With a background as a staff engineer at the biggest and busiest studio in Australia, Armstrong’s/AAV in Melbourne starting in the early Seventies, Ross has worked with many great bands and musicians. Early success with albums for Little River Band, Australian Crawl, a Midnight Oil Ep (Bird Noises) and Producing the International hit for Real Life – Send Me an Angel. Live recordings for Hall and Oats, Joe Cocker, The Police, Joe Jackson, The Angels and Australian Crawl to name just a few. On an invitation from Kaj Dahlstrom at Sing Sing Studios Ross added music mastering to his roles in 1997 and only just moved on from that with the winding up of the Chapel St location. Recent recordings with the RAAF band for their Centenary celebrations, Score recording for the David Hirschfelder Fabulous Four project, Frank Titaz’s The Surfer with Nic Cage, and orchestral sessions for King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard.
His music recording work is covered in Discogs at https://www.discogs.com/artist/100056-Ross-Cockle
And his film work on IMDB at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168342/
In February 2024 Ross presented to the Melbourne Section via Zoom on his experiences in his 50+ years in audio production.
The meeting report on that event is at:
https://aesmelbourne.org.au/mtg-rpt-feb2025/
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Here’s an edited video of the Zoom session:
The video of the Zoom session is available directly from YouTube at: https://youtu.be/JMNLAp_4TMY