UK producer/engineer Alan Moulder has added pair of PMC twotwo.8 monitors to his personal mix room at Assault & Battery Studios in Northwest London.

With a CV that includes Nine Inch Nails – as well as The Killers, Arctic Monkeys and Foals) – Moulder encountered PMC monitors while working at Trent Reznor’s studio on Nine Inch Nails’ Hesitation Marks album. Reznor has been a user of both PMC MB2 XBD-A mid-fields and AML2 close-fields for several years. ‘I’d heard about them, and working on Trent’s album, I liked them a lot,’ Moulder recalls.

In early 2014, Assault & Battery Studios a pair of the largest speakers in PMC’s twotwo series, the twotwo.8s, for evaluation. After his experience mixing Nine Inch Nails on PMCs, Moulder wanted to try them. ‘I’ve got used to working with certain monitors over the years, so I didn’t really want to like the PMCs,’ he admits. ‘But I instantly did. They’re very flat but very detailed, even at low levels, which I like. I will often spend a long time working on very sonically dense tracks, and you can’t crank the speakers too loud all the time when you’re working like that.’

From his earliest work, Moulder has had a reputation for producing great results when tracking and mixing very full arrangements. ‘It’s true,’ he reflects. ‘If people have massive track counts, they come to me. I never seem to get minimal stuff to work on. But that means I need speakers that can give you detail. With the twotwo.8s, you still get the full picture, even at low levels – the response is consistent at different volumes, and you can still hear the bottom end in full.’

Moulder’s first sizeable project with the twotwo.8s  was premixing tracks on Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s soundtrack album for the film thriller Gone Girl. The mixing on the soundtrack was completed on the PMCs at Reznor’s studio in LA.

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