Two Ground-Breaking Seminars

Three Exciting Days in Rome!

Bob Till You Drop

Mastering Engineer Bob Katz presents a full-day seminar

Last minute notice: There are still a few seats available... Reserve your seat up to Tuesday, June 7. Come join us for a fun and informative day of listening and learning.

Bob Till You Drop

June 8th, 2011 at

AUDITORIUM DELLA DISCOTECA DI STATO

Via M. Caetani 32 - 00186 ROME, ITALY

Cost: $185 (U.S. Dollars)     Up to 25 student tickets available at a Student Discount, $140

• Watch and listen to audio demonstrations
• Ear Training: Using a high resolution, mastering quality system in a treated acoustic environment. First, Bob will play examples of some of his own minimalist-miked audiophile recordings and reveal how they were made. You will experience the unique dynamics, impact, tonality, depth and space of high-resolution first-generation recordings, and more important, you will learn how to incorporate their attributes into mixing and mastering all styles of popular music.
• The Raw and the Cooked: You will have the rare opportunity to hear examples of raw mixes and the masters that they became. Good mixes that were turned into great masters, poor mixes that were turned into good masters, as well as good mixes that were turned into poor masters and why and how that occurred.
• Bring your mixes for evaluation and to see how they might be mastered
• How to assemble different musical styles of record albums
• Mastering techniques, assembly of albums and PQ coding
• Preparation, proofing and shipping of DDP masters, production of reference copies totally via FTP
  
• Restoration: The latest techniques to clean up noises, reduce hiss and buzz
• Dynamics Processing: How and why we choose processes such as compression, expansion, the most efficient way to ride gain. How to restore impact of a song or album when a remix is not possible
• Stems: Why stems can be useful. When stems are not a good idea. How stems can be used to produce aggressive masters in hip hop and other aggressive music styles.
• Specialized mastering techniques: E.G. How to bring a loud vocal down when no stems have been provided and a remix is not possible. Reducing distortion. Bass, the Final Frontier. Specialized tools. How to cut two hours out of your day by using efficient tools and techniques.
• From "demo" to "delivery", how we get there from here!
• A special Certificate of Attendance will be given to all attendees
• The seminar will be given in English

Bob is the popular author of the book Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science on Focal Press, translated into German, Spanish and soon Chinese. He recorded over 100 audiophile albums direct to two track for Chesky Records, including the Latin Jazz Grammy winner of 1996. Since the 80's he has been mastering albums from all over the world in numerous genres, including two more Grammy winners. His discography can be found at Artist Direct. He has contributed chapters to the Focal Press book From Demo To Delivery; is featured in The Mastering Engineer's Handbook, by Bobby Owsinski; in Perfecting Sound Forever, by Greg Milner; and How Does It Sound Now?: Legendary Engineers and Vintage Gear, by Gary Gottlieb.

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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT

THE NEW LOUDNESS STANDARDS

A Seminar presented by

Keynote speakers

BOB KATZ, GEORGE MASSENBURG, FLORIAN CAMERER, SIMONE CORELLI,

Presented by TC ELECTRONIC

at

AUDITORIUM DELLA DISCOTECA DI STATO

Via M. Caetani 32 - 00186 ROME

ITALY

DATES: 9th & 10th of JUNE 2011

PRICE: EUR 160 per person (which includes lunch and drinks)

Be advised to sign up BEFORE MAY 6th as seating is limited.

Learn all about the radical changes now happening in production and distribution of broadcast, film and music as a consequence of new ITU and EBU standards. This compact, knowledge-boosting seminar is large enough to gather some of the industry's most influential speakers, yet personal enough that exchange of information and experience is facilitated. Seminars are strictly focused on technology, not on products.

The groundbreaking and comprehensive EBU R128 loudness recommendation is investigated from a multitude of angles, while only a few weeks earlier, ITU's loudness standard, BS.1770, will have been updated. The consequences of this update will also be evaluated and put into practical perspective.

Italy was an early mover on loudness-based transmission procedures and legislation, so the Eternal City will play an obvious host to an international assembly of audio professionals. The event takes place in a beautiful old building with fine acoustics in central Rome; the Auditorium della Discoteca di Stato. It's within walking distance of the great plazas, Pantheon, Forum Romanum, Trastevere, Colosseum, Fontana di Trevi, etc.

Welcome to an event that is guaranteed to be a feast for all senses.

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