best vehicle. That Telefunken VW bus was pretty cool.

JN

[Scott Dorsey]

In article <43721AB7.4050006@verizon.net>,
John Noll <jn145_deletethisfirst_@verizon.net> wrote:

[Matrixmusic]

Which Gould piece did they Use?
I did 7 CD's with Glenn and am interested if it was one I worked on.
I still have all my old editing notes with markings where Glenn would
shift
counterpoint voices one note at a time between both hands.
It be interesting to see it being played by a machine and even more
confusing
for the viewer who would not understand the fingering.

[Scott Dorsey]

Matrixmusic <kevindoylemusic@yahoo.ca> wrote:

[Kurt Albershardt]

Scott Dorsey wrote:

[telefunky]

scott:

Other than RMGI and Quantegy, who else will be making tape?

[Scott Dorsey]

telefunky <hunt_@msn.com> wrote:

[Harry Lavo]

"Scott Dorsey" <kludge@panix.com> wrote in message
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[Scott Dorsey]

Harry Lavo <hlavo@comcast.net> wrote:

[playonAT@comcast.net]

On 9 Nov 2005 10:35:02 -0500, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

[Mike Rivers]

playonAT@comcast.net wrote:

[Scott Dorsey]

playonAT@comcast.net <playon> wrote:

[playonAT@comcast.net]

Also, how large is the mixer? I lost my studio space and don't have much
room to set up my Soundcraft Delta anymore (16x4x2). Was thinking about
buying a new Mackie Onyx just to get something with a smaller footprint,
but would like to check out one of these first...

Al

On 12 Nov 2005 11:46:15 -0500, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: