Fred Mollin has been writing and producing music for records, as well as for film and TV, for more than five decades. He’s produced artists including Johnny Mathis, Jimmy Webb, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Wilson, Kristin Chenoweth, JD southern and America, as well as producing duets with Billy Joel, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Gloria Estefan, Miley Cyrus and Gregory Porter.
Since 2018, he has been using Dynaudio LYD 48 three-way speakers along with an 18S sub, but recently decided to install a pair of Core 59 monitors in his studio.
‘Basically, LYD 48 has everything that Core 59 has, but Core 59 has more warmth, more clarity and detail, more depth of field, and obviously they are bigger and work better when louder monitoring is needed,’ Mollin says. ‘I also find that there’s even less fatigue if we work at a moderate level all day with the Core 59s. And when we use our sub, everything becomes completely multi-dimensional. There’s a sort of cinematic sound to the Core 59s coupled with a sub.’
Mollin has also regularly been taking his LYD 48s to other studios when he tracking outside of his own facility, and that’s still the case: ‘We’ll bring the LYDs to different studios as our near-field monitors. I know them and trust what I hear. And when I bring the stems home for mixing, we have the Core system, which I have come to rely on more than any other monitoring system I’ve ever used.’
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