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Secretary

Welcome to the AES Melbourne Section site.
Here you will find information about the section, useful audio-related articles and links and information about past and forthcoming meetings.

The aim is to provide useful information for students and professional audio practitioners alike.

Join the AES!

We are a local Section of the international (New York-based) Audio Engineering Society. Membership of the AES includes all benefits associated with the local Melbourne Section.
You can find out more and join online at –
https://aes2.org/aes-membership-overview/

If you want to check out our activities, there’s our Facebook page.
  …  and our LinkedIn page for those who hang out there.
…… then there’s Instagram for those more visually minded.

Contact the Section here.

Meeting Report: 15 June 2026 – SynthTemple Tour

Paolo Menolotto

A wide angle photo inside the SynthTemple


Co-founders Tony Osmond and Fiona Griffiths, ably assisted by Steve Jones (Studio Manager, Audio Engineer, Sound Programmer and Synth Tech) hosted thirty of our members and guests to a presentation and tour of their awesome SynthTemple facility. After being welcomed with drinks, cheese boards and fruit platters, we gathered in Studio 1 (the synth hall), where we were able to spend time wandering around, admiring the array of synthesisers.

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Meeting Report: 20 April 2026 – Paul Messick on Low Jitter Clock Generation

Paolo Menolotto

Hardware Designer Paul Messick presented on the topic of:

Low Jitter Clock Generation for Digital Audio

We gathered in the Collarts Critical Listening Room, where Section Chair, Graeme Huon welcomed us and introduced Paul, giving a brief outline of his career to date covering 40 years of designing all types of electronics, working for a wide range of companies, including Dallas Semiconductor, JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratories), M-Audio, Digidesign and more. Graeme told us that Paul was head of engineering at M-Audio/Digidesign and later founded Avermetrics, which made production line and bench top audio analyzers. Since moving to Australia, he founded Glassworks Audio, designing high-performance studio gear for his own brand and for other select clients.

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Vale Monty Maizels

Secretary

We are sad to report the death of Monty Maizels at the age of 102¾.
Monty was involved in recording and broadcasting from1939, and was a stalwart of the AES Melbourne Section during its formative years, and had attended some recent online meetings.
Here is Monty (circled) at a 1975 Melbourne Section meeting

Image from 1975 of a group of AES members including Monty Maizels
It seems like Monty is keeping the score

He was still creating music right past his 100th birthday.
This real character of the Melbourne audio industry will be sorely missed.

His son John wrote this tribute for the radioinfo.com.au website:
https://radioinfo.com.au/news/vale-monty-maizels-102-years-of-radio-words-and-music/
(© RadioInfo Australia)


Vale indeed, Monty!