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Meeting Notice: February 2025 – Ross Cockle on the The Armstrong Studio & AAV Years

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.

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Section’s 50th Anniversary: Our Anniversary Dinner – 9th Dec 2024

This month we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the formation of the AES Melbourne Section with a dinner at Club Ringwood.

Sixteen members and guests attended, with two last-minute dropouts, and several apologies from long-time members. It was a convivial evening with lots of friendly chat and reminiscences, along with some very fine food indeed.

A photo of Chair Graeme Huon standing at the microphone welcoming the members and guests
Chair Graeme Huon welcomes the members and guests

Section Chair, Graeme Huon welcomed everybody, thanking the Committee, our sponsor Amphenol Australia, and Paolo Menolotto for facilitating the sponsorship. He also thanked Secretary Peter Smerdon for all his work in organising the event. In remarking on the formation of the Section in December 1974 he remarked how the original Committee included luminaries of the audio industry at the time such as Wulf Gray (Simon Gray Pty Ltd) Graham Thirkell (Optronics), Brian Horman (Klarion), Roger Savage (Armstrong Studios & Soundfirm), and John Ryan (ABC).

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Preliminary Meeting Notice: Mon 9th December – Celebrating 50 Years of AES Melbourne Section

The Melbourne Section of the Audio Engineering Society was established in December 1974.

Members and Officers of the AES Melbourne Section (1974)

We are planning a celebratory dinner on Monday 9th December to commemorate the 50th anniversary of this important event.


It will be held at Club Ringwood, Maroondah Hwy, Ringwood.


It will feature good food, memories, and an opportunity to socialise with like-minded people.



Further details will be available shortly, including price and booking information.





Meeting Notice: October 2024 – Maton Guitars Site Visit – The Art of the Luthier

The October meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be an in-person facility tour and presentation held on Tuesday 1st October 2024 at 7:30pm (Yes it’s a *TUESDAY* night)

The meeting will be a site visit to world-leading Guitar manufacturer Maton in Box Hill, Melbourne, Australia.

Tour numbers are limited, so you will need to book at https://www.trybooking.com/CVHBP

Priority will be given to AES members, but non-members are welcome to book and will be allocated any spare spots.


Patrick Evans, Maton’s Manager, Product Design, Development and Speciality Projects will conduct a tour of their manufacturing facility and speak to us on:

The Art of the Luthier

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