STUDENT SECTION MEETING - PRESENTATION

WHEN:  Thursday October 7, 2004
TIME: Meeting at 7:00 pm
TOPIC:  Surround Sound Workshop
SPEAKER: Mike Sokol, Fits & Starts Productions, LLC
LOCATION: Video Studio, Duderstadt Center, University of Michigan 
2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 
LOCAL CONTACT:  Jason Corey 734-615-4383

Outline of Presentation

In cooperation with Fits & Starts Productions LLC, the U-M AES Student Section presents a workshop on surround sound. Topics to be discussed include

• Discussion of creative multichannel mixing methods
• Multichannel CODECs and encoding techniques (featuring DTS, SRS)
• Broadcasting in Surround
• Bass Management crossovers, frequencies and slopes
• Multichannel surround Mastering considerations - Hardware and software solutions
• CD-R and DVD-R burning
• Surround Playback from CD-Rs, DVDs, PowerPoint Presentations and Hard Drives
• Live-sound multichannel techniques, theatre SFX and corporate presentations
• Advanced and proprietary surround microphone techniques

Biography

Mike Sokol has been a live sound and studio engineer and performer for 35 years. In addition to owning and operating a 48-track studio in Maryland, he often works on live productions that vary from Klezmer to Classical, and Celtic to Metal. Mr. Sokol has worked with many of the top Blues performers, and often assists the Maryland Symphony with their outdoor concerts of over 40,000 listeners. In a previous life he designed controls for packaging robotics, built electronics for missile guidance systems, and ran a computer communications integration business that interconnected banks with the Federal Reserve and the Internet.

Currently, Mike is a recognized surround sound expert. During the past five years, he has given over 300 seminars and workshops across North America at recording schools, universities, AES and NARAS chapters on mixing music in 5.1 surround and above. A Contributing Editor to Electronic Musician, EQ, On-Stage and TV Technology magazines, Mike currently has over 1,200 copyrighted columns in print. He recently published a book with Prentice Hall: The Acoustic Musician's Guide to Sound Reinforcement & Live Recording, and is current writing a book on Surround Sound Production to be published by Schirmer Press the fall of 2004.

UM AES Members with Mike Sokol (center)