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