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)."
I'm currently producing at home and working part-time at Soho Recording Studios as an Assistant Engineer, Engineer and Producer. I've assisted for Felix Da Housecat, Sway, Patrick Wolf, The Soho Dolls & Kano. I've also assisted for Engineers Simon Gogerly (Nelle Hooper, U2) & Steve Lyons (Depeche Mode). I have recently completed a 4-day session with Mike Skinner for his next The Streets project (2 days assisting and 2 days engineering) as well as assisting on recordings and mixes for Sway's next album.
I've been working at SRS for 2 years now, since working there for my degree placement. The studio is situated just off Tottenham Court Road and has catered to a huge array of artists in the past including: Placebo, Manfred Man, Charlotte Church, Lemar, Shystie, Akon, The Neptunes, Dido and Others.
I produce from home and am currently working with a number of artists, taking in anything from UK Hip Hop to Pop/Alternative to Drum & Bass. I've also completed a number of remixes for UK Hip Hop Group New Flesh, Soul Singer Sewuese and a soon-to-be-finished remix for singer-songwriter Candythief. I'm also in the process of setting-up a booth studio so that I can record small scale, outside of the studio.
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.
