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JANUARY
2021 ONLINE MEETING NOTICE
Date: Sunday, January
24, 2021, 7:00 PM ZOOM
Place: ZOOM
Featured Guests: Hendrik
Gideonse, Principal, www.xix-acoustics.com
Topic: Mid-size Venue
System Design & Acoustics; Affordable
Listening Room Acoustics
During the COVID-19 pandemic,
an unprecedented number of musicians, producers,
audio engineers and audience members have
found themselves forced to work and listen
at home in rooms that were never designed
for the purpose. Pandemic acoustics work has
been about finding inexpensive incremental
changes to living rooms, bedrooms and even
closets to make them viable spaces for critical
listening. Hendrik will talk about the Bedroom
Acoustics projects that he started over 10
years ago and how it has become relevant again.
Also, on the docket is
blocking out the sound of screaming children
while you are Zooming with your boss...
Hendrik Gideonse has
25 years of experience creating custom treatments
to solve acoustic problems. He started XIX
Acoustics in 2008 to design and build studios
and listening rooms that sound and feel
great. The feel is a combination of aesthetics,
usability, and ergonomics. At the meeting,
he will answer questions that are informed
by experience, and many years of on-the-job
successful installations.
Our original meeting
date was in March 2020 at the at the Porch
Southern Fare restaurant. It is one of the
sites treated acoustically by XIX-Acoustics.
Hendrik will show and explain some of his
room treatment products for improving the
sound in your playback room, and the audio
equipment he can employ if desired by the
client.
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instructions for the Zoom meeting.
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THE
BAS MESSAGE
January 2021 |
In the pandemic era,
musicians are looking for ways to perform
live while being remote.
The internet has latency
and anything over 40 milliseconds causes difficulties.
Internet 2, a network
that connects universities and organizations,
can transmit huge quantities of data. In 2014
the Chiara String Quartet, at the University
of Nebraska Lincoln, performed Mendelsohns
Octet with the Avalon Quarter, 450 miles away
at Northern Illinois University. The latency
was 19 milliseconds.
As long as youre
inside a 750-800 mile range, you get the sort
of delay that happens inside a room, inside
a performance hall said Howard Herring, president
and CEO of the New World Symphony, the Miami-based
training academy that uses Internet2 for remote
coaching sessions and link-ups with composers.
BBC Music Magazine Se20

email me here
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Below,
other meetings and notices which
may be of interest to BAS members |
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BAS
MICROPHONE CLINIC REPORT ! |
In September 2009
the B A S held a microphone clinic, testing 37 different
microphone models. The ambitious nature of the clinic
effort, the extent of data collection, the number
of individuals involved in microphone testing and
in writing various sections of the report, and the
complexity in determining how to construct the clinic
report and make it available to members resulted it
not being published until now. The dataset is extensive.
Representative samples were
included in the abbreviated report in "The
B A S Speaker"
(Fall 2015; v37n3)
Go to the MICROPHONE
CLINIC PAGE for more...
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When collecting
and plotting "noisy" data
it is often useful to have Microsoft
Excel plot a Trend Line through it.
If that data is to be used for
further work, it may be necessary to
have an X-Y table of the Trend Line.
That is not easy to get and this paper
will show how to do it.
Joseph DeMarinis
has a new article here: Extracting
Numerical Data from an Excel Trend Line
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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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There
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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There is a posting of an ABX article, The
Digital Challenge by Stanley P. Lipshitz HERE
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Webmaster's
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Once again, for 2021
- and onward - is THE useful industry calendar
of audio/related events, with kudos to all who put
this list together:
www.stiernberg.com/industry-calendar
Separately, AV-IQ
has their event page here:
https://www.av-iq.com/avcat/ctl1642/index.cfm?events
For a fully comprehensve
understanding of meetings taking place - both real
and virtual - in this pandemic situation, you need
to look at BOTH listings.
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Barry
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