This summer alone, ASP8024 recording consoles have been installed at SAE Institutes in Italy, Australia and the United States. John Jansen, director of education in the New York facility has been getting a feel for their newest arrival over the last few weeks. "The patchbay created a learning curve for the students at first," he reveals. "Once it was understood, people love it. The bus compressor is a favourite feature too. 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."
Sales & marketing director Luke Baldry says, "We're very proud of our association with SAE and the growing support we have across the organisation. It helps underline the fact that Audient consoles have become something of a standard for education in the music technology sector."
SAE Rotterdam's studios also renewed their studios, installing ASP8024, as facility manager, Andreas Oszkiel explained, "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."
"Creativity and innovation are values strongly recognised by SAE and Audient alike," confirms Baldry. "Audient is honoured to be able to help SAE produce the professionals of the future."
(Jim Evans)
