Mercer M. Aplin
Mercer Aplin draws from a strong background in live event management, theatrical sound design, and audio production to inform his current audio-video system designs. He spent nearly a decade at Threshold Acoustics in Chicago, contributing to more than 150 projects with significant design responsibility on over fifty — in the United States, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and Canada. He now brings that practice into the classroom as Clinical Assistant Professor of Audio Technology at Purdue University. His theatrical sound design work is collected at aplinaudio.systems.
Education
Appointments
Honors
2014 USITT Robert E. Cohen Sound Achievement Award — Medea
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival — Excellence in Sound Design (Region III), Never The Sinner — advanced to National Competition
Certifications
QSC Q-SYS — Level 1
Audinate Dante — Levels 1–3
Areas of Practice
Immersive audio: L-Acoustics L-ISA, Meyer Sound Spacemap Go, d&b Soundscape
Production networks: Dante / AES67, Q-LAN, AVB / Milan, NDI, Extron NAV, Crestron NVX, SDVoE
Documentation & modeling: AutoCAD, Revit, VectorWorks
Prediction & measurement: Smaart, MAPP 3D, d&b ArrayCalc, L-Acoustics Soundvision
Playback & post: QLab, MOTU Digital Performer, Logic Pro