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Meeting Report: Feb 2015 Dolby Atmos at Soundfirm

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On Monday 9th February 32 AES members and guests visited the iconic Soundfirm audio post-production facility for a tour and explanation of the Dolby Atmos immersive audio system.

We were hosted by Sound Supervisor Chris Goodes, who firstly provided a short tour of the various mix rooms and mixing theatres which make up the facility.

Following the tour, we all reassembled in the main mixing theatre, Theatre 1 where Chris provided a very interesting presentation on cinema sound generally, and Dolby Atmos specifically.

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Chris explains Dolby Atmos to the group
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Meeting Report: November 2014 From Continuous to Discrete and back again

On Monday 24h November Melbourne Section Chairman, Mark Edwards presented a talk entitled “From Continuous to Discrete… and back again…” at the Lecture Theatre of The SAE Institute in South Melbourne.

The topic covered the process of analogue-digital-analogue conversion in a largely non-mathematical manner. Mark provided insight into the practical implementation of A/Ds and DACs and the importance of Nyquist filtering.

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