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Wednesday 10 December 2014

Review: SSL Duende Native Essentials

     Solid State Logic (SSL) have been at the top of the studio audio market for what seems like forever. Their success has been built on products that are both consistently incredible sounding and reliable. Studio tools that never fail and hardware that stands the test of time.

     Their Duende plugins are no exception. When these plugins were first realised it was required that any users also had a powerful DSP card to go with them; such were the processing requirements that would have strained computers of that time to breaking point without ever hitting useful numbers of instances of the plugins. With the power of modern computers SSL have completely revamped their plugin offering over the last few years so that they can all be run "Native", which means without additional DSP cards or boxes.

Monday 8 December 2014

Film&TV: Ren

A few months ago I agreed to help out on the set of a new fantasy web series called Ren.

It was a real pleasure working with Kate and her highly skilled and amiable crew, on what should end up being a great series.

Here's the synopsis:
    Ren is a new original independent fantasy series from producer and director Kate Madison, the creator of the hugely successful Lord of the Rings prequel Born of Hope which has had more than 29 million online views.
    When a young woman is possessed and her face branded by a powerful ancient spirit, she becomes feared by all who see her. Banished from her home and hunted by the powerful ruling order of the Kah’Nath, Ren refuses to accept her fate and journeys across the land to discover what she is and if there are others like her. Joined on her perilous quest by a small band of outcasts, led by the mysterious Hunter, she discovers that the truths she has been taught may all have been a lie.

And here's the trailer (which was made before principle photography of the main part of the series)



The series has now wrapped on photography for the series and post production is now underway. Please go and check out the sites below and keep following the project as I think it has a lot of potential.

www.rentheseries.com
Ren on Facebook