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Tonstudio Gress advances immersive work
At the heart of Stuttgart’s historic Bad Cannstatt district, Tonstudio Gress is celebrating a newly completed 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos control room, built around Genelec 8000 Series monitors to accommodate projects ranging from film and television to museum installations and music.
‘We’ve been working with immersive sound for years,’ Gress explains. ‘The Genelecs gave us better localisation, more detail and less fatigue. It was exactly what we needed.’
Sound win for Buena Vista
His work on the vibrant and fast-paced Buena Vista Social Club musical on Broadway recently won sound designer Jonathan Deans his first Tony Award for Best Sound on a Musical.
Included in his design – keeping ten Cuban musicians locked tight into the rhythm – was an ingenious use of TiMax TrackerD4 precision stagetracking.
Twenty One and counting
Pausing to draw breath between a 73-date, four-continent tour that included Oceania, Central and South America, and Europe in support of their seventh album Clancy and returning to the road for further dates in the US and Canada to promote their ninth, Breach, Twenty One Pilots can reflect on their choice of a Cohesion PA system for all.
Jazzclub Karlsruhe... nice
Having hosted performances by Albert Mangelsdorff and Dexter Gordon among other notable artists, Jazzclub Karlsruhe has secured a lasting place in the jazz world.
After years in temporary venues since opening in the 1960s, the club has now found a permanent home in the heart of Karlsruhe where its latest technical upgrade features a 16-fader Lawo mc²36 audio mixing console and mics from Schoeps.
SynthTemple calls the faithful
SynthTemple – a hybrid space combining a fully operational recording studio with a museum of electronic instruments – in the Melbourne inner-city suburb of Kew has quickly become a major attraction for musicians, producers and synth aficionados from around the globe.
Central to its vision is an immersive monitoring environment built entirely on Genelec’s Smart Active Monitoring technology.