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P&E Wing Manufacturer’s Council Breakfast at AES Convention

The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing Hosts Biannual Manufacturer’s Council Breakfast at the 141st AES Convention in Los Angeles

Representatives from leading manufacturers, organizations and publications, along with members of the P&E Wing Advisory Council, at the P&E Wing Manufacturer Council Breakfast during the 141st AES Convention in Los Angeles. Photo: Corey Walthall of Clyne Media Inc.

The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing Manufacturer Council Breakfast was held on Friday, September 29, 2016, during the 141st AES Convention in Los Angeles. At its biannual meeting, this group of industry leaders shared ideas and discussed issues of interest to all parties in attendance, with the goal of raising awareness about the importance of high-quality audio, credits and recording metadata, music streaming bit rates and other related topics. 

The program included opening remarks from Grammy Award–winning engineer/producer Ed Cherney who, reflecting on the P&E Wing’s 15th anniversary year, shared the history of how the Producers & Engineers Wing was created.

In September 2000 the Music Producers Guild of America (MPGA) merged with The Recording Academy. The MPGA was established in 1997 by Cherney with the goal of creating a forum for the technical recording community that would represent its interests as well as organize relevant events and promote dialog on important technical, creative and economic issues.

Maureen Droney, Recording Academy Managing Director, Producers & Engineers Wing and Recording Technology, then turned the mic over to Phil Wagner (President, Focusrite Novation Inc.), who gave an update on the P&E Wing/CTA (Consumer Technology Association) DEG (Digital Entertainment Group) High Resolution Audio Initiative.

Paul Jessop (County Analytics/RIAA) then discussed the debut of the new DDEX standard RIN (Recording Information Notification), with leading members of the P&E Wing offering their perspectives on the subject.   

The following manufacturers, organizations and publications were represented at the meeting: Ableton, AES, Apogee, Audio-Technica, Country Analytics, Focusrite Novation, Fraunhofer, Genelec, Harman Professional, Iron Mountain Entertainment Services, iZotope, KRK, Systems Manley Labs, Music Marketing, Prism Audio/Sadie, Rupert Neve Designs, Shure, SSL and Waves.

P&E Wing Advisory Council Members were in attendance, including Chuck Ainlay, Ed Cherney, Gavin Lurssen, Morgan Page, Piper Payne, Michael Romanowski, and Andrew Scheps, as well as AES Executive Director Bob Moses.  

“Each year, it is a highlight of our time at the AES convention to meet with our manufacturer friends, to mark the occasion and discuss the state of our industry,” Droney says. “By combining efforts and perspectives, we can help chart the course for the next year of developments in the recording community.”

For more information, visit www.grammy.org/recording-academy/producers-and-engineers and www.aes.org.

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