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Achieving a high level of translation in the world of fragmented playback and the challenges it creates for monitoring
Seminario ad accesso libero
Anssi Hyvönen, CEO e ingegnere progettista di Amphion Audio, e Michele Signore, noto violinista e Responsabile Antelope Audio per il territorio Italiano, ci mostreranno come negli ultimi anni le esigenze e le sensibilità dei tecnici del suono e dei musicisti sia cambiato, puntando sempre più ad una qualità superiore e di come la tecnologia dei monitor e dei convertitori A/D abbia seguito e soddisfatto queste sempre più pressanti richieste.
Oratori:
Ing. Anssi Hyvonen (progettista e CEO Amphion audio)
M° Michele Signore (rappresentante per l’Italia diAntelope Audio)
Fausto Demetrio (Avid Certified Instructor di Percorsi Audio)
Programma:
- 1. Challenges of modern listening environment
- Fragmented
- Hi-fi, lo-fi, no-fi
- Low res playback formats MP3 / Streaming
- 2. Translation
- What it is
- What contributes to it
- How can you achieve / improve yours
- 3. Modern sound making environment
- Increasingly tightening deadlines
- From specialist to jack of all trades
- Bass intensive: “Bass is the pepper of modern music”
- New areas – example of modern sound making: Gaming -> translation demands, often composer delivers a ready made end product
- 4. Existing studio standards. Do they still work? NS-10
- Close to end of life
- Availability of spare parts
- Gives no info on bass
- Search for a next generation tool is on
- 5. Requirements for a modern monitor
- Measurements vs listening?
- What is a “flat” monitor?
- Free of time consuming mental correction curves / short learning curve
- “A monitor is a like pair of pair of shoes”
- “You can never evaluate a monitor without a room it is in”
- “In my current room as well as my next”
- “The real value of a monitor is not in how it sounds, but in what you can make with it”
- WYHIWYG: “What you hear is what you get”
- 6. Future trends: Sound making in teams
- Music making has not standards – how to achieve them in such highly subjective field
- Digital maturation – where is the bottle neck now?
- Working with the same file for the first time in history
- “Screen calibration”
- WYHIWYG: “What you hear is what you get”
Orario e Luogo:
Ore 10:00
Aula Convegni del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica
Via del Politecnico 1
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