I was at the AES convention all weekend.
I took a "technical tour" on Friday afternoon up to Marin (kept thinking we were goin' to Mayberry!).
The tour was at Bob Weir's TRI (Tamalpais Research Institute).
http://www.tristudios.com/about
Aside from going there to check out the recording studios (which are awesome!) we were there to hear the Meyer Sound Constellation System.
http://www.meyersound.com/products/constellation/
Amazing! IIRC, set into the ceiling were about 50 pairs of speakers with matching DPA mic's to create the reverb of any size room with continuously variable damping, width and volume controls (from a stand mounted iPad or stomp box). It could sound so subtle that, if your eyes were closed, you would swear that the room was growing smaller or larger.
Bob Weir ended up being our tour guide along with his two engineers and they even provided some nice beers and tasty treats.
There were 24 of us there and we were all treated like friends or family.
Totally cool.
Saturday and Sunday at AES was almost as cool.
Learned a ton (I was in wall to wall workshops, lectures 3/4 of the time and drooled over gear the rest) and spent plenty of time pestering the software/hardware vendors I use.
Met tons of cool folks and still got home to watch our Giants kick the crap out of Detroit!
Woo Hoo!