Yamaha AFC3 Generates Positive Response At 52nd AES Conference

Renowned for its music and audio-based courses, the University of Surrey was the ideal venue for the latest AES conference. Titled Sound Field Control, around 80 delegates attended from across Europe and further afield. All were engineers and developers in sound field modelling, from a wide field of application areas. With many also teaching acoustics to university students, it was an ideal audience to hear the many benefits of Yamaha’s latest Active Field Control system, AFC3

The Yamaha team also delivered a seminar to 50 delegates on the evening of the second day, titled An introduction to Acoustic Enhancement Systems. Andy Cooper provided a live sound source - courtesy of his talents on saxophone and oboe - with the team presenting detailed measurements and the audience being able to hear the results for themselves.

Francis Rumsey, Conference chair, was pleased to welcome Yamaha as a sponsor. "It was great to hear the acoustics of Studio 1 at my former university enhanced with the system and to hear Ron's interesting exposition of the history of reverberation enhancement systems,” he says. “I remember teaching my students about the early Assisted Resonance and MCR systems in first year acoustics, and I heard one of the original Yamaha systems at their London R&D centre, probably about 20 years ago. So it was fascinating to hear how the technology has moved on today."

“It was an excellent opportunity to show our technology to a group of acoustic field designers and specialists,” says Ron. “The co-operation from AES was excellent and we had a very positive response to both the seminar and the AFC3 system being on demonstration throughout the three days.”