NATICK,
MA, September 28, 2009 — If a music dictionary sought to define the
word “eclectic,” it would do well to simply refer to Jeffery Alan
Jones. The composer, arranger, pianist, producer and sound designer has
enjoyed a successful and varied career. He has been involved with music
and sound for feature films, including The Gold Retrievers, featuring
Billy Zane and Steve Guttenberg, Man Woman Film starring Cameron Diaz
and The Seamstress, featuring Lance Henrikson. Jones has also written
arrangements and orchestrations for several shows and ensembles,
including the Chicago Pops Orchestra, the Hollywood Symphony and the
Culver City Civic Light Opera. He was the winner of the 2002 Los
Angeles Composer Competition for his orchestral composition, Cinema
Fantastique. He also performs regularly with his jazz trio. Most
recently, he completed the sound design for Ghostbusters: The Video
Game, which came out earlier this year and is being re-released for
more platforms in time for Halloween. What ties this varied array of
media and genres together for Jones are the
Genelec monitors that he relies upon in his two studios,
Alan Audio Works,
in Hollywood and Long Beach, California. The Hollywood branch of the
studio features a surround-monitoring field consisting of five Genelec
8030A Bi-Amplified Monitors and a
7060A Active Subwoofer (also known as the LSE Power Pak). The Long Beach studio utilizes Genelec
1030A monitors in a 5.1 configuration.
Genelecs’
clarity, articulateness, and smooth frequency response are unmatched;
these unique traits have lent themselves to the challenges that Jones
faced on each of these projects. “The amount of sound effects on
Ghostbusters was insane – the track count was up to around 160 for some
of the cinematic sequences in the game,” he says. “Some of the scenes
are really immersive with ghosts swirling around you 360 [degrees].
Using the Genelec 8030s set up in surround, we were able to monitor the
audio to perfectly track the movement of the ghost characters on
screen. There are also lots of chase sequences, as well as many other
opportunities for sound effects, and the Genelec surround field allowed
us to keep them highly cinematic and authentic-sounding. We were able
to get very aggressive in the surround mix and really able to exploit
and support the amazing CGI this game has. It’s a sound designer’s
dream. The Genelecs were incredibly accurate and responsive. And moving
between my studios, which have different models of Genelec speakers, I
could never hear any difference in detail. They are the best game audio
speakers in the world.”
Reflecting Hollywood’s continuing ardor
for turning games into movies, Jones also working on the sound design
and ADR for director Gordon Chan’s upcoming martial-arts/action film
King of Fighters, starring Maggie Q and Ray Park. “This is a movie
based on a huge game series where I had to bring all dimensions in
which the characters travel to life using sound,” Jones explains.
“There’s a lot of surround-sound sound design that plays an integral
part in the fast paced action sequences and the Genelecs always deliver
with extremely accurate audio monitoring.”
“In addition to the
Genelec monitors’ excellent surround-field imaging, they also provided
a high level of detail and nuance which helped immensely with the ADR
work on the project. It’s crucial to be able to hear the ambient sound
behind the original scenes so that we can match it while redubbing
dialogue,” he says. “The same goes for matching the timbre of each
actor’s voice as he or she delivers his or her new lines. Although our
actors covered the frequency spectrum, the Genelecs enable us to hear
and match every little detail.”
For Dustin White and the Jeff
Jones Trio, Jones’ acclaimed excursion into live and recorded jazz,
Jones adds his piano, composition and arranging chops to the mix as
well as producing and mixing their recordings. Working on the group’s
latest LP, Love’s Never Been So Nice, he explains, “For jazz, you need
a lot of clarity. You want to be able to make every instrument as
distinct as possible. The Genelecs brought out the highs of the cymbals
and the deep lows of the string bass. The guitars, piano, and horns in
the midranges were also able to occupy their own distinct spaces in the
mix. Everyone who has heard our LP loves it and has complemented on
both the music and the great sonic beauty of the album. I have no doubt
that the speakers had a lot to do with how it all turned out. I’m a
Genelec fan for life. I love these monitors.”
For more information, please visit
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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.