
Audio Engineering Society Student Recording Competition
Ages:Undergraduate
Type:Submission
Category:STEM
Scope:National
Registration
Entry Fee: $
Contact
Student Delegate Assembly
sda@aes-sda.org
The AES Student Recording Competition is a unique opportunity for student attendees of AES International Conventions to receive feedback and recognition for their audio production work. If you wish to participate as either an individual or a group, a faculty advisor must recommend your recording to represent your school in one of the competition’s four categories. An individual student or production team may participate in multiple categories by submitting a different recording in each category. However, each school may submit only one entry per competition category. If multiple students or student groups in a school wish to enter the same category, they must consult their faculty advisor.
Students submit an audio recording that is judged by AES members. Students are expected to submit competition mixes that represent their best final mixing efforts without additional mastering. Judges frequently criticize student mixes for excessive peak limiting and inadequate dynamic range. Therefore, contestants should resist the temptation to maximize loudness to the detriment of tonal balance and musical dynamics. The Student Recording Competition submission system will be open to students from 120 days prior to a convention and submissions are due 30 days prior to a convention.[*] Each must be verified by the AES student section's faculty advisor, or a trusted project supervisor of the student's institution. When submitting their projects, students will be asked to provide their faculty advisor’s / supervisor’s email address, who will then be asked to approve the submission within three days of the submission deadline. Submissions are limited to 5 minutes in length, should be no shorter than 3 minutes, and must be edited appropriately to meet this requirement. Files exceeding 5 minutes or 250MB will be rejected. Each submitted recording in Categories 1, 2, and 3 should be uploaded as a single .zip file that includes all appropriate audio files and documentation for that particular track. It is highly recommended that you take the latest AES loudness standards into account, this will prevent your recording from being normalized should it be presented at the convention. Submitted projects for Category 4 should be uploaded as two .zip files: one for the individual audio files (not interleaved) and documentation, and one for the video file. Video files should meet appropriate frame rate standards (PAL for Europian conventions - 25 frames per second, and NTSC for conventions in the US - 29.97 frames per second). All files must be in in PCM .wav, at 24bit, 48kHz. Please remember, however, the firm 250MB upload limit. Surround channels will be treated at equal level including the sub channel. Videos must be an ISO MPEG 4 (.mp4) or Quicktime (.mov) container format. Entrants should use MPEG-4 or H.264 codecs, keep the resolution reasonable in deference to o the upload limit, though also high enough so as to clearly see synchronization elements, such as with dialogue and Foley. Videos should also not contain any sound. Therefore, entrants should make sure that their submitted video and audio files are time-aligned.
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- Emphasis on the craft of acoustic music recording on location
- All live acoustic or electroacoustic sources
- No overdubs
- Editing and mixing allowed
- All recording and mixing performed by the entrant(s)
- Stereo or surround delivery format
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- Emphasis on the craft of multitrack studio recording and mixing
- All live acoustic or electroacoustic sources
- Editing and overdubs allowed but not required
- No sample loops or sample replacement from synthesized or prerecorded sources
- No MIDI sequences
- All recording and mixing performed by the entrant(s)
- Stereo or surround delivery format
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- Emphasis on the full exploitation of the recording studio as a musical instrument
- Any combination of real and virtual sources allowed
- Captured in a studio environment onto multitrack tape or DAW, fully programmed on a computer, or anything in between
- All modern recording, signal processing, editing techniques are allowed
- Programming, sequencing and sampling, including sample loops and sample replacement/enhancement allowed
- All recording, production, and mixing performed by the entrant(s)
- Stereo or surround delivery format
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- Emphasis on the craft of recording, editing and mixing sound to complement visual media
- Any combination of dialogue, music and sound design elements permitted
- All editing and mixing performed by the entrant(s)
- Stereo or surround delivery format
Website: https://aesstudents.org/src
Managing Organization: Audio Engineering Society
Contact:
Student Delegate Assembly
sda@aes-sda.org
Eligibility:
<strong>To participate in the AES Recording Competition, you must:</strong>
<ul>
<li style="list-style-type: none;">
<ol>
<li>Be a current Student Member of the Audio Engineering Society. Join at <a href="http://www.aes.org/join">aes.org/join</a>. Please note that fees vary by region.</li>
<li>Engineer the nominated recording while you are a student affiliated with a college audio program.</li>
<li>Be selected by your faculty advisor as the sole representative / group for your school in a competition category.</li>
<li>Register for a <u>4 day ALL ACCESS BADGE</u> for the Convention Technical Program.</li>
<li>Submit your recording and documentation electronically according to the submission guidelines prior to the deadline.</li>
<li>Attend the convention in person.</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ul>
It is the responsibility of each student to ensure eligibility which must be maintained throughout the Recording Competition. If a project is engineered by a team of students all team members must, at minimum, also be enrolled students affiliated with the same university audio program which will be verified by the faculty advisor. To present as a team at a convention all team members must meet the complete eligibility criteria above. Violation of these rules will result in disqualification. Late entries will not be accepted under any circumstances
Once an entry is submitted to an AES Student Recording Competition, it is disqualified from future competitions. This also means submitting additional songs from the same album, scenes from a movie, or any additional material from a whole and complete project is prohibited.
Registration Opens: January 1, 1970
Registration Closes: January 1, 1970
Overview
The AES Student Recording Competition is a unique opportunity for student attendees of AES International Conventions to receive feedback and recognition for their audio production work. If you wish to participate as either an individual or a group, a faculty advisor must recommend your recording to represent your school in one of the competition’s four categories. An individual student or production team may participate in multiple categories by submitting a different recording in each category. However, each school may submit only one entry per competition category. If multiple students or student groups in a school wish to enter the same category, they must consult their faculty advisor.
Process
Criteria
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- Emphasis on the craft of acoustic music recording on location
- All live acoustic or electroacoustic sources
- No overdubs
- Editing and mixing allowed
- All recording and mixing performed by the entrant(s)
- Stereo or surround delivery format
-
- Emphasis on the craft of multitrack studio recording and mixing
- All live acoustic or electroacoustic sources
- Editing and overdubs allowed but not required
- No sample loops or sample replacement from synthesized or prerecorded sources
- No MIDI sequences
- All recording and mixing performed by the entrant(s)
- Stereo or surround delivery format
-
- Emphasis on the full exploitation of the recording studio as a musical instrument
- Any combination of real and virtual sources allowed
- Captured in a studio environment onto multitrack tape or DAW, fully programmed on a computer, or anything in between
- All modern recording, signal processing, editing techniques are allowed
- Programming, sequencing and sampling, including sample loops and sample replacement/enhancement allowed
- All recording, production, and mixing performed by the entrant(s)
- Stereo or surround delivery format
-
- Emphasis on the craft of recording, editing and mixing sound to complement visual media
- Any combination of dialogue, music and sound design elements permitted
- All editing and mixing performed by the entrant(s)
- Stereo or surround delivery format
Awards
Participate
Website: https://aesstudents.org/src
Managing Organization: Audio Engineering Society
Contact:
Student Delegate Assembly
sda@aes-sda.org
Entry Fee:
Eligibility:
<strong>To participate in the AES Recording Competition, you must:</strong>
<ul>
<li style="list-style-type: none;">
<ol>
<li>Be a current Student Member of the Audio Engineering Society. Join at <a href="http://www.aes.org/join">aes.org/join</a>. Please note that fees vary by region.</li>
<li>Engineer the nominated recording while you are a student affiliated with a college audio program.</li>
<li>Be selected by your faculty advisor as the sole representative / group for your school in a competition category.</li>
<li>Register for a <u>4 day ALL ACCESS BADGE</u> for the Convention Technical Program.</li>
<li>Submit your recording and documentation electronically according to the submission guidelines prior to the deadline.</li>
<li>Attend the convention in person.</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ul>
It is the responsibility of each student to ensure eligibility which must be maintained throughout the Recording Competition. If a project is engineered by a team of students all team members must, at minimum, also be enrolled students affiliated with the same university audio program which will be verified by the faculty advisor. To present as a team at a convention all team members must meet the complete eligibility criteria above. Violation of these rules will result in disqualification. Late entries will not be accepted under any circumstances
Once an entry is submitted to an AES Student Recording Competition, it is disqualified from future competitions. This also means submitting additional songs from the same album, scenes from a movie, or any additional material from a whole and complete project is prohibited.
Deadlines
Registration Opens: January 1, 1970
Registration Closes: January 1, 1970