Contributors xixSteve Dove
Steve Dove is a native to Oxfordshire, England, and is now a resident of Pennsyl-
vania. He has designed mixing consoles in every genre from valves to DSP. On the
basis of an early foray with ICs, he became initially a wireman for—until fired for his
atrocious soldering—a designer for, and later a director of Alice, a major manufac-
turer of broadcast, film, and recording consoles. Concurrently, he provided engi-
neering and acoustics expertise to major rock bands, theatres, and studios worldwide.
As a design consultant his clients included Sony Broadcast, Shure Bros., Solid
State Logic, Altec Lansing, Clair Bros., Harman/JBL, Crest, and Peavey. He is now
Minister of Algorithms for Wheatstone Corporation.
A widely published author with a long list of innovative design techniques and
award-winning products to his credit, he is presently realizing an ambition to
achieve the class and fluidity of the best of analogue audio in digital signal
processing.Dipl.-Phys. Stefan Feistel
Stefan Feistel studied physics at the University of Rostock and at the Humboldt
University of Berlin and graduated with a Master’s degree in Theoretical Physics in
2004.
His collaboration with Dr. Wolfgang Ahnert, the owner of ADA Acoustic Design
Ahnert, started in 1996. The main target was, and still is, the development of the
electro- and room-acoustic simulation software EASE.
In 2000, Wolfgang Ahnert and Stefan Feistel founded the company SDA Soft-
ware Design Ahnert GmbH, which is dedicated to the development of acoustic
modeling and measuring software. In 2003, the nonprofit organization ADA Foun-
dation was established to support universities and colleges with software products
such as the simulation software EASE and the measurement tool EASERA. To
coordinate all these activities, the Ahnert Feistel Media Group (AFMG) was estab-
lished in 2006.
Stefan Feistel has authored or co-authored more than thirty articles as a result of
the continuously progressing work on software projects like EASE, EASE SpeakerLab, EASE Focus, and EASERA
and the related mathematical, numerical, and experimental background studies.
Chris Foreman
Chris Foreman is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Community
Professional, a loudspeaker manufacturer in Chester, Pennsylvania.
During his pro audio career, Chris has worked in manufacturing, contracting, and
tour sound. Chris is widely published, having written numerous magazine articles
and technical papers. Chris co-authored the book Audio Engineering for Sound
Reinforcement with the late John Eargle and he is author of the sound reinforcement
chapter of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions of the Handbook for Sound Engineers
edited by Glen Ballou. He can be reached at [email protected].