Professional Audio Student Organization

Our Third PASO meeting of the Quarter.

We will be continuing our discussion on the workshops as well as getting feedback about the Martin Atkins lecture last week.

Hamilton Hall, Room #201 -  Wednesday 8:00 PM

New Members are Always Welcome!

Start at 8:08

Budget announcement 300 awarded additional 400 given because of professional classification

AES Convention

Good time was had

Max for live presentation – concert violinist plugged max into ableton live

Talked to lady about new music database

People working on protocols for apps for the iphone that will allow you to do frequency analyzation with a plug in microphone

Professor Damski talked to the people at Isotope. They are now giving scad free copies of Isotope RX for use in Hamilton and SCAD students may purchase it for half price

Euphonics maybe coming to scad maybe giving discounts

Bob Ludwig may come down to savannah

Seminar about the loudness war

Compared mp3 to cd quality waveforms no matter what your bitrate MP3 has bad artifacting.

Cool isotope hardware that removes noise in real time automatically

Automatic mixer, that pseudo does the mixing on its own

Revisited the laser mic

Sounds like crap, you need to practically yell into it to get any sort of signal (similar to the original wax cylinders used to record sound)

DIGI contest is ending this week (end of week 5 Friday)

Workshops

Discussion of what workshops we want to do

Next week, basic edit suite trouble shooting 8PM ?

Week after that outboard gear

It was suggested that we do movie screenings in 132. We would watch the movie movie and then discuss it afterwards

Suggestion of staggering schedule of meetings Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Golden speakers- suggested the adding of sound art category, potential adding of mixing and recording category

Try and get general public interested

Try and have a gala

Set up a box and the end of each quarter for submissions from the quarter

Rivers alive- October 17^th @8 AM a river clean up hosted by the water treatment facility

Discussed getting recycling bins put in Hamilton

Martin Atkins- Tour smart

A lecture about selling yourself and how to get your name out, studio A Monday October 19^th @ 7:30 PM

He’s going to tailor his lecture toward the students at scad

US education for audios speaker wants to come speak to us.

Savannah Film Festival October 21^st – Nov 7^th

Ended at 8:58

Tour Smart author Martin Atkins is coming to Savannah and visiting SCAD to give his lecture on the responsibilities of managing a music tour, working with musicians in a recording studio setting, and how to properly market yourself as an artist.

There will be a general lecture as well as a Q & A session - All students are welcome to attend

The lecture will be held at Hamilton Hall in Studio A  on Monday October 19th at 7:30pm

Our second General Meeting of the quarter!

We will be meeting on Wednesday the 14th at 8:00pm in room 201 in Hamilton Hall

We would love to have everybody from last meeting attend again - bring your Friends!

Started at 8:06 pm

Passed around sign in sheet

Announcement of trying the week day meeting dates

Welcome back from new president.

Discussion of mpse/cas/aes and differences between the three (join television academy)

Prices to join

Focus of each group

What membership entails

Student announcements about films

Jeremy Tuttle about senior film shooting 24/25^th of October (706)-247-5856

Areya Simmons directing the narrative, shooting 16/18^th of October (check 16×9 website for more info)

Discussion of drawing for digi certification voucher (voucher is for first class 101 ($450 value)) anyone who signs up for cas/mpse during first 5 weeks of the quarter will be entered into the drawing, there are 4 opportunities to win

Dave stone is the faculty sponsor for mpse

Peter damski is the faculty sponsor for cas

Discussion of workshops and ideas for workshops

Fisher boom

Troubleshooting

Outboard gear

Soldering

Doepfer in 204

Which mic for what jobs

Delivery standards

New equipment

Maybe micing with house mics in multiple ways

Weekly newsletter

www.Coutant.org great site about mics!!!!

Maybe micing with house mics in multiple ways

Club collaborations

16×9, motion media club

16X9 online filliable forms if you have a film that needs crew

Proposed the idea of creating a searchable database of sound designers

Create a list for film majors of descriptions of different jobs within sound design and definitions of different jobs

Bento, database creator

Google spreadsheets database program

aes conference next week.

doing reports of conference after conference has happened

savannah film festival October 31^st through november ?

golden speaker awards

idea was proposed of opening up speaker awards to animations and sound art in separate categories

laser microphone !!!!- bring guy to town

talk to charles dacosta about interdepartmental collaboration

Our First General Meeting of the new year school year will be Wednesday Sept. 30.  All new prospective members are more than welcome to come as well as returning members.  We will be talking about new policies and proposals, so the more people we have there to vote and exchange ideas with the better.

Meeting is at 8:00 PM in Room 201, in Hamilton Hall, on Wednesday Sept. 30

This year Paso won 3 awards at the student leadership banquet, taking home more than any other club.  Paso won the awards for Outstanding academic Program for the Greg Hedgepath guest lecture; Outstanding Faculty Involvement; and Anna Gramlich for Outstanding Officer Of The Year. Congratulations to Anna and thank you everyone for your support.

Elections for Paso officers for next year took place today and the we are very pleased to announce the results. They are as follows:

President : Steven Fortunato         sfortu20@student.scad.edu

Vice President: Sue Ann Holton      sueann.holton@gmail.com

Secretary: Matt Klimek       Mklime20@student.scad.edu

Treasurer: Alan Koda       alankoda@gmail.com

Web Master: Clayton De Wet       cdewet20@student.scad.edu

ICC representative: Tom Dahlberg    tdahlb20@student.scad.edu