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(LIPA). It will also be pressed into service for numerous broadcasting commitments, including his long-running BBC Radio 2 and 6Music show, The Record Producers, which he works on alongside Richard Allinson and Neil Myners (indeed, Levine was in the midst of re-editing a Pink Floyd special for August Bank Holiday transmission at the time of his conversation with PSNEurope). This and other BBC-related work also makes the 35-minute car journey to MediaCity in Salford another advantage of the new location. ‘Empty nest’ syndrome (“my
wife Karen and I are like teenagers again!”) has made it easier for Levine to up sticks after many years of being based in London, but it’s clear he is genuinely excited about the creative possibilities of basing himself in Britain’s eighth most populous city. “I’ve been working here more and more over the past 10 years, and it’s obvious that a major new generation of talent is coming through,” he says. “In recent years, Liverpool hasn’t always been particularly well- served in terms of recording studios, which is absolutely insane when you think about the history of the place! But with Parr Street, Motor Museum Recording Studio and now my personal studio, there is a real
(L-R) Tony Platt, Jon Thornton, Music Producers Guild Prize winner Chris Pawlusek and Steve Levine
hub of places to record. This city is on the up creatively and it’s great to be a part of it.” In other Levine-related news,
Chris Pawlusek has been named the 2013 recipient of the Music Producers Guild Prize, which rewards the most promising student to graduate from the LIPA Sound Technology degree programme. In addition to a one-year
associate membership to the MPG, Pawlusek will have the opportunity to shadow producers and Pro Sound Award nominee Al O’Connell and Charlie Andrew, attend sessions run by producer/engineer Haydn Bendall and mastering engineer Matt Colton, enjoy studio experience at Snap! Studios, and participate in detailed tuition on D-Control and System 5 Fusion at Avid’s UK headquarters. He will also be mentored throughout the year by MPG members including Levine, Nicky Graham, Tony Platt and Mick Glossop. n
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Number one for Nuage By Erica Basnicki
THE FIRST installation of Yamaha Commercial Audio’s flagship audio post-production system, Nuage, is currently underway at Belgium’s Temple of Tune post house.
Diepenbeek-based Amptec
Professional Sound Solutions, one of Yamaha’s newly named Nuage partners and resellers appointed throughout Europe, supplied the inaugural system. “We have a lot of experience
with Yamaha hardware and consoles, Dante networking and Nuendo software, so we were very curious about what Nuage would bring to the post-processing industry,” said Amptec’s Belgium sales director, Harald Vanherf. “We are very happy that we can offer this excellent solution to our customers, backed with high- quality service and support.” In addition to Belgium,
European Nuage partners have so far been appointed for Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Switzerland.
Devin Workman, Ben Scully and John Johnson of Scrub with the Nuage system
Scrub and Mediaspec – based in London and Scotland respectively – have been appointed as Nuage partners in the UK.
Scrub head of sales Ben
Scully commented: “Nuage is a reliable and customisable audio production system that offers
some very attractive features. We feel it addresses the needs of the audio post community.” In France, the Institut
National de L’audiovisuel (Ina), a respected European AV training centres, has added Nuage training to its portfolio. n
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