Prof. Alex Case
Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Audio Signal Processing
Small Room Acoustics

Alex U. Case is an Associate Professor of Sound Recording Technology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  With degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Music, and Acoustics, Professor Case has dedicated his professional life to the study of aesthetics, perception, signal processing, electro-acoustics and room acoustics for recorded music.

His research and professional activities focus heavily on the technical foundations, creative motivations, and aesthetic merit of recording and signal processing techniques used in multitrack production.  Case is a widely published author, with over 100 articles appearing in multiple journals and industry trade publications.  He has authored two titles for Focal Press, both bestsellers in their genre. Mix Smart - Pro Audio Tips for Your Multitrack Mix details actionable strategies for finding success in one of audio's greatest challenges: multitrack mixing. Sound FX – Unlocking the Creative Potential of Recording Studio Effects is the authoritative guide to audio signal processing in multitrack production, available worldwide in English and Chinese. Case is also a contributor to the forthcoming Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press.

In addition to his undergraduate and graduate teaching, Case gives many invited lectures across the U.S. in such prestigious programs as Berklee College of Music, Boston University, Emerson College, Flashpoint Academy, Johns Hopkins University, New England Institute of Art, New York University, Penn State, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Hartford, Webster University, and internationally at institutions including the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, Fermatta Academy of Music in Mexico City, Lulea University of Technology in Sweden, McGill University in Montreal, SAE Institutes in Milan and Paris, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China, and Queen Mary University of London.

Active in the Audio Engineering Society, Case serves the Awards Committee, the Education Committee (past Chair), the Membership Committee, and the Convention Planning Committees for New York and San Francisco.  Published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, he has been a featured speaker and panelist for multiple regional meetings, and instructed several standing-room only tutorials at AES International Conventions.  Case is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, serves as Chair of Technical Committee for Architectural Acoustics, and has been an invited contributor of more than a dozen papers.

Case holds a M.S. in Architectural Acoustics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a B.M. in Music Production and Engineering from the Berklee College of Music, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University.  Case lives with his bride in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA.