Which Freaks Will Join Plush in the GS Lounge at AES?

[Plush]

I'll be hanging in the GearSlutz Lounge at AES.

Which freaks of the indushtry will be hanging there too?

We can gossip, compare notes, identify people who MUST be glimpsed, talked to and chatted up. Also which boxes are a must hear.


Please advise.

thankyasomuch!

PLHUSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[JonesH]

Darn it, now I really want to go to AES USA. AES Europe was a let down last two years, I've heard it's better stateside...

[Plush]

I sure do look forward to meeting fellow GS'ers at the show. Which recording freaks will be there?

I'll tell you about my recent trip to
Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in
Muscle Shoals, AL


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[philper]

Originally Posted by Plush

I sure do look forward to meeting fellow GS'ers at the show. Which recording freaks will be there?

I'll tell you about my recent trip to
Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in
Muscle Shoals, AL


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Will you be there every day of the show? Is the Lounge in Moscone or another building?

phil p

[Plush]

I will be there every day although, of course, not all the time.
I don't know where that lounge is but it better be good.

If anyone want to meet at the show, please call my cell phone at
(773) 551-3529.

[Larry Elliott]

Plush,
I do hope you find the GS Lounge and that someone turns up to chat with you. I would very much like to but it is a 12hr flight!

[PoxyMusic]

Originally Posted by Plush

I'll be hanging in the GearSlutz Lounge at AES.

Which freaks of the indushtry will be hanging there too?

Will the lounge be on the main floor, or is it an after hours thing?

[rumleymusic]

Really wanted to be there, but just can't afford the trip this year.

[Jules]

There isnt a GS lounge this year. Just the big party on the saturday night!

[Plush]

Thanks Jules
I guess I jumped the gun on the lounge part. Please contact me thru the Nagra booth.


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[Plush]

I have really enjoyed meeting esteemed GS men at the show. We have had some great discussions and laughs. Thanks for buttonholing me at the show. Find me at the
Nagra booth.

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[philper]

It looked like the Nagra booth was the "lounge", for this sub-forum anyhow. Nice meeting a few of you dudes there.

phil p

[Jules]

Originally Posted by Plush

Thanks Jules
I guess I jumped the gun on the lounge part. Please contact me thru the Nagra booth.


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Whoops! Missed this post - sorry!

Did you make it to the swanky GS party on Sat?

[Plush]

Thanks,Jules
I did not make the party as I was waylaid at a Vietnamese opium den.


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[Mark A. Jay]

...I want to meet you. Sure, there are a host of other good reasons, but THIS quote places you high in the Pantheon of Slutz (in my opinion at least)

Originally Posted by Plush

Thanks,Jules
I did not make the party as I was waylaid at a Vietnamese opium den.


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Regrettably I cannot / was not able to attend AES this year. Perhaps next year...or maybe when I'm next in Chicago?

Again, thanks for the humor.

[Plush]

We had a great time at the AES show. A brief immersion in to the west coast vibe felt great. Saw a ton of friends and met new people I always wanted to meet.

The papers presentations were outstanding as were the workshops.
Of particular interest were presentations by Dr. Helmut Wittek on digital microphones. Also outstanding was a presentation on Blu-Ray disc for audio only releases.

Meeting Stephan Flock from DG and Direct Out Tech was fantastic.
RME has some wonderful new boxes.

Found 3 outstanding fish houses in SF/CA and gobbled their wares. Visited a Farmer's Market on SAT. AM with hundreds of vendors offering a motherlode of agricultural bounty.

Show was smaller with many craftsmen building gear seemingly in a small
workshop just like we like it.

The tube and transformer is fully revived at AES 2010.

[Larry Elliott]

Originally Posted by Plush

The papers presentations were outstanding as were the workshops.
Of particular interest were presentations by Dr. Helmut Wittek on digital microphones. Also outstanding was a presentation on Blu-Ray disc for audio only releases.

Plush
Were these formal papers or workshops - if they were papers I will download the preprints where they are available.

Larry

[Plush]

The things I am talking about were tutorials and not papers. I do not think that there are downloads on these. Wittek did give a paper on the new Schoeps digital shotgun mic. That one does exist as an AES paper I believe.


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[joelpatterson]

A digital shotgun... I'm guessing it only shoots ones and zeroes?

[jnorman]

jp - you funny.

so, for all of us slutz who couldnt make it there, how about some kind of report on what was there that might be of interest to us remotesters, ?

any new mics, portable recorders, low footprint preamps, etc?

[Plush]

Myself, I concentrated on mics and methods to make large set-ups sound better.

For mics I liked the new AEA unidirectional ribbon mic. I also like the Lucas mics and the Cloud ribbon mics. Cloud has an in line amplifier that boosts the level of low output ribbon mics to useable level. Seemed like a nice tool.

I also was studying MADI and how to implement a set-up that will help here.
RME and Direct Out Tech from DE had nice MADI tools.

I hung at the Nagra booth and saw their new two channel mic amp. It is very compact and can be ordered with a recorder INSIDE IT.
So there is a new compact recording solution.

Sound Devices had their new fader panel hooked up to one of their recorders. It looked comprehensive although I suggested that they damp the fader movement some more. Can't tell you any more about their line since I don't follow what they are doing.

Lots of small manufacturers offered new boxes--primarily compressors and some mic amps too. Build quality ranged all over the map. Millennia, Crane Song, Audient and other had new converters and mic amps. Thermionic Culture showed their new 4 channel mic amp colored red. It is based on the Earlybird series.

Gepco, Shure, and The John Hardy Company, three great Chicago companies, had new products and Gepco was testing their cable against other cable right in the booth. The test gear showed that their X-Band cable had great specs.

Shure had a ton of new mics including new instrument mics aimed at drum micing. All are made in Wheeling, IL USA.

John Hardy was previewing his 500 series mic amp.

AMS-Neve did not exhibit although their new 500 series "so called 1073" module and 70's era 2264 compressor were on display at the Vintage King booth. These both looked like nice tools for those who get in to using
"N-Word" gear. I like it.

Mercenary Audio, one of my fave dealers, did not exhibit, Just so you know they are the main MikroTech Gefell dealer and repair center in the USA. (This told to me by Gefell themselves.) They are also the repair center for Thermionic Culture gear in the USA. If you need repair on your Gefell mics send them to Mercenary who will send them on to the Gefell factory in Germany.

Schoeps has a new managing director, the innovative and charismatic
Dr. Helmut Wittek. Dr. Wittek shared his thinking with me in private conversations and I was very impressed with this young engineer who has a LOT of innovative and future proof ideas. He and representatives from Neumann and Direct Out Tech led a panel discussion on digital mics that was quite well done. It answered questions about the two types of digital mics out there and what the future holds as far as mic performance being bettered by the help of DSP techniques.

When I asked him who is using digital microphones, his response was, "almost nobody."

Big name engineers from the world of pop and rock music (East coast and Hollywood) were roaming the aisles of the show telling tales of woe and how their fees structure had collapsed. All were looking for work. Alan Parsons told a tale of woe as well.

Various classical engineers shared juicy gossip with me and we all agreed that the show had little exhibit space that addressed our type of recording.
However, the papers and excellent workshops DID have very useful content for those doing recordings of acoustic music.

If the attendee did not hit the papers and workshops sessions, they missed over half of the show.

What else do you want to know?

with thanks,

PlHSHJIUOSHUIOPDHFSUO:ISJIOPUSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH

[jnorman]

thanks plush. good summary.

[philper]

Tascam showed a very nice looking fader panel for their higher-end 8 track recorder. Unfortunately I think the recorder is too big and overpriced for what it is, the fader panel showed they took the pro market seriously anyhow. I spent a lot of time w/my buds @ Prism/Sadie, mostly checking out Sadie V6 (which will run native as well as on Sadie cards). Big crowds straining to hear ProTools demos, as always.... I don't mind the smaller size of the show, it is nice to get to speak w/ guys like John Hardy and Dan Dugan w/o big crowds all around, and I agree that the smallness helped the small makers of very high end gear be noticed more. I look forward to AES coming to SF again soon.

phil p

[John Willett]

Originally Posted by Plush

I hung at the Nagra booth and saw their new two channel mic amp. It is very compact and can be ordered with a recorder INSIDE IT.
So there is a new compact recording solution.

This sounds interesting - a unit that can make the Nagra Vi with 6 mic inputs and can double-up as a small stereo recorder.

Originally Posted by Plush

Schoeps has a new managing director, the innovative and charismatic
Dr. Helmut Wittek. Dr. Wittek shared his thinking with me in private conversations and I was very impressed with this young engineer who has a LOT of innovative and future proof ideas. He and representatives from Neumann and Direct Out Tech led a panel discussion on digital mics that was quite well done. It answered questions about the two types of digital mics out there and what the future holds as far as mic performance being bettered by the help of DSP techniques.

I have met Helmut Wittke several times, a great guy and a worthy successor to Joerg Wuttke.

Originally Posted by Plush

When I asked him who is using digital microphones, his response was, "almost nobody."

Well, I'm using digital mics and will shortly be expanding the kit.



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[Plush]

Hello John,
I want to use my 2 8020 capsules with the mzd8000 digital amplifier. What kind of y cable do I need for this?

Then I suppose 1 Neumann dmi or 1
neumann connection kit??

Please help as I' m new to digital mics.


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[John Willett]

Originally Posted by Plush

Hello John,
I want to use my 2 8020 capsules with the mzd8000 digital amplifier. What kind of y cable do I need for this?

Then I suppose 1 Neumann dmi or 1
neumann connection kit??

Please help as I' m new to digital mics.


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Hi Plush,

The official Y-cable is 30cm I am told, though I prefer a 10cm one (maybe they will do a special).

You will need a single MZD 8000 and a Neumann Connection Kit. Make sure you get the "Video" connection kit. It's a special order item, it comes with a Hirose connector that plugs directly into the Nagra VI and takes it's power from the Nagra rather than a battery box.

The new DMI-2portable will not need you to have a Y-cable, but will need two MZD 8000.

If you want to talk it through fully, send me a PM, no problem.

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