Alongside the company’s opening of its audio hub HQ and studio space in London’s Tileyard, TiMax has also announced its collaboration with Sonosphere. Together the two companies will provide a flexible, multi-purpose, immersive audio London hub to demonstrate, educate, promote and deliver immersive audio systems, workflow and content.
The suite offers a 26.4.6 TiMax mixing studio featuring TiMax SoundHub and its spatial audio and show control capabilities. TiMax Tracker D4 is installed with an eight-sensor system, and the studio also offers opportunities to work with TiMax panLab, as well being configured as a 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos studio – which will be certified by Dolby in due course.
Completing the equipment complement are solutions from the wider Focusrite Group sister brands, including FlexPoint loudspeakers from Martin Audio,with amplification delivered via Linea Research 88C06 amplifiers with FlexPoint presets loaded.
The combination reckons to offer ‘a breathtaking opportunity to create, design and deploy spatial audio content’, as well as providing a space for training and education, demonstration, hospitality and networking, showcases and panel discussions.
‘Since TiMax has come under the wing of the Focusrite Group, we have been able to quickly grow and evolve,’ says Rik Kirby, Commercial Manager for TiMax. ‘Our new London hub is the perfect manifestation of where TiMax is today. It coincides with a growing relationship with Sonosphere, demonstrated in a recent sell-out event, the Binaural Human, and we feel that our combined passion, skill and knowledge for spatial audio can help drive a thriving like-minded community.’
‘We work in all areas of immersive audio, be that recorded music, events or broadcast, creating or adapting our clients’ content and delivering it in ways beyond their imagination,’ adds Sonosphere Commercial Director, Duncan Bell. We – Jamie Gosney, Phil Wright and I – are delighted to be working with TiMax, and this new studio as it not only enables us to add value to their activities but also enables Sonosphere’s own commercial opportunities to be fully realised too, under the banner of Sonosphere @ TiMax Spatial Studios.’
‘The world is moving towards spatial audio at an ever-increasing rate, and the new studio will help accelerate this further, we couldn’t be more excited,’ Kirby says. ‘We are looking forward to welcoming the spatial community to our new home.’