157th AES Convention
Speakers: Anthony Agnello and Richard Factor
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Anthony Agnello and Richard Factor have over 100 combined years as members of the AES. They have been fortunate to witness and, in some cases, perpetrate the evolution of audio engineering from electro-mechanical to digital. In May of 1979, they published an article in db Magazine, “Doohickii Digitali”, that concluded:
“… we have summarized some of the possibilities of digital signal processing (and completely ignored digital recording, a probably more important subject). While we don’t have the “all digital” studio yet, it can be reasonably foreseen that before too long, all the components will be available to make one, so that the only analog elements remaining will be the microphone and speaker. Since these are the primary limitations of the recording process at present, we anxiously await the development of a standard digital I/O bus for the human element.”
In this lecture, they will pick up not only where they left off, but also before they began.