Is it still being sold today? Come here to have fun, be ready to be teased and not take online life too seriously. Daniel Weiss founded Weiss Engineering in 1985. Daniel graduated in 1979 with a BSEE from the HTL Rapperswil. I love this unit, it's incredibly versatile, the meters and ergonomics are excellent. Daniel Weiss joined the Willi Studer AG in Switzerland as an electronics engineer in 1979. Other high-end products followed, up to the latest one, the MAN301 network player. The company designs and manufactures digital audio equipment for mastering studios. Daniel G. Weiss is co-founder and Managing Partner of Angeleno Group LLC (“AG”), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm with a global platform focused on high growth investments in next generation energy and natural resource-related companies. The Medea became a huge success and it did not take long for customers to ask for more. Jakob is also involved in various organizational activities, e.g. He is also our Windows server and network administrator. In the early days of Weiss Engineering, Daniel had to do all himself, e.g. Can you share details regarding your work on the sampling frequency converter design? An Interview with Daniel Weiss Founder and President of Weiss Engineering Ltd. [Italian version] TNT-Audio > How did you start designing audio systems? Thus, it made sense to create a universal sampling rate converter with custom wired interfaces. In the consumer market, I think our customers like our “no bull” approach. IBIS digital mixing console based on the 102 series system, Weiss Gambit Series equipment; The white faceplate units on the left, The Team at Weiss Engineering (chronological). How and why did you select that specific market niche? She does hardware and software design and also works in product assembly and prototype building. The company designs and manufactures digital audio equipment for mastering studios. This became the SFC16, and I did most of the hardware design. Even today this system is still up to date (24 Bit/96 kHz). He knew exactly what was required in terms of equipment for CD mastering (or pre-mastering to be exact). Stream Tracks and Playlists from Daniel Weiss 15 on your desktop or mobile device. 40 bit floating point processors and sampling rates of up to 96 kHz are employed. DW > After studying electrical engineering I was employed at Studer Revox in the PCM Lab as it was called back then. Mastering for iTunes is different, as it means mastering for a lossy format (for the time being at least). One of the largest setups of a 102 Series system was used at Sony Music in New York in the form of the IBIS digital mixing console. In 2020 she has earned her MSEE degree. Many people like to “own” the music so they can play it anytime and anywhere. Daniel Weiss: If it is mastering for an uncompressed format, then the procedure should not be different from a standard CD mastering—except maybe if the format is at a higher sampling rate and/or word length than for a CD. Quite likely many of the CDs in your collection have been mastered using Weiss equipment. Isabelle did her BSEE diploma work at our company (Vinyl sound emulation) and eventually joined Weiss Engineering in 2017. He earned his PhD at the University of Virginia, after having received his Bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a Masters of Theological Studies degree from Harvard Divinity School. Expect no less than excellence in design, ergonomics and sonic quality. The industry still has a long way to go when it comes to speaker/room optimization. Daniel Weiss is active in both professional audio and audiophile markets, which gives us unique competences when it comes to audio signal processing and audio signal conversion. Daniel Weiss of Weiss Engineering gives an overview of the DS1-MKIII Compressor/Limiter at the 2009 AES Convention in New York City. It was not a simple task back then. Joined the Studer Revox company in 1979 as an Electronics Engineer. Looking for a job/an internship . There wasn’t much standardization back then so the sampling rates and interface formats greatly varied. Daniel Weiss: One of my favorites is the MAN301 network player—from our product line, of course. He left Studer in 1984 to start the Weiss Engineering company. After the BW-102, we started the Gambit Series with 19” units (e.g., analog to digital, digital to analog, parametric equalizer, dynamics processor, de-noiser/de-clicker, sampling rate converter, and more). A great DJ with and a good sense of timing and co-ordination, able to lead the crowd to the dance floor. Jakob joined Weiss Engineering in November 1987. Daniel Weiss: We thought that our DAC1 DAC could find a market within the high-end community. A Mastering Studio is the place where a recording gets its final touches for optimum artistic, musical and sonic quality. In the 1970s and 1980s, I played music in a band, first as a violin player and later as the bass guitarist, which seemed preferable to the other band members. There are also a number of recommendations available at http://images.apple.com/itunes/mastered-for-itunes/docs/mastered_for_itunes.pdf. I don’t hold back with my opinions about $1,000 mains cords, gold-plated fuses, small wood blocks for acoustics treatment, or CD demagnetizing, and so forth. Daniel Weiss – van het Zwitserse Weiss Engineering – heeft een mooie Technical Grammy in de wacht gesleept voor de 2021-versie van het bekroningsfestijn. Nadja Linggi Electronics Technician Nadja joined Weiss Engineering in 2017 after her apprenticeship as an Electronics Technician. I did the design and manufacturing while he organized the sales. That was in 1979 when Studer started doing Digital Audio. Shannon Becker: In 1979, you joined Studer-Revox as an electronics engineer working in the digital audio lab. Video & Audio Institutions ; Collections ; Media ; Statistics ; Daniel Weiss. The MEDEA D/A Converter and the JASON CD transport were the first units in that line. he wrote a parts inventory management program. Daniel Weiss Guitar Idol Finalist of 2016 Daniel Weiss needs little introduction as one of the most popular guitar players in Israel, respected the world over for his unbelievable skills, unique approach, and teaching material. Daniel Chamovitz: Sie merken nicht wirklich, dass wir in ihrer Nähe sind. Het zet uitmuntende exemplaren in … Both products have been invaluable assets to the special superior sound of my record. There he worked on analog anti-aliasing filters, test signal generators, sampling frequency converters and digital audio processing for a two channel DASH recorder. Sony used it to mix classical music recordings. We did many side projects, such as a digital sine generator for measuring purposes (Audio Precision did not exist back then) or a study on TIM measurements with a new approach or a PWM-based analog track on the digital tape and so forth. WANTED: Happy members who like to discuss audio and other topics related to our interest. This collection contains 1 media item. Im Alter von 6 Jahren habe ich die Liebe zum Eiskunstlaufen entdeckt. "I have been using the Weiss ADC2 for many years to track Vocals. Daniel Weiss is one of the true pioneers of digital technology. We supply tools to our professional and residential customers, allowing them to treat audio for the best listening experience. Hallo zusammen, ich bin Daniel Weiss. The best prerequisites for doing audio electronics. Listen to Daniel Weiss 15 | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.. 20 Followers. I did a four-year apprenticeship as an electronics technician and during that time two friends and I formed a company called “White Amplifiers.” We built amplifiers and speakers for musicians in our spare time. As Studer was mainly a tape recorder company, the design of a digital tape recorder was inevitable. Copenhagen. Shannon Becker: In 2000, Weiss entered the high-end consumer audio market with a new product line. 9 Tracks. So we decided to build a modular digital audio system to interface and process digital audio. What makes it different from other products on the market today? The ADC2 captures all the subtle details of the performer and the recording chain, it's transparent with a high-end Weiss finish to the sound.”, Vocal producer/ Recording and Mix Engineer for Celine Dion, “We all have been marveling over how great your gear opens up the music. It consists of stand-alone units like Equalizer, Dynamics Processor, De-Noiser/De-Clicker, A/D converter, D/A converter, Sampling Frequency Converter etc.. http://images.apple.com/itunes/mastered-for-itunes/docs/mastered_for_itunes.pdf. Claude joined Weiss Engineering in 2012 and takes care of soldering and assembling our products. In 1985, Weiss struck out on his own and founded Weiss Engineering with a focus on pioneering digital audio equipment for … I use one at home and enjoy it every day. In 1985, when Weiss struck out on his own and founded Weiss Engineering, he focused on pioneering digital audio equipment for mastering studios. The mastering engineer needs to know how to use them properly. In 1985, he founded Weiss Engineering Ltd. in Zurich, Switzerland. Joined the Studer Revox company in 1979 as an Electronics Engineer. Aug 19, 2018 - This Pin was discovered by Vladimir Zakoski. Plus for all kinds of basic research where good ears are essential. I also built various synthesizers, amplifiers, and speakers. Studer does not do such custom work, so I made that interface for the customer in my spare time. Our commitment is to supply state-of-the-art audio ­equipment to music studios and residential customers alike. Moderator und Reporter mit Leidenschaft. "Daniel Evan Weiss is a satirist: one of the rare novelists whose works contain an unsettling mixture of the funny, shocking, and serious… Containing some of the best one-liners in any novel I have read, The Swine's Wedding is an absolute gem, and recommended for anyone yearning for something out of the ordinary. But in the end, we simply supply tools. Shannon Becker: Where do you see the audio market headed in the next five years? This is something I like about the pro audio people, they are down-to-earth guys. For most of the units sold—I think 30 of them were manufactured—I also did custom interfaces. That could be changed maybe if they would simplify the buying process right from the streaming site. The Gambit Series took ergonomics and sonic quality to a new level. Sehen Sie sich das Profil von Daniel Weiss im größten Business-Netzwerk der Welt an. I think the speaker/room system has, by far, the greatest potential for improvement of the whole audio chain. Ten Questions about Computer Audio with Daniel Weiss of Weiss Digital Audio . Damals konnte ich noch nicht ahnen, dass dieser wunderbare Sport mich mein ganzes Leben begleiten würde. What was the impetus behind that decision Thanks for being a part of this grand vision for the future.”. Daniel Weiss: Correlation maybe in that both mastering engineers and audiophiles are interested in getting top notch sonic quality and ergonomics. Stream Tracks and Playlists from Daniel Weiss on your desktop or mobile device. Daniel Weiss shared a link to the group: Weiss Audio Switzerland fan-club. Discover (and save!) Also it seems that for artists streaming services are far from lucrative. From the outset the company concentrated on the design and manufacture of digital audio equipment for Mastering Studios. So we built the Medea DAC, based on the DAC1, to test the waters. Daniel Weiss: In 1979, Willi Studer decided to enter the digital audio era and established the “PCM laboratory” with almost all the lab members being newly recruited engineers and technicians. The AES recognizes and honors those who have made outstanding contributions to the field of audio in engineering, technology, service, and the arts through its Awards Program. Technically it is still up-to-date with 96/24 capability and 32-bit floating point processing. CD pre-mastering was popular in the US mainly, so we concentrated on that market. Joined the Studer Revox company in 1979 as an Electronics Engineer. A Mastering Studio is the place where a recording gets its final touches for … Daniel Weiss: My colleagues at the PCM lab pursued various other projects, such as A/D and D/A design, analog reconstruction filter design (I also was involved), research in de-noising, and a preview unit for the delay required in vinyl cutting. Weiss has been a pioneer in digital audio equipment design since 1979. He also maintains our parts stocking department and manufacturing planning. Over the years, dozens of modules were added. Computer Audio has become the new rage in audio and for good reason: one has an easy and instant access to all their music as well the ability to search out countless other titles via the internet. Able to produce tracks, remix tracks, make bootlegs & mashups. It uses the Gracenote database and this is hardly seen on any other high-end network player. This website and its contents are copyright 2020 KCK Media Corp. All rights reserved. Collection; Statistics; Created: 2013-10-15 12:29 Institution: Faculty of Divinity: Description: (No description) Media items. That’s when Weiss founder, Daniel Weiss, joined Willi Studer AG in Switzerland as an engineer. We can use our design philosophy — with the utmost transparency — with both markets. We also had a hard time (at least it seemed to me) defining digital audio products that would make sense in a mainly analog world. It was a 6HU/19” unit with digital filters built in so-called distributed arithmetic. I also like to listen to as many different speakers as possible to explore the various philosophies and designs. Altri progetti sviluppati in PCM Lab furono i convertitori A/D e D/A, apparecchiature per l'incisione dei dischi, registratori multicanale per l'audio digitale (DASH), soppressori di rumore etc. I did the audio processing unit for that eight-channel recorder, which was required for interpolation in case the data read from the tape could not be reconstructed via the error correction scheme employed. Do you think we will eventually evolve to “high-end” streaming audio services rather than downloading files? Shannon Becker: To what do you attribute your company’s continuing success? We were kind of an isolated group as the other labs were slightly suspicious of digital audio technology. And, I think the emotional relationship to the music is different if you’ve got it “on file” and not just via a stream. Joschka joined Weiss Engineering as our Golden Ear for algorithm design and for testing implementations. Still, I assure you that the designer of Daniel Weiss level is in the very same boat – they did all their listening education long time ago. The Recording Academy announced its annual 2021 Special Merit Awards Honorees that include artists Selena, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Talking Heads, Lionel Hampton, Marilyn Horne, Salt-N-Pepa and more, and also names Daniel Weiss, the founder of Weiss Engineering as this year's Technical Grammy Award recipient. In 1985 Daniel Weiss founded the company “Weiss Engineering Ltd.”. I like the fact that I can change the input calibration instantly with the turn of a knob. Initially, your company focused solely on designing and manufacturing digital audio equipment for mastering studios. hardware design, PCB layout, host and DSP software design, manufacturing, testing etc. There he worked on analog anti-aliasing filters, test signal generators, sampling frequency converters and digital audio processing for a two channel DASH recorder. He was previously President of Haverford College, President of Lafayette College, Dean of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, Chair of the Johns Hopkins History of Art Department, and a consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton. His work included the design of a sampling frequency converter and the digital signal processing electronics for digital audio recorders. Daniel Weiss is on Alpha Audio. He left Studer in 1984 to start Weiss Engineering. Do you think there is a direct correlation between the two worlds? your own Pins on Pinterest We continue to develop additional software for the MAN301 (e.g., for room equalization, creative equalization, vinyl simulation, and so on). Later we introduced the DAC202 Firewire D/A Converter and the INT202 and INT203 Firewire interfaces. Daniel graduated in 1979 with a BSEE from the HTL Rapperswil. She is working in our software department on DSP and Linux code. From the outset the company concentrated on the design and manufacture of digital audio equipment for Mastering Studios. I have very limited expire in very limited audio filled but where I do have that experience I do not need to hear the result in order to predict the result. It also includes file playback (including DSD), DAC, preamplifier functions, and so forth. Shannon Becker: In 1985 you founded your own company, Weiss Engineering (www.weiss.ch). Can you share some of the challenges involved with the design(s)? Weiss Engineering has been a pioneer in digital audio equipment design since 1979, when Weiss founder, Daniel Weiss, joined Willi Studer AG in Switzerland. De Grammy’s zijn jaarlijks weer een bekroning op het werk van artiesten. He is responsible for the mechanical and ergonomical engineering of our equipment (inside and outside), for the largest part of the host software (Rockwell 6501, Motorola 68HC16, Motorola Coldfire processors), and for the PCB layouts. Michal joined us in 2020 in pursuing his apprenticeship as an Electronics Technician. Rolf joined Weiss Engineering in August 2007 and is working in DSP software and PC software development. But I think the best thing about that initiative is Apple imposes specific criteria on the technical quality of the supplied music, in particular that the music must not be clipped. Daniel is a Fellow of the AES and a Member of the IEEE. Quite a few customers still use the BW-102, we even occasionally sell modules. Daniel Weiss: The first system became the Harmonia Mundi Acustica BW-102 unit, starting with modules for F1, 1610 interfacing, a digital high-pass filter for DC offset elimination, a digital de-emphasis and a digital level control module. Daniel H. Weiss took up his post in the Divinity Faculty in 2010, after previously teaching at the University of Virginia and at Oberlin College. A pioneer of digital technology, Daniel Weiss founded Weiss Engineering Ltd. in Zurich, Switzerland in 1985. Shannon Becker: Tell us about your favorite high-end consumer product? I am so fortunate to have the opportunity to use them for this project about peace through global collaboration. Audiophiles should acknowledge that and stop messing around with mains cords. Daniel Weiss, will be recognized at the 2021 … Daniel Weiss founded Weiss Engineering in 1985. Mr. Herbie HancockMultiple Grammy-winning artist and musical pioneer,commenting on our A/D and D/A Converters. Today he is responsible for the hardware design (analog and digital) and all the marketing, PR, sales and administrative aspects of running a company. Daniel Weiss: I live in Uster, a small city close to Zurich in Switzerland. Daniel graduated in 1979 with a BSEE from the HTL Rapperswil. With our expertise in the design of top quality audio equipment for the most discerning clientele, the Mastering Engineers, it seemed like a logical step to design equipment for the demanding audiophile. Weiss manufactures digital and analog audio equipment for quality conscious people. Claude Gugolz Electronics manufacturing coworker. He play various music instruments as well. Shannon Becker: What other types of audio products did you design? Im Profil von Daniel Weiss sind 2 Jobs angegeben. Daniel is a Fellow of the AES and a Member of the IEEE. In any case, the majority of high-end playback systems will use computer-based playback devices because it is so much more convenient and easily enables people to discover new music from streaming services or even in their own libraries. We even did digital mixing consoles based on the BW-102. Shannon Becker: Tell us about Weiss’s first product. So we built the Jason CD transport to complement the Medea. 224 Followers. Shannon Becker: Could you share your opinion on mastering for digital file distribution and, in particular, the mastering for iTunes initiative? Daniel Weiss: There always will be both variants. Shannon Becker: Tell us a little about your background and where you live. Welcome to Weiss. Rolf Anderegg Electronics Engineer Rolf graduated in 2004 from the ETH in Zurich with an MS degree in Electrical Engineering. Daniel Weiss is the President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This resulted in a A/D and D/A 6HU box, with enough memory to do the delay. Shannon Becker: With the two separate aspects of your company—professional equipment for mastering studios and high-end consumer products—you are in the unique position of controlling, in part, the “production” of the masters and their reproductions. There were several digital audio recorders around at the beginning of the 1980s (e.g., Sony, 3M, Soundstream, JVC, Mitsubishi, etc.). Join Alpha Audio to view Daniel Weiss\'s profile The customer was Ben Bernfeld, a recording and mastering engineer from Harmonia Mundi Acustica in Germany. I wrote some white papers firmly based on the laws of physics on various audio topics in an attempt to fight the snake oil with facts. It is an incredibly versatile unit for CD playback and ripping, and metadata tagging/artwork. At Studer he worked in the digital audio lab for five years. In the early nineties the Weiss Gambit Series was launched. Weiss Engineering is recognized as the leading company when it comes to signal processing for Mastering. Villingen-Schwenningen (dpa/lsw) - Die Schwenninger Wild Wings haben auf den Ausfall ihres Kapitäns Travis Turnbull reagiert und Stürmer Daniel Weiß zurückgeholt. The first model was an eight-channel unit using the newly established Digital Audio Stationary Head (DASH) format, which enabled you to interchange tapes with ones recorded on other DASH recorders. Note: the media items in this collection are only visible to Raven users. Those were interesting times at Studer, as we were pioneers in the pulse code modulation (PCM) audio field. Daniel Weiss: At first, it was the fact that we built the right product at the right time (i.e., when the CD took off there was a huge demand for decent audio processing in the digital domain).