The Engineering Emmy Technical Award Winning Plug-in Dialogue is the lynch pin of film, television shows, documentary. If you can’t hear the dialogue, you loose the narrative flow, and the viewer is pulled out of the story and distracted. Sound is the single most important and influential technical factor governing viewer retention. It is very rare for a viewer to comment that they find the black levels too crushed, or that the grade is too green, or that the timing of the video edits is a bit hurried. Poor sound edits, compression or EQ, & mix levels (especially with respect...

FabFilter Sotware FabFilter Software Instruments was founded in 2002 by two Dutch MSc musician/engineers, Frederik Slijkerman and Floris Klinkert. They loved the sound of old analog gear but were familiar with new software synthesis developments. None of the available software instruments met their high quality standards of sound or design, so they built their own. Necessity is the mother of invention. Pro Q2 The Techie Bits Pro Q2 is probably one of the most insanely flexible, beautiful looking, best sounding and fully featured EQ plugins on the market today. So opening gambits of superlatives from me aside, it’s available as...

Who Are Nugen Audio? Nugen Audio Is an audio software company, based in Leeds. It was founded in 2004 by Dr Paul Tapper and Jon Schorah, who share between them a PhD in mathematics and a Masters Degree in Engineering (no shortage of academic horse power there then!). They have backgrounds in both producing/engineering and mastering a plethora of electronic dance music hits and in software programming. Nugen Audio supports the Fairtrade foundation by donating some of its profits towards public education work - so they are not only ‘audio software egg heads’, but also ‘good eggs’ too! Ethically clever...