Part of the Spanish Mediapro image and sound postproduction company, Telson.Tres60 recently opened new studios at its facility in Madrid, with two Dolby Atmos Home Entertainment certified rooms – the first in Spain to have been certified by Dolby. Key to their operation are Genelec Smart Active Monitors, including the high-SPL S360 two-way model.
‘The system upgrades were driven by client demands, for example Movistar asks for everything in Dolby Atmos,’ explains sound production co-ordinator, Ana Belén Martín. ‘We must be able to fit the standards of each of these clients. This means that we have to generate much more material than before because of the different types of broadcast formats – from a mobile phone to a Smart TV.’
The Telson.Tres60 team, alongside Unitecnic – Mediapro’s engineering company that handled the installation – turned to local Genelec partner Audio-Technica Iberia for the 7.1.4 monitoring solution. In both rooms S360A monitors were installed in the LCR positions, with four 1032C monitors as surrounds and the same number of 8340As covering the overhead channels. Low frequency content is handled by a 7382A subwoofer, and with all of the monitors being calibrated and controlled via Genelec’s GLM loudspeaker management software, the monitoring system is able to provide the flexibility required to work to different standards.
‘These are the only two Dolby Atmos Home rooms in Spain approved to work at a 79dB SPL monitoring level,’ says Pelayo Gutiérrez, sound supervisor and head of the fiction sound department at Telson.Tres60. ‘Ricardo Viñas from Dolby was responsible for adjusting the rooms and equalising them to the three required levels: at 85dB for cinema, 79dB for Netflix and 82dB for Telefónica.’
Alongside the two Dolby Atmos Home rooms, the facility features a 7.1 room, two 5.1 rooms, a Foley room and a movie theatre, which also benefit from Genelec monitoring technology. ‘In terms of technical expectations, Genelec has delivered exactly what we anticipated,’ Gutiérrez says. ‘We are very happy – it’s a perfect set-up. We have real confidence when it comes to making premixes here and moving on to the movie theatre or vice versa – the mixes translate perfectly.’
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