PRO AUDIO REVIEWS Hearing is Believing “I am truly blown away by their balance, quality and spatialisation.” - Julian Treasure, Chairman of The Sound Agency Julian Treasure is a sought-after and top-rated interna- in the world’s media, including TIME Magazine; The tional speaker on sound. Collectively his five TED talks Economist; The Times; TV and radio in the UK, US, on various aspects of sound and communication have Canada, Australia and Netherlands, as well as many been viewed an estimated 14 million times. He has been international trade and business magazines and web- widely featured as a sound and communication expert sites.www.ted.com/speakers/ julian_treasure Interview with Julian http://youtu.be/03imG6Ok6Rc Best of video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgQlB0mkSrY METROPOLIS STUDIOS Metropolis Studios in London is the home to the most now using the LCD-X in their Studios. Both have been in successful independent recording, mastering, creative audio mastering for over 25 years. Reading a list of and production facility in Europe. Led Zeppelin, The records that Stuart and John have mastered is like a Rolling Stones, U2, Rihanna, One Direction, Adele, and who’s who of modern music and global artists such as Lana Del Rey have all recorded, mixed or mastered with Led Zeppelin, Lana Del Ray, Amy Winehouse, The Prod- Metropolis in the last 12 months. Metropolis’ top two igy, Lorde, Ed Sheeran, Knife Party and Disclosure to mastering engineers Stuart Hawkes and John Davis are name a few. Interview with Stuart Hawkes: http://goo.gl/NDtN0v Metropolis Website: http://www.thisismetropolis.com/ Ken Andrews is the mix engineer of Paramore's No.1 Mind blown. What these monitors do for me in the Album. Ken has also mixed and produced for Moby, studio is nothing short of miraculous and in the last 3 Failure, Beck, Nine Inch Nails, A Day To Remember and months they have become a huge part of my everyday M83 to name a few. workflow as a mixer, producer, and artist. Do I still use speakers? Yes I do. But I use them in tandem with my “They’ve made high resolution speakers that you wear LCD-Xs. When I’m working in my studio, I prefer to mix on your head. And that’s exactly what they sound like. it up throughout the day, between speakers and the All the rich gradations of bass and subtle shadings of LCD-Xs just to keep it interesting and give my ears a high frequencies all come through just like an amazing change of scenery. But if I don’t have access to my mix set of speakers in a fantastic control room. But the twist room, I continue to work on the LCD-Xs alone. So who is you can be anywhere! Well maybe not exactly am I recommending these monitors to? Professional anywhere as these phones are, like most high-end head- audio people, for sure. I could see forensic audio people phones, open back. So you hear a bit of what’s happen- using them, as well. And audiophiles are clearly going to ing around you. If there are people talking nearby, you’ll love these. The fact is, when you look at the price of the hear them a bit, and if your in a really noisy place, it Audeze line, and you compare that to its loudspeaker won’t be so good. So you need some level of privacy, counterparts, you are getting an incredible deal. To but what you don’t need is an expensive acoustically match the quality of the monitoring experience that designed room, with an expensive set of studio moni- Audeze provides, you’ll be shelling out at a bare mini- tors to hear truly neutral, high resolution audio. You just mum 5-10 thousand dollars, probably much higher, just need a relatively quiet space where a bit of open-back for speakers, and that’s to say nothing of the room that headphone bleed won’t bother anybody, and you’re you will need to put them in. So yes, compared to other good. And that’s a game changer in my world. I can now headphones, they are expensive, but compare them to sit in my backyard and mix now. Not just do a few things professional studio speakers, and that’s where you and wait to properly evaluate it later in the studio, but realize that they are are actually a ridiculous value.” actually mix a song and keep the results. Ears happy. Full Interview with Ken Andrews : http://goo.gl/Ruf4hN Kens’ Website: http://kenandrews.tumblr.com/ Just when you thought the reference standard had been permanently set by the LCD-3s, out comes the X. Praised and celebrated across all corners of modern differences can matter in some situations. We care music, the Dutch trio Noisia’s production techniques about those differences. And so do Audeze. So the and brutally beautiful creations exist in a premier league LCD-X is a little more accurate, a little less flattering. of their own. Noisia have released music on Jay-Z’s, Which is a good thing in the studio, so bigups! And Skrillex and deadmau5’s. As well as remixing the likes of besides that, I love the fact that with the LCD-X I can Katie Perry, The Prodigy and Moby. “Wow, just when just plug it into my phone now, it doesn't necessarily you thought the reference standard had been perma- need an external amp for proper volume. The LCD-XC nently set by the LCD-3s, out comes the X. It's a very are the best closed-back studio headphones I've heard.” subtle difference, but as every producer knows, those Noisia interview: http://goo.gl/RIcr1l Noisia Website: https://www.noisia.nl/ “World's leading night club sound system's designer” - Dave Parry - Dave Parry is known across the world for his use of 'The LCD-Xs are astonishing headphones. I have been technology. He was the first to bring digital processing testing them with different engineers in our new into clubland as well as surround-sound technology and Shanghai studio and all are amazed by the clarity and line array systems. He works on the premise of supply- detail thar compares closely with the high-end monitors ing quality components, innovative design and superior we have installed there. I have also been using them programming to provide the best possible sound and with DJ/Producers who work in the digital domain and light systems. Through his work creating the world’s all have been stunned by the performance and sonic best sound sytems (Fabric was voted the best club in quality of the LCD-X; everyone who tried them could the world for 9 years running), and more recently, not go back to their usual monitoring afterwards. India's first superclub Elevate in New Delhi. He has Personally, hearing some well-loved music on them made a career of bringing nightclubbing into the realm both at home and in the studio blew me away and we of full-blown sensory experience. will be specifying LCD-Xs in all our future studio projects” BBC Tomorrows World "World's leading sound system's designer” Mondo dr Magazine “A forerunner in terms of technology, the magnitude of Night Magazine what has been done with Dave Parry's expertise is “Industry legend, technological wizard, always looking nothing short of phenomenal” forward to the next stage”. http://thump.vice.com/en_uk/words/dave-parry-fabric-matter-ministry-of-sound-camdenpalace-sound-lighting-engineer-designer http://mosttechnical.in “These headphones are the closest thing I've found to ROB SWIRE full-range monitors that you can travel with. They’re incred- ibly detailed. The LCD-X's are on an entirely different level. I'm not letting a single mix or master outside of the studio Knife Party unless I've checked on these first.” http://knifeparty.com/bio Pendulum& http://www.pendulum.com/about FRANK FILIPETTI “These are not just the best headphones I've ever heard, they're the best headphone experience I've ever experienced.” Frank Filipetti is a music producer, engineer and mixer 1998 for Best Engineered Album and Best Pop Album. A who was born in Bristol, Connecticut. He was one of the proponent of surround sound, Filipetti has made nine first engineers to embrace digital. His credits include 5.1/DVD projects, including works for Billy Joel, Carly mixes for such number one singles as Foreigner's I Want Simon, James Taylor and Meatloaf. He has recorded and to Know What Love Is and I Don't Want to Live Without mixed numerous live albums including the Pavarotti and You (which he also produced), the 1983 KISS album, Friends series, 1999's Minnelli on Minnelli: Live at the Lick It Up and The Bangles' song, Eternal Flame. Filipetti Palace, James Taylor's Live at the Beacon and most engineered and produced Survivor's 1988 album, Too recently, Elton John's One Night Only. He is also record- Hot to Sleep. He also recorded and mixed albums for ed original cast albums for A Funny Thing Happened on Carly Simon, Barbra Streisand, Vanessa Williams, the Way to the Forum featuring Nathan Lane, the Gram- George Michael, 10,000 Maniacs, Lauren Kinhan, and my-winning Annie Get Your Gun and 2000's Tony James Taylor, whose Hourglass Filipetti produced, Award-winning and Grammy-nominated Aida, among engineered and mixed, winning Grammy Awards in others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Filipetti "I keep hearing things on my masters I've never heard before with these phones which is quite something”.