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Registration Instructions for SynAudCon Seminar at InfoComm

1. Go to www.infocommshow.org Check Attendee 2. Click on “Register Now” (Red block to the right side of the moving photo) 3. Select one of the 3 choices – New attendee   Continue Incomplete Registration    Already registered 4. Fill out the Badge Information Continue 5.  Check Terms and Agreement     Carefully look at Privacy Options Continue 6. [...]

Sound System Engineering 4th Edition Now Available

The 4th edition of Sound System Engineering by Don Davis*, Eugene Patronis, Jr.**, and Pat Brown***, offers a unique opportunity to put three mentors on your bookshelf. What is shared in the 4th edition took the authors a collective 150 years of experience, study and research. Long considered one of the key books on the [...]

SynAudCon Rolls Out New Workstations For Sound Reinforcement For Technicians Training

Greenville, IN – March, 2013 – SynAudCon is pleased to announce new workstations for the “Sound Reinforcement For Technicians” seminar. The 3-day multimedia seminar has upgraded the workstations to include an iPod TouchTM controlling an audio instrumentation interface. Via a custom signal distribution system, attendees are able to measure voltage, impedance, polarity, SPL and STIPA [...]

Pat Brown receives the Peter Barnett Award 2012

Peter Mapp presented the award to Pat at the ECS Speech Intelligbility Workshop. The immediate response from the crowd was a heartfelt standing ovation that lasted longer than the modest educator cared for-but the audience clearly and intelligibly wanted to show its appreciation for what Pat and Brenda Brown have done to extend the legacy [...]

Peter D’Antonio Inducted into the TECnology Hall of Fame

SynAudCon feels honor to be mentioned in Peter’s acceptance speech. Don Davis reflects on one of Peter’s early papers. Peter D’Antonio is an interesting combination of artist and scientist – music and mathematics. Peter gave a paper at an AES Convention in the early 80s in Nashville, TN. Carolyn and I were standing in the [...]

SynAudCon Clarifies Intelligibility at ECS Speech Intelligibility Workshop

I had plans to write up an overview of the ECS Speech Intelligibility workshop.  Then I read Kirsten Nelson’s write up in Systems Contractors News.  I knew I couldn’t top that so I asked her permission to put it on our website.   Thank you Kirsten for an excellent article. Brenda Brown by Kirsten Nelson  Editor [...]

A Reflection on 2012

Hello SynAudCon Members, Another year will soon come to a close. What a great time to reflect and to be thankful. We are thankful to have the opportunity to work in the audio industry. We feel like it’s the path that we are supposed to be on during this phase of our lives. We are [...]

Emergency Communiciation Systems (ECS) Speech Intelligibility Workshop Update

by Pat Brown Last month we announced the Emergency Communication System Speech Intelligibility Workshop (ECSSIW) to be held in January 2013. Here’s an update on how the event is shaping up. – We’ve just returned from a site visit to the American Airlines Training and Conference Center. Brenda met with the staff to work out [...]