Genelec encourages immersive learning with its smart monitors

The update of the recording studio of the University of Applied Sciences in Lübeck (Germany) has gone from being in 5.1 and stereo to a more immersive object-based mix, thanks to the intelligent active monitoring of Genelec, to improve students' technique.

Having the most modern production tools is one of the objectives of Technische Hochschule – University of Applied Sciences, located in the German city of Lübeck, who has just renovated their studio to provide students with a hands-on experience of the latest recording techniques.

As he explains Ralf-Ingo Koch, PROFESSOR of IT and Design, "Today's full-service agencies need experts and generalists who know all production pathways., the possibilities and limits of the entire media portfolio. That's why we train students in an integral way: from photography and printing to 3D animation, web programming and cinema, going through stereographic productions fulldome with immersive 3D sound".

After tracking the studio monitor market and testing various systems, three-way monitors The Ones of Genelec were chosen for the renovation of the recording studio, mainly for its coaxial design, compact size and high sound quality.

The studio now has six workstations, each with a production suite Dolby Atmos to mix with headphones, to which one more is added with a console Avid S6, a Dolby Atmos mastering suite with RMU and a Genelec monitoring system, composed of the models S360 in LCR positions; 8351 and 8341 how Surround and overhead, and subwoofers 7380 as bass support.

"The Ones models allow you to get a very good sound image, even in the most difficult seating locations, thanks to its wide dispersion pattern-ensures Arne Heyna, laboratory engineer of this university-. Genelec speakers have powerful performance and we are delighted with the sound.".

the GLM software played an important role in the new study to effectively configure all monitors. "There are few systems that can calibrate a large enough number of monitors at the same time," Koch said.. We don't just plan Dolby Atmos formats, but we also equip the studio with projects fulldome in mind, and GLM is very useful for calibrating the different configurations. This was a crucial point in choosing Genelec".

In this line, Heyna adds that "it is very pleasant to make measurements and corrections easily and quickly without much manual work.. We were surprised to see how well and easily it works with GLM, and the possibilities for subsequent individual adjustments. It's also great to save calibration settings directly to monitors, so that they can be activated with the same calibration over and over again".

All signal routing and room monitoring has been programmed and configured: from stereo music production to mixing 9.1.4 Dolby Atmos and 10.1.4+1 fulldome, including backward compatibility with previous technology configurations.

Another challenge overcome, remember Koch, "It has been to familiarize ourselves with the technical and format specifications of Dolby, as we wanted to implement it ourselves. We could have hired a planning office for it., Of course, but instead we wanted to achieve as much as possible independently. So I designed the studio in advance, this time at scale in a 3D modeling program, for perfect speaker orientation".

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