Davis Receives TEF Heyser Award
Apr 30, 2004 2:36 PM
The TEF Advisory Committee has named acoustician and audio engineer Chips Davis as the 2004 recipient of the annual TEF Heyser Award. The award was presented by Blair McNair of TMS Consulting and chairman of the TEF board of advisors following a workshop on Electronic and Acoustic System Evaluation and Response Analysis (EASERA), which was held at the Las Vegas Hilton during this year’s NSCA Expo.
The TEF Heyser Award recognizes individuals whose work using Richard Heyser’s patents in Time Delay Spectrometry (TDS) has made a significant contribution to professionalism in the field of acoustical design and/or measurement.
Stefan Feistel of Software Design Ahnert GmbH and Steve McManus of Gold Line discussed the development and features of EASERA during a workshop at NSCA. The event was cosponsored by Renkus-Heinz and Gold Line.
During the workshop, Feistel discussed the development of EASERA, a comprehensive set of audio and acoustical test and measurement software modules that allows audio professionals to make MLS and dual-FFT measurements using a Windows laptop and a sound card. Four independent modules—a measurement module, a signal generator, a real-time analyzer, and a postprocessing module—are included in EASERA. Feistel was assisted in his presentation by McManus of Gold Line, which has developed a TEF/TDS module for EASERA that implements TDS measurement and processing entirely in software. The TDS software includes a tracking filter that provides noise immunity.
Davis’s career in architectural acoustics has spanned three decades and encompasses recording, post-production and broadcast studios, hotels, casinos, and other large commercial venues and high-end home theaters. In the 1970s, he used TEF to develop the Live End/Dead End concept of recording studio acoustics, working with Don Davis. Chips Davis has also engineered numerous records, TV productions, and live concerts. His work is part of many texts, including Handbook for Sound Engineers: The New Audio Cyclopedia, Sound System Engineering, The Master Handbook of Acoustics, and Mix magazine.
