Our next meeting is being planned for Monday 14th August.
There will be a short AGM at the beginning of the meeting (Reports, Election of Officers and Committee) – then Oscar-winning Film Location Mixer Ben Osmo (Mad Max:Fury Road, Strictly Ballroom, Dead Calm, The Sapphires, etc) will present on his work, experiences, and the current technology of film-sound.
Further details and bookings will be available closer to the date.
The next meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be an in-person event to be held on Monday 19th June 2023 at 7:30pm at the ABC Southbank radio studios.
Alex Stinson, ABC Classical Music Producer, Recording Engineer, and Editor will present on the topic of:
After a brief tour of the ABC Radio studios, Alex will give us a presentation covering his work and career. Topics covered will include
Recording acoustic music from solo instruments to large orchestras
Microphone & mixing techniques
Logistics of running orchestral sessions & recording on location
Post-production techniques
Recording for immersive formats
The June Meeting is in the final planning stages.
It will be held on Monday 19th June.
ABC Classical Music Recording Engineer, Alex Stinson will describe his work, and update us on the latest orchestral recording techniques.
It will be an on-site meeting at ABC Southbank.
Full details will be available in the next week or so.
On Monday 24th April, the Melbourne Section of the AES held our regular bi-monthly meeting.
It was a return to an in-person event at Collarts Wellington St (Collingwood) campus, that was also live-streamed on YouTube.
We welcomed about a dozen members and guests in the Collarts Critical Listening Room and another 7 who watched the live stream to the end.
Audio Engineer and Educator/Musician Scott Stickland presented on the topic of:
Chairman Graeme Huon introduced Scott with a brief description Scott’s work on the DAW Collaboration Framework (DCF).
Scott started by acknowledging and describing the chronology of earlier online audio collaboration technology, starting with ResRocketSurfer (1996)/Rocket Network (1999), JACK/JACKTrip, Source-Connect, Steinberg’s VST Connect Pro and VST Transit/Transit Join/Transit Go, Splice Studio, and then the push for direct streaming into the DaaAW with products like Soundwhale, Sessionwire, ConnectionOpen and Listento and the growth in web-based DAW collaboration platforms, where he commented that web audio is not at the stage of development where they can be used for professional applications.
