Facilities

SAE facilities are by far the most complete and modern educational facilities in the world. Our extensive new studios and other facilities feature all well-known brands of mixing consoles and studio equipment All for the exclusive access of our students.

Neve Studio

SAE's main recording facility This 48-channel console is of the highest obtainable quality in professional recording. A large control room and live room enables the engineer to record large bands at once while maintaining separation between instruments. A small recording/ isolation booth can be used in combination with the main live room to record even more instruments at once. The Neve in combination with a Protools HD 3 system provides the necessary processing power along with a variety of high-end outboard gear.

Neve 88RS 48 Analogue Console
Mac Pro
Protools HD 3 (v 7.3.1)
Focusrite Red Channel Dual Compressor Limiter
2 x Behringer Powerplay Pro-XL Headphone Distributor Amp
Yamaha SPX 2000 Multi Effects Processor
T.C. Electronics M300 Stereo Reverb Processor
T.C. Electronics M.One Dual Effect Processor
Genelec 1032A Monitors (far field)
5 x Genelec 8040A
Genelec 7070A Active Subwoofer 5.1 Management System
Digidesign 4 x 96
Digidesign 192

SAE Film & TV Studio's

Professional grade TV studio with Ross vision switcher, one green screen studio and one blue screen studio with 3 JVC HD 200 cameras running at 1080i out via SDI. Serves all purposes of a Television studio whether it be multi camera set-ups for news

Ross vision switcher
Green screen studio
Blue screen studio
3 JVC HD 200 cameras running at 1080i out via SDIS

Lecturing Facilities

SAE uses a total of 10 classrooms of which 8 of them are equipped with new Apple computers and pc's. All computers have the most recent updates for the industry standard software

2 classrooms with Apple Mac Pro desktops
3 classrooms with Apple I Mac
2 classrooms with PC's
1 classroom with G5 Imacs (soon to be replaced with Apple Mac Pro desktops)
Logic Studio and Express
Protools
Cubase 4 and Essentials
Reason
Final Cut Suite and Express
After FX
Maya
Toonboom
3D Studio Max
CS Suite

Studio Equipment

EMP Mackie

SAE Electronic Music Production Studio 1 One of SAE's production studio's focused on the "dance" producer. The equipment and setup is based on synthesizers that suite the dance music genre. The setup is based on software monitoring which makes a mixing console unnecessary.

Mac Pro (quard core)
2x Genelec 1032A Bi- Amplified Monitoring
Protools, Logic, Cubase, Reason, Ableton
Mackie Control Pro + C4 (16 channels)
Novation X – Station Keyboard
MOTU 24 analog i/o
Korg Radius
Roland V –synth
Focusrite Liquid mix
T.c electronic (M-ONE)
Roland TD 20 drum kit

EMP O2R

Electronic Music Production Studio 2 This production studio is focused on the more "Acoustical" sounding productions that contain instrumentation rather than synth sounds. Centered in the studio is a digital Yamaha O2R console to which a variety of sound modules and synth's are connected. A small live room makes it possible to record small instrumentation and vocal recordings.

Yamaha O2R 96
Mac Pro (quad core)
Protools HD 2
Blue Sky 5.1 Monitors SAT 6.5 MkII
Behringer Powerplay ProXL Headphone Distributor Amp
Novation X –Station 61 Keyboard
2 x TLA
2 x Neve 8801 channel strip
4 x Neve pre Amp
Digidesign 96
Digidesign 192

Icon Studio

SAE Amman SAE's main postproduction studio This studio is focused on postproduction projects and is there for equipped with a Genelec 5.1 surround system. A large live room enables the engineer to record Foley sounds or even to record bands. Te live room is equipped with a large LCD screen for Foley artists and musician to follow the footage to which they are being recorded.

Icon D Control (32 channels with surround panners)
Mac Pro (quad core)
Protools HD 2 (v 7.3)
Focusrite Platinum Octopre (8 Channel Mic-pre)
Behringer Powerplay Headphone Amp Controller
Blue sky Bass Management Controller
Blue SK Sub Active Subwoofer
Genelec 8050A Moitors
Digidesign 2 x 96

O2R Studio

SAE Recording Studio 1
Studio environment far small recordings and mix down projects. The Yamaha O2R can be used to mix surround sound projects or to record and mix band recordings. This studio is also suitable for voice overdubbing for film and animation projects.

Yamaha O2R 96
5 x Blue Sky Sat 6.5 Active monitors
Blue Sky Sub 12 Active Subwoofer
Behringer Powerplay Headphone Distributor Amp
Bass Management Comtroller MkII
Digidesign 2 x 192
Neve channel strip