The latest works by U2 and Lamb were powered by Genelec

Producer Andy Barlow has been using Genelec monitors for two decades and the most recent investment was made following the co-production of 'Songs of Experience’, U2's latest album.

Andy Barlow has owned and used monitors Genelec, brand distributed in Spain by Audio-Technica Iberia, for more than 20 years, in a career that has combined commercial and critical successes, both with Lamb and production and remix work with artists such as David Gray, Elbow, Placebo and, most recently, U2.

Among the equipment he uses from Genelec is a pair of monitors 8030 two others 1238 and a complementary set of coaxial monitors 3 ways 8331 from the series The Ones, to use as a mobile system and mix where necessary.

Andy Bensley, who works with Sound Distribution, the Genelec distributor in the United Kingdom, installed the new ones 1238 in the Brighton studio. “It's where I've done most of my mixing work last year., from U2 to David Gray and Lamb,” explica Barlow.

Meanwhile, los 8331 were used to prepare Lamb's last album. Both the monitors 1238 like the 8331 benefit from the SAM technology of Genelac, allowing Andy to use GLM calibration software to optimize the performance of each monitor for his own personal acoustic environment.

Andy's latest investment in Genelec monitoring has been made following the co-production of Songs of Experience, U2's new album.

“We used the large 1238CF monitors in a makeshift studio inside the Canadian Embassy in Dublin. I was in front of Bono's house, in a large room that needed all the acoustic help we could get. Los 1238 and the use of GLM software were of great help in that sense. The album has been made mainly in places like this, mansions, hotels and places of this type. The only real study we used was Rick Rubin's, the Shangri-La studio in Malibu, in which there are a pair of 8050”.

Genelec monitors were installed in a smaller room at the embassy 8351, who also belong to The Ones family.

Five years awarded

This family has also been a protagonist in recent weeks as it has received the TEC Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement in the studio monitors category.. This is the fifth edition in which Genelec receives this award. The Ones join the models 8430, 8351, 8010 and Series M that were awarded in previous years.

Los NAMM TEC Awards They are the 'Oscars' of the professional audio and recording industry that recognize the best products that have appeared within the music creation sector., live performances, video games, television and cinema, and in which tribute is also paid to such creative characters as Les Paul, Quincy Jones, Joe Perry, Pete Townshend and Stevie Wonder for their musical contributions.