The Cape Town branch of the School of Audio Engineering has joined SAE Institutes in Milan, Bucharest, Brisbane, Amsterdam, Melbourne and New York with the installation of an Audient ASP8024 analogue desk in its teaching studios. The SAE Rotterdam has also updated its studio facilities with an ASP8024.
‘This upgrade ensures that we provide our students with up-to-date recording facilities, which not only reflect the industry standard in functionality and size with extremely versatile routing options, but also sound fantastic,’ says Rotterdam Facility Manager, Andreas Oszkiel.
‘The patchbay created a learning curve for the students at first,’ says John Jansen, Director of Education in the New York facility. ‘Once it was understood, people love it. The bus compressor is a favourite feature too.’ he adds. ‘It’s very flexible and a great teaching tool, because the signal flow is straight ahead without caveats and exceptions.’
SAE Amsterdam’s Head of Audio, Bruce Gibb also highlights the way their 36-channel Audient desk facilitates the teaching of principles and practice of audio engineering, thanks to ‘...the console’s user friendly and flexible interface.’
‘The simplistic layout of the channel strip and centre section has been a great teaching tool,’ confirms Andrew James Ward, Head of Audio at SAE Bucharest. ‘Explaining the fundamentals of analogue signal flow to newcomers has been easy on this console.’
‘We’re proud of our association with SAE and the growing support we have across the organisation,’ Sales & Marketing Director, Luke Baldry. ‘It helps underline the fact that Audient consoles have become something of a standard for education in the music technology sector. Creativity and innovation are values strongly recognised by SAE and Audient alike.’
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