The first AES Melbourne meeting of 2017 will be on Mon 27th February.
It will be a visit to the Kilsyth South Baptist Church, where Frank Andrewartha of Quest Engineering will show their new auditorium sound system and speak to us on the related topic
What did they say?
– maintaining voice intelligibility in difficult acoustic environments
On Monday October 10th, AES Melbourne members and guests assembled in the SAE Melbourne Lecture Theatre to hear Stephan Schutze talk to us on the topic “Creating Audio for Interactive Environments” The evening was a most interesting journey through his thoughts and experiences in audio for gaming and virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR).
He recounted his recent trip to the AES Convention in LA, particularly the AR/VR section. He mentioned that the challenge of gatherings like this is that so many people working in the field are subject to non-disclosure agreements; so many presentations are general in nature and from people without true in-depth knowledge of the technology. He also quoted a presenter exclaiming that “VR is currently like the Wild West where heroes were forged and legends made”. Stephen’s comment to this was “yes but there are also a whole bunch of snake-oil salesmen, and people wearing black hats”. He went on to hypothesise that VR/AR is not a new format – it is a whole new medium (like going from photos to film).
The next meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be onMonday 28th November at 7:30pm at: TheSAE Institute Lecture Theatre, 235 Normanby Rd, South Melbourne.
On Monday October 10th, AES Melbourne members and guests assembled in the SAE Melbourne Lecture Theatre to hear Peter Freedman, the founder and CEO of RØDE Microphones speak to us on Microphone Manufacturing in Australia
Peter started out by describing the company and touching on the acquisition of the Aphex and Event Electronics businesses, and teased us on an imminent but yet-to-be-announced acquisition.
Peter Freedman at AES Melbourne Section
He then took us briefly through his family history – his father working in Sweden on Dynacord equipment, and mixing bands. The family came to Australia in 1966. Peter was 8 years old at the time and couldn’t speak English!
His father had acquired the distribution rights for Dynacord in Australia, which was the main reason for moving to Sydney, establishing Freedman Electronics- the predecessor of RØDE. He commented that next January marks the 50th anniversary of Freedman Electronics
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