The Central Arizona College in Coolidge, Arizona, has a new control room – and a new lesson in surround sound for its students.
The Signal Peak campus, one of ten locations in the Pinal County Community College District, has opened its third control room to provide a teaching environment for its Entertainment Industry Technology AAS recording engineering programme. Its monitoring system is able to accommodate 15 students and allows instructors to move about the room as needed.
‘I’ve been a fan of Genelecs for years and when Central Arizona College asked me for product recommendations, I knew exactly what to specify for monitoring,’ says Spunky Brunone, owner of The Audio DAWg, a Dallas-area full-service pro audio sales, installation and design company that handled the studio installation.
The Genelec 8260A monitors in use are equipped with AutoCal automated room calibration, which provides consistent and accurate monitoring for a multichannel audio system in widely varying room environments.
In addition to the monitors, The Audio DAWg also installed an Avid D-Control 48-track console and Pro Tools 9 HD system, and they also provided a large selection of microphones, mic preamps and outboard gear. But the Genelec 8260A monitors are the heart of the room. ‘The ability of the 8260As to calibrate themselves for any configuration of students and instructors in the room is nothing short of amazing,’ says Brunone. ‘They can calibrate themselves to their location. And that’s very important for a teaching environment – students can be assured they’re hearing things as they’re supposed to, no matter how many people are in the room. And they sound great, so listener fatigue is never an issue. The students and the teachers have been blown away by the sound and the performance.’
‘We want our students to get hands-on experience working with artists in a real-world studio setting so they are better prepared for a career as a recording engineer, and we want to expose our students to the high-end cutting-edge recording technology they are likely to encounter in a professional environment,’ explains Dan Bush, Instructor for Recording Engineering and Digital Audio Workstations for Central Arizona College. ‘The Genelec 8260s are by far the most accurate, transparent and sonically true-to-life mid-field monitors I have ever used. People are blown away by how amazing they sound, even compared to other high-end monitors that our studios employ. And the room calibration software is great – it makes a big difference to ensure that optimal monitoring will occur in a space that can be otherwise difficult to control. I really have nothing but praise for these Genelecs.’
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