The business of film and television production has changed; and so has The Audio Suite!

 

We offer an online audio post production service, including dialogue editing and mixing, for feature films and TV drama.

We also act as an end-to-end Sound Producer…

It’s been our privilege to work on a huge variety of feature film and prime-time TV drama projects over the last quarter-century or so; and even after all those years, one of our greatest pleasures is still to deliver effortlessly intelligible dialogue and emphatic mixes for our clients: some of the biggest production companies in the industry, employing the brightest creative talent to deliver engaging, contemporary dramatic content.

Now, after almost 25 years of service as a proudly Birmingham-based facility house for our ADR, sound editing and mixing clients, The Audio Suite’s audio post-production offering has moved to an online service only; as we look towards the future and fully embrace the way in which we all predominantly work these days – with file-based, remote transfers and digital asset exchange.

We’ve also introduced two new important additions to our repertoire: our Sound Producer and Sun-downer services.

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Audio post-Production that doesn’t CO2t the earth…

You can use us remotely from wherever you are on the planet, at wherever we are in the world (these days we’re happily operating in both hemispheres.)

The Audio Suite is a highly-regarded digital audio company, originally based in Birmingham UK, and renown for its friendly, personal approach and its assurance of high-quality… And now, The Audio Suite is also operating in ‘beautiful, down-town Brisbane’, AU – a development designed to help better remotely serve our global client base, by offering our ‘Sun-downer’ service: a round-the-clock, file-based audio post-production service, that takes advantage of the time difference between the UK, the US and Australia. (Brisbane is 10 hours ahead of GMT and 17 hours ahead of PST.)

Find creative freedom. Enjoy the liberation of engaging with us from wherever, and whenever, you feel most comfortable and most creative.

Simply upload the assets at the end of your working day, and have your ‘for approval’ material sitting waiting for you on your server the next morning… We do the work ‘overnight’ whilst you sleep. Or party. (Or whatever!)

We provide bespoke, high value-added audio post-production and also understand the nature of short-notice bookings. We are as happy and committed to applying our extensive audio post-production skills and experience to a short-form, non-broadcast project, as we are to fully supervising a theatrical-release feature film in the role of Sound Producer; and our extensive track-record in audio post-production runs to many hundreds of hours of prime-time television programmes, feature films, TV and cinema commercials, internal, external and business-to-business communications, podcasts and best-selling talking books.

The Audio Suite at IMDb
The Audio Suite offers a full range of audio production and post-production services, including:
  • Mixing
  • Sound Design
  • Dialogue Editing
  • Feature film Sound Producer
What is a ‘Sound Producer’?

Neil Hillman is our feature film Sound Producer, drawing on his enviable CV as a Production Mixer on location, as well as his work as a Dialogue Editor, an ADR Mixer, a Re-recording Mixer and a Supervising Sound Editor. The Sound Producer role is a budget-managing, single-point of reference for the pre-production, production and post-production of ‘all things audio’ in any project; with a responsibility for overseeing quality, style and strategy and delivering peace of mind to Producers and Directors for any moving picture production’s soundtrack – from concept, right the way through to completion.

For maximum flexibility, this role can be billed by the half-day, full day, per week or on application for determining the most cost-effective project fee.

Sound Producer reviews…

See what others say about Neil Hillman HERE

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About Us

The Audio Suite is a very different kind of sound studio.

We are a unique, award-winning Sound consultancy: a team that is lead by Neil Hillman MPSE. We provide bespoke, high value-added audio post-production services for feature film clients that includes sound design, sound supervising, as well as dialogue and sound effects editing. We’ve also been used on feature film productions such as ‘Lincoln’, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’, and notable television drama series such as ‘Bridgerton’, ‘Line of Duty’ and ‘Dr. Who’.

“When the sound is bad, you notice the sound…
When the sound is good, you notice the pictures.”
Neil Hillman

“The eye sees better when the sound is great.”
Steven Spielberg

“We chose Neil Hillman and The Audio Suite for this project because of their first-class reputation and proximity to talent. We were pleased with their contribution to the film and impressed with the ease in which The Audio Suite studios and our sound team at Skywalker Sound were able to work together, linking the two studios in real time to accomplish the necessary work.”
Mark Graziano, Vice President of Post-Production for DreamWorks.

Who we are

The Audio Suite is a leading digital audio company, serving a global client base, whilst retaining the comforting feel of an in-house facility.

For close to a quarter-century, we have been a trusted supplier to major advertising agencies, Indies, Super Indies and creative corporate clients; as well as the major broadcast channels. We also now operate in the southern hemisphere.

Our high-quality audio solutions are designed for features, broadcast and corporate film makers, whilst our Sound Consultant and Sound Producer services provide support for projects with complex workflow and exacting delivery requirements.

We offer remote workflow solutions, and real-time collaboration through off-the-shelf audio apps such as Source Connect and Clean Feed, and video links through Zoom, Webex and Teams.

As a sound design practice we use imagination, ingenuity, inventiveness and originality, utilising all aspects of sound, to develop, reinforce and intensify visual images. We give them impact, we make them memorable.

We create and craft soundtracks for the world that your ideas inhabit… Giving them impact and meaning… Making the message memorable for your audience… All of which results in increased levels of emotional engagement.

See The Audio Suite’s hundreds of credits HERE

Creativity based on experience…

Neil Hillman MPSE leads The Audio Suite, and he has a reassuringly extensive and impressive track-record in location sound recording, audio production and audio post-production: including credits for editing and mixing many hundreds of hours of prime-time television programmes; feature films; TV and cinema commercials; as well as internal, external and business-to-business communications, podcasts and Audible ‘Best Seller’ Talking Books. Outside of the studio, Neil has been engaged as an audio engineer by the Host Broadcasters for the London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020ne Olympic and Paralympic games, as well as an audio mixer for the Glasgow 2014, Gold Coast 2018 and Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Recent sound design and mixing work includes the opening and closing ceremonies of the Solomon Islands 2023 Pacific Games, and Reality TV shows ‘Love Island USA’ and ‘Love Island Games’.

Neil’s 2017 Ph.D. by Practice concerned ‘Emotion in Sound Design’, the first of its kind, and allows a unique perspective to be brought to achieving enhanced audience engagement for client soundtracks.

As a feature film Sound Producer he works at Producer-level, with executive responsibilities for a project’s sound bible in pre-production; and then by overseeing both the production sound and audio post-production stages, he ensures a project’s soundtrack is consistent to the Director’s vision, and the Producer’s budget, from concept and drafts right through to completion and delivery.

See a list of Neil’s 1,000+ IMDb credits HERE

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