Join us a day early for additional training and workshop opportunities before the AES Show Long Beach kicks off.
Each session will focus on specific skills and technologies in the industry. It’s perfect for anyone, whether you have a basic understanding or just need a refresher. Sessions are in-person only and are $30/session for members and $45 for nonmembers.
Presented by: Matt Kulewicz, MPSE
Time: 12:15pm – 1:45pm
In this Skill Building Workshop, you will learn the basics of how to sound design for video games. Using Wwise you will learn how to take sound effect samples and then edit, mix and implement these sounds depending on game parameters. A Simple sample library of sounds will be provided, but feel free to provide any sound effects you’d like to use during this workshop.
Presenter: Nate Flaks
Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm
iZotope’s Nate Flaks will walk you through techniques and best practices for delivering polished dialogue for short films, TV, podcasts, and audiobooks. This will be a hands-on session, hosted in Pro Tools, with demo files available so you can follow along.
Presenter: Matt Wallace and Will Kennedy
Time: 3:45pm – 5:15pm
Think mixing for immersive is just “stereo with ‘advanced panning?’” Think again. Immersive mixers Matt Wallace and Will Kennedy walk you through the basic construction of an Atmos mix from multitracks, passing on some of the central lessons they’ve learned after nearly 500 mixes.
The ASE Show’s Tech Tours offer attendees a unique opportunity to go behind the scenes at some of the most influential and innovative audio facilities in the region. These curated experiences provide an insider’s look at the tools, talent, and technology shaping the sound industry today. Whether you’re interested in recording studios, manufacturing, preservation, or professional networking, each tour is designed to inspire and inform. Full details for each tour—including dates, stops, and registration—are listed below.
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Duration: All Day
Cost: $75 per person
A full day of sonic adventure around the Hollywood-Burbank area with a multi-stop tour covering different aspects of the Los Angeles audio industry. Participants need to be ticketed and travel with the tour group on our bus to attend a technical tour. (The tour will provide bus transportation throughout the day, with the tour starting and ending at the Long Beach Convention Center)
1) One on One Studios
Recently renovated and returned to commercial operation after decades in private use, this state-of-the-art studio offers recording, engineering & mixing to major and independent record labels. Founded in 1982 as a large single room studio with a great drum sound, this is where many 80s MTV icons (KISS, Metallica, Poison, White Snake & Motley Crue) recorded countless platinum selling albums. Legends including Donna Summer, Brian Wilson and Heart recorded here during this era.
In 1999 the studio was purchased and primarily used for private label projects for 30 years, until it once again reopened under the original name in 2022, currently as a freshly renovated multi-room facility with BAS Neve Custom Series 75 Analog Console in Studio A and an impressive cache of mics and outboard gear for a new generation of clients.
2) The LA Audio Lunch Bunch
Every week for ten years, a rotating mix of local and visiting audio engineers and producers have been dropping in and catching up at this legendary no-host luncheon. Founded in 2016 by Peter Doell (Miles Davis, Toto), the LA Audio Lunch Bunch has grown to be a tradition and a great place to network with audio professionals of all levels. They will have tables reserved for us on the patio at this low-key Mexican restaurant. Everyone will order and be billed separately for your own meal while you mingle with the LA audio engineering community.
3) Royer Microphones
Engineers rely on the tonal quality and durability of Royer mics to solve recording challenges. This tour will take you through the factory where every Royer ribbon microphone is hand-crafted. Founded in 1997, Royer has won many TEC Awards and a 2013 Technical Grammy Award for their innovative designs. The R-121 uses a patented “offset ribbon,” making it the first compact, lightweight, high-sound, pressure-level-capable ribbon microphone, able to record louder sources like drums and horn sections up close without damaging the ribbon element. Royer mics are also used for different challenges in film; the R-122V was used to achieve specific sounds, like the low-end grit for the character Scar in The Lion King. Multi-Grammy winning engineer Ed Cherney credited Royer mics for making him a better engineer.
4) Iron Mountain
State-of-the-art preservation and restoration for millions of audio and image assets inside this fourteen story architectural gem, in the center of Hollywood. With over 200,000 square-feet of archives, a data center and 10,000-square-foot digital studio. Iron Mountain Entertainment Services works with film & television studios, record companies and industry professionals to promote best practices for preserving assets, from original masters to fully digitized copies with complete metadata. Included is their vast collection of vintage machines which can play every format, from the earliest wire recordings. This tour will include the history of their storied 1921 art deco building, and studio tours for audio, video, film, and photo facilities. Attendees will need to sign a non-disclosure agreement to attend this tour.
All four stops on one amazing tour is sure to be an unforgettable day.