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SSL Consoles Power Creative Sound Post
C

reative Sound, a major,
award-winning Parisian postproduction facility serving the
ﬁlm and TV production markets,
is powering its full range of audio
services with three Solid State
Logic C300 HD Master Studio
Systems and one C10 HD.
Creative Sound is a large scale,
multi-suite, full service post facility
equipped to rival any in the world.
The studio and its team have
won numerous awards at Cannes
and other European ﬁlm festivals
for European cinema projects
and enjoy an extensive history of
creating French language versions
of international films, including
such recent projects as 'The King's
Speech,' 'Diana,' 'Homefront' and
'August: Osage County,' as well as
the upcoming releases 'Selﬁe' and
'Gemma Bovery.'
Creative Sound accomplishes
all of its recording dialogue, sound
effects, Foley and music for projects
in 7.1, 5.1, Dolby surround and
stereo with ease through the
SSL consoles.
"We've been using SSL consoles
with great success since we

opened," says Cristinel Sirli, Owner/
Engineer of Creative Sound. "We
continue to install multiple consoles
from SSL because they are reliable,
offer innovative technology and
have the best sound quality in the
industry. The after-sales service has
also been great. SSL completely
backs its products with immediate
support, and that is essential for
an operation as busy as Creative
Sound. As soon as our clients see
the SSL name, they know that we
deliver a superior product."
Creative Sound recently installed
its third C300 HD, using the console
line in both of its Auditorium Cinema
studios, which are Dolby Digital
Cinema 7.1 surround capable as well
as in Auditorium B studio, which is
focused on ﬁction and documentary
production for television.
"Creative Sound chose the C300
HD because the platform offered the
audio ﬁdelity and processing power
of an SSL digital audio console,
combined with comprehensive
multi-format monitoring and multisystem machine control we need,"
states Sirli. "The C300 gives us
advanced integration with our Pro

Cristinel Sirli, Owner/Engineer of Creative Sound

Tools and Pyramix systems right
on the console surface, allowing
us to concentrate our energy on the
project and not on the technology."
A C10 HD has become the console
of choice for Creative Sound's new
Foley and ADR stage, representing
the ﬁrst application of this type for
the compact broadcast console.
"The SSL C10 HD was the perfect

console for its ergonomics, audio
quality and efﬁciency in our new
Foley/ADR stage," continues Sirli.
"We built a new facility for the C10,
and, while we love the AWS 900 we
have for our existing ADR room, we
liked the idea of a digital console,
and that led us to the C10. The
console ﬁts our size requirements
and is expandable if needed."
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RTW Provides Top Masterclass Loudness PlugIn Tools
U

nderstanding that audio
and video engineers, radio
producers and musicians need
a scalable option for monitoring
audio levels and complying with
loudness standards, RTW has
developed the Masterclass PlugIns
Loudness Tools software.
It provides the company's
renowned loudness metering tools
as standard-format plugins for
Windows and Mac OS platforms,
enabling compliance with all
the major worldwide standards,
including EBU R128, SPL, ITU-R
BS.1770-3/1771-1, ATSC A/85,
ARIB, OP-59, AGCOM, CalmAct.
RTW's Loudness Tools is the
ﬁrst of RTW's software products
available as Masterclass PlugIns.
They visually depict audio with all
relevant level and loudness values
speciﬁed by international standards.
Featuring a user interface based on
the RTW TouchMonitor TM7 and
TM9 units, each plugin offers the
same degree of intuitive operation,
functionality and clarity as the
hardware models, and supports all
sampling rates up to 96 kHz.
The software also offers plugin
operation in mono, stereo and
surround formats (eight channels
maximum). Each plugin includes
RTW's Peak Program Meter,
TruePeak, and Spot Correlator
instruments and also offers all

RTW Masterclass PlugIns Loudness Tools software for Windows or Mac OS

common loudness displays plus
MagicLRA mode or SPL view.
A s w i t h t h e i r h a rd w a re
components, the RTW Masterclass
PlugIns Loudness Tools provide
graphical/numerical and bargraph
views, and can be freely rearranged
and scaled. Various function
parameters, such as integration time,
operational range and tolerance,

along with a number of viewing
options for metering data and scales,
offer extra flexibility.
The plugin window dimensions
can be set to the native resolution of
RTW TouchMonitor display screens,
including 480x272, 800x480,
1024x800 (landscape view) or
272x480, 480x800, 800x1024
(portrait view). Users can store

all setups and layouts as presets
in their DAWs.
Currently, the plugins are available
in the VST 2.4 format for Windows
7/8 and higher and the RTAS format
for Mac OS (Mac OS 10.6 or higher),
with native AAX64 support to follow.
The Masterclass PlugIns Loudness
Tools software is the ﬁrst in a new
series of offerings from RTW.

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