Welcome –

2017/02/042023/08/28Secretary

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.

Prelim Meeting Notice – August AGM

2026/07/272026/07/27Secretary

Our Annual General Meeting will be held via Zoom on Monday 17th August at 7:30 pm AEST.

The AGM will be followed by a presentation by Dr Rodney Staples on the topic:

Editing in MP4 and Audio Synch

A full meeting notice will be posted here shortly.

Stay tuned…

Meeting Report: 15 June 2026 – SynthTemple Tour

2026/06/292026/06/29Paolo 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.

Meeting Notice: 15th June – The SynthTemple Studio Complex tour

2026/05/22Secretary

The next meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be an in-person event held on
Monday 15^th June 2026 at 7:30pm

It will be a conducted tour of

The SynthTemple Studio Complex

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

2026/04/272026/05/03Paolo 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.