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PLEASE POST THIS NOTICE IN YOUR OFFICE Audio Engineering Society AES 2006-2007 Chicago Section Meeting Chicago Section Officers: CHAIR Charles King Thursday, September 21, 2006, 7:45 PM 630-285-5868 W [email protected] VICE CHAIR Video Game Audio Jeff Segota 847-600-8634 W Presented by Dan Forden, Audio Director, Midway Amusement Games, [email protected] LLC. TREASURER Jon Boley Members and non-members are welcome. 847-600-8559 W [email protected] Meeting Location: SECRETARY Nick Kettman Midway Amusement Games, LLC 847-600-8908 W 2727 W. Roscoe St. [email protected] Chicago, IL 60618 WEBMASTER (Free parking is available on both Roscoe and California and in the Robert Zurek 847-523-5399 W Midway parking lot.) [email protected] Dinner: COMMITTEE Dinner (optional) will begin at 7:00pm at the Midway facility. Pizza Gary Khan and soft drinks will be available. The cost is $5 for non-members, free [email protected] for members. Please RSVP to Treasurer Jon Boley at A.J. Bautista [email protected] or 847-600-8559 by September 19th. [email protected] Marty Reiling HTML version available at AES Chicago Section Web Site soon: [email protected] http://www.aes.org/sections/chicago/ Robert Schulein PDF version available soon: [email protected] http://www.aes.org/sections/chicago/aes_notice_2006-9-21.pdf Giles Davis [email protected] About the Presentation: Brad Olson Dan Forden will present a brief history of video game audio. He will [email protected] also discuss the major areas of audio asset creation and implementation, Kerry Haps including sound effects, music, and voice. The presentation will [email protected] include a brief history of Midway Amusement Games and a tour of the Jerry Hymen sound studios located at the Chicago facility. [email protected] Jon Halverson Midway Games Inc. is a leading developer, publisher, and marketer of [email protected] interactive entertainment software. Midway videogames are available for play on all major videogame platforms including the Playstation(R)2 computer entertainment system, Xbox(R) video game system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube(TM), and Game Boy(R) Advance. Midway has designed some of the most popular videogames of all time. Since the beginning of the video game revolution, many of the most notable, best-selling videogames for both the arcade and home game systems have come from Midway. These releases include revolutionary, record-breaking games such as Defender, Smash TV, NBA Jam, Cruisin' USA, and Mortal Kombat. Midway has generated popular franchises such as NFL Blitz, MLB Slugfest, SpyHunter, The Suffering, Midway Arcade Treasures and the Gauntlet series. These games have set a standard for excellence in the industry, capturing the attention of millions of players around the world. Midway is headquartered in Chicago, with additional facilities in Seattle, WA, San Diego, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Austin, TX, Munich, Germany and London, UK. About the Speaker: Dan Forden is Midway’s company-wide audio director. Currently, his responsibilities include running the Chicago sound department and coordinating audio efforts across Midway’s development studios. He started his gaming career in 1988 with Williams Electronics creating sounds and music for arcade video games and pinball machines. Since that time he has created music, sound effects, recorded dialogue and generated final game mixes for many titles including all the Mortal Kombat games (MK1 through MK4, Deadly Alliance and Deception), NFL Blitz arcade games, Slugfest 2003, The Grid, and CART Fury. Since he joined Midway as audio department manager in 2002, he has also assisted on Ballers, Ballers Phenom, Blitz Pro, Blitz the League, Psi-Ops, and MK Armageddon in various areas including asset creation, design collaboration, tools creation and support, asset management, localization and scheduling. 2006/2007 Election Results: Officer elections for the Chicago AES Section were held at the July meeting. Congratulations to: Charles King, Chair Jeff Segota, Vice-Chair Jon Boley, Treasurer Nick Kettman, Secretary Robert Zurek, Webmaster Committee members for the 2006/2007 season include Gary Khan, Kerry J. Haps, A.J. Bautista, Giles Davis, Marty Reiling, Robert Schulein, Jerry Hymen, Brad Olson, and Jon Halverson. Upcoming Meetings: DATE: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 TOPIC: An Evening with Peter Scheiber LOCATION: Holiday Inn North Shore, 5300 Touhy Avenue, Skokie, Illinois (at the northeast corner of Touhy and Niles Center Road) TIME: TBA ABSTRACT: Peter Scheiber envisioned a mass market for multichannel surround more than 35 years ago, and- -with audio still an analog art--made it practical by perceptually coding multiple channels in conventional stereo media. "Any serious attempt to create a mass consumer market for multichannel systems required further technical developments ... The outlook changed with almost explosive impact in the late sixties following the announcement by Peter Scheiber of a technique for recording and reproducing four-channel sound through a two-channel medium." --AES, Quadraphony (1975), Preface. At his parents' house (where his mother served barbecued chicken) Peter demonstrated and explained the technique to Ray and Dagmar Dolby. Dolby Laboratories was licensed for motion picture use of the Scheiber patents in 1983, for consumer matrix decoders in 1984, and for consumer logic decoders in 1986. Pro Logic was introduced in 1987; and Pro Logic II, based on the same principles, in 2000. "Pro Logic II is a dramatically improved, updated matrix surround system, based on the principles used to develop the original Pro Logic decoding back in the 1980s." --Dolby, A Listener's Guide to Pro Logic II (2001). Pro Logic II reintroduces earlier work of Scheiber with which Dolby is familiar, including "panorama" logic decoding of stereo program, continuously-variable-speed logic, and stereo surrounds. Scheiber technology is today in home theater equipment present in one-third of U.S. households. New ideas are still in the pipeline. DATE: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 TOPIC: Measurements and Subjective Evaluations of Automotive Audio Systems PRESENTER: Dave Clark, DLC Design LOCATION: Holiday Inn North Shore, 5300 Touhy Avenue, Skokie, Illinois (at the northeast corner of Touhy and Niles Center Road) TIME: TBA Meeting details will follow in a later email. April Meeting Report (thanks to Jeff Segota for the report): The April, 2006 meeting of the Chicago Section featured the presentation “Review Of Early Constant-Directivity Horn Development, TEF Measurements, And The Nearfield Paper” by veteran loudspeaker design and test engineer and Academy Award winner Don Keele. About 35 attendees were treated to an audio history lesson, including several highlights of Mr. Keele’s own 34-year career. The presentation started with the first generation of constant-directivity horns, beginning with the Electro-Voice HR models (also known as the “white horns”) and the TL Bass Boxes. The HR line was a new direction in horn design, making its public debut in 1974. In 1975 Mr. Keele presented on the technology at the 51st Convention of the AES. The TL line was also developed around the same time, and was initially only sold as plans except for one model. In 1976, Altec Lansing started producing its Manta Ray line of Horns, about which Cliff Henricksen and Mark Ureda presented at the 58th Convention of the AES in 1977. Having some advantages and disadvantages over previous designs, one practical advantage was ease of manufacture due to the lack of curved surfaces. The JBL Bi-Radial line was the last of the first generation of CD horns, with production starting in the late 1970’s. Mr. Keele reviewed two patents he received during this period. The next part of the presentation covered the early history of Time-Energy-Frequency (TEF) measurements, and its implementation with the test products developed by the Tecron Division of Crown, International. This prompted a spirited, sentimental group discussion about the TEF System 10 of the early 1980’s. Mr. Keele concluded with a brief recounting of the history behind his 1974 AES Journal paper titled Low Frequency Loudspeaker Assessment by Nearfield Sound Pressure Measurement, being sure to give credit to Ray Newman, who inspired the work but declined to co-author the paper. The lesson was a valuable reminder of how audio technology was advanced back when computational power was rare, so the analysis was fundamental out of necessity. This resulted in practical, elegant designs that remain the roots of many of today’s products. July Meeting Report (thanks to Jeff Segota for the report): In July, the Chicago Section concluded its 2005-06 season with a meeting at Gepco International, Incorporated, a manufacturer and distributor of audio and video cable products located in Des Plaines, Illinois. A team of Gepco representatives lead by Joe Zajac and Scott Fehl presented the company history and gave a tour of the facility to about 40 attendees. Gepco is currently celebrating the 25th anniversary of its founding in 1981. The company currently designs, manufactures, and markets audio and video cable, cable assemblies, connectors and specialty products. In addition, Gepco is a distributor for such cable-related products as patch bays, connectors, and tools. Gepco specializes in high-quality, custom and made-to-order products, which has enabled them to keep their manufacturing within the United States. The audience broke up into several small groups for a tour that included the office area, stock, manufacturing, warehouse, custom assembly, fiber optics lab, shipping, will call, and repair. Gepco receives the raw, primary wire and performs the remainder of the cable manufacturing process, adding insulation, twisting and balancing, and adding shielding and jacketing. The tour of the manufacturing area allowed the attendees to see the large machines in action. When the cable is spooled, every foot runs through someone’s hand as part of quality control. The fiber optics lab is where high definition cameral cables for field use are hand-built.