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GENELEC 8250A ACTIVE MONITORS ARE A KEY PART OF NASHVILLE TUNESMITH
AND PRODUCER ERIC SILVER’S PERSONAL STUDIO UPGRADE
— Genelec
8250A’s with AutoCal™ automated calibration system and
Genelec Loudspeaker Manager (GLM™) control network give Silver
“the best mix I'd ever heard come out of my studio!” —
NATICK,
MA, May 18, 2010 — Eric Silver shows just how global a
Nashville music professional can go. Silver is well known in Music
City as a producer and multi-instrumentalist – guitar, mandolin,
violin, banjo, bass and piano – on tour and on tracks for artists
including Keith Urban, Cyndi Lauper, Shania Twain and Victor Wooten,
and as an award-winning composer on over 15 million albums sold, penning
hits for artists like The Dixie Chicks, Diamond Rio and Michelle Wright.
But he has also created a parallel career as a solo artist and music
producer in Brazil, where his forthcoming album is set to join his
international discography, which already encompasses over 70 of his
songs cut by Brazilian artists, including the million-selling acts
Rouge and Nathália Siqueira, and recording projects with pop-rock
sensations NXO and Titas and Brazilian rapper Tulio Dek. With such
a diverse skill set and workload, Silver needed monitors that would
give his personal studio the ultimate degree of accuracy. He found
exactly what he was looking for in the award-winning Genelec
8250A
Bi-Amplified DSP Active Monitoring System. Genelec’s acclaimed
AutoCal™ automated calibration system and Genelec Loudspeaker
Manager (GLM™) control network allowed Silver to tune his room
like never before.
Silver
auditioned as many monitors as he could. “I had heard about
the DSP models but was a bit skeptical about anything computer-‘tuned,’”
he says. Then, he got access to a pair of the 8250s and let AutoCal’s
DSP do an analysis of the studio. The results were immediately clear.
“After the onboard EQ was applied, I could immediately hear
and feel the difference,” he recalls. Testing them on a particularly
complex mix, with horns and lots of background vocals, he exclaims,
“When I initially heard the mix, I was taken aback – this
was the best mix I'd heard come out of my studio. The monitors had
cleared up several issues that we had been dealing with for a few
years. I did a reality check in my car, home and on several friend's
systems, and it sounded consistent everywhere. Most importantly, it
was much easier to arrive at the place where we felt confident in
the mix. Since I've been using the 8250 DSP system, every musician
and engineer who has come into my studio has been blown away by the
sound. I didn't change any placement of chairs, deflection or furniture
– nothing but the speakers. Because I often engineer and play
and sing at the same time, it was very important to be able to record,
and take off my headphones and quickly relate to the sound in the
room. I’m totally happy with the 8250A’s DSP because I
can get the depth and focus I need to layer strings and voices without
things getting cloudy. There is no other system I‘ve used that
has locked in like this for me. Love it.”
The
compact and powerful Genelec 8250A bi-amplified DSP monitoring system
boasts performance comparable to much larger systems and is ideal
in applications where a wide frequency response is needed but space
is limited. The 8250A is the ideal monitoring tool for recording studios,
post-production houses, broadcast installations, digital edit suites,
home studios and mobile production vehicles. The 8250A builds on the
rock-solid technology of the highly acclaimed 8050A, featuring an
ingenious, flow optimized, reflex port that provides solid, clear
and articulated low frequencies without compression, distortion or
port noises. Combined with the advanced Genelec Directivity Control
Waveguide™ (DCW™) and the rounded edges and gently curved
front and sides of the MDE™ (Minimum Diffraction Enclosure™)
enclosure, the result is an astoundingly flat frequency response both
on and off axis. Other benefits include superb imaging precision and
minimum listening fatigue. Carefully designed DSP crossover filters
with extremely steep roll-off characteristics feed dedicated power
amplifiers for each of the low distortion drivers. The 8250A features
magnetic shielding, overload protection circuitry and versatile room
response controls as standard. The Genelec Loudspeaker Manager (GLM)
control network and software enhances further the performance of the
8250A: it features adjustment of levels, distance delays and flexible
room response improvement equalization with the reliable and robust
AutoCal automated calibration system via the GLM control network.
The 8250A has both analog and AES digital inputs in combination with
a digital thru connection.
For
more information, please visit www.genelecusa.com.
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Photo File: Genelec_EricSilver.JPG
Photo Caption: Producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer/songwriter
Eric Silver, at his studio with his Genelec 8250A Bi-Amplified DSP
Active Monitoring System. Photo by John Painter.
Genelec, the pioneer in Active Monitoring technology, is celebrating
over 30 years of designing and manufacturing active loudspeakers for
true and accurate sound reproduction. Genelec is credited with promoting
the concept of active transducer technology, which many manufacturers
are just now incorporating into their products. Since its inception
in 1978, Genelec has concentrated its efforts and resources into creating
active monitors with unparalleled sonic integrity. The result is an
active speaker system that has earned global acclaim for its accurate
imaging, extremely high acoustic output from small enclosures, true
high-fidelity with low distortion, and deep, rich bass.
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with which they are associated.
—For
more information on the complete range of Genelec Active Monitoring
Systems, contact: Genelec Inc., 7 Tech Circle, Natick, MA 01760. Tel:
(508) 652-0900; Fax: (508) 652-0909;
Web: http://www.genelecusa.com/.