A new studio facility has opened in South London that includes a Dolby Atmos music mixing room equipped with a PMC monitoring system.

The Atmos studio is the latest addition to Wired Masters, set up by Kevin Grainger with Cass Irvine in 2003, with the new facility designed and built by Mark Russell, of Recording Rooms, who worked closely with PMC’s Phil Millross to ensure the acoustics and monitoring system conformed to Dolby’s recommended reverb times, frequency response and SPLs.

Colombian-born and Latin Grammy Award-winning entertainer Maluma continues his Don Juan world tour in North American using a Clair Global Cohesion series PA system, as well as DiGiCo equipment, including SD-Racks, an Orange Box, DMI-Waves cards, and a complete Optocore network loop. The Quantum338 desks at both FOH and monitors are hubs for an audio infrastructure is performing at every show as flawlessly as the artist himself.

The adoption of the Quantum338 was a system-critical decision for the tour, says German Tarazona, who this year moved from mixing monitors to the FOH mix for Maluma (aka Juan Luis Londoño Arias).

Marbella’s boutique Starlite Occident 2023 festival marked the first outdoor live show deployment of Holoplot’s X1 Matrix Array, through a collaboration between A/V specialist Ilusovi Servicios and Sound Architecture, Holoplot’s distributor for Spain and Portugal.

The system delivered unprecedented sound control and provided flawless coverage, including targeted audio for a VIP area, which had previously proven difficult to accommodate with a LR system.

First Aid Kit – aka Swedish musical duo, sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg – are plaing their new album Palomino to audiences across the world with an audio package from Britannia Row.

The band’s close-knit team have welcomed Britannia Row Productions into their fold for some years now, with Production Manager Gareth Russell Russell putting this down, in part, is to the consistency the audio rental house provides. ‘Everyone’s hard work is appreciated by this artist, which is fantastic,’ he says. ‘The quality of crew that we have on this tour is in demand, so it’s testament to the artist that our people continue to make themselves available. Everybody really wants to be here.’

Reflecting demand from international clients, Tel Aviv-based dubbing and postproduction facility Dubidub Studios recently moved to create the first professional Atmos studio in Israel – and has done so using Genelec monitoring. ‘Atmos today already completely dominates the theatrical industry,’ says Dubidub CEO Ami Offir. ‘All major companies in the world would probably nowadays produce their content in Dolby Atmos, not in 5.1 or 7.1.’

Dubidub has upgraded its main studio, creating a space now named The Dream Room. To ensure the space met Dolby’s specifications, Offir enlisted the help of acoustic consultant David Huja, who runs DHA Acoustic Design.