On Monday 5th May 2025, AES Melbourne Section members were treated to a tour of what is arguably the world’s leading end-to-end vinyl record production facility, and certainly the most knowledgeable on the subject.
Continue reading “Meeting Report: 5th May 2025 – Tour of Zenith Records”We are back on Zoom for our February meeting
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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:
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.
In December, the AES Melbourne Section will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Section.
We are hosting a 50th Anniversary Dinner at Club Ringwood on Monday 9th December at 7:30pm to mark this momentous occasion.
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(bookings required – see below for prices)
In December 1974, encouraged by AES International V-P (Stephen Temmer, Gotham Audio NY) a group of Melbourne audio professionals – designers, manufacturers, recording engineers/producers, broadcasters, and equipment dealers, gathered together to form the Melbourne Section of the New York-based Audio Engineering Society.
The Section became a powerful force in the Melbourne audio industry, with many local pioneers first presenting their breakthrough technologies at the Section’s meetings and Conventions.
Members and guests of the Melbourne Section gathered at the Maton Guitars factory where Patrick Evans, Manager, Product Design, Development and Speciality Projects conducted a tour of their manufacturing facility and spoke to us on:
Following an introduction by Section Chair Graeme Huon, Patrick gave us a brief rundown of the history of Maton. He related how founder Bill May and his brother Reg started making guitars in a single car garage in Thornbury in 1946. In the late ‘40s they moved to a purpose-built factory in Surrey Hills, where they stayed for the remainder of Bill’s career. On Bill’s retirement in the mid ‘80s his daughter Linda and her husband Neville bought the business. Patrick related how Bill still kept coming into the factory after retirement, going downstairs to work on a double bass.
That double bass is still on display in the foyer of the current factory.
