Student Testimonials
Student Testimonial - Ashley Martel
Country:
UK
College:
Liverpool
Graduation Year:
2007
Course:
Audio Engineering
"Ashley Martel undertook the Electronic music production course in 2005, quickly following it with the Audio engineering diploma in 2006. Upon graduation Ashley landed himself an assistants job at Liverpool's well-known Parr Street Studios"
Today he is currently the in-house engineer at Parr Street Studios whilst also working as a freelance engineer.
He has worked with producers such as Ken Nelson (Coldplay, Gomez, Embrace) to Jagz Kuhnar (Reverend and the makers)
With artists like Ladytron and Bill Ryder Jones (the Coral) to Jah Wobble and more.
Student Testimonial - Brendon Harding
Country:
UK
College:
London
Graduation Year:
2004
Course:
Audio Engineering
"Brendon has assisted for Engineers Simon Gogerly (Nelle Hooper, U2) & Steve Lyons (Depeche Mode)."
As a freelance engineer and producer I have been lucky enough to have worked with some fantastically talented people over the past 3 years. Since December 2006 I have been engineering with Dub producer, Adrian Sherwood and have taken huge steps forward in my skills as an engineer and as a producer. Alongside Adrian I have been involved in projects spanning Dub, Rock, English Folk, Hip Hop, Indie and even Country and Western and I've been able to express my creative side both musically and technically.
Outside of my work with Adrian I still handle sessions at a number of studios and have so far been able to get through a tough time in the studio business. Being freelance, and with the current nature of sessions these days, has kept me flexible in both my outlook on studios and on music itself, hopefully not allowing myself to get bogged down and able to keep things sounding fresh. 2009 was a busy year and that will hopefully carry on into 2010 as I'm currently working on 14 albums with Adrian, all in various stages on completion, as well as a number of personal projects.
Credits include:
The Streets, Sway, Mongrel, Primal Scream, Roots Manuva, The Slits
Student Testimonial - Guy Katsav
Country:
UK
College:
London
Graduation Year:
2004
Course:
Audio Engineering
"Following #1 UK album chart success with his work on the latest 'The View' album, SAE London 2004 Audio Engineering Diploma graduate Guy Katsav has returned to undertake the BA (Hons) Recording Arts Degree offered by SAE Institute."
Guy's credits include Groove Armada, The View, Ronnie Scott, The Gossip, Sandy Rivera, The Streets, Paulo Nutini, Seed, Owen Morris, Liberty X, Ms Dynamite, Old Man River, Felix Da House Cat, Akala, Jay Sean, Tony Allen, Adrian Sherwood, Estelle.
Guy mixed four tracks on The View's latest album "Hats Off to the Buskers" which recently went to number 1 of the UK Album Charts. One of the tracks he mixed peaked at number 3 of the UK single charts.
Guy mixed four tracks on The View's latest album "Hats Off to the Buskers" which recently went to number 1 of the UK Album Charts. One of the tracks he mixed peaked at number 3 of the UK single charts.
Student Testimonial - Steve Nevard
Country:
UK
College:
London
Graduation Year:
N/A
Course:
Audio Engineering
"I am currently running my own promotions company, with two websites up and running."
www.skanights.co.uk specialises in live ska music in London. So far I have run gigs for Roddy Radiation's Skabilly Rebels (Roddy was a founder member and songwriter for two-tone's The Specials) and The BiG (a mighty fine ska band from southend who deserve massive success).
I also trade as www.acousticnights.co.uk which runs fortnightly acoustic nights in a venue called Gramaphone on Commercial Street, E1 6LT. Normally we cater for the unsigned London scene.
On top of this I am Tour Manager for a band called Pama International who released an album on the Trojan label in September.
Student Testimonial - Christoph Wörndle
Country:
UK
College:
London
Graduation Year:
2006
Course:
Audio Engineering
"Christoph graduated from SAE London with the Audio Engineering Diploma. It was his ambition to get into film sound - which so far he succeeded quite well in."
Right after finishing my Audio Engineering Diploma in April 06 I had the opportunity to help with the audio post production for the feature film 'All the Boys Love Mandy Lane' under Michael Baird in L.A. for Occupant Films. This movie had its premiere in September 06 at the Toronto Film Festival and was bought by Harvey Weinstein (a major film producer).
In March 07 was the US cinema start and distribution to european cinemas is underway. In summer 06 I was Production Sound Mixer for an Austrian art film entitled 'die toten körper der lebenden' by Peter Kern in Vienna which had its premiere in March 07 at the Diagonale. In september/October 06 I had the opportunity to mix production sound for the movie 'The Key Man'.
It is a 70's period thriller with renowned actor such as Jack Davenport (Pirates of the Caribbean), Brian Cox (X-Men), Hugo Weaving (Matrix, Lord of the Rings), Carol Kane and Judy Greer. This film is in post production at the time of writing with NL3-Audio with whom I had the pleasure of working together. To more productions are planned for this year (07), however they are not confirmed yet.
