Monday June 17, 6pm

The Henderson House

99 Westcliff Rd., Weston, MA 02493

Admission – $50

Includes: Cocktail hour, h’orderves, buffet style dinner w/ dessert & coffee.

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Tues. May 14, 7pm, Devlin Hall – Room 026 Boston College

There are many difficult audio signal processing problems that remain unresolved to a satisfactory and practical level. Examples of this include, dereverberation, sound source separation, and signal reconstruction. By using a perceptually-motivated approach to audio signal processing, many of these difficulties can be largely overcome, enabling new algorithms to be derived. This processing approach has been used by the author to create a wide variety of audio products. The talk will outline the general processing approach and will then use the dereverberation problem as a detailed example. Numerous other audio processing examples based on decomposing audio signals into perceptual “streams” will be provided. The examples have practical applications in music recording and mastering, surround processing, microphone arrays, noise reduction, speech processing, hearing aids, and forensics.

Dr. Gil Soulodre has over 30 years experience in the audio field, both as a mixing engineer and a researcher. He is a prolific writer of scientific papers in the areas of concert hall acoustics, auditory perception, subjective testing, DSP processing, and multi-channel audio. He has invented a wide variety of audio processing algorithms and authored more than 30 patents. Through his company Camden Labs, his development efforts include products in the areas of telecom, military communications, the music recording industry, microphone processing, hearing aids, music compression, and automotive audio. Dr. Soulodre is a Fellow of the AES and has received recognition and awards from the Acoustical Society of America, the American Institute of Physics, the IEEE, and the Canadian Government. In 2006 he received the AES Publications Award. Most recently the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded Dr. Soulodre with a 2011 Emmy Award for Technical and Engineering Achievement.

FROM POINTS NORTH AND SOUTH: Take Interstate 95 (Route 128) to Exit 24 (Route 30). Proceed east on Route 30, also known as Commonwealth Avenue, and follow for about five miles to Boston College.

FROM POINTS WEST: Take the Massachusetts Turnpike (Route 90) to Exit 17. At the first set of lights after the exit ramp, take a right onto Centre Street. Follow Centre Street to the fourth set of lights, and turn left onto Commonwealth Avenue. Follow Commonwealth Avenue 1-1/2 miles to Boston College.

Devlin Hall is located in the center of the Chestnut Hill Campus. Parking is available in the Commonwealth Ave Garage for a minimal price. The entrance for Room 026 is in the rear of Devlin hall.

When: Tues. April 30th, 7-10pm
Where: 84 Stonley Rd. Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

Squid Hell is a “work in progress” and is currently closer to a construction site than a functioning studio business. Join us to see what Squid Hell has in store for the future. . . 

For parking, you can park for free on the street.
The studio is on a dead end street and is the last building on the left.

http://daphne.meccahosting.com/~a0002417/

Tues. April 23,  7 pm,  Devlin Hall – Room 026  Boston College

Small production rooms can present big challenges with equipment placing, traffic flow and most importantly, speaker positioning.  There is always a compromise!   Yet more and more production work is being produced in these environments with varying results.  All you have to do is take your mix else where to find out!  But shouldn’t your room, your domain, be that sacred place you go everyday to tweak and critique and sculpt until the end result is what you intended?  Of course, and tuning that room to perfection could end up being a life’s work in itself!

A twenty-year veteran in the audio production business, Paul Stewart has extensive practical experience in monitor system set up and room tuning. For the last eight years working with the award-winning Genelec, Paul has tweaked and tuned some of the most important monitoring systems in the world including CNN, Turner, ESPN, CBS News and countless other music production studios. Paul brings a unique awareness and understanding to real working environments and challenges to achieving the optimal monitoring setup.

Come see this presentation to gain some insight as to how you can optimize your own system.

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FROM POINTS NORTH AND SOUTH: Take Interstate 95 (Route 128) to Exit 24 (Route 30). Proceed east on Route 30, also known as Commonwealth Avenue, and follow for about five miles to Boston College.

FROM POINTS WEST: Take the Massachusetts Turnpike (Route 90) to Exit 17. At the first set of lights after the exit ramp, take a right onto Centre Street. Follow Centre Street to the fourth set of lights, and turn left onto Commonwealth Avenue. Follow Commonwealth Avenue 1-1/2 miles to Boston College.

FROM DOWNTOWN BOSTON: Take the Massachusetts Turnpike (Route 90) to Exit 17. Take a left over the bridge after passing the Sheraton Tara Hotel. Take the first right onto Centre Street. Follow above directions from Centre Street.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: The Boston College branch of the MBTA’s “Green Line” (B) ends at the Boston-Newton boundary on Commonwealth Avenue

Devlin Hall is located in the center of the Chestnut Hill Campus. Parking is available in the Commonwealth Ave Garage for a minimal price. The entrance for Room 026 is in the rear of Devlin hall. Parking on Commonwealth Ave is also FREE!

Joint meeting with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers New England Section and the Boston AES.   Free to members and non-members! STUDENTS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME !

DATE:  Wednesday, March 20, 2013

TIME:  Light Refreshments provided at 6:30 PM. Presentations start promptly at 7:05 PM

LOCATION: 304 Vassar St. Cambridge, MA 02139.  MIT Building W92, directly across the street from the Entrance to the Hyatt Hotel on Memorial Drive. (North side of Charles River)

MEETING SYNOPSIS:

Faced with an aging broadband coaxial CATV infrastructure, MIT is leveraging it’s campus-wide IP network to carry video into a widely-distributed group of academic buildings, administrative and faculty offices as well as student residences.

Now on a second generation of video distribution, a partnership with Comcast is helping MIT move forward with high quality  VIDEO CONTENT DELIVERY to desktop and laptop computers, campus wide.

MIT Engineer Chris Murphy and Senior Engineer Ron Hoffmann and Jonathan Ward of the Information Services & Technology Department at MIT will provide a thorough technology overview and demonstrate various aspects of the new campus system.

PARKING:   Street parking along Vassar Street and plenty of spots on Audrey Street (on the rear side of W92).  For a map, please click this link: http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=W92

For more information on the MARCH 20th meeting contact PAUL BECK: paul_beck@emerson.edu

When:
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 7:00 PM

Where:
The bridge sound and stage
18 Edmunds Street, Cambridge
(617) 714-5413
http://thebridgesoundstage.com/

Thanks to our event sponsor Narragansett Beer:

Joint Meeting with the Great Boston Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Thurs. Feb. 7, 2013, 6pm

6:00 PM – Social Hour,  7:00 PM – Presentation and Tour

PARKING:

The Record Company has a large parking lot on the corner of Massachusetts Ave. and Theodore Glyn Way.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:

MBTA – 1 Bus to Albany Street

MBTA – Red Line to Andrew Station

 Tues. Jan. 22, 7 pm 

 Devlin Hall – Room 026 -  Boston College

This presentation is designed to reinforce responsible listening for musicians and audio professionals. The anatomy and physiology of hearing is reviewed with highlights placed on musician-specific information.  The presentation concludes with hearing conservation strategies and a discussion of hearing protection options.

Erik Brizzee, Au.D., CCC-A, F-AAA,is a clinical audiologist with special interest in musician hearing conservation. Erik’s love of audio began early with a particular fascination for analog synthesizers.  From there, he was drawn into the field of Audiology while pursuing a career as a recording engineer.  He earned his Bachelor of Science in Speech & Hearing Sciences from the University of Utah, his Master of Science in Audiology from Northeastern University, and his Doctor of Audiology from Salus University.

Erik trained as a graduate student and later joined as a staff audiologist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston.  Recognizing the need for bridges between professional and clinical audio, he began Fenway Hearing Conservatory LLC to help bring both worlds a bit closer.

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FROM POINTS NORTH AND SOUTH: Take Interstate 95 (Route 128) to Exit 24 (Route 30). Proceed east on Route 30, also known as Commonwealth Avenue, and follow for about five miles to Boston College.

FROM POINTS WEST: Take the Massachusetts Turnpike (Route 90) to Exit 17. At the first set of lights after the exit ramp, take a right onto Centre Street. Follow Centre Street to the fourth set of lights, and turn left onto Commonwealth Avenue. Follow Commonwealth Avenue 1-1/2 miles to Boston College.

FROM DOWNTOWN BOSTON: Take the Massachusetts Turnpike (Route 90) to Exit 17. Take a left over the bridge after passing the Sheraton Tara Hotel. Take the first right onto Centre Street. Follow above directions from Centre Street.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: The Boston College branch of the MBTA’s “Green Line” (B) ends at the Boston-Newton boundary on Commonwealth Avenue

Devlin Hall is located in the center of the Chestnut Hill Campus. Parking is available in the Commonwealth Ave Garage for a minimal price. The entrance for Room 026 is in the rear of Devlin hall. Parking on Commonwealth Ave is also FREE!