Editor/Publisher: Gary Khan
Editor: Mike Castronovo
President: Mary Mazurek
V.P.: Mike Castronovo

Volume 18 Number 11
November, 2003

EARS meets at T.C. Furlong

27885 Irma Lee Circle - Unit 101 Lake Forest, IL
847-367-9588
Tuesday Nov. 25 7:30p.m
Directions

We'll hold our annual presidential elections. Each candidate will have an opportunity to address the membership, and voting will continue through out the meeting.

Your faithful EARS secretary (but with hairy legs), Mike Tanko, reached out to Prez Mary with a great meeting location idea whose time has finally come! With riders becoming more complex, often requesting gear that was typically only found in the studio like ProTools. Jim Mingo, of the highly respected T.C. Furlong Company will discuss what it takes to successfully do Professional S.R. in this day and age. We'll also have the opportunity to check out the Yamaha PM 5000 console, the latest in the long line of workhorse desks. This generation features digital control of the analog circuitry and, of course, automation. We'll examine the tasty Meyer M2d "Compact Curvilinear Array", EAW's KF730 Line Array, and "tons" (his words) of outboard gear! Come on out to show your support for EARS as we again welcome our fellow specialists in the SR craft and try to grab "the first split"! -Gary Khan-

AES Recap Part II
by Danny Leake

DW Fearn is still making his tube preamps. He is also offering a tube EQ that features the same "over the top" component to component construction.

John Hardy, as always, was there with my favorite mike pre, the M1.

Mike wise, there are some new "Classics" coming from Brauner, Telefunken, Soundelux, Audio Technica, and many others.

As for the "death" of Analog, Studer sold five 827 24 track machines during the show

Aside from the "toy Store", there were also some great workshops and Special Events:

The Recording Academy had a panel that discussed the 45th Grammy Awards broadcast which was the first live telecast broadcast in HDTV and 5.1 discrete surround.

The AES had two "Platinum Producer" Panels. One was moderated by Ron Fair with producers like Jack Joseph Puig. The other, moderated by Bob Owsinski, zeroed in on surround mixing issues.

Folks, this is the main reason I go to the show. I remember attending a workshop years ago when a person gave a paper about making reverb via Digital manipulation. Most of the people in the room thought he had drunk his lunch. How has Digital Reverb change the way we use ambience in our recordings? I found out about it years before it arrived during an AES workshop.

Speaking of Digital Reverb, they have reissued the old Ursa Major Space Station, only now it fits in the palm of your hand.

BTW- They had an exhibit, "Vinyl goes Digital", which had just about every "Vintage" Digital format ever made: 3M, Mitsubishi X-80, F1s, etc. They even cut a live band on all formats and compared the sound. I told Phil Ramone that I didn't start to feel old until I entered that room. Why? I had cut sessions on just about all of those dead formats:-)

Well, that's about it for now. I haven't begun to cover everything that was there. Anybody who needs more info, just email me at DRLUrbanG@AOL.COM. I have tons of Lit.

See ya in next year in San Francisco!

Danny Leake is principle of Urban Guerrilla Engineers, based in Chicago and specializing in Music Engineering, Mastering and Design Consultation. You can reach him at 312-310-0475 DRLUrbanG@aol.com or DRLUrbanG@earthlink.net

EARS Ballot

                   Mary Mazurek

                   Jack LeTourneau

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Bring to the next meeting.  If you are unable to attend, snail mail it
A.S.A.P. to Secretary Mike Tanko 5345 Imperial Dr., Richton Park, IL
60471-1557 *Note: only dues paying members are eligible to vote.  Don't
forget to sign the ballot.

Current Members!
A.J. Bautista, Rick Barnes, Harry Brotman, Ken Burkhart, Mike Castronovo, Kathy Dunaj, Hudson Fair, Marty Feldman, Michael Freeman, Mike Iwinski, Jeff Jaskowiak, Gary Khan, Charlie Kim, Mike Konopka, Lin Kraemer, Jack LeTourneau, John McCourtney, James Mazurek, Mary Mazurek, David Moss, Kevin Robbins, Eric Roth, Ron Steinberg, Tim Swan, Dan Yotz,

EARS welcomes newly supportive national members, Tom Doyle (Les Paul's personal engr) Lynn Fuston (L.A. Engr & Mic/mic pre/convertor "shootout" CD author), David (superb mic's) Josephson, John (Millenia pre's) LaGrou, George Massenberg, Rupert Neve, Dan Richards of "the Studio Forum" on line and Bruce Swedien (check out his new book "Make Mine Music") New local members include Karry Haps, John Mazurek, Don Mueller (WFMT), Dennis Moore (WFMT), Chris Shepard (Chicago Recording Co.), Chris Willis and Shinwon Yoon.

If your name is listed above, you're definitely eligible to vote. Dues are collected every October per the By laws. If you're not listed, there's still time to get your dues in. You can bring them to the next meeting or mail them to EARS c/o Pegasus P.O. Box 578903, Chicago, IL 60657. -MM & GK-

If you have any ideas for stories, wish to contribute an article, or want to include any upcoming events, please contact:

Gary at ears@ears-chicago.org. Or write to:
Peagasus Recording P.O Box 578903, Chicago, IL 60657.