He has recently been engaged on mixing Pet Shops Boys' The Most Incredible Thing ballet CD and Honey Ryder's latest album.
For nearfield monitoring he has purchased a pair of JBL LSR 4328P and matched JBL LSR4312s subwoofer from JBL resellers, Batmink following a demonstration arranged by UK distributor Sound Technology.
These had been recommended by producer Jon O'Mahony, who owns the six-room LA Sound Studios in Acton, where Kraushaar's Pro Tools studio has been based for the past seven years.
"Instead of travelling around different studios the great advantage here is that I am listening to the same sound every day - there's no need to adjust to the acoustics of the room," he says.
His existing monitors provide good detail in the top end and midranges - but all seemed wanting in the lower registers. "The lack of low end definition had been niggling me for a while and I had been looking for the kind of sound the JBL's deliver. I have tried a lot of different speakers over the years to achieve that but for whatever reason they didn't work ... until I discovered these, and realised just how deep they go."
(Jim Evans)
