Europe's Largest Recording Studio Installs New Genelec 1236A Monitors

Metropolis in London replaces the Genelec 1035A monitors, operational since its inauguration in 1989, with the new 1236A.

Metropolis Studios in London has installed a new monitoring system for its Studio B consisting of a pair of SAM 1236A monitors from Genelec as the main system, and a pair of 8351A nearfield monitors, also from Genelec.

The first work done with the new monitoring system has been for the American artist will.i.am (also known as William James Adams, singer of the group Black Eyed Peas). Previously, in that same studio was recorded 25, Adele's latest album.

In the famous Metropolis studios artists such as Amy Winehouse, The Verve, Florence and The Machine, Paloma Faith, or Lauren Hill, and many others have recorded.

The 1236A monitors replace the pair of Genelec 1035A monitors that have been installed in Studio B since its opening in 1989. These have been running uninterrupted and flawlessly for 27 years, so it's no surprise that the studio wants to continue to enjoy the unrivalled quality offered by the monitors created by Genelec.

For those interested in historical data, you may be interested to know that 1989 was also the year that the 1035 monitors were launched on the market, which were quickly accepted by the industry as being the most powerful and clean monitors available at the time, spreading rapidly in the UK, USA and Japan

The 1236A is the most modern reference system and offers the highest accuracy for a large format monitoring system in the music, film and post-production recording studio.

Genelec's 1236A monitoring system and its RAM XL amplifier module (which is individually calibrated for each system) have been designed to meet the extreme performance requirements of the most demanding recording and mixing environments. Designed to be flush mounted, the 1236A incorporates a large Directivity Control Waveguide (DCW) that provides an extremely accurate image both on and off axis and a neutral sound. Advanced AutoCal and GLM technologies allow for automatic alignment of each monitor with the acoustic environment and with different listening positions.

The studio has also upgraded its near-field monitors by installing a pair of SAM 8351A monitors.

The 8351A Nearfield Monitor combines advanced Acoustically Concealed Woofers (ACW) technology with the Minimum Diffraction Coaxial (MDC) transducer and Maximised Directivity Control Waveguide (MaxDCW) system to deliver controlled directivity over a very wide bandwidth. It also incorporates AutoCal and GLM technologies, and provides identical results whether installed vertically or horizontally.