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February 2012 Meeting
Date: Saturday February 4, 2012
Place: The
First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main Street, Providence,
02903, at the foot of College Hill between Waterman and Angell
Streets, near the RIPTA bus tunnel. DOORS OPEN 10AM
Featured Guest: John Marks, Senior Contributing
Editor to Stereophile Magazine & award winning CD producer,
johnmarks@jmrcds.com
Topic: A one hour workshop on the theory
and practice of making natural-sounding stereo recordings of
organs.
John Marks is pleased to present an informative
workshop on the theory and practice of making natural-sounding
stereo recordings of organs. This workshop is a joint meeting
of the Connecticut
Audio Society and the Boston Audio Society, but will be
open to the public ($2 freewill offering to defray the Church’s
operating expenses requested). The workshop will take place
in the acoustically splendid Auditorium of the Church’s
Meeting House, a National Register of Historic Places landmark
that was built between 1774 and 1775.
The program will consist of a five-minute
overview of the history of the Church and of its Third Meeting
House; a fifteen-minute lecture on the operational physics and
applications theory of stereo microphones and techniques, and
musical examples played on the Church’s Foley-Baker organ
by Minister of Music Stephen T. Martorella in real time or the
organ’s MIDI Controller play back. Likely pieces include:
Parry’s Jerusalem, Olsson’s Jul, and RVW’s Bryn
Calfaria.
People with portable (preferably battery-powered)
recording setups are invited to bring them and use them, with
the usual pedestrian cautions in mind. Recordists - please
arrive at 10:00 AM. The lecture and demonstrations will
start at 11:00 AM.
Webmaster's note: The story
of the organ is HERE.
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Google map HERE
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Directions from 95 North
& South:
(Driving distance 41 mi, one hour) Take 95 North
or South to exit 22C-B-A Downtown, keep left to
stay on ramp. At the end of the exit ramp you will
be between the Providence Place Mall and the Westin
Hotel. Go straight across on Memorial Blvd. The
Church steeple will be directly in front of you.
Go to the third light and turn left over the Washington
Street Bridge one block to the next light on North
Main Street. The Church will be directly in front
of you.
Parking at meters:
You will be able to park on Both sides of Waterman
Street; but not in front of the Church. There is
a parking lot on the corner of Thomas and North
Main Streets.
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| Below,
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WEBMASTER'S
NOTE: The FCC has mandated
that OPERATION OF WIRELESS MICROPHONES IN THE 700 MHZ
BAND IS PROHIBITED AFTER JUNE 12, 2010. Inasmuch as
there is a LOT of misinformation about this, the ONLY correct
and relevant page is here:
www.fcc.gov/cgb/wirelessmicrophones
There is also a page with full lists of products affected
and a comprehensive list of manufacturers. |
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Foster's
Test Bench !
by Alvin Foster ! Click the logo:
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The rapidly-becoming-famous
BAS Headphone Test Article is now available in the
BASS VOLUME 25, ISSUE 4, on Page 17, available
HERE
PDF 3mb |
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Visit our PODCAST
PAGE for:
The LIVE video podcast of our meetings,
Archived video of past meetings (only one so far!),
and Audio Podcast interviews by Alvin Foster |
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There is a supplemental and further
explanation addendum paper to the E. Brad Meyer / David Moran
paper published in the September, 2007 issue of the AES
Journal. That page, which documents the experimental protocol
and audio systems/source material is here:
www.bostonaudiosociety.org/explanation.htm
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is a Power Point Presentation of the lecture given by Dr. Barry
Blesser at the March 2007 Meeting. The Meeting page synopsis is
HERE; the
Power Point Presentation (as a web page) is HERE |
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Some earlier BASS
issues, previously available only directly by mail, are now
available online, on the BAS SPEAKER page, HERE
Show your appreciation
for the immense amount of dedicated work that went into both
the original writing, gathering, editing and printing, PLUS
the more recent scanning and conversion to PDF format, by joining
the Society, HERE !
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A L L O
F F S I T E L I N K S O P E N I N T
O A N E W W I N D O W
- AND FOR CONVENIENCE -
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The
BAS Message
February 2012
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1. V33n4 of the BAS Speaker has been published.
It features a writeup of the meeting at David Moulton's house, discussing
eq for mastering, written by John S. Allen. Also extended reminiscences
of Edgar Villchur and Daniel von Recklinghausen; Reports on CEDIA 2011 by
David Weinberg and Jim Buchanan; and AES 2011 by David Weinberg and Alvin
Foster. 33 pp
2. I recently watched "Tree of Life."
At the beginning there it says "For maximum enjoyment of this movie
the producers [6 of them!] recommend that you play it loud." So I turned
up the volume and started the movie. At the first voiceover I jumped for
the volume control as it was too loud and almost unintelligible. Once the
volume was lowered I sat back and enjoyed the movie*. It is nominally about
a boy growing up in Texas, but is really about images and sounds. (A movie
theater in CT posted a sign warning that there would be no refunds for those
seeing this movie). A plus is the almost continuous classical music soundtrack,
mostly familiar, but some not.
* Explanation: If a director decides to have a program
with wide dynamic range, from very soft to loud, then of necessity the average
level is lower than that of a compressed program. Thus the admonition to
play it loud since most people probably play everything at the same level.
However the dialogue level was raised, forcing me to reduce the volume,
thereby partly subverting what they were trying to achieve. Still a commendable
effort.
email me here
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There is a posting of an ABX article, The Digital Challenge
by Stanley P. Lipshitz HERE
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again, for 2012, here's a very useful calendar of audio/related events,
with kudos to any and all who put this list together: www.stiernberg.com/events.html |
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