In the wake of a successful virtual European show in June, it was to be expected that the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Show Fall 2020 would also assume an online format in light of the continuing pandemic. As with the earlier event, the virtual setting allowed AES to involve an even stronger range of speakers […] More
A more general industry awareness of 22.2 may only have become a reality in the last few years, but in fact the history of the surround sound format stretches back nearly two decades. The eventful evolution of 22.2 and its many current and future creative opportunities were explored in a session entitled ‘Artistic Immersive Sound […] More
The fact that the number of cisgender women and transgender people becoming audio engineers – and then receiving proper credit for their achievements – is still far from achieving parity with many other STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) disciplines was one of the core messages of ‘Gender equity and inequality in audio engineering’, a far-reaching […] More
With COVID-19 rendering the annual European gathering of the Audio Engineering Society an impossibility, the decision was taken to present an online-only conference from 2-5 June under the heading of ‘A World of Audio’. A characteristically diverse programme encompassed subjects ranging from psychoacoustics to audio preservation, as well as several sessions on one of the […] More
There is no doubt that 2020 is shaping up to be a landmark year for broadcast codecs with a slew of new developments due to reach fruition. One of the most significant is MPEG-5 Part 2 Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC), which has been developed to bring extra compression efficiency and lower computational requirements […] More
Ever since the SMPTE ST 2110 media IP standards began to be published in 2018 after many years of work, there has been an understandable interest in audio circles concerning the overall adoption of the standards group – and the implementation of the AES67 audio-over-IP interoperability standard in particular. Underlining the impressive traction achieved by […] More
Improved audio for people with hearing loss and a Broadcast Audio feature that allows universal audio sharing are among the selling points of the new LE (Low Energy) Audio Standard, which was announced by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) at CES in January. Described as the ‘next generation of Bluetooth Audio’, LE Audio’s universal […] More
A week in pro-audio can be a long time – especially when a global pandemic is beginning to assert its influence on everyone’s daily lives. At the time of SVG Europe’s conversation with new AES president Agnieszka Roginska, Prolight + Sound had just been postponed – it has since been cancelled outright until 2021. The […] More
Initially established in 2010 and then revised in 2014, the European Broadcasting Union’s R 128 guideline for loudness normalisation has had a significant impact on the standardisation of loudness levels in traditional linear broadcasting. Specifying a target level of -23 ±1 LUFS LU measured over the entirety of a programme or advertisement, R 128 has […] More
Running from 11 to 14 February, ISE 2020 will be the final edition of the show to take place at its long-term home of the Amsterdam RAI. Having become the world’s leading pro AV show – and recorded the largest-ever single-day attendance at the RAI in 2019 – ISE will move to the Gran Via, […] More
