Nugen Audio celebrates 20 years in business
Nugen Audio celebrates 20 years in business
Nugen Audio will commemorate its 20th anniversary at IBC 2024. Founded by a DJ/EDM producer and a programmer from a UK game development company, the company first launched with stereo-image-related plugins for music production. Today, it has expanded to include loudness metering/correction, surround sound, mixing/mastering, tracking and audio analysis tools for use in postproduction, broadcast and music.
“I co-founded Nugen Audio in 2004 with the goal of changing the world of audio,” said Dr Paul Tapper, Nugen Audio CEO and co-founder. “I am thrilled to have created a brand that has not only become a ‘household’ name in our industry, but that has grown so impressively over the past 20 years. I look forward to what our team will accomplish in the next two decades.”
Tapper developed many of the original algorithms that form the basis of Nugen Audio’s products, including loudness metering and correction, DynApt, upmixing and True Peak limiting. Tapper began his career as a lead programmer at Runecraft and worked as a lead programmer for Team17 from 2003–2010, while simultaneously creating tools for Nugen Audio. Today, in addition to his executive role, Tapper also runs the new immersive gaming brand, Fruity Systems.
From the outset, Nugen Audio has been fully focused on providing solutions to real-life problems. With a love for and fascination with the technology and theory behind audio processing, the company’s engineers have always strived to apply those techniques to create the tools that real users need day-to-day.
“The goal is always to enhance users’ lives – either by making existing challenges easier to overcome, such as with the VisLM loudness meter, which has become an industry standard, or by producing new and exciting possibilities to ignite the imagination, like upmixing to immersive audio with Halo Upmix or the groundbreaking new reverb technology in Paragon,” added Nugen Audio CTO, Charles Blessing. “We continually endeavour to identify product categories that are either new or currently under-served, and then strive to create the most practically useful solutions in those categories to ensure our customers can run successful and effective businesses themselves.”
Blessing first joined the company in 2013 as a software engineer, playing a pivotal role in the development of many of the brand’s algorithms. Prior to Nugen, Blessing, who has a degree in Computer Science and Maths from the University of York, held several programmer and engineer positions with Team17, where he first connected with Tapper.
