The
next meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be on Monday
3rd
June.
It
will be a visit to the Melbourne
Electronic Sound Studio (MESS)
where Byron Scullin will give a talk on:
The Establishment of MESS & The History of Electronic Music in Melbourne (Bookings required – see below)
Byron
will describe the establishment of MESS and its collection. He will
also discuss the particular histories of key machines in the
collection, as well as answer any questions you may have.
Twenty
one
members and guests gathered in the Yamaha Premium Piano Centre (YPPC)
in South Melbourne to hear Simon Tait explain the Yamaha AFC3 Active
Field Control system and its use in acoustic enhancement and spatial
audio applications.
Simon had recently installed an AFC3 system at this location and he was pleased to describe and demonstrate its features.
It is planned to be a visit to the Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS) in North Melbourne – a not-for-profit organization that curates a unique collection of electronic instruments.
The next meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be on Monday 8th April.
It
will be a presentation by Simon
Tait of Yamaha
Music Australia on:
Active Acoustic Enhancement and Spatial Audio
*New Meeting Venue* (Bookings required – see below)
Modern
venues increasingly utilise Active Acoustic Enhancement (AAE) to
expand the range of performances and events that can be hosted in
their facilities. For performers and audiences alike this means a
more natural environment befitting the program material and for venue
owners this can equate to greater returns through increased bookings.
Spatial Audio (SA) systems often exist alongside AAE systems due to
the common hardware they utilise.
Twenty members and guests gathered in the foyer of the ABC Southbank studios for a tour of the ABC radio studios. The timing was fortuitous as, while we waited we had a panoramic viewing window into the ABC-TV News studio, where the 7:00 pm flagship bulletin was going live to air. That made for an entertaining wait.
Chairman
Graeme Huon then welcomed all to the meeting and introduced ABC Radio
Operations Manager Paul Penton and Senior Operator Richard Girvan,
who were to be our hosts for the evening.
Splitting up into two groups and starting in Radio Master Control, operator Brett assisted Richard and Paul in describing the operation of MCR and the scheduling software, and localization, explaining that the majority of content is live with a little bit of replay off digital storage using Netia software. Richard commented that the localization elements are still running on the ABC-developed D-Cart system (dating from 1995 build). He explained that localization was the system whereby when a program is being fed to multiple centres, local promos and idents are triggered at each centre when the program cuts to a break. He also indicated that a small amount of voice tracking is done using the commercial RCS Zetta package.
A previously unpublished video of Neville Thiele discussing his work has now been published on our YouTube channel, as well as on his Audio Legends page on this website.
