Chicago, IL (April 25, 2023)—When chief engineer and studio proprietor Matt Hennessy upgraded his Chicago studio for Dolby Atmos, he selected Genelec’s “The Ones” compact three-way Genelec Smart Active Monitors.
VSOP Studios joined the ranks of Chicago’s elite recording amenities when it opened in 2016, within the metropolis’s West Town neighborhood. Hennessy, who designed the studios with common contractor and architect Lane Wintz, took that up one other notch when he applied Dolby Atmos combine functionality within the facility’s Studio A in 2022.
“It needed to be Genelecs for this transfer into immersive mixing,” says Hennessy, who skilled at Berklee College of Music, the place he studied each jazz efficiency and manufacturing earlier than starting a two-decades-plus profession manning consoles for artists together with Twista, Jay-Z, Beyoncé and DMX. “I’ve been utilizing the 1031As for the reason that early 2000s, with a 7070 sub. They’ve been in just about each room I’ve ever labored in, and I really like them.” Those similar 1031A displays he’d had for therefore lengthy are nonetheless working, in VSOP Studios’ B room.
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The new Genelec 7.1.4 array contains three 8351B SAM studio displays because the LCR entrance array, eight 8341As for rear, facet and overhead surrounds, and a 7380A SAM subwoofer.
“The sound is nice, as at all times, however the computerized calibration functionality is important for monitoring on this format,” he explains, referring to Genelec’s proprietary applied sciences together with GLM 4 (Genelec Loudspeaker Manager) software program for connecting, calibrating and controlling a SAM system. “You wish to have the audio system exactly positioned and equidistant from one another, however you possibly can’t at all times obtain that symmetry completely with a dozen audio system, and there are at all times obstacles and points of the room itself that may be acoustically difficult. We received them as well-positioned as we may, and the Genelecs sounded unbelievable simply out of the field. But as soon as we ran the SAM tuning, with part and time alignment and bass administration, it was evening and day! It simply blew me away. That’s why we needed to have Genelecs.”