At the 152nd AES convention in The Hague, Eelco Grimm was granted the AES Fellowship Award. This award is given to an AES member “who has rendered conspicuous service or is recognized to have made a valuable contribution to the advancement in or dissemination of knowledge of audio engineering or in the promotion of itsread more >
The Dutch online magazine Alpha Audio did an unusual live stream on Sunday Feb 27th. In collaboration with Artone Studio in Haarlem, a live recording was made of singer songwriter Tim Knol, running both a completely analog (vinyl!) recording chain and a completely digital recording chain in parallel. For the analog part, a direct-to-disc lacquerread more >
We are very proud to let you know that the drafting committee of the AES td1008 “Streaming Loudness Recommendation” has received the first ever AES President’s Award. Eelco Grimm is member of this writing group that met for two years in a row, in the last year with two sessions of two hours per week.read more >
For many years, one of Eelco Grimm’s main focus points has been to fight loudness wars. His goal is artistic freedom for all music and film producers, and the loudness wars strongly limit their artistic possibilities. Eelco’s contribution to the new AES recommendation td1008 for Loudness of Internet Audio Streaming and On-Demand Distribution is probablyread more >
Eelco Grimm has been invited to give a Keynote at the 150th AES convention. This is one of the most honourable presentations of the AES and Eelco is most grateful for being invited. Since the 150th AES will be held online due to the ongoing Covid measures, the Keynote is pre-recorded and presented as aread more >
Thursday October 17th 2019, at the 147th AES Convention in New York, Eelco Grimm will present his AES paper 10268 “Analyzing Loudness Aspects of 4.2 million Music Albums in Search of an Optimal Loudness Target for Music Streaming”. The research for this paper was performed in 2017 for HKU University of the Arts Utrecht (whereread more >
BeatRig’s Grimm Audio LevelViewS is a light weight EBU R128 & ATSC A/85 loudness meter, optimised for short program material (like commercials, leaders, bumpers, etc) and the music industry. When your program is short, you just want a clear view of the most important loudness parameters: Integrated Program Loudness, Short Term Loudness, Momentary Loudness andread more >
Eelco Grimm did a research project for music streaming service Tidal and wrote a recommendation that was implemented by them. British mastering engineer Ian Shepherd is a very active supporter of the movement that fights the loudness war and invited Eelco to speak about the Tidal project in his well-listened “Mastering Show” podcast. Please enjoyread more >
On the initiative of Eelco Grimm, five professionals from the audio field joined forces to write an ‘e-Brief’ for AES that proposes the introduction of a new loudness measurement called “PSR”, the Peak to Short-Term loudness ratio. Companies from the authors (RTW, Nugen Audio, MeterPlugs) had implemented such meters and Eelco saw the need forread more >
Eelco Grimm is researcher at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and works on loudness normalization topics. He wrote a “Recommendation for loudness normalization by Music Streaming Services”. This document is the summary of a large survey that Eelco conducted on 4.2 million albums of the database of music streaming service Tidal. A protocol wasread more >
If someone would ask me, what is the most significant issue when it comes to sound quality, I could give only one answer: that technology does not hinder the artists. Grimm Audio was founded in 2004 for that very reason: to develop audio equipment that is as transparent as possible, so it aids in craftingread more >
Eelco Grimm chaired a ‘gating’ subgroup of the EBU PLOUD working group that wrote the R128 recommendation for broadcast loudness. The task of the subgroup was to address the problem that movies with large parts of near silence, such as ‘No Country for Old Men’ of the Coen Brothers would receive a too low overallread more >
