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EXECUTIVE TORONTOS NEW CO-CHAIR GREG JEWSTICHISIW } ~~ (416) 917-4906 CO-CHAIR HARTLEY WYNBERG AIR CANADA CENTRE Sound Speed (416) 266-6549 VICE-CHAIR PATRICIA CARR Soundcraft Canada (416) 489-5142 Tuesday, January 18th, 2000 PAST CHAIRMAN ROB STEVENS HGC Engineering (905) 826-4044 (Note: This is not our usual meeting date) TREASURER PAUL REIBLING TGI North America (519) 745-1158 Time: 7:30 pm CONTACT SECRETARY ALEXANDER MINE c/o National Mailbox (AES) (416) 223-3221 40 Bay St. at Lakeshore Blvd., Toronto MEMBERSHIP SEAN COWAN Magnetic Audio (416) 365-7622 Suite 400 BULLETIN EDITOR ANNE REYNOLDS Deluxe Laboratories (416) 364-4321 Please meet at the Security Desk PUBLISHER LEE WHITE The Pringle Group (416) 222-2447 At the Bay Street Entrance
COMMITTEE MIKE BORLACE MEMBERS Kinescope Productions (905) 625-7999 DIRECTIONS: Pedestrian access from Union Station (TTC & DEVY BREDA audiospec inc. GO). By car, take York St. N. exit from Gardiner Expressway. (905) 569-3121 PETER COOK CBC Broadcast Centre (416) 205-2317 Pre-Meeting Dutch Treat dinner JIM COX Sheridan College 5:30 pm at Shopsys Deli & Restaurant at 33 Yonge Street (905) 845-9430 x2742 JIM HAYWARD (Yonge and Front across from the Hummingbird Centre). Hayward Electronics (905) 820-0499 RON LYNCH Reservation in the name of Audio Engineering Society. DekTek (416) 266-2377 DOUG MCCLEMENT *Attendance is limited to 60 people. Please pre-register with LiveWire Recorders (416) 975-0905 DAN MOMBOURQUETTE National Mail Box at (416) 922-8122 to assure a space. Straight Street Services (519) 893-3668 GLENN SPECHT Deschamps Recording (416) 977-5050 DENIS TREMBLAY Sony Music Canada Whats Inside (416) 392-4216 RANDY WILSON Preview: Behind the Scenes Tour of the Air Canada Centre Casablanca Sound (416) 461-2550 Review: Nov 99 - CD Mastering Unveiled & Tour of The Lacquer Channel PLEASE POST MEMBERS AND GUESTS WELCOME E S BEHIND THE SCENES TOUR OF THE AIR CANADA CENTRE Tuesday, January 18th, 2000 at 7:30 pm Place: Air Canada Centre ~ Please Meet at the Security Desk at the Bay Street Entrance pened in February of 1999, the $265 million Air Canada Cen- The Bell family of companies helped to create the Air Canada Otre is the new home of two of Torontos professional sports Centres innovative media centre designed to meet the ever-growing franchises: the Toronto Raptors and the Toronto Maple needs of international media and sports enthusiasts. Dubbed the Leafs. This state-of-the-art facility features a BOSE sound system, Bell Media Centre, this state-of-the-art facility plays home to all four Sony Jumbotrons and more than 640 televisions throughout the major Air Canada Centre events and features fully integrated Bell building. Seating capacity ranges from 5,200 for theatre, 18,800 for technology. Features include: eight separate Bell ExpressVu satellite hockey, 19,800 for basketball and 22,500 for full concerts. TV feeds featuring access to sports, news and events from around A $4.2-million installation by Sony includes the new Sony LED the world, up-to-the-minute Sports Ticker, computer and high-speed wide-screen JumboTron, WEGA flat display televisions, and a Sony- Internet access with on-line statistical information, supplied by Bell designed and Sony-engineered audio/visual control room. Four ActiMedia (formerly Tele-Direct) and voice and data connections. state-of-the-art 16:9 wide-screen spectator display systems serve as ACCs Technical Producer, Dwane Brown and Lead Audio the central television screen and message board at the 665,000-square- Engineer, Courtney Ross will lead us on an exciting behind the scene foot complex. More than 650 Sony televisions are situated throughout tour of this marvious facility. the complex, with 45 new Sony FD Trinitron WEGA television sets - featuring a revolutionary flat Trinitron picture tube - installed in the Remember - space is limited to 60 people so dont delay! centres Platinum Lounges. Pre-register today at National Mailbox: 416-922-6245!
REVIEW: The Lacquer Channel ~ A Cutting Experience n November 23, 1999 the Lacquer Channel Mastering wel machines available in the future to play master tapes created today Ocomed the Toronto AES section for a tour and presentation. as production of current machinery discontinues. A high quality Our Hosts were resident mastering engineers George Graves archive media will be needed if we are to have access to older projects and Phil Demetro. in the future. First, George Graves gave us a tour of Mastering Room B. The George also demonstrated the steps to cut a lacquer master disc room,, designed by Torontos Terry Medwedyk, features SOTA speak- on their customized Neumann cutting Lathe. Through a microscope ers and a customized Neve mastering console. In addition to classic we were able to view the patterns cut into the lacquer while it was Neve processors, the room includes time-honored processors by being cut. Then the new master disk was played back on a turntable. Pultec, Sontec, U.R.E.I., and Apogee. All lacquer masters are now shipped to the United States for plating When clients bring in projects George prefers source material on as this service is no longer available in Canada. There is still call for CDR disks rather than DAT tapes because there is likely to be less vinyl disks for Dance and Hip-Hop projects. Some projects achieve error correction while loading the source sounds. The tracks are the vinyl sound on CD by first cutting to a lacquer then playing loaded into a Sonic Solutions workstation for editing and process- the disc into the Sonic Solutions for CD mastering. ing. One of the most common tasks required for projects is to bring Next, Phil Demetro showed us Mastering Room B which is nearly down the high and low frequency content from the original source. identical to Room A. This room is primarily used for transfers and A Sony digital mixer allows for precise level and eq settings. has full editing capability on a Sonic Solutions system. Further infor- The digital mastering job can be output on PMCD, 1630, DDP mation can be found at their web site www.lacquerchannel.com. Exabyte or lacquer master. For CD masters, George recommends DDP Thanks to Greg Jewstichisiw for organizing this meeting and to Exabyte tapes over 1630 tapes because they sound more similar to the folks at The Lacquer Channel for sharing their expertise with us. the original output. A major concern is going to be the ability to have Review by Ron Lych~Member AES Toronto Section
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