Jerry Steckling, JSX Audio
When the admirals of entertainment need a theater or sound room for their business or home, they call Jerry
As Chief of Acoustic Engineering at Skywalker Sound, Jerry Steckling designed, engineered, and implemented sophisticated sound systems at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch and Industrial Light and Magic. Jerry set audio standards for the soundtracks of over 60 blockbuster and Academy Award winning films including Finding Nemo, Saving Private Ryan, Monsters, Inc., Titanic,, and Star Wars Episodes I and II.
Steckling is also a member of the Theater standards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and the Audio Engineering Society. In addition, he maintains a Representative Agreement with internationally recognized THX-a standard setter Home, Cinema, and Professional audio.
Jerry is the founder of JSX Audio, a firm that creates audio solutions and audio products for professional, commercial, and ultra high end home theaters. Some of the JSX clients are: Skywalker Sound, Lucas Films, Pixar Animation Studios, Zoetrope, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, ABC Television.
Jerry designed cutting-edge cinema speaker systems for T.A.D.-Pioneer, an Industry leader in the speaker manufacturing sector. The T.A.D.-Pioneer Cinema Speaker Series is revolutionary, and was first designed for Skywalker’s Stag Theater.
One of Jerry’s masterworks is at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences where his T.A.D. TCS-3415 speaker system is integral, and where JSX designed and engineered the control room electronics and signal flow. The Academy uses the facility to reference standard presentations of 16, 35, and 70mm motion picture formats for image and sound quality. Many consider The Dunn Theater the highest performance movie theater in the world.
JSX Audio designs, manufactures, and integrates the ultimate in custom home theater sound systems and environments. At this highest level, JSX Audio stands alone as the orchestrator and conductor of all elements of home theater-from acoustic and architectural design to projection.
This is why these “Admirals of entertainment”, and others, call on Jerry, especially for something as complex and personal as a theater in their home. Jerry Steckling and JSX Audio are unique in their ability to deliver an end result that is true to the intentions of the film makers.
www.JSXAudio.com
Alexander Dondysh,
Technical Director
With over 20 years of experience as a
Senior Hardware Engineer, Mr. Dondysh holds a Master in Science
degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialty in
Electro-Acoustics from Kiev Polytechnic Institute.
He has broad experience in analog and digital video and audio
systems for broadcast and consumers. Also, hands-on experience
designing custom vacuum tube amplifiers and the development of
custom audio and video processing algorithms.
Alex has been Senior Engineer and Designer for numerous High Tech
Silicon Valley firms heading teams developing complex, high quality
products including Audio and Video Mixers, Special Effects
Generators, Amplifiers, Analog to Digital and Digital to Analog
Conversion Systems.
Daniel Cook,
Marketing Design, Dainel Cook Design Inc
Daniel Cook has worked in marketing and information design for 22 years. Upon graduation from the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Daniel worked in boutique to internationally recognized design firms in Los Angeles and San Francisco before founding his own company, Daniel Cook Design Inc in 1992. His broad experience encompasses all areas of marketing design from print, retail, tradeshow, packaging, and advertising to Internet, Web and social networking.
In the past few years, Daniel Cook Design has incorporated a long-held vision for sustainability into the company where the “triple bottom line” or People, Planet, Profit plays a key role. This includes not only green practices and materials to help the environment, but consideration of the impact on and support of humanity as equal parts of company profit. This commitment, along with years of nonprofit client experience, assures that Daniel will be a valuable member of the Luckyman Media.
Past and current clients include: BEA Systems, Inc.; California Association of Nonprofits; California Institute of Technology; Kensington, Inc; Lexia Institute (educational software); Oxford Molecular Group (genetic/pharmaceutical modeling software); Plantronics, Inc; Santa Cruz Area Transportation Management Assoc. Schwab Foundation for Learning (nonprofit/dyslexia educational outreach); ShoreTel Inc; Soquel Vineyards; UC Santa Cruz Extension.
www.danielcookdesign.com
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