Since its founding, Dallas Audio Post has proven a versatile and adept postproduction firm, handling projects ranging from TV and film to corporate, live event, political, video game and sports. Recently, the facility became the first US facility to install Genelec’s new 1237A Tri-Amplified Smart Active Monitor (SAM) system, featuring proprietary AutoCal and GLM technologies and class-D amplification.

The company’s current facility was built from the ground up and it is the fourth home the firm has had since its founding. ‘It has five audio studios,’ says Roy Machado, President & Creative Director. ‘Four are traditional TV mixing stages with adjoining recording areas, and the fifth is a theatrical film mixing stage – the only one of its kind in Texas and probably the only one of its kind between New York and LA – and all five rooms have their own Pro Tools HD rigs.

‘If you go back through our history, Dallas Audio Post has been a Genelec user since its inception 20 years ago. We started out using 1030As in our first incarnation, and as time moved along we started using 1032s for one of our rooms in an LCR format with an array of 1031As for surround. We also had another room that was using 8050s. So we’ve always had a lot of trust in Genelec monitoring, and the quality of our mixes was very solid and would transport well to broadcast or live environments. Moving forward to this facility we still have one room that is outfitted with 1032s in LCR and a 1031 array for surround mixing.

‘In our current facility, we have a medium- to large-sized room, and we had been using the 8050s but wanted something a big larger. So when we heard that Genelec was coming out with a 1237A, we were very interested in those because we knew not only that the speaker would sound great, but that the integration of onboard DSP and GLM software would deliver something great for us. As soon as we could, we called our dealer and started the ball rolling to be one of the first, if not the first, 1237A facility. We sourced them through Sweetwater Sound and Senior Sales Engineer Robert Williams. I think we ended up getting S/N 2 and S/N 4.

‘Once we put the 1237As in the room and then shot the room with the GLM software, we were absolutely in love. The room tuning software is spot-on – we double-checked it against other room tuning tools that we look at and use, and we confirmed that the GLM software is exactly on-point, both in the frequency domain and the time domain. The quality of the sound is outstanding. This is the first time that we have had a three-way speaker at Dallas Audio Post. Typically all the other Genelecs that we have had been two-way speakers. The extra definition that you get from having a three-way speaker is fantastic. We already are making plans to upgrade our A room, which has the 1032s and 1031 arrays, to use the 1237As as well, because they are that good.’