aesmelbourne – Audio Engineering Society

Meeting Report: December 2022 – John Kean on Loudness for Streaming Audio

2022/12/192022/12/20Paolo Menolotto

On Monday 12^th December, the Melbourne Section of the AES held our regular bi-monthly meeting.

We welcomed about 30 members and guests via Zoom.

Leading radio broadcast technologist and Chair of the AES Technical Group on Audio Loudness for Streaming, John Kean presented to us on the topic of

AES’ Development and Promotion of Audio Loudness Techniques

for new audio delivery platforms

Chairman Graeme Huon introduced John, who started his presentation with an explanation of the reality of inconsistent audio loudness across various streamed audio sources accessed on the same device – content such as music, podcasts, radio streams and virtual assistant responses. He explained how that issue was the catalyst for the development of the AES TD1008 Technical Document on this subject.

Meeting Report: October 2022 – Angus Davidson on Immersive Music

2022/10/092022/10/09Paolo Menolotto

On Monday 3^rd October, the Melbourne Section of the AES held our regular bi-monthly meeting.

We welcomed about 30 members and guests via Zoom.

Angus Davidson from Red Road Immersive studio presented to us on the topic

Recording Music for Immersive Platforms
– applying Dolby Atmos to music streaming

Chairman Graeme Huon introduced Angus who started his presentation with a brief run-through of his career to date.

Angus Davidson describing the Atmos recording process (Photo Rod Staples)

He then moved on to introduce the studio design decisions necessary for Dolby Atmos mixing, covering the appropriate room size for different applications (music, video, or film work) as well as the acoustic treatment, and choices of working with a physical console or mixing “in-the-box”.
He then spoke about equipment choices, emphasising the criticality of speaker choice.

June 2022 Meeting Notice: DaS AuReality Demo

2022/05/292022/05/29Secretary

We are returning to the SAE Institute!

The next in-person meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be held on
Monday 20^th June 2022 at 7:30pm, in the SAE Institute Lecture Theatre, South Melbourne.

*Note – there will be NO live online element to this meeting.

Joe Hayes, Inventor and CTO of Vastigo Ltd, will conduct a
Live Demonstration

of his DaS AuReality (Diffusion at Source) loudspeaker systems.

Joe invites everyone to bring along their favourite critical listening music (Audio CD format only) to exercise the system.

Meeting Report: December 2021 – Loudspeaker Power Ratings – Michail Barabasz

2021/12/192021/12/22Paolo Menolotto

On Monday December 13^th the AES Melbourne Section mounted yet another Zoom online meeting.

Over thirty members and guests joined the meeting to hear Michail Barabasz of Lorantz Audio Services present on the topic of Loudspeaker Power Ratings

After welcoming everyone, Section Chair Graeme Huon introduced Michail who started his presentation with a brief history of his career at Plessey Rola (pre-1975), including and his involvement with the 1977 Australian Standard for Sound System Equipment (AS1127, Part 5 – Loudspeakers), before establishing Lorantz Audio Services in 1976.

AES’ Development and Promotion of Audio Loudness Techniques

for new audio delivery platforms

Recording Music for Immersive Platforms – applying Dolby Atmos to music streaming

We are returning to the SAE Institute!

Joe Hayes, Inventor and CTO of Vastigo Ltd, will conduct aLive Demonstration

Recording Music for Immersive Platforms
– applying Dolby Atmos to music streaming

Joe Hayes, Inventor and CTO of Vastigo Ltd, will conduct a
Live Demonstration