AUDIO FOR BROADCAST, POST, RECORDING AND MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION V16.3 MAY 2017 • ISSN 1477-4216 News & Analysis Monitoring Supplement 4 Leader 35 Creating Ultimate Point Source “The Ones” — Aki Mäkivirta exclusively reveals 4 News the design philosophy behind two brand new Conventions, installs, appointments and biz bites. coaxial monitors from Genelec. 10 Products 38 Monitor setup New introductions and announcements. Positioning, tuning and decoupling: Donato Masci gives some practical advice for production 58 Broadcast aside pros setting up their own rooms. Speaker based production will evolve to objects or ambisonics — Dennis reminds us that taking 41 Monitoring products audio to the next level demands a change in A look at what’s new and happening. production methods. 46 Meet Your Maker We travel to Switzerland to meet the craftsmen Craft who make PSI Audio monitors by hand in 24 Diego Calvetti Yverdon-les-Bains. Chart hits from Tuscany: we find Calvetti’s Platinum Studio has the X factor. 48 Equalisation and reliable monitoring 27 Jason Graves Our room design guru Philip Newell busts some Jason Graves is a BAFTA Award-winning composer myths with exclusive extracts from his “AES and producer who has brought his passion presents” 4th edition of Recording Studio Design, for music to projects such as Far Cry Primal, recently published by Focal/Routledge Press. Until Dawn, Tomb Raider and Dead Space. 51 Demands for a modern 30 Cenzo Townshend studio monitor A music producer, engineer and mixer who has An insight into Amphion’s approach to speaker- worked with artists including Kaiser Chiefs, U2, building. Snow Patrol, Florence + the Machine, Friendly Fires, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, The Maccabees 53 Developing the Neumann and Thirty Seconds to Mars. Townshend has twice KH 80 DSP monitor been awarded MPG ‘Mix Engineer Of The Year’, Andrew Goldberg explains the challenges and and owns Decoy Studios in Suffolk. development process behind Neumann’s first studio monitor with digital signal processing. Technology Reviews 54 Forest acoustics and diffusors A unique approach using unequal length 14 Tracktion Copper Reference acoustical delay lines, open at both ends, to shape 16 Sennheiser MK4 Digital reflections. The “Wing family” of diffusors aims to microphone work with the human ear and brain. 18 Antelope Audio Orion32 HD 19 Audified MixChecker Business & TNT Voice Executor 56 Your business 20 PSP FETpressor Dan spends a virtual day with producer/engineer 21 IK Multimedia ARC System 2 Joe Chiccarelli, reminding us that there’s an entire other career taking place in between the & Sonarworks Reference 3 musical notes. 23 Primacoustic London 12 kit EDITORIAL ADVERTISEMENT SALES Home of the Editor: Nigel Jopson Resolution Awards and Line Up Email: [email protected] EUROPE: Jo Gilbert, tel: +44 1293 871961 Email: [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS George Shilling, Jon Thornton, Dan Daley, US and INTERNATIONAL: Dennis Baxter, Gijs Friesen, Russell Cottier, Jory Mackay, Philip Newell, Keith Holland, Jeff Turner, tel: +1 415 455 8301 Simon Clark, Bill Lacey, Rob James, Email: [email protected] AWARDS David Kennedy, Andrew Levine PRODUCTION AND LAYOUT Published by S2 Publications Ltd Dean Cook, Tel: +44 1444 410675 The Magazine Production Company Email: [email protected] Editorial office: PO Box 531, Tel: +44 1273 467579 Haywards Heath RH16 4WD, UK Email: [email protected].