THE OFFICIAL Published by AES and Pro Sound News & Mix magazines • Day 3 Edition SHOW DAILY SERVING THE 143RD AES CONVENTION • OCTOBER 18-21, 2017 JACOB K. JAVITS CONVENTION CENTER, NEW YORK, NY +AES MOBILE APP Download the 2017 mobile app for exhibitor listings, schedules and more. The Star AES NY 2017: RF Spectrum Wars Project: Firing on All Cylinders Panel: ‘Scan Like Being in By Clive Young “We had a tremendous first Early and The 143rd AES Convention may day at AES NY 2017; our regis- a Galaxy Far, have passed the halfway point, tration team says it’s the largest Often’ but you’d swear it’s just getting first day of activity they’ve seen in started. If you’ve noticed that a decade,” said Bob Moses, AES By Steve Harvey Far Away the aisle of the exhibition floor Executive Director on the sec- The successful completion of the By Strother Bullins is jammed and the panel you ond morning of the Convention. FCC’s Incentive Auction earlier Yesterday morning, a packed spe- wanted to see was standing-room “That pattern is carrying over as this year set the countdown clock cial event-”Bearing Witness: The only, well, that attests to the con- we begin Day Two. The technical ticking for wireless mic operators, Music of Star Wars, Archiving vention’s popularity. It seems like sessions are packed with enthusi- who must vacate the 600 MHz Art and Technology”-featured there’s more people here than astic attendees, and we’ve also set band by July 2020. But as a panel Star Wars on page 36 usual, because there are. AES 2017 on page 38 RF Spectrum on page 38 +HE YSER LECTURE: +MAKING MUSIC AND MAKING +AES AGOTTVS on the | inside LESLIE ANN JONES MONEY? WHAT A CONCEPT! UPDATES PRELIM Page 3 Page 4 RECOMMENDATIONS Page 4 480MHz 490MHz 500MHz 510MHz 520MHz 530MHz 540MHz 550MHz INTRODUCING AXIENT ® DIGITAL INTEGRITY YOU CAN HEAR. 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Leslie Ann Jones, a recording off a session (Barry White’s, There are still tons of PA demos going on in and mixing engineer for over after his wife discovered there the demo rooms, consoles to check out on 35 years and currently director was a woman in the control the exhibition floor and educational oppor- of music recording and scoring room), erasing a take and her tunities to take advantage of, so go check with Skywalker Sound, nearly first engineering credit, on a ‘em out. turned down the invitation to John Mayall album. speak at this year’s Richard She later relocated to work LIVE SOUND EXPO C. Heyser Memorial Lecture. at Automatt Studios in San At the top of your To-Do list should be “I haven’t written any great Francisco, where she spent Leslie Ann Jones a visit (or visits) to the Live Sound Expo on papers; haven’t invented any many years before returning to Stage 1 inside the exhibition floor. Hosting technology; heck, I haven’t even Hollywood and a gig at Capitol workshops all Friday, it’s aimed at both new had a top 10 record,” she said. Studios. There, she won her first Grammy, for and veteran sound pros looking to expand But Jones reconsidered, and she had plenty her work on the soundtrack album of George their knowledge or get a quick brush-up as it to talk about. “If there’s one theme for all my Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck. She covers topics like Choosing the Right Vocal work and all I might have done to stand here, it subsequently moved back to the Bay Area to Mic, Noise Prediction for Outdoor Events, would be paying attention,” she said. work at Skywalker, running the studios and Digital Versus Analog Wireless on the Stage, Jones observed that she got into the busi- winning three more Grammy Awards. Point Source Optimization and more. ness the old-fashioned way: “I was born into Skywalker is a magical place, she said. it.” Her father was bandleader and music sati- “Everybody is so good at their craft it makes us SOUND REINFORCEMENT TRACK rist Spike Jones; her mother was singer Helen all want to do better. We’re there to help you Held almost entirely in room 1E09, the Grayco. make the best recording possible.” remaining Sound Reinforcement Track “My mother had such style. She had the offerings on Friday and Saturday are a veri- ability to sing the same song night after night table How-To of crucial topics, ranging and make it a memorable performance. That Upcoming Events from Microphone Dressing for Theater and was my first recollection of paying attention.” Sound System Design for Public Address Initially attempting a career as a musician, AES@NAMM & Intelligibility to Live Sound Subwoofer Jones later had an opportunity to take up engi- Pro Sound Symposium: Live & Studio System Design and a primer on the proper neering. She co-founded a PA company, set Anaheim, CA approaches to AC Power, Grounding and up a recording studio in her basement then, January 25-28, 2018 Shielding. in 1975, was hired as a production engineer at ABC Studios in Hollywood. It was there she 145TH AES CONVENTION A COOKBOOK APPROACH TO SYSTEM began to pay attention to gender, she said, New York, NY OPTIMIZATION which would have both positive and negative Co-locating with NAB There’s no such thing as a free lunch… consequences in her career. October 17-20, 2018 unless you have the good sense to check out Jones had many personal firsts at ABC, she veteran live sound educator Bob McCar- thy’s Lunchtime Keynote Friday at 12:30 p.m. in 1E15/16, where he’ll cover system AES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION optimization, sharing the recipes for speak- ANNOUNCES MARY LEA SIMPSON er aiming, crossover combination, splay MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP The AES angle setting, front fill spacing and more. Educational Foundation has announced the Mary Lea Simpson Memorial Scholarship, its first undergraduate scholarship for a student entering senior year in a North Correction American college or university audio The story announcing Yamaha’s demos of the new engineering/recording arts program. NEXO GEO M10 SR System contained an inaccurate Endowed by Mary Lea Simpson’s family— spec. The M10 enclosure has been named such father and mother Dr. Zachary W Simpson for its single 10-inch neodymium LF driver, paired and Starr Simpson and brother George with a 1.4-inch HF titanium diaphragm HF driver, B Simpson—the scholarship will be erroneously reported as a quarter-inch HF titanium diaphragm HF driver in yesterday’s Daily. administered by the Audio Engineering Society Educational Foundation. 4 THE AES DAILY | DAY 3 EDITION ShowNews Making Music and Making Money? What a Concept! By Strother Bullins business and art form alive. To tion model, bringing up front Thursday afternoon, in an important Spe- elaborate on the lack of funding, costs down and keeping it open cial Event, “Producing Across Generations: I see this hurting artist develop- ended in regard to updates and New Challenges, New Solutions,” a panel ment, incubation, etc., on the modifications.” led by New York University’s Nick Sansano, artistic side, and the inability to It’s arguable that producing Director of Production Studies/Co-Director provide for sustainable wages music today has been “democ- of Musicianship, and featuring audio pros on the business side. Combined, ratized,” or the investment (including George Massenburg), addressed they result in many projects, art- necessary for entry into music the elephant in the room—or, as the AES ists, songs, recording sessions production has largely eradi- explained it in event promotional materials, and mixes never reaching their Nick Sansano cated—especially for pop music “...music professionals continued to make full potential. production. How does this cre- records for a living. How are they doing it? “I think pop music has been hurt the most ate new or different challenges in succeeding How are they getting paid? ... How can we because it has lost the most commercial value as a traditional music engineer? expect to see any income from streaming roy- when compared to, say, film, video games, “With internet access, everything has been alties when artists aren’t even getting any?” TV, multimedia works, theater, etc.,” added democratized,” Sansano. said “Literally any- So, what has changed in the industry that Sansano. “Having said that, programmatic or one can record a song and then release that requires new approaches to finding work? supportive forms of music—that for games, song to a global audience at the touch of a “Lack of funding is at the top of the list on film and TV, theater, to name a few—has button-no gate keeper. Of course, no gate- the negative side, and advances in produc- not been as negatively impacted as pop music keeper means no standards of quality, artistic tion/recording technology leads the positives,” production.