We are back on Zoom for our February meeting
You can book via this link https://www.trybooking.com/CYMKO
The next online meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be held on
Monday 10th February 2025 at 7:30pm AEDT (UTC+11) – via Zoom.
Long-term recording engineer and studio manager Ross Cockle will give us a journey through his early career 1972-1986:
The Armstrong Studio and AAV Years
Albert Road to Bank Street
Ross will take us through his time at Bill Armstrong’s Albert Road South Melbourne location as it expanded from 1972/3 into the multi-studio complex at 180 Bank Street South Melbourne. He rose through the ranks, from dogsbody to dubbing room, and assisting on sessions to eventually recording music of all styles and with some of the biggest bands, composer/arrangers and labels.
As with the Albert Road studio, Bank Street continued to attract many and varied music acts. With updated equipment and a Mobile Recording facility, live broadcasts and live albums became a regular occurrence.
His time ended there, going freelance in 1986, (part two coming soon) but not before being involved in overseeing the purchase of one of the first Solid State Logic consoles in Australia for installation in Studio One.
About Ross Cockle:
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.
Visitors and guests are welcome.
This will be a free Zoom Meeting session, but bookings are required, so that the Zoom session details can be distributed to attendees.
Please book via this link https://www.trybooking.com/CYMKO
Author: Peter Smerdon (Secretary)
