AES 2011

[Michael Fossenkemper]

Remy, sorry I missed you. I must have been sitting down eating my $10 hot dog. I was going to go for multiple days, but after half of one day, didn't see the need. Pro Tools 10 was probably the biggest draw and it crashed twice in the 15 minutes I was standing there. The coolest thing I saw there was the Apogee Mic that plugs into the ipad. The whole convention wasn't worth the cost of taking a cab to the convention center. They better rethink what this whole thing is about and do something before it just goes away. Or maybe it is time for it to go away... who knows. One thing is for sure, if it's the same thing next year, I'm not going.

[TheJackAttack]

Just out of curiosity, was the puter that crashed a PC or a Mac?

[RemyRAD]

I really didn't think that I should be impressed with ProTools 10 because it can do real-time, unrendered cross fades/fadeouts? Sony Vegas has been doing that since its release without making dozens of little render files. So I heard that at the Avid booth, I just walked away. And has anybody watched any of the demonstration & interview videos at Harmony Central? It's actually rather funny and pathetic at the same time. They are all virtually yelling on microphone..." hello welcome we are on the floor of the AES..." (Noise pours over everything.) No shit Sherlock. Sounds like your reporting live for hurricane coverage? What's the AES turned into? Wal-Mart! Attention Wal-Mart shoppers there is a special on analog to digital converters in Isle 7. The AES used to be a place you could go to carefully hear & evaluate possible equipment purchases. Today, it's like McDonald's at lunch time at only five times the price. And I find more people being representatives to companies that know nothing about what they are representing. I take note and walk quickly away from those folks also. Avid doesn't want to supply schematics so why bother with them? Like I said, Wal-Mart. It doesn't even have the charm of BS like B. & H. the Wal-Mart of pro audio stores in downtown Manhattan. It's like trying to take a hearing test during a sports match in your local high school gymnasium these days. The bar has definitely been lowered. I mean why is it so necessary to have small conventions in huge places? It's not like there is any convenient parking except across the street which ran me $65 per day and I was there for all three days. Not including 400 miles worth of gas at 15 mpg. I can see any of this stuff and play with it at Guitar Box 10 blocks away from me. It's really more the networking than the technologies and in many ways, it's always been that way. I mean many folks go strictly for the guest lectures which cost a fair chunk of change. And if you sign up for many of those, you won't have an opportunity to see the exposition on the convention floor. And these days they also don't quite have the more involved curricula of the shows 30 years ago. That's when you got to hear from the people that were inventing real stuff. So today, it's more like our news stations, all soundbites, nothing more. And therein it's also true the soundbites at the shows today. Nobody can really turn anything up to demonstrate anything because it's already too noisy. I think OSHA should come in and shut it down for excessive noise levels? But hey, it's a convention and hopefully you are either drunk or stoned while in attendance since you're not driving anywhere. Hey, I waited until the end of the show to go buy my longsleeved T-shirt but they were all out. They were all out of everything. They didn't bring enough with them they said. Sounds like a proper audio job to me? Not!

I can't hear my face!?
Mx. Remy Ann David

[Bob Denny]

The coolest thing I saw there was the Apogee Mic that plugs into the ipad.

With the USB adapter that is part of the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit, my AudioTechnica 2020USB mic works with the iPad 2. Others may also work. I can't say for the iPad 1. It may require iOS 5.