UK drum ’n’ bass DJ, producer and musician Danny Byrd has upgraded his personal studio with Genelec 8351 monitoring – the first pair to be sold in the UK.

Byrd previously used a pair of 1030As and has return to the Genelec fold with a pair of the company’s flagship monitors:  ‘I’ve been working with the 8351s for about four months now and I’m delighted with how things are going,’ he comments. ‘I do my creative work in my writing studio at home which is not kitted out like a conventional studio – this can present some monitoring challenges, especially when comparing mixes that I might have done elsewhere. When setting up the 8351s, the use of AutoCal software proved invaluable in ironing out any room response anomalies and allowing the accurate soundstage of the Genelecs to shine through.’

The 8351s were supplied by London-based audio recording equipment specialist The Studio Shop. Proprietor Niki Melville-Rogers has worked with Byrd before, and is familiar with his equipment requirements: ‘As you’d expect, Danny has very discerning taste in equipment,’ he says. ‘When he was looking for a new pair of monitors for his writing room I suggested the 8351s as I knew the inbuilt SAM intelligence would deliver accurate and powerful sound reproduction in his untreated room.’

‘This was the first set of 8351s sold in the UK and it’s great they’ve lived up to the fanfare,’ adds Andy Bensley of Source Distribution, the UK distributor for Genelec. ‘Uncalibrated and properly calibrated monitors are worlds apart, and I think Danny could really hear the difference after we ran the AutoCal software.’

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