Adamson Advanced Certification (2 Day) Paris, France
2020-09-08 - 2020-09-09 | British Columbia
Adamson will be holding a 2 Day Advanced Certification course in partnership with DV2 in Paris, September 8th & 9th.
Advanced Certification is designed to expand the knowledge needed to properly design, deploy and control large and/or complex Adamson loudspeaker system, focusing on in-depth Blueprint AV™ techniques as well as streamlined work flow for E-Series and S-Series systems.
Over 2 days, attendees will have the opportunity to expand on their existing knowledge and experience to deploy an Adamson System and gain a deeper understanding of the technology that provides the backbone for these systems.
Topics covered will include:

Product overview
Venue measurement
System design
System preparation
System deployment
Tuning and alignment

Attendees interested in taking this course must have completed Applied Certification as a pre-requisite.
Get a head start with the pre-training material including the Education Series Videos, User Handbooks and sign up for a copy of Blueprint AV™
For more information and to sign up contact education.emea@adamsonsystems.com

Reimagining our Industry – Webinar
2020-09-12 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Reimagining our Industry – Webinar

Thanks to COVID-19 we are all now unwilling participants in a seismic experiment that is shaking the foundations of society, technology, economics, healthcare and our Industry. SoundGirls and ProSoundWeb are pondering how we might reimagine our industry.
As we move from survival to adjustment, from chaos to catalyst, the next normal (or abnormal) is being shaped right now.
COVID-19 and protests happening throughout the world have unmasked our current systems – the fragility of business and society, the consequences of urbanization and globalization, and our dependence on technology and healthcare. Activities in which consumers are likely to change behavior most are in travel, shopping, socializing, and live events.
We are faced with a choice to rebuild the world as it was or to realize the possibilities before us. Join a panel of industry veterans in a conversation about shaping the future of the pro audio industry.
Sept. 12 at 12:00 PM PST
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Moderator
Samantha Potter is an audio engineer and an editor for ProSoundWeb with a passion for writing and educating. Additionally, she serves as the “Install Empress” for Allen & Heath USA, helping to merge the live sound solutions we all love into the commercial and install space.
Growing up as a musician, Samantha found her way to live sound by way of the studio, proving that bassists make the best sound engineers. The host of Church Sound Podcast and a co-director and leader instructor for Church Sound University, Samantha can often be found teaching, writing, and hosting discussions on various live-sound topics.

Panelist Include
Alesia Hendley is an Audiovisual professional that found her passion at a young age as a sound engineer within her Father’s church. Now you can find her making connections within AV, Digital Signage and IT, along with executing creative ventures. As a young professional she’s finding ways to bring AV technologies, and creative visions together in the effort to leave her mark by making an impact.

Jeri Palumbo has been a broadcast audio mixer and specialist for the past 27 years in Sports and Entertainment. Prior to her work in broadcast, she spent years as a trained musician and arranger on the music side of the business before going into post-production and eventually live broadcast. With a current focus on live remote broadcast events, Jeri’s work has included the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, Super Bowl, World Series, Stanley Cups, the Oscars and more. Entertainment shows have included The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and American Idol to name a few. She also won a Telly Award for mixing the live bluegrass show “Songs of the Mountains.”Jeri has worn the hats of broadcast engineer/mixer, field audio, RF tech and communications and most recently broadcast A1 mixer for gaming eSports in immersive surround 5.1. Jeri served on the RF Coordination committee for the NFL, NBA All-Stars and serves in the same capacity for the Rose Bowl every year. Jeri also worked on the NFL’s Enhanced Audio team (sounds from the field) on its debut roll-out.

Bill Reeves has been working in the concert production industry for over 40 years. Starting out on the lighting crew. He graduated to LD/Production Manager within a couple of years and has been working exclusively as a Production/Tour Manager for better than 30 years. Highlights Luther Vandross (14 years), Prince (3 tours including Purple Rain), Stevie Wonder, Anita Baker, Maxwell, D’Angelo, Anthony Hamilton (14 years up to present).
Bill is also the co-founder along with Lance Jackson of Roadies of Color United.

Carlos Mosquera, born in Venezuela, has been passionate about music from a young age. Through Venezuela’s National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras and Choirs called “El Sistema,” a music education program that reaches 400,000 children, Carlos received his Bachelor in Music. After playing with Symphonic Orchestras and ensembles around the world, he then graduated with a B.A. in Sound Technology from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) in the U.K. After graduating,
Carlos has become immersed in music and sound technologies. He has been a Recording/Mixing Engineer for organizations like the L.A. Philharmonic, The Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles, The Herb Albert School of Music at UCLA, and L-ISA Applications Engineer and developer for L-Acoustics’ new immersive audio technology. As an L-ISA Engineer, he has worked on numerous major shows such as Lorde, Lady Gaga, Childish Gambino, Alt-J, LA Philharmonic, Deadmau5, Aerosmith, Bon Iver, Sleeping Beauty Dreams, Cages, among others.
On his own time, he developed a positional app for the visually impaired called “Guiding Sounds”, using inaudible impulses reproduced by speakers. It’s an accessible, scalable, and cost-efficient solution that allows blind individuals to access real-time information of their location, enabling them to find exactly where they are, and how to interact with the world in a whole new way, no internet required. Carlos’s passion for music, sound, mixing, and coding extends beyond his professional career
SIDNEY WILSON 40+ years in the professional audio industry, Sidney’s experience includes a multitude of positions from touring as a front of house engineer, monitor engineer and systems engineer. He also has had stints in the nuclear power industry, MRI (Super Conducting Magnets) industry, working on Particle Accelerators at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and teaching audio electronics. In addition, he has experience in design and building of recording studios. He decided to spread his wings into commercial real estate sales and analysis of 200+ apartment complexes, including real estate development projects and single tenant net lease properties nationwide.
However, his heart is in Audio and the last 10 years have been focused on high‐end professional digital console rentals, sales and service as Operations Manager at Hi‐Tech Audio, Inc., and starting a small company (Erevu Group) specializing in noise measurement, analysis, and solutions for large outdoor concerts and events.

Adamson Applied Certification (2 Day) Paris, France
2020-09-22 - 2020-09-23 | British Columbia
Adamson will be holding the 2 Day Applied Certification course in partnership with DV2 in Paris, France. September 22nd & 23rd.
Applied Certification is designed to instill the basic framework needed to properly design, deploy and control an Adamson loudspeaker system with a focus on Blueprint AV™ E-Series and S-Series.
Over 2 days, attendees will have the opportunity to learn fundamental skills, as well as tips and tricks to deploy an Adamson System and gain an understanding on the technology that provides the backbone for these systems.
Topics covered will include:

Product overview
Venue measurement
System design
System preparation
System deployment
Tuning and alignment

Get a head start with the pre-training material including the Education Series Videos, User Handbooks and sign up for a copy of Blueprint AV™
For more information and to sign up contact education.emea@adamsonsystems.com

Mixing Webinar with Rosana Cabán and Vanessa Silbermann
2020-09-28 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
Join SoundGirls & Female Frequency for a Mixing Webinar with Rosana Cabán. Moderated by Vanessa Silberman.
Learn helpful tips about mixing, plugins, panning, automation and preparation of files for mastering.
Monday, September 28th
6 pm-8 pm ET
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Rosana Cabán is a Puerto Rican-born, Brooklyn-based artist and music producer. As the drummer of the band Psychic Twin, she toured and performed in over 80 rock venues across the US and Canada opening for STRFKR, LadyHawke, the Generationals. Her production and mixing work has been released through Polyvinyl, Shore Dive, and DEATH BY SHEEP records and heard on podcasts and voice-overs for New York Times-reviewed theater. She was a Marble House Project artist in residency in 2018 and an Ace Hotel AIR in 2017. Rosana is an active member of Tom Tom Magazine’s Braintrust and is a graduate of Columbia University’s Sound Art MFA program. She works out of her recording studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. rosanacaban.com
Vanessa Silberman is an international touring singer, guitarist and songwriter from Brooklyn, NY (via Los Angeles, CA). She is also a record producer, engineer, an independent A&R and runs an artist development Label called A Diamond Heart Production.
Vanessa’s live shows and music has been compared to the raw bare bones rock ‘n roll of Nirvana along with the appeal of Liz Phair and Chrissie Hynde, the authenticity of classic artists such as Patti Smith and Neil Young mixed with the pop sensibilities of commercial radio artists such as Green Day and Metric.
Widely known for having a very strong DIY ethic and wearing many different hats in the music business —Vanessa has worked for heavy hitter’s in the music business such as Producer / Songwriter Dr.Luke as well as for many companies and places ranging from the Foo Fighter’s Studio 606 to Epitaph Records.
vanessasilbermanofficial.com
adiamondheartproduction.com
Female Frequency
Female Frequency is a community dedicated to empowering female, transgender & non-binary artists through the creation of music that is entirely female generated.
The first Female Frequency EP made entirely by women is available here–>
femalefrequency.bandcamp.com
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A Discussion about Foley Webinar
2020-10-04 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Join SoundGirls for a webinar on the art of Foley.

Saturday, October 4

11am PST/ 2pm EST/ 7pm BST
Moderated by
Jamie Baker, post-production sound editor, mixer, and educator (Hoboken Post, LLC & Savannah College of Art and Design)
Panelists:
Chelsea Body – freelance sound editor and Foley recordist (Toronto, Canada)
Joanna Fang – Foley artist and Foley editor at Alchemy Post (New York, NY)
Ronni Pitman – Foley artist at Skywalker Sound (San Francisco, CA)
Anna Wright – Foley artist at Boom Post (London, UK)
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Pittsburgh SoundGirls Present a Webinar on Freelancing
2020-11-02 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
Please join our Pittsburgh SoundGirls Chapter for a Freelancing Webinar on Nov. 11th.
Learn how to manage your finances, networking and creating your own career.
Moderated by Carolyn Slothour and Laura Moeller
Panelists Include:
Devyn Caraballo: Operates her own sound company & custom cables
Deborra Peelor: Lighting designer & lighting professor
Angela Baughman: Sound designer & engineer
Elizabeth Andrews: Theatrical lighting designer
November 11 at 7 PM EST

Register Here

Pittsburgh SoundGirls Present a Webinar on Freelancing
2020-11-11 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Online Webinar

Impostor Syndrome Webinar Dec. 13
2020-12-13 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online Webinar
Join us for a webinar on Impostor Syndrome on
Dec. 13 at 11 am PDT
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“Imposter Syndrome”, is a common mental process whereby someone has an unwarranted feeling of insecurity about their worth or their abilities, despite the evidence showing otherwise. Often thoughts occur that cause the person to believe they are fraudulent in their efforts or talents, and sooner or later will be found out to be “fake” or inadequate.
Kirsten Hunneyball a Certified Life Coach and Addictions and Eating Disorder Recovery Specialist will cover the basic concept, as well as share some examples, signs of the syndrome, and methods for overcoming the thinking pattern. It’s important to note that this syndrome is very common, and the more we are open about it, the easier it will become to manage.

Kirsten Hunneyball Certified Life Coach and Addictions and Eating Disorder Recovery Specialist Coach.

My name is Kirsten Hunneyball. I currently live in Johannesburg, South Africa. Music has always been a huge part of my life, or rather it’s always been a huge part of me. I play the trumpet, piano and sing. When I was at school, the Jazz and Concert Bands were where I spent most of my time, and music was the thing that carried me through many hardships. I have performed as a lead singer in bands at Music festivals such as Outland and Splashy Fen, and sang in a jazz duo in Durban for 3 years before moving to Ballito. I have played trumpet as a session musician on albums and performed at the Zakifo and French Music Festivals with Red Robyn. I have also written and recorded some of my own original music. About a year ago I took a great interest in what it meant to be the person behind the scenes, and hoped to learn how to produce my own music, and therefore I and am currently studying a music production diploma at Abbey Road Institute in Johannesburg.
I took a keen interest in Sound Girls a few months ago as I recognised the dire need for mental and emotional support in the creative industry. I am honoured to be a part of this fantastic cause.

SoundGirls Holiday Zoom Party
2020-12-28 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Join us on December 28th at 1 PM PST for a SoundGirls Holiday Zoom Party. We hope everyone has a great holiday.
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Ask the Experts - All About Mastering
2021-01-09 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
What is a Mastering Engineer
Mastering audio is the final step in the creative process of recording and is the first step in the distribution side of music. People often wonder what exactly a Mastering Engineer does. There is a lot that goes into mastering audio including the use of digital and analog tools, applying and adjusting EQ, Compression, Limiting, Stereo Enhancement, and more. Mastering also allows for the chance for the project to have fresh ears. Mastering Engineers work closely with the artists, producers, and other engineers to reach the desired sound.
Here is your chance to ask the questions you have about Mastering.
Join us on January 9 at 11 am PST
Register here and Post Your Questions
Moderated by
Ainjel Emme is a musician, songwriter, and producer. She has spent the past 20 years immersed in the study and practice of record production, shadowing world-class audio engineers, working in professional studios, and making records via her Los Angeles-based production house, Block of Joy.

Mastering Engineers

Jett Galindo – Mastering Engineer at The Bakery

Jett began her engineering career in the world-renowned Avatar Studios in New York as the recording engineer for producer Jerry Barnes. As Barnes’ engineer, Jett engineered for veteran artists such as legendary singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, Nile Rodgers and Latin Grammy-winning Brazilian rock band Jota Quest.
In 2013, Jett joined The Mastering Lab family as the sole right-hand man to pioneer mastering engineer and Grammy Technical Achievement awardee Doug Sax. Under the steady mentorship of the late Sax, Jett burgeoned to become the newest mastering engineer in The Mastering Lab roster. In 2014, Jett’s work with Brazilian rock band Jota Quest garnered the group a Latin GRAMMY nomination for Best Brazilian Contemporary Pop Album.
With engineering credits spanning different genres and legendary artists (Bette Midler, Randy Travis, Nile Rodgers, Roberta Flack, and Gustavo Santaolalla, to name a few), Jett Galindo carries on the legacy left behind by her late mentor, mastering legend Doug Sax (The Mastering Lab). She now works as a mastering engineer alongside Eric Boulanger at The Bakery, located at the Sony Pictures Lot in Culver City, Los Angeles.

Anna Frick Mastering Engineer at Airshow Mastering
Anna is a mastering engineer and the restoration center manager at Airshow Mastering in Boulder, Colorado. Her work encompasses studio albums, live recordings, reissues, and compilations across an array of formats, old and new, and a wide variety of genres and styles, from bluegrass and folk-influenced acts to rock and New Age projects. Legends like Ralph Stanley and Doc Watson, exciting contemporaries such as Billy Strings and GRAMMY-nominated Wood & Wire, and important blues and jazz archival recordings have all benefited from her uncanny ear and deft touch. She balances her strong instincts and intuition with her technical experience and each client’s goals to finesse every project she tackles. “[A band has] been working on their album for quite a while by the time I hear it, and it’s their vision – their baby – that they are putting out into the world. I don’t want to impede that vision. Ultimately, I want the music to move you.”
For Airshow’s restoration center she oversees all archival digitization projects. She mastered Third Man Records’ GRAMMY-winning box set, The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, as well as having mastered thousands of hours’ worth of historical recordings from university archives and collections across the country. Each project is unique, with a singular story and special considerations: “[It] involves everything from understanding the recording medium, the equipment, and the transfer process to having the tools and the knowledge to tackle all sorts of bizarre problems. Understanding digital audio files and how to maintain file integrity over time.”
Anna holds a degree in Music Industry Studies from the University of Colorado at Denver. She is a graduate of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Leadership Bluegrass program, an AES member, board governor and Producers & Engineers Committee Co-Chair of the Recording Academy – San Francisco Chapter, and chapter head for Colorado’s branch of SoundGirls.org.

Piper Payne – Mastering Engineer at Infrasonic
Piper is a mastering engineer based in Nashville and Oakland, CA. She recently merged her studio Neato Mastering with Infrasonic. Piper holds a BFA in Audio from The University of Michigan and continued her graduate education in audio at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has apprenticed under some of the best-known Mastering and audio mentors in the world, including Bob Katz in Orlando and Micael Romanowski in San Francisco.
Piper is a Trustee of the Recording Academy and she serves on the P&E Wing Steering Committee and the Advisory Council. She is a Governor of the Audio Engineering Society and she is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the AES’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee as well as an active member of Women’s Audio Mission and serves on the Board of SoundGirls.

SoundGirls / AES “How To Submit a Paper” Webinar January 15
2021-01-15 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
SoundGirls / AES “How To Submit a Paper” Webinar

As we strive to change the race and gender balance of panels at academic conferences, we have been reaching out to underrepresented groups to invite submissions as part of our larger call for papers. We find that sometimes people just don’t know where to begin, and it’s time to change that!
Join panelists Leslie Gaston-Bird, Jamie Angus, and Bert Kraaijpoel for a walkthrough of how to submit an abstract, précis, and paper to an academic conference.
SoundGirls / AES “How To Submit a Paper”
Jan 15, 2021, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (England)

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (England)
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM (Eastern)
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Central)

11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Mountain)

10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Pacific)

Register and post your questions here
Panelists Include
Leslie Gaston-Bird
Leslie Gaston-Bird (AMPS, M.P.S.E.) is the author of the book “Women in Audio”, part of the AES Presents series and published by Focal Press (Routledge). She is a voting member of the Recording Academy (The Grammys®). Currently, she is a freelance re-recording mixer and sound editor and owner of Mix Messiah Productions specializing in 5.1 mixing. Prior to that, she was a tenured Associate Professor of Recording Arts at the University of Colorado Denver (2005-2018) where she also served as Chair of the Department of Music and Entertainment Industry Studies. She led groups of Recording Arts students in study abroad courses in England, Germany, and Italy which included participation in AES Conventions. Leslie has done research on audio for planetariums, multichannel audio on Blu-Ray, and a comparison of multichannel codecs that was published in the AES Journal (Gaston, L. and Sanders, R. (2008), “Evaluation of HE-AAC, AC-3, and E-AC-3 Codecs”, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society of America, 56(3)).
Bert Kraaijpoel
With a mixed technical/musical background Bert started his audio career as a recording engineer in the 1980s, the beginning of the digital era. He was mainly recording and editing classical music and jazz. He developed secondary activities, establishing professional training programs in audio technology, initially for broadcast engineers and later expanding to other audio (-visual) companies. At present Bert is a full-time lecturer at the Dutch Film Academy and at the Royal Conservatory, mainly lecturing in the areas of electro-acoustics and psychoacoustics.
Bert has been an AES member for over 25 years and during that period he has a long history as a committee member for the Dutch AES Section. He has served as its Secretary for the past 10 years. He has organized a multitude of section meetings and tutorials on various audio-related subjects and presented tutorials on microphones and digital audio. He is pro-active in encouraging communication with the student community.
Bert served as a member of the convention committee for the 124th AES Convention in Amsterdam in May 2008. In his spare time, Bert is a baritone singer in one of the larger choirs of the Hague and he is also an enthousiastic amateur photographer.
Jamie Angus-Whiteoak
Professor Emerita of Audio Technology at Salford University. Her interest in audio was crystallized at age 11 when she visited the WOR studios in NYC on a school trip in 1967. After this she was hooked, and spent much of her free time studying audio, radio, synthesizers, and loudspeakers, and even managed to build some!
After secondary education in Scotland, in 1973 she attended the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada. There, in addition to her studies in physics, music, computing, drama, philosophy, and english composition, she repaired their VCS3 synthesizer, and so obtained coveted access to the electronic music lab.
She then studied electronics at Kent (UK) doing her BSc and Ph.D. there from 1974 to 1980. During her Ph.D. study, she became interested in A/D conversion, and worked on a sigma-delta approach, but had to give it up to concentrate on her Thesis topic of designing a general-purpose Digital Signal Processor. After her Ph.D., she joined Standard Telecommunications Laboratories, which invented optical fibres and PCM. There she worked on integrated optics, speech coding, speech synthesis, and recognition in the early 80s, and invented a novel 32kBits speech coding method. She has been active in audio and acoustic research since then.
She was appointed as the BT Lecturer at the University of York in 1983, to develop the first integrated masters (Meng) in Electronic and Communication Engineering in conjunction with British Telecom. She then co-created the UK’s first Music Technology course in 1986 when it was considered a “silly idea”! She is the inventor of; modulated, wideband and absorbing diffusers, direct processing of Super Audio CD signals, and one of the first 4-channel digital tape recorders. She has done work on signal processing, analogue circuits, and numerous other audio technology topics. She teaches audio and video signal processing, Psychoacoustics, Sound reproduction, studio design, audio, and video coding, and loudspeaker and microphone design. She has co-written two textbooks and has authored, or co-authored over 200 journal and conference papers and 4 patents. She is currently investigating environmentally friendly audio technology. She has been awarded; the AES Silver medal, an AES fellowship, and the IOA Peter Barnet Memorial prize, for her contributions to audio, acoustics, and education.
For relaxation she likes playing drums and dancing, but not usually at the same time.

Ask the Experts – Mixing for Broadway and Theatre
2021-02-03 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Ask the Experts – Mixing for Broadway and Theatre

What is the role of the Sound Mixer in theatre productions?
The Sound Mixer/Engineer develops or sources music and sound effects according to the Sound Designers specifications. The sound crew sets up the sound system for a production and runs it during the course of each performance. The Sound Mixer/Engineer takes all of the sound in a show – Actors’ voices, environmental noise, sound effects, the orchestra – and balances them to create a rich and exciting sound for the audience to experience.
Ask the Experts – Mixing for Broadway and Theatre. This is your chance to ask professional sound mixers/engineers working on Broadway questions.
Feb. 3 at 3 PM PST
Register here and post your questions
Moderated by
Elisabeth Weidner
Elisabeth is a Sound Designer and Composer for theatre. She served as the Sound Director/ Resident Sound Designer/Composer for 10 years at PCPA-Pacific Conservatory Theatre, before going full freelance in 2019. Elisabeth is also an adjunct professor at California Polytechnic State University SLO where she teaches Sound Design and Engineering for Theatre, and she sits on the USITT Sound Commission jury for the Current Practices and Research in Sound papers submissions. In 2020 she was elected to serve as Co-Vice Chair of the TSDCA )Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association). She is also the producer of the podcast: No One Likes Us. www.elisabethanneweidner.com Read Elisabeth’s Blog
Sound Mixers/Engineers
Heather Augustine
Heather is an audio engineer currently touring around the US with Broadway-style shows. She graduated from Penn State University with a BFA in Theatrical Design and Technology, with an emphasis on Sound Design, and has been on the road for the past 7 years. During her touring career, she has worked on a variety of shows including Billy Elliot, Dirty Dancing, Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, and Miss Saigon. Currently, she is the A1 for the first national tour of Mean Girls. Read Heather’s Blog
Becca Stoll
Becca is a theatrical audio engineer. She specializes in mixing musicals and is especially passionate about mixing new works. Pre-pandemic, her main gig was Head of Audio on Rock of Ages (Off-Broadway at New World Stages). Other New York credits include: Two’s A Crowd (59E59), A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons), Antigone in Ferguson (St. Ann’s Church); We Are The Tigers (Theatre 80). Tours: Million Dollar Quartet (A2). Selected Regional: The Donkey Show (OBERON), Caucasian Chalk Circle (A2, Yale Rep), 3 seasons as Production Audio Engineer for the Goodspeed Opera House. Education: Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, NHSI “Theatre Cherubs”. Member: TSDCA, USITT, SoundGirls
Cassy Givens
Cassy is a New York City-based theatrical audio engineer. Her mix credits include the Broadway productions of Frozen, Something Rotten, Newsies, Memphis, and The Scottsboro Boys. She has also mixed various theatrical shows and events on tour, Off-Broadway, and regionally at venues including Huntington Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Old Globe, Glimmerglass Opera, and The Public Theatre in NYC. When she isn’t mixing musicals she works as a sound designer, system technician, as well as a wireless microphone technician. Proud member of IATSE.

Ask the Experts – Teching for Live Sound Engineers
2021-02-20 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
The role of FOH or Monitor Tech differs from the role of system and stage techs, system engineers and crew chiefs. They work alongside FOH and Monitor Engineers and responsible for setting up and maintaining the FOH/Mon equipment. (consoles and processing). The FOH Tech is responsible for running walk in and out music, announcements, media feeds. FOH techs often fill the role of the system engineer and are responsible for or assist in the EQ and time alignment of the system and setting the rigging points. FOH Techs can be called on to record the performance through digital technology such as Pro Tools. FOH Techs often mix the opening artists. FOH Techs should have solid experience with different consoles and outboard processing.
At the other end of the snake, Monitor Techs are often responsible for In-Ear Monitoring Systems (IEMs) and RF coordination. The Monitor Tech will most likely be responsible for mixing monitors for the opening artists. The Monitor Tech should have solid experience with different consoles and outboard processing, as well as different types of monitor and IEM systems.
Both of these positions are often filled by well-established engineers. FOH and Monitor Techs often work with Artist Engineers on a regular basis and are an important part of a touring production.
This is your opportunity to have your questions answered by Rachael Moser, Krysten Dean, Trevor Waite, and Ivan Ortiz.
Feb. 20, 2021, at 11 AM PST
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Moderated by Beth O’Leary
Beth is a freelance live sound engineer and tech-based in Sheffield, England. While studying for her degree in zoology, she got distracted working for her university’s volunteer entertainment society and ended up in the music industry instead of wildlife conservation. Over the last ten years, she has done everything from pushing boxes in tiny clubs to touring arenas and spends a lot of her life in muddy fields working on most of the major festivals in the UK. She has a particular passion for flying PA, the black magic that is RF, travel, and good coffee. Read Beth’s Blog
Panelists
Kyrsten Dean
Krysten is a touring Sound System Engineer and Crew Chief working for Eighth Day Sound Systems, but if you said Krysten on the road, most people would not know who you were talking about because everyone calls her “KD.” She has been working in professional audio for the last 17 years after quitting her corporate engineering job. She has toured with JayZ, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Earth, Wind and Fire, Drake, and Madonna to name a few. She is also an entrepreneur working to introduce more women and people of color to the technical side of the touring industry, through what she likes to call S.T.E.M.M. – Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Music.
Trevor Waite
Trevor works for Group One Limited as a technical support engineer. The company is the US distributor for Digico, Calrec, Klang: technologies and Avolites, among other professional audio and lighting brands. Prior to this Trevor was an audio technician for Firehouse Productions and Eighth Day Sound. Trevor has worked as technician, engineer and crew chief for multiple tours, festivals, and one-offs. Over the years, as both an independent and staff engineer, he has mixed monitors for countless well-known artists, including Harry Belafonte, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Thirty Seconds to Mars, The Black Keys and many others.
Trevor worked for The Who (from 2007 – 2019) as a monitor tech for their two monitor engineers Bob Pridden and Simon Higgs. Trevor would take over mixing for Pete Townshend when Bob retired.
Rachael Moser
Rachael has worked for Clair Global in Nashville for over ten years as a PA Tech, Monitor Systems Tech, RF Tech, Monitor Mixer, and most recently System Engineer/Crew Chief. She has worked in audio for over 15 years and attended Belmont University, graduating from their Audio Engineering Technology program with a BS and minor in business
Ivan Ortiz
Ivan is an audio veteran, with over 18 years of experience in professional audio – gaining his education working for a small sound company that specialized in Latin acts while attending Full Sail. After he graduated he headed to the west coast – taking an internship at Rat Sound Systems and his “can-do attitude” led to weekend work with several Los Angeles-based sound companies. Ivan would go on to tour as a system tech for Blink 182, Jimmy Eat World, Pepe Aguilar and toured for several years as a monitor engineer for My Chemical Romance, Gavin DeGraw, and multiple fill-in gigs for other bands as FOH or MON Engineer.
Ivan would go on to work for LD Systems in Houston Texas working the Houston Rodeo as Monitors Engineer for the event for five consecutive years. While working for LD Systems Ivan also had the opportunity to work on nationally televised events as the A1 for NCAA Final Four, NCAA Sweet Sixteen, Houston’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, before returning to Rat as shop manager and all-around Tech Master. Ivan is now the Technical Resources and Account Manager at Rat Sound Systems.

SoundGirls – Audio Équité Montreal Chapter Launch
2021-03-05 16:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
We’re launching the Soundgirls – Audio Equite – Montréal Chapter!
March 5th,2021 at 16h30 EST/ 4:30 PM EST/ 1:30 PM PST
This event is in English” & “Cette activité est présentée en anglais
Register Here
Join us for an exploration of what diversity is and how to foster it through our everyday practice.
We will be joined by Keynote Speaker Dawn Birr from Sennheiser and Ky Brooks will present work that has been done towards promoting a healthier industry. This will be an opportunity to get to know fellow colleagues, and get the ball rolling for interesting things happening during the year. We hope that this Chapter will foster more diverse, inclusive and interesting collaboration in Sound, create new opportunities for our members, provide relevant information and programming, and become a space to visibilize all the great work our community creates.
Looking forward to meeting and connecting with you!

Keynote Speaker – Dawn Birr
Dawn Birr began her career in the audio industry in 2000, joining Sennheiser fresh out of college. She started as a temporary receptionist and began to learn her way around and through the company. Shortly afterward she moved into Customer Service and began learning how the customers and company worked. Thanks to a nurturing company culture and strong role models who encouraged her to learn as much as possible, Dawn was promoted over the years to Neumann Product Manager, Professional RF Product Manager, VP of Sales for U.S. Installed Sound, Global Commercial Manager for Audio Recording, Channel Manager for the Americas for Pro Audio, and most recently to Global Customer and Markets Insights Manager, Pro Audio. She completed her MBA in 2005 and is an advisory board member for The Women’s International Music Network and a proud SoundGirl.

Dawn Birr a commencé sa carrière dans l’industrie audio en 2000, rejoignant Sennheiser à la sortie de l’université. Elle a commencé comme réceptionniste temporaire et a commencé à apprendre son chemin à travers et à travers l’entreprise. Peu de temps après, elle est passée au service client et a commencé à apprendre comment les clients et l’entreprise fonctionnaient. Grâce à une culture d’entreprise stimulante et à des modèles de rôle forts qui l’ont encouragée à apprendre autant que possible, Dawn a été promue au fil des ans au poste de chef de produit Neumann, chef de produit professionnel RF, vice-président des ventes pour le son installé aux États-Unis, directeur commercial mondial pour l’enregistrement audio , Channel Manager pour les Amériques pour Pro Audio, et plus récemment pour Global Customer and Markets Insights Manager, Pro Audio. Elle a terminé son MBA en 2005 et est membre du conseil consultatif du Women’s International Music Network, et fière SoundGirl.
Rejoignez-nous pour une exploration de ce qu’est la diversité et comment la favoriser à travers notre pratique quotidienne.
Nous serons accompagnés de la conférencière principale Dawn Birr de Sennheiser et Ky Brooks présentera le travail qui a été fait pour promouvoir une industrie plus saine. Ce sera l’occasion de faire connaissance avec d’autres collègues et de lancer le bal pour des choses intéressantes qui se passent au cours de l’année. Nous espérons que ce chapitre favorisera une collaboration plus diversifiée, inclusive et intéressante dans Sound, créera de nouvelles opportunités pour nos membres, fournira des informations et des programmes pertinents, et deviendra un espace pour visualiser tout le travail formidable que notre communauté crée.
Au plaisir de vous rencontrer et de vous connecter!

Ask the Experts – Music Editors for Film & TV
2021-03-06 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
There is a lot of music work that happens behind the scenes in post-production of a film or tv show. Music editors can wear a lot of hats beyond just editing music tracks in a DAW – working with picture editors and directors/filmmakers to find the right musical mood for a scene, coordinating with music supervisors to find the perfect song, being a liaison between directors and composers, attending recording/scoring sessions, and attending the final mix on the dub stage.

Being a music editor takes having a range of skills from music, audio/sound, tv/film, communication/interpersonal, and more. How do you get started as a music editor, and how do you make a career out of it? We will be exploring this and the questions you have for our experts about music editing for film and tv.
March 6, 2021 at 11 AM PST
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Moderated by April Tucker
April Tucker is a re-recording mixer for television and film in Los Angeles. She is a “Jane of all trades” in post-production sound and has worked in every role of the process from music editor to sound supervisor. She is currently writing a textbook for Routledge about career paths in the audio industry, and the skills needed to survive early in your career.
Panelists
Jillinda Palmer has a decade of experience as a music editor. Her credits include Deadwood: The Movie, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and Diary of a Future President (Disney+). Jillinda is also an experienced sound designer and dialog editor, singer/songwriter and performer.
Jillinda has received one Primetime Emmy Nomination, one Primetime Emmy Honor, and 2 Golden Reel Nominations for music editing. Working as a music editor enables Jillinda to apply her fundamental knowledge of music along with her editorial expertise to enhance her clients’ original intent.

Poppy Kavanagh has been operating within the music industry as a musician, music editor, DJ, and audio engineer. Poppy started out working for Ilan Eshkeri and Steve Mclaughlin where she learnt about the art of film music. She then sidestepped to work as an assistant engineer at Mark Knopfler’s British Grove Studios. It was there that she discovered the world of Music Editing. Poppy has worked with a wide range of artists including Ian Brown, Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones, Tim Wheeler, KT Tunstall, Ilan Eshkeri and Steve Price. In 2019 Poppy was nominated for a primetime Emmy award for her music editing work on HBO’s Leaving Neverland.

Shari Johanson is a NYC-based music editor who has been working in the film and television industry for nearly 30 years. Most recently she has collaborated with Robin Wright on her Directorial debut film LAND. Some other Directors she has worked with are Cary Fukanaga, Paul Schrader, Kevin Smith and Milos Forman. Shari has worked with composers such as R.E.M, Howard Shore, Hans Zimmer, Dave Arnold, Carter Burwell and most recently Jonathan Zalben on Disney+ ON POINTE, as well as TIME FOR THREE and Ben Solee on LAND.
Shari won a Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award for Best Music Editing for her work on the film HIGH FIDELITY, and was also nominated for Showtime’s BILLIONS, as well as for the Netflix limited series MANIAC.
Additional credits include the Oscar – and Golden-Globe-winning biopic I, TONYA; the HBO sensation BAD EDUCATION; the Emmy-winning hit series TRUE DETECTIVE S1; the Netflix original series MARCO POLO; as well as John Tururro’s JESUS ROLLS. Shari is about to embark on the continuation of BILLIONS S5. Full list of credits

Del Spiva is a multi Emmy-nominated music editor whose credits include The Defiant Ones, Genius, and A Quiet Place Part II. His upcoming film credits include Coming 2 America and Top Gun: Maverick. Prior to music editing, Del worked as an assistant sound editor for films.

AES Design Competition – How to create an award winning design webinar
2021-03-09 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
The AES student design competition is an opportunity for you to showcase your hardware design abilities to the wider audio community. But what makes a prize-winning design? Does it have to be complicated, unique, contain software, neural networks, or other esoteric components?
The purpose of this session is to present some ideas about what makes a design prize-worthy and answer some of your questions about it.
We will focus on an audio design that won a national design (UK) for its student inventor, along with a couple of other AES competition-winning ideas. Jamie Angus-Whiteoak will take the prize-winning design and break it down to show what it was about this design that made it “The best example of concurrent engineering that the judges had seen!”
From this, you will learn the basic principles behind design, and see what really matters for a prize-winning one. Surprisingly it might be simpler than you might have thought!
March 9 at 10 AM PST

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (England)
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM (Eastern)
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Central)

11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Mountain)

10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Pacific)

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Moderated by Leslie Gaston-Bird
Leslie Gaston-Bird
Leslie Gaston-Bird (AMPS, M.P.S.E.) is the author of the book “Women in Audio”, part of the AES Presents series and published by Focal Press (Routledge). She is a voting member of the Recording Academy (The Grammys®). Currently, she is a freelance re-recording mixer and sound editor and owner of Mix Messiah Productions specializing in 5.1 mixing. Prior to that, she was a tenured Associate Professor of Recording Arts at the University of Colorado Denver (2005-2018) where she also served as Chair of the Department of Music and Entertainment Industry Studies. She led groups of Recording Arts students in study abroad courses in England, Germany, and Italy which included participation in AES Conventions. Leslie has done research on audio for planetariums, multichannel audio on Blu-Ray, and a comparison of multichannel codecs that was published in the AES Journal (Gaston, L. and Sanders, R. (2008), “Evaluation of HE-AAC, AC-3, and E-AC-3 Codecs”, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society of America, 56(3)).
Presenter
Jamie Angus-Whiteoak: Was a Professor of Audio Technology at Salford University. Her interest in audio was crystallized at age 11 when she visited the WOR studios in NYC on a school trip in 1967. After this, she was hooked and spent much of her free time studying audio, radio, synthesizers, and loudspeakers, and even managed to build some!
During secondary education in Scotland, she learned about valve (tube) circuits and repaired radios and televisions, as well as building loudspeakers from recovered components. Then at 17, she attended the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada. There, in addition to her studies in physics, music, computing, drama, philosophy, and English composition, she repaired their VCS3 synthesizer, and so obtained coveted access to the electronic music lab. She was also able to design her first proper loudspeakers and had a quadraphonic system in her 7’5” cube bedroom.
She studied electronics at the University of Kent (UK) doing her BSc and Ph.D. there from 1974 to 1980. During her undergraduate days, she designed and built a variety of audio circuits, added acoustic treatment to the student’s radio station’s studios, and designed and built an electronic piano. She also developed and built a complete AM stereo modulation system for her final year project. During her Ph.D. study, she became interested in A/D conversion, and worked on a sigma-delta approach, but had to give it up to concentrate on her Thesis topic of designing a general-purpose Digital Signal Processor with flexible arithmetic for finite field transforms. After her PhD she joined Standard Telecommunications Laboratories, which invented optical fibres and PCM. There she worked on integrated optics, speech coding, speech synthesis, and recognition in the early 80s, and invented a novel 32kBits speech coding method. She has been active in audio and acoustic research since then.
She was appointed as the BT Lecturer at the University of York in 1983, to develop the first integrated master’s (Meng) in Electronic and Communication Engineering in conjunction with British Telecom. She then co-created the UK’s first Music Technology course in 1986 when it was considered a “silly idea”! At York, she developed courses on electronic product design and co-authored a book on it. She also created and supervised many design-orientated final year projects, and several of her students won national design awards for their work.
She is the inventor of; modulated, wideband and absorbing diffusers, direct processing of Super Audio CD signals, and one of the first 4-channel digital tape recorders. She has done work on signal processing, analogue circuits, and numerous other audio technology topics.
She has taught analogue circuit design, communications systems, computer architecture, microprogramming and logic design, design for testability and reliability, audio and video signal processing, digital signal processing, psychoacoustics, sound reproduction, electroacoustics, loudspeaker and microphone design, studio design, and audio, speech, and video coding. She has co-written two textbooks and has authored, or co-authored over 200 journal and conference papers and 4 patents. She is currently investigating environmentally friendly audio technology.
She has been active in the AES for 30 years and has been the paper’s co-chair for conventions as well as a judge for the student project and Matlab competitions.
She has been awarded an AES fellowship, the IOA Peter Barnet Memorial Award, and the AES Silver Medal Award, for her contributions to audio and acoustics.
For relaxation she likes playing drums and dancing, but not at the same time.

“Ask the Experts” Recording In-The-Box versus Out-Of-The-Box
2021-03-16 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
“Ask the Experts” Recording

In-The-Box versus Out-Of-The-Box
Join us for a webinar on recording and the pros and cons of mixing in the box or out of the box. This webinar will focus on both ways of recording and discuss the pros and cons of each. This is not a debate on what sounds better or is better.
This is your chance to get your questions answered by Jess Fenton, Vira Byramji, Jasmine Chen, Lenise Bent, and Christal Jerez
March 16 at 11 am PST/2 pm EST
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Moderated By Jess Fenton

Jess Fenton is a Producer/Audio/Mix Engineer based out of Brooklyn, NY specializing in music and podcast productions. She is the creator of Proof In Music, a video series showcasing women working in music production who deserve to be seen but are often overlooked. PROOFINMUSIC.COM

Panelists
Vira Byramji is an audio engineer specializing in studio recording and mixing. Vira’s entrance into the industry was through the legendary Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, where she was the assistant manager and a staff engineer. There she worked with major labels and high-profile clients such as Patti Smith, U2, Lana Del Rey, Sara Bareilles and HBO to name a few. As an engineer and assistant studio manager, Vira gained a range of experience from the back end of the music business to the creative and technical workings of running sessions. Ultimately, these two full-time roles drove her to pursue opportunities as a freelance engineer. After leaving Electric Lady, she began working with LA-based producer Jonathan Wilson. With him, she traveled to Haiti and there worked with Jackson Browne, to LA for Father John Misty’s Pure Comedy album, and engineered remote sessions for Roger Waters and Lucius at the start of their world tour. She has also kept herself busy in New York with local artists like Maya Hawke, Emma Caymares, producer/songwriter Jesse Harris, producer Thomas Bartlett and Tamar-Kali (composer of Mud Bound and Come Sunday soundtracks). https://www.virabyramji.com/
Jasmine Chen is a GRAMMY-nominated audio engineer and vocal producer based in Los Angeles, CA. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, she moved back to Los Angeles and began interning at Forecast Recordings while working at IO Music Academy as their Partnerships & Studio Manager. During that time, she also freelanced as a production sound mixer & boom operator on film sets and helped sound design products for music software and studio furniture company, Output. From IO Music Academy, Jasmine was brought in as an intern for Heavy Duty Studios, where she honed her skills as a recording engineer and now holds the position as their house engineer and studio manager. Jasmine has worked on projects for Allie X, Berhana, Cass McCombs, Clairo, Conan Gray, Dove Cameron, HAIM, Jarina DeMarco, Johan Lenox, Jonah Mutono, Kaleena Zanders, Kelly Clarkson, Killy, Love Mansuy, Madame Gandhi, Snoop Dogg, Steve Jablonsky (film scores), and more. Jasmine on SOUNDCLOUD
Lenise Bent is one of the first women audio engineers & honed her skills on many iconic records including “Aja” by Steely Dan and “Breakfast in America” by Supertramp. She is the first woman engineer to receive a platinum album for Blondie’s “AutoAmerican” album which includes “The Tide is High” and the very first hit rap song with music, “Rapture”.
Lenise is also a post-production audio professional, specializing in recording and editing foley sound effects for many films and animated series and has traveled the world for Dreamworks supervising the foreign dialogue recording and producing the vocals for such
animated features as “Shrek”, “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron” and “Shrek 2”. She also archives and repairs audio, instructs and consults for singer/songwriters.
Lenise is a long-standing member of the Audio Engineering Society, the Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy and a voting member of NARAS. She is also a proud member SoundGirls, Women’s Audio Mission (WAM), Women in Music, the prestigious Hollywood Sapphire Group, The Blues Foundation, IASA (International Association of Sound Archivists) and ARSC (Assoc. of Recorded Sound Collectors). Though mostly working in digital recording formats, Lenise recently produced and engineered an all-analog recording with blues/rock/Indy band Primal Kings, recording to 2” tape, mixing to 1⁄2” and cut to vinyl from tape, all analog and completely out of the box.
To know more about Lenise Bent go to her website at www.lenisebent.com

SoundGirls Feature Profile Lenise Bent
SoundGirls Living History Project Lenise Bent Part 1
SoundGirls Living History Project Lenise Bent Part 2

Christal Jerez is an audio engineer with experience recording, mixing and mastering music. After studying audio production at American University for her undergrad and New York University for her graduate studies, she started working professionally at Platinum Sound Recording Studios in NYC. After 4 years, she moved on to work as Alex Tumay’s mix assistant at Do What Sounds Good Studios in Chelsea where she was able to work on records for PARTYNEXTDOOR, dvsn, Gunna, and more. Christal is currently working out of Los Angeles. www.christalssoniclab.com/

Philadelphia SoundGirls Chapter Virtual Meeting
2021-03-24 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
If you are in the Philadelphia area, we invite you to come and meet with us on March 24th at 7pm EST on Zoom.
Barbara Adams is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Philly Soundgirls Bi-Weekly Meetings
Time: Mar 24, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Mar 24, 2021 07:00 PM
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Ask the Experts – How to Produce a Podcast
2021-03-30 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Ask the Experts – How to Produce a Podcast

There’s a lot that goes into making a great podcast beyond pressing record and rambling for a while before hitting the upload button. From strategy and pre-production, how to record a podcast, and editing, through to distribution, our Ask the Experts webinar has you covered.

We’re going to talk about choosing a name and artwork, planning your topics, getting the most out of your guests, creating a narrative and cleaning up the sound in the editing and post-production stages, how and where to host and distribute your podcast, and a lot more.

This is your opportunity to have your questions answered by Fela Davis, Larry Millburn, Beckie Campbell, and Chris Leonard.
Tuesday, March 30th at 6 PM EST / 3 PM PST
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Moderated by Laura Clapp Davidson
Laura Clapp Davidson heads up the retail market development team for Shure. She brings passion and knowledge of gear that comes from over 15 years in the MI industry. When she isn’t talking about music equipment, she’s singing or playing through it as a professional singer/songwriter. Laura lives in her hometown of Guilford, CT with her two daughters, two dogs, two rabbits, and one very patient husband.
Panelists
Fela Davis
Fela is a graduate of Full Sail University with 20 years of experience in audio engineering and inducted into the University’s Hall of Fame in 2020. Her mixing experience at front of the house position includes Ron Carter, Brian Blade, Jose Feliciano, Meshell Ndegeocello, Bilal, and almost a decade with 6-time Grammy Award winner Christian McBride, mixing sold-out shows across Asia, Europe, Canada, and America.
Currently, I co-own One of One Productions Studio and a writer for Pro Sound News and Podcast Pro Newsletter. With many of her studio clients needing home audio setup, we began selling one and two-person audio kits. One of One Audio Kits includes Focusrite interfaces, Lewitt Microphone, Wireworld Cable, AKG or CAD headphones, and a waterproof travel case! Check out One of One Audio Kits and more audio related gear at our One of One Shopify store!
Larry Millburn
Larry Milburn, Producer: Award-winning filmmaker Larry Milburn has been involved as a producer/editor on several behind-the-scenes EPK’s and DVD documentary projects for both film and commercial production studios as well as advertising agencies such as FOX, Columbia Pictures, BBDO Detroit, RSA, and BMW.
It was with great pleasure that he was asked to co-produce the film SWEET BLUES: A FILM ABOUT MIKE BLOOMFIELD, directed by Bob Sarles and part of the 2014 Sony Legacy Boxed set FROM HIS HEAD TO HIS HEART TO HIS HANDS. As a cousin of Michael Bloomfield’s, this film helps to keep the memory of such a gifted guitar player relevant and alive. Along with film, music plays a large part of Larry’s life, and when he finds the opportunity to marry the two he takes full advantage. Since 2016, Larry has been the host of the podcast ROADIE FREE RADIO, a weekly series on which he interviews the men and women behind the scenes of the music and film business. He has also produced podcasts for wide range of his commercial clients.
Beckie Campbell
Beckie Campbell is a FOH, Mon Engineer, and Owner of B4Media Production. As a twenty-year veteran of the music business, Beckie has had the honor to help mentor and train teams for several theaters, live events, and houses of worship. All while touring as a FOH Engineer for major acts and still working local hometown gigs. Beckie has had the pleasure to work with major acts such as Indigo Girls, Altman Betts Band, The Commodores, Nicole Nordaman, Firehouse, Colt Ford, Ace Freely, Julian Marley, Gary Pucket and Union Gap, just to name a few. She has also mixed at the New Orleans Jazz Festival, 30A Songwriters Festival, and does the live and on-air mixes for the City of Orlando Christmas Tree and 4th of July Live Shows. Early in her career, she was a Technical Director/FOH Engineer for two Mega Churches in Florida.
During the pandemic,Beckie has continued to find work including Producing and Training at HOW, doing installs for streaming, online training, and is one of the hosts of the SoundGirls Podcast and the Orlando SoundGirls Chapter head.
Chris Leonard
Chris Leonard has been in the professional live audio world for almost two decades, following in the footsteps of his father. As a monitor engineer with Maryland Sound International, he toured with artists like Tears for Fears, Don Henley, Disturbed,
Josh Groban, Anthony Hamilton and more.
Chris is currently Director of Audio at IMS Technology Services, where he has spent the last ten years overseeing and managing all aspects of audio for the Event Staging Division of the company. IMS is a full-scale production company providing audio, video, and lighting for special events, conferences, and conventions nationwide. A highlight while at IMS includes designing and mixing for the Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl victory parade, with an estimated 800,000 + audience and the largest outdoor event in Philadelphia’s history. He has also worked on the last four Presidential Inaugurations.
Chris is a co-host on the Signal To Noise Podcast presented by ProSoundWeb. The podcast has over 70 episodes and has been downloaded over 100,000 times. The show features conversations with people from all corners of the live sound industry, from FOH and monitor engineers, tour managers, Broadway sound designers, broadcast mixers, and more. Chris’s current project, “How We Got Loud” begins with this podcast focusing on the stories of the people, technology, and passion that built the history of live sound, with many plans to grow and expand beyond the podcast in years to come.

"Intro to MDIIO (Intro and Demo)" - With Justin Gray
2021-04-01 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | British Columbia
Event Details:
Thursday April 1st 10am – 11am PST

“Intro to MDIIO (Intro and Demo)” – With Justin Gray -MDIIO A-Z -Uploading Music, Adding Metadata and Pitching Songs for sync
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https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PZUO1-tZQ7WGLcJLH3HwAA

Toronto SoundGirls Virtual Meeting
2021-04-01 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
Join us on April 1st at 7:30 PM EST for a virtual meeting and chat.
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SoundGirls + Women in Vinyl Panel 2021
2021-04-11 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
SoundGirls + Women in Vinyl Panel 2021

RELEASING YOUR MUSIC ON VINYL AS AN INDIE ARTIST
Apr 11, 2021, Sunday -12 PM – 2PM PDT / 3 PM – 5PM EDT

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With last year’s Women in Vinyl panel serving as an introduction to the various career paths (watch on YouTube) you can explore in the vinyl industry, we now focus on guiding you through the process of releasing your music on the vinyl format as an independent musician. What preparation do you need to make beforehand? What are the estimated costs of a typical vinyl release? What options does one have when releasing music on vinyl (full production run, short-runs, lathe cuts, etc.) Let our vinyl experts guide you through your journey towards releasing an LP record.
Moderated by
Jenn D’Eugenio
Founder, Women in Vinyl | Sales & Customer Experience Manager, Furnace Record Pressing (Alexandria, VA)
The Sales & Customer Experience Manager at Furnace Record Pressing, and vinyl enthusiast for over 20 years, Jenn is the founder and curator of Women In Vinyl; and is dedicated to the art and creation of vinyl. Her background spans that of designing textiles for Fortune 500 fashion companies to career advising for one of the top art colleges in the country; however, Jenn’s passion for vinyl has lead her to a career in helping to manufacture the physical product for bands, and both major to independent record labels. In launching Women in Vinyl a site, online community, and future non-profit she hopes to empower women working in the vinyl industry and to help young women who may be interested in this career path achieve their goals.
Robyn Raymond
Board Member, Women in Vinyl | Lathe Cutter, Red Spade Records & Lacquer Channel Mastering (Ontario, Canada)
Owner of Ontario-based Red Spade Records, Robyn is the only female record cutter in Canada. She cuts short-run, lathe cut records on a desktop Vinyl Recorder T-560, apprentices on a VMS70 and formerly worked as a vinyl QA. She now works happily out of Lacquer Channel Mastering in Ontario.
Panelists Include
Amanda Schutzman
Sales Rep, All Media Supply | Purchaser, Needle and Groove Records (Lynbrook, NY)
Amanda is a Sales Representative at All Media Supply LLC, a vinyl/media distributor supplying record stores throughout the US. Before becoming a Sales Rep, she was the Manager at Needle + Groove Records. Amanda got her start in vinyl pretty much straight from the cradle. Her father, Mike Schutzman, is the founder of the Long Island institution that was Slipped Disc Records. She also spent some time working in Manhattan’s Generation Records as Head of Purchasing (where you can still sometimes find her behind the counter) and she appears regularly with her father at the record shows that he now organizes, Vinyl Revolution Record Shows.
Caren Kelleher
Founder & President | Gold Rush Vinyl (Austin, Texas)
Caren is the founder and president of Gold Rush Vinyl in Austin, Texas. Before starting Gold Rush, Caren was Head of Music App Partnerships at Google, after launching both Google Music and Google Play. She also led business development efforts at Songkick and Paste magazine, and worked as a band manager, which helped her see the vinyl opportunity. Caren holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA from Emory University. The Beatles are still her favorite band of all time.
Mariana Hutten
Mixing and Mastering Engineer | Lacquer Channel Mastering (Ontario, Canada)
Mariana is a producer, mixing, and mastering engineer (Lacquer Channel Mastering) based in Toronto, Canada. Specializing in genres such as pop, rock, hip hop, and jazz, She has worked on international projects from Montreal, Banff, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Monaco, among others. She has also worked on projects with producers such as Eddie Kramer, Colin Linden, and Richard King. Mariana’s goals and commitment to expanding women’s involvement in the music and audio industry placed her as a mentor for young women in Toronto. As an Executive Member of the Audio Engineer Society Toronto (AES Toronto) and Co-Director of the Toronto SoundGirls Chapter.

SoundGirls Pittsburgh Chapter Virtual Meeting
2021-04-15 08:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
Come hang out with SoundGirls Pittsburgh on Zoom!
Laura Moeller is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: SoundGirls Pittsbugh Hangout
Time: Apr 15, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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SoundGirls Bi- Weekly Zoom Hangout
2021-04-18 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
SoundGirls Weekly Zoom Hang-Out
Every Other Sunday at 1:30 PM PST
Next Event is May 16th
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Soldering for Beginners
2021-04-18 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Soldering for Beginners Webinar

Soldering is one of the most useful skills a sound technician can have. It can seem daunting at first, but it is surprisingly easy once you know-how. It can help you understand your equipment and signal flow better, save you money, and there’s nothing quite like whipping out a soldering iron and saving a gig to silence the doubters.

This webinar will cover the basics of soldering and we will be making and soldering an XLR Cable. The webinar is taught by Christina Milinusic and will be assisted by Barbara Adams.
April 18 at 3 PM PST/6 PM EST
Registration is limited to 60 people.
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You need to gather the following materials and review this Soldering PDF CMilinusic_SoundGirls_SolderingXLR(1)
To make an XLR cable you need
Standard 3 wire analog cable.
The configuration of this balanced cable is signal (+), signal (-), and shielded common (ground). The (+) wire carries the in-phase signal and the (-) wire carries the inverted signal. This balanced cable has good noise rejection because the noise is always in-phase. This means once the cable is plugged in the (in-phase) noise will be subtracted out. The recommended maximum length of an XLR is 100 feet (30 meters).
XLR Connectors (Plug-Socket)

2 XLR Connectors (Both Plug and Socket)

Tools needed

Soldering Iron,
Solder
Wire strippers and flush cutters.
Panavise ‘helping hand’,
Needle Nose Pliers, a utility tool (Leatherman)
Solder Sucker or Solder Wick

See PDF for pictures
CMilinusic_SoundGirls_SolderingXLR(1)

SoundGirls Montreal Chapter Virtual Meeting
2021-04-25 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
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We were excited for the weather to let us organize park hangouts to get to meet each other, but… since the pandemy is still raging, we think it’s best to meet virtually. So let’s hangout!
Let’s meet our group members, learn about what brings us here and think of events/socials you’d be interested in.
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Topic: Montreal Chapter Meeting – Hangout
Time: Apr 25, 2021 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Ask the Experts – Mixing for Live Broadcasts
2021-04-26 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | British Columbia
Mixing for a live broadcast is exciting and challenging because anything can happen and it is up to the production teams to keep everything on track. There are a lot of elements involved: time, information, content, mic techniques, and crew. There can be many job titles involved depending on the size of the production and would include a broadcast engineer, audio assistants, and stage crew. Often broadcasts happen live from venues vs. a studio, adding the additional challenge of the venue’s logistics and not blocking the view of musicians, conductors, and audience.
There are problems and challenges that happen every time. It never goes exactly as planned, being as prepared as possible and ready for the curveballs is key to make sure the production goes live to air on time.
This is your opportunity to ask professional broadcast engineers questions about their careers, jobs, and what skills you need to work in live broadcasts. Panelist include Mary Mazurek, Eileen Delahunty, Mark Travis, and Kamila Pietrusińska.
Ask the Experts – Mixing for Live Broadcasts
April 26 at 11 AM PST/2 PM EST
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Moderated by Mary Mazurek
Mary Mazurek is a GRAMMY-nominated recording engineer. The Recording Academy awarded her nomination at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in the category of Best Engineered Album, Classical. She is also a broadcaster and radio/podcast producer. Her work is regularly featured on WFMT Radio and WFMT.com. Additionally, she is a sought-after educator and speaker who enjoys contributing in the classroom and on panels and committees within her industry and beyond. She serves as a role model and advocates for women in the recording industry, which is currently less than 5% female. She loves sharing her sonic insights across disciplines.
Mary began her recording career in 1991 at University and Universal Recording, Chicago. Since then, she has engineered thousands of sessions for albums and broadcasts. Her credits include Alec Baldwin, The Chicago Chorale, The Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Charles Earland, Michael Feinstein, International Music Foundation, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kronos Quartet, LA Guitar Quartet, Howard Levy, Lyric Opera, The New York Philharmonic, Yo-Yo Ma, Johnnie Hammond Smith, Dr. Lonny Smith, and many others. Her work can regularly be heard on WFMT Radio, Chicago, in syndication in the US, and throughout the European Broadcast Union. Her recordings appear on the Bellissima, Cannonball, Çedille, Delmark, Lyon & Healy, MSR, Naxos, Random House, Sheridan, and Sounds True labels.
She is on the faculty of Columbia College’s Audio Arts and Acoustics Department and DePaul University School of Music. She has also taught at The Illinois Institute of Art and the Merit School of Music. She has guest lectured at Cleveland State University, Ohio University, UC Denver, University of Illinois Urbana, and Northeastern Illinois University.
Mary is a voting member of The Recording Academy. She has served as a governor and task-force chairperson in that organization. She was elected the first woman president of the Engineering And Recording Society of Chicago and continues to serve as a steering committee member. She is a full member of the Audio Engineering Society and is the chairperson of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She is currently a member of the exclusive DPA Master’s Club and an Educational Advisor for Leapwing Audio.
Panelists Include
Eileen Delahunty, Senior Producer – WQXR
Eileen Delahunty started her radio days in Boston working on the morning show at WBCN. She moved to New York City to work in public radio on the Peabody Award-winning NPR show Heat with John Hockenberry as a producer and director. It wasn’t long before Eileen planted her feet solidly at New York Public Radio. During her almost 3 decades at NYPR, she’s worked on countless programs and specials including; Selected Shorts, The Poet’s Voice, Bloomsday on Broadway, Concerts from the Frick Collection, and The Next Big Thing. Eileen has also produced and directed hundreds of live broadcasts from venues all over New York City including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, LPR, The United Nations, Bargemusic and across the ocean at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. Sharing her skills and background, Eileen has mentored live broadcast crews in New Orleans, Louisiana and Louisville, Kentucky.
In 2009, Eileen started working with NYPR’s new purchase: the classical station WQXR. She continues to produce and direct the live broadcasts including the national series, Carnegie Hall Live. She also produces and directs original music concerts out of NYPR’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.
Mark Travis – New York Philharmonic Audio Producer
Mark Travis joined the full-time staff of the New York Philharmonic as its Audio Producer in 2011 and currently serves as the orchestra’s Director of Media Production. He has directed the orchestra’s broadcasts, currently hosted by Alec Baldwin, since 2003.
With 25 years in media, he’s just about done it all, serving as a writer, producer, broadcaster, lecturer, podcaster, artist, Multicam director, video editor and audio engineer. From 1999 to 2011 he served as a producer for Chicago’s WFMT Radio Network, where he wrote and directed more than 800 nationally syndicated programs. He also has an extensive discography as a music producer, including three Grammy-nominated recordings by the New York Philharmonic. Other credits include projects with Carnegie Hall’s Song Studio with Renée Fleming, Ensemble Connect, Handel & Haydn Society, Ensemble Companio, Living Music with Nadia Sirota—Pirate Radio Edition, the 92nd Street Y, the National Youth Orchestra, the Chicago Chorale, UMS, Interlochen Public Radio, Greenwich Choral Society, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He also serves as a regular guest lecturer for Mannes College of Music at New School University and the Grand Piano Series in Naples, Florida.
Mr. Travis is a member of the NARAS and serves on both the Grand Jury and Radio Advisory Board for the New York Festivals International Broadcasting Competition. He has also served as juror and Music Committee Chair for the United States Artists panel in Los Angeles. He has been the recipient of more than 30 medals and trophies for his broadcast work, including the 2015 Grand Jury Prize and five best-director awards from the New York Festivals, and he was named a special honoree for his writing in the 2017 Webby Awards.
Kamila Pietrusińska Broadcast Engineer
Kamila Pietrusińska is a first-year Electronics and Telecommunication student at Gdansk University of Technology. Her specialisation is audio and video engineering. She received her BSc degree in 2019 and was the chair of the AES Student Section in Gdansk for two years.
The activities undertaken within AES student section helped her to develop her skills in audio recording and to get involved in sound for visual media. It became a major part of her BSc Thesis which was aimed at creating a base of sound effects and showing its potential by using it for the creation of a sound for animation.
Developing her passion and constantly improving her audio engineer skills she is engaging in audiovisual projects and internships at local radio stations. What is more, she is very interested in the technical and more scientific aspects of audio and that is why she is a part of various research teams.

Ask the Experts – Audio Restoration & Archiving
2021-04-30 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | British Columbia
Audio restoration is the process of removing imperfections (such as hiss, impulse noise, crackle, wow and flutter, background noise, and mains hum) from sound recordings. Audio restoration can be performed directly on the recording medium (for example, washing a gramophone record with a cleansing solution), or on a digital representation of the recording using a computer.
Audio restoration definitely presents some unique challenges. You have the noise imprint from a poor recording or media that’s degraded over the last 30 years. You have to figure out how you define the noise and highlight aspects of the recording that are sonically engaging but etch out that which detracts from the vivacity of the music. Audio restoration is a subjective process, and there are many strategies or perspectives that the audio engineer or sound editor can employ.
The archival perspective says that audio restoration should restore the recording to its original condition, while the commercial perspective says that the recording should be both restored and enhanced to appeal most immediately to modern audiences.
This is your opportunity to ask professional broadcast engineers questions about their careers, jobs, and what skills you need to work in live broadcasts. Panelist include Catherine Vericolli, Jessica Thompson, Anna Frick, and Maria Rice
Ask the Experts – Audio Restoration & Archiving
April 30 at 11 AM PST/2 PM EST
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Moderated by Catherine Vericolli
Catherine Vericolli is a recording and archival engineer, and an outspoken analog purist. She opened Fivethirteen Recording Studios in Phoenix, AZ in 2005, where for nearly fifteen years she’s dedicated herself to keeping the traditional analog recording process alive in the desert. Her studio hosts national touring bands, guest engineers, and film scoring projects, in addition to providing a high-end recording experience for the many local bands that call Arizona home. Now, Catherine specializes in production, studio management, machine maintenance and analog transfers. Splitting time between Nashville, TN and Phoenix, she’s also the transfer and project manager for Useful Industries, Archiving and Restoration. She can be found traveling the country speaking on panels about audio, writing for industry publications, and educating the next generation of audio engineers. Catherine is also active in advocacy for women in audio, and she serves on the board of SoundGirls.
Panelists Include
Jessica Thompson
GRAMMY-nominated mastering and restoration engineer and audio preservation specialist Jessica Thompson has digitized, restored, and revived historic recordings for artists ranging from jazz pianist Erroll Garner to blues and folk revolutionary Barbara Dane, from Ethiopian keyboardist Hailu Mergia to proto-punk band Jack Ruby, from anarcho-hardcore band Crucifix to synthesizer legend Pauline Anna Strom. She masters music both new and old, including every release from cult-favorite label Awesome Tapes From Africa. She sometimes writes gear reviews for Tape Op Magazine and contributed a chapter on “Mastering the Sonics of Historic Recording Media” for the book Music Preservation and Archiving Today. She currently serves as President of the San Francisco Chapter of the Recording Academy. In her spare time, she likes to ride steel bikes and walk her dog, Eddie. @jathompso https://www.jessicathompsonaudio.com/
Anna Frick
Anna is a mastering engineer and the restoration center manager at Airshow Mastering in Boulder, Colorado. Her work encompasses studio albums, live recordings, reissues, and compilations across an array of formats, old and new, and a wide variety of genres and styles, from bluegrass and folk-influenced acts to rock and New Age projects. Legends like Ralph Stanley and Doc Watson, exciting contemporaries such as Billy Strings and GRAMMY-nominated Wood & Wire, and important blues and jazz archival recordings have all benefited from her uncanny ear and deft touch. She balances her strong instincts and intuition with her technical experience and each client’s goals to finesse every project she tackles. “[A band has] been working on their album for quite a while by the time I hear it, and it’s their vision – their baby – that they are putting out into the world. I don’t want to impede that vision. Ultimately, I want the music to move you.”
For Airshow’s restoration center she oversees all archival digitization projects. She mastered Third Man Records’ GRAMMY-winning box set, The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, as well as having mastered thousands of hours’ worth of historical recordings from university archives and collections across the country. Each project is unique, with a singular story and special considerations: “[It] involves everything from understanding the recording medium, the equipment, and the transfer process to having the tools and the knowledge to tackle all sorts of bizarre problems. Understanding digital audio files and how to maintain file integrity over time.”
Anna holds a degree in Music Industry Studies from the University of Colorado at Denver. She is a graduate of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Leadership Bluegrass program, an AES member, board governor and Producers & Engineers Committee Co-Chair of the Recording Academy – San Francisco Chapter, and chapter head for Colorado’s branch of SoundGirls.org.
Maria Rice
Maria Rice is a Boston-based mastering and restoration engineer. She’s been a Recording Academy member since 2011 and serves as Chapter Governor on the New York Board, focusing on student mentorship, diversity outreach, and advocacy. For 12+ years, she has been one of two engineers at Peerless Mastering, working with clientele ranging from indie-famous darlings Bon Iver, Andrew Bird, Superchunk, Magnetic Fields, and Stephen Malkmus to modern legends like the late Larry Coryell.
Specializing in audio restoration, Maria has received three nominations for the GRAMMY Award for Best Historical Album:
Various Artists Ork Records: New York, New York (59th GRAMMY Awards)
Various Artists Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque In Upper Volta (60th GRAMMY Awards)
Jackie Shane Any Other Way (61st GRAMMY Awards)
Her remastering work also includes the 2018 reissue of Blondie’s Heart of Glass, remastered from the original tapes, and the 2018 reissue of Washed Out’s High Times, originally released on cassette and known as “one of the cornerstones of the then-nascent genre chillwave.”
Maria has also worked with the Internet Archive as a restoration specialist and is currently on the faculty of Point Blank Music school as a mastering lecturer. Originally from the Maryland/DC area, Maria obtained a B.A. from Boston University and privately studied piano at the New England Conservatory.

Virtual Tour of Telefunken
2021-05-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Telefunken has invited SoundGirls to take a virtual tour of their factory.
May 4th at 12 PM PDT/3 PM EDT.

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Mixing with Vanessa Silberman
2021-05-06 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Mixing tips with Vanessa Silberman presented by SoundGirls, Female Frequency, and A Diamond Heart Production
Thursday, May 6th – 6 PM EDT / 3 PM PDT
Join us for this exclusive webinar on mixing tips with Songwriter, Recording Producer, Engineer & Label Owner Vanessa Silberman.
Vanessa will walk us through a recording session and give tips on mixing using 2 DAWS: Pro Tools & Logic. You’ll get tips on everything from stemming files to Editing, EQ, Compression, Panning and much more.
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About Vanessa Silberman:
Vanessa Silberman is an international touring singer, guitarist and songwriter from Brooklyn, NY (via Los Angeles, CA). She is also a record producer, engineer, an independent A&R and runs an artist development Label called A Diamond Heart Production.
As an artist her music has often been compared to the raw bare bones rock ‘n roll of Nirvana along with the appeal and vocal qualities of Lana Del Ray and authenticity of classic artists such as Patti Smith and Neil Young. But more recently with the release of her latest single ‘My Love’ she’s incorporated more samples, beats and synths akin to artists such as Chvrches, Phantogram and Sylvan Esso.
Widely known for having a very strong DIY ethic and wearing many different hats in the music business —in the past Vanessa has worked for heavy hitter’s in the music business such as Producer / Songwriter Dr. Luke as well as for many companies and places ranging from the Foo Fighter’s Studio 606 to Epitaph Records. Vanessa has also Engineered for everyone from Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T Rex) to Kimbra & Harper Simon. She is also a Recording Academy Grammy Member, the co-chair of the New York Chapter of Soundgirls, an advisor to the Florence Belsky Charitable Foundation and assists California Women’s Music often co-hosting their virtual music festivals.
vanessasilbermanofficial.com
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Female Frequency
Female Frequency is a community dedicated to empowering female, transgender & non-binary artists through the creation of music that is entirely female generated.
The first Female Frequency EP made entirely by women is available here–>
femalefrequency.bandcamp.com
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