Colin Paterson

Audio Engineer and Portfolio: colinpatersonaudio.weebly.com

Video Editor
Youtube: youtube.com/theprehistoricwars
Email:
colinpaterson1985@gmail.com

Tel: 07428947072
Experience

Video Production/ Freelance Sep- 2021

Education ● Shot and edited 10 music videos for indie rock artist Ali Heath.
Awarded Millmar Award
for Excellence in Audio Video Production/ Freelance May- 2021
Engineering
● Shot and edited a music video for electronic pop producer Carter Lagrant.
First Class BSc Hons
Sound Engineering Radio Jingles/ Freelance March- 2021
University of the Highlands
and Islands ● Composed, produced, and mixed over 20 different jingles of different
2014- 2018 genres for Indie Live Radio.
● Produced the theme song and promotional material for The Big Dreamers
HNC Television Production Show broadcast on Unilag Fm based in Lagos, Nigeria.
and Operations
Glenrothes College Song Credits/ House Music Volume C:19 June - 2020
2003 - 2004
I composed, produced, and mixed two songs for a charity album, which donated the
proceeds to Fife Women’s Aid:
https://substationrecords.bandcamp.com/album/house-music-volume-c-19
Skills ● The Prehistoric Wars - I’m Always Late
Digital Audio Workstations
● Filthy Pink Clipper - Rum & Orange
Pro-Tools
Ableton Live
Cubase Audio Engineer/ Melt the Fly March 2019 - PRESENT
Reason Essentials
I work as a freelance audio engineer for the production company Melt the Fly:
Video Editing
Adobe Premiere Pro CC ● Audio work for award winning music documentary: Instruments in the
Architecture: Building the Pianodrome, including foley, dubbing, digital
Recording audio manipulation, vocal mixing and complete audio mastering of the film
Foley work. and its trailers. I won the award for ‘Best Sound’ at the 2020 Earth Day
Microphone technique and Film Festival for my work, while the film won five international Film Festival
specifications
awards and was a finalist in twenty four other festivals around the world.
Production techniques
● Audio mix and sound design for the trailer for an upcoming full length
(compression, eq, effects
and time domain effects) documentary called Long Live My Happy Head. A Song I composed and
Understanding of acoustics produced has also been syndicated for use in the final movie.
Acoustic treatment of ● Recording live piano sessions for a documentary called Harmonic
environments Spectrum.
● Audio dub and sound design for a corporate video called Gravitricity.
Live Audio
Install and route live sound
Sound Designer and Composer/ Arbery Productions Jan - April 2020
reinforcement systems.
Mixing live shows.

Music
Guitar I created the sounds and music for a theatre show called The Satyricon, which was
Drums due to run at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre in June but has been postponed due to
Keyboard COVID-19:
Ukulele
Ableton Push ● Audio design of sound effects and atmospheres.
Synthesizers
● Composing 4 songs as part of the production's story.

Audio engineer, Composer, Camera Operator and Video Editor/

Personal Skills The Prehistoric Wars Oct 2019 - PRESENT
Networking.
Effective writing and verbal I have been creating and producing music videos under the moniker “The
communication skills. Prehistoric Wars”: theprehistoricwars.com
Friendly and approachable
manner.
Audio Engineer/ Outplay Entertainment Jan 2018
Game Engines
I joined the game development team and applied sounds to mobile and web-based
Unreal - applying sounds,
applying logic to elements, games within a work placement. I worked on a variety of projects including four
creating maps, creating AIs, games and three videos.
cooking projects.
Unity - applying sounds, Audio Engineer and Developer/ Sound Blocks 2017 - 2018
applying logic to elements.
Sound Blocks is a collaborative audio art project. It is an exploratory audio game,
which lets players interact within a virtual space populated by 22 blocks. Each block
Equipment contains a speaker playing a random audio stem. The player can then use these
Interfaces: blocks to create unique mixes. Download available at soundblocks.weebly.com
M-audio Air 192/14,
Behringer UMC 1820,
Yamaha AW16g Live sound technician/ Shape Audio 2014 - 2017
Tascam Porta 07
ShapeAudio is an equipment and engineer rental company based in Dundee. As
Microphones: part of my work I was required to set up the systems and sound check the
SE5500 Tube Condenser performers. The main system used was Audiotechnik d&b C7 with B2 infra bass, D12
2 x AKG P170 condenser amps and Martin Audio monitors using a PreSonus AI 24 channel Desk.
2 x SM57
2 x SM58 Song Credit/ Creative Dundee 2015 - 2016
AKG C1000S
Tascam DR-40 A short film produced by Bonnie Brae Productions and Creative Dundee featured
one of my compositions as its main theme.
Instruments:
Guitar
Bass
Drums
Microfreak References
Microbrute
Drumbrute Will Hewet Austen McCowan Lewis Macdonald
Push 1 Co-Director Melt The Fly Co-Director Melt The Fly Head Engineer at Shape
Maschine Mk2 will@meltthefly.com austen@meltthefly.com Audio:
P0-20 079 0536 1118 074 2743 7726 077 0491 1395

Speakers:
Yamaha HS7 Pair
JBL 104 Reference Monitors