Queens County, New York, United States
My name is Manny Silverstein. I'm an electrical/software engineer and a musician. I started in audio the same way a lot of people do, playing music. As a bass player in a band in high school, I wanted to record my band's music. That desire eventually led me to appreciate the art and science of recording and I began focusing on my skills there as much as performing. As my recording skills improved, I became more interested in the technical aspects of audio gear. This lead me to Miami to study music engineering. During my college years I began to use my knowledge practically, working on projects such as guitar effects circuits, audio plug-ins, speakers, and more. To me, music engineering is where science meets art, and that's what I truly love about it. Currently I'm working as an engineer at guitar effects company Electro-Harmonix in NYC where I've designed both analog and digital effects including the Oceans Abyss, the majority of the NYC DSP line of small digital pedals, the Intelligent Harmony Machine, Eddy, Mod 11, Mod Rex, Tri Parallel Mixer, Nano Battalion, Hot Wax, Battalion, Bass Clone, Blurst, and more. In addition to my work in engineering, I've spent significant time working on original music with my indie rock band Loose Buttons. Our music has been featured in publications including Billboard, Stereogum, The FADER, NME, Consequence of Sound, Nylon, and Vice. In addition to playing bass in the band I have worked as a producer, mixing engineer, and mastering engineer for some of our music.
-DSP and sound design lead for NYC DSP line of products including Pico POG, Deep Freeze, Atomic Cluster, Swello, Pico Attack Decay, Pico Intelligent Harmony Machine, Pico Pitch Fork, Oceans 3-Verb, Rerun Tape Delay, and more. -DSP and sound design lead for Oceans Abyss and Mod 11. -Design lead (hardware, firmware, DSP) on projects including: Intelligent Harmony Machine, Eddy, Mod Rex, Battalion, Hot Wax, Bass Clone, Nano Battalion, Tri Parallel Mixer, Blurst, and more. -Digital audio signal processing software design. -Embedded system hardware and firmware design. -Analog audio effects circuit design. -PCB layout. -Project management. -Product conception and decision making on product features, functions, user-interface, etc.
Mixed audio of live sessions for Snapchat's 2015 year-end music Discover stories. Artists included Alessia Cara, Vintage Trouble, Coin, and Gallant.
Assists in hardware development of devices for music and physical therapy clinical trials.
Records live concerts in the two main concert halls in the Frost school, primarily jazz and classical 2015 Downbeat Award for Jazz Ensemble Recording
Worked on a variety of projects, circuit design, PCB layout, soldering, demoing, repair, micro-controller programming, etc.