title: audio engineering in a nutshell by stephen w. harris and jörn nettingsmeier format: intense lecture with lots of practical demonstrations duration: 2hrs including break and q&a session topics: fundamental audio manipulation techniques, a look at their digital implementation and tips for practical usage target audience: everybody, especially home-recordists from beginner to intermediate level abstract: "audio engineering in a nutshell" is meant to be an in-depth crash course all the way from the fundamentals (sound waves, sampling) to some of the more tricky aspects of sound manipulation. along the way, you will get an idea how digital signal processing actually works. specifically, we will cover control of audio spectrum (by equalization), dynamics (by compression), timing (by delays) and space and spatialization (by reverb, stereo miking and panning techniques). after a brief recap about sound signals and their digital representation, we will explore each of these topics in detail. we begin each section with some general "philosophy" on the topic. next, we'll examine the workings of "traditional" analog audio devices to understand the basic principles, and then move on to their digital implementation, along with demonstrations of linux effects plugins. at the end of each section, we offer some practical usage tips, and will try to answer any questions that might arise. about the lecturers: steve harris is the author and maintainer of swh-plugins, the most comprehensive set of audio plugins under linux. apart from numerous contributions to other linux audio projects, he is one of the main developers of jamin, the jack audio mastering interface. steve works as a researcher in the "intelligence, agents, multimedia group" at the university of southampton. jörn nettingsmeier is studying music at the folkwang-hochschule essen and computer science at the university of duisburg-essen, works as sound engineer for theatre and live music, linux system administrator and teacher of music theory, and he plays the odd gig as a jazz bassist.