The Audio Engineering Society - Producing success with knowledge.

In the audio engineering and music industry, few organizations hold the prestige and professional clout as the Audio Engineering Society (AES). Founded in 1948 and currently boasting over 14,000 members worldwide, AES is the standard society for professional Audio Engineers. AES holds conferences throughout the year and typically the attendance is a staggering 20,00 plus. In my particular field, AES offers many different educational and research tools I can use to further my career. On the AES website, there are 133 tutorials ranging in topic from recording techniques, equipment, and functionality to music business related topics and industry specific issues. AES caters to the students, who are about to enter the audio industry and need knowledge, guidance, and most importantly jobs. They have made sure to include a section of the website strictly devoted to students, and they offer students an extreme discounted membership to AES. In this section, new comers can find jobs, network, learn more, and get better at the art they practice. I am impressed that they offer all of these tutorials, most of the networking potential, and some job listings without being a member. This shows me how important the industry is to AES and how they have planned to keep it going through this digital transition we are all facing. There are also many forums to discuss current topics in that are categorized by what your particular focus might be. In this way students can converse with other students, while working engineers can contact other employed engineers and it works wonderfully. This is so important to myself because in order to perpetuate my career fully to the end, there must be a career to practice, right? AES’ tireless efforts to continue the traditions and knowledge passed on from generations of successful engineers and acousticians are a rare and great gift from AES to myself. Thank you AES! I will be renewing my student membership to escort me into the beginning of my long and prosperous career ahead. Please, tell me what you think about AES, and if you have a society that has changed your career for the better I want to know about it. Hope you have enjoyed the blog so far, improvements are soon approaching! See ya….