Counting Manic Street Preachers, Goldfrapp, Hot Chip and Bat for Lashes on his resume, producer and sound engineer David Wrench has added a pair of Unity Audio Rock MkII monitors to his London studio.
‘I’m a huge Rock’s fan and bought my first pair a while ago,’ he admits. ‘They’re different to any of my existing monitors – I use three different sets of monitor in order to get a good contrast. The Rocks low mid is excellent and that’s an area where I find a lot of smaller speakers tend to struggle and it’s such an important frequency band.’
Mixing in 7.1 surround, he added a further five Rock monitors to complete a 7.1 live backing track mix for Frank Ocean: ‘I heard the mix results on a huge festival PA system and once again there were no nasty surprises, perfect translation from the studio to the stage,’ he reports.
Wrench began his career in the 1990s, after being inspired by dance music, and in 1990 released the first Welsh–language acid house 12-inch, ‘Lledrith Lliw’, as Nid Madagascar. He has since released a sporadic sequence of albums under his own name and has gone on to become a multi-award-winning producer and engineer.
Unity Audio’s Rock MkII claims ‘audiophile performance’ from a compact footprint. An active design , it is equipped with a 100W discrete bi-polar low feedback amplifier with custom-wound transformers. Drivers comprise a 50kHz folded ribbon tweeter and 180mm woofer with a 0.2mm aluminium cone, giving a frequency response of 37Hz–38kHz (±3dB).
