Cinema Sound Systems (25CSS)

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag J.
Volume: 124, No. 6, pp. 21–23
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
DOI: 10.5594/j18589e
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/j18589e
Author(s): Brian Vessa
bio
Brian Vessa is a dedicated audio professional with more than 35 years of experience in the industry. After attending the University of California Engineering School, he became a recording engineer, producing albums and recording orchestras. His passion was hot-rodding studio gear and discovering novel recording techniques. Vessa transitioned into film post as a music editor and sound editor, became a re-recording mixer at Cannon Films and MGM, then handled audio restoration at NT Audio. He was hired by Sony Pictures in 1998, and today is its executive director of digital audio mastering and representative to Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI). Vessa is a member of the Academy Sound Branch, SMPTE, and AES. He chairs the SMPTE Technical Committee on Cinema Sound Systems, TC-25CSS, as well as D-Cinema and IMF sub-committees, and is a recent chair of the DCI Technical Committee. He has written many audio specifications, including a white paper on near-field mixing for home theater that has been widely adopted.
Kurt Graffy
bio
Kurt Graffy spent more than 15 years in concert/theater sound and lighting design/production in the California/San Francisco Bay Area, both as lead designer of the SF Arts Commission Technical Resources Group and as a freelance mixer/designer. Leaving the arts scene, he was with Data General Corporation as computer systems field engineer prior to joining Paoletti-Lewitz Associates as staff acoustical consultant in 1985. He joined Arup Acoustics, an international acoustical consulting firm based in the U.K., in 1998 when he established their San Francisco office for acoustics. At Arup, he is a principal consultant in Acoustics, responsible for room acoustics and audio system design, measurement, and specification, including computer model testing and analysis. Graffy is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, the Audio Engineering Society (where he Co-Chairman for the Technical Committee on Acoustics and Sound Reinforcement) and SMPTE, where he also served as a chief writer for the B-Chain Cinema Testing Report.
Copyright: © 2015 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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