Ross Cockle: The Armstrong Studio and AAV Years - Albert Road to Bank Street

The AES Melbourne Section Zoom Meeting - February 2025 Long-term recording engineer and studio manager Ross Cockle gave us a journey through his early career 1972-1986: The Armstrong Studio and AAV Years Albert Road to Bank Street Ross took 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" (gofer) 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. An early draft of Ross’ presentation gave some background to the early days of Bill Armstrong Studios, before Ross joined – and Ross’ pre-Armstrongs work. This was deleted from the main presentation due to time constraints but may be found here    • Ross Cockle: Extra Content - "off the cutt...