photo caption: TC Electronic chairman Ed Simeone and student Krystle Sanno preparing to Podcast

Ed Simeone’s list of audio experiences and skills are extensive. He’s a tube-gear nut, has been a keyboard tech for some of the top players in music and is an avid HAM radio operator. If that wasn’t enough, Ed is the Chairman of TC Electronic USA, the company that sells high end audio processors, Lab Gruppen, TC-Helicon and Dynaudio products. He recently brought his Reverb Master Class to the Conservatory where he takes reverb from its inception (it started in B.C. if you can believe it!) to the modern day. The Conservatory certifies students on TC’s System 6000 and M3000 and has TC gear in many classrooms and studios. Simeone is part of our guest lecture program where industry pros are brought on campus to impart knowledge and talk to students about jobs in audio.

photo caption: Audiokinetic’s Simon Ashby lecturing students on the ins and outs of game audio

Simon Ashby and Geneviéve Laberge from Audiokinetic, makers of the Wwise audio pipeline solution software for game creation, visited the Conservatory to give a guest lecture to an assembly of over 350 students. Ashby and Laberge also participated in a Podcast that is now live on the Conservatory’s website. Students Emily Cohen and Margaret Decker interviewed the duo, then edited the Podcast in Pro Tools, gaining valuable experience in the innerworkings of audio for Broadcast. Later that day, Ashby addressed students on how audio for games both mimics and is vastly different than audio for post, the ins and outs of working on a game creation team and more. His lecture will soon be offered in a serialized Video Podcast sponsored by the Conservatory. Students currently use Wwise as part of their 9th Cycle audio for games curriculum. The Conservatory is the first educational facility in the world to integrate Wwise into any curriculum.