Brazil’s Audio Porto Studios installs PMC
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The monitors have been installed in the facility’s main control room, which links to five recording spaces including a large live room with a fibre optic internet connection for live streaming. Audio Porto also has a second, smaller control room and a 250-capacity lounge area with a stage for live gigs, presentations, courses and events.
Rafael Hauck chose PMC monitoring after hearing the MB2 XBD system at Metropolis in London and subsequently visiting PMC’s facility in the UK for further demos.
“I was immediately hooked,” he explains. “It didn’t take long for me to realise that this system was exactly what I wanted for Audio Porto. It is, without doubt, the most revealing system I have ever heard. The speed at which the low-end speaker physically reacts to changes in the programme makes the system sound very precise – at any SPL level. The low-end transience is phenomenal.”
Audio Porto’s PMC MB2 XBD monitoring system was supplied by Carlos de Andrade’s company Visom, which distributes PMC in Brazil. It is currently set up for stereo in Audio Porto’s main control room, but it can also be mounted in a surround configuration, either in the control room or in the facility’s largest live room where it can be used for cinema mixing.
“As a producer, I have always want to feel the sound as well as hear it, but for that to work well the speaker must not distort at higher output levels, which is often the case with other setups,” Hauck says. “With this system, you get even faster, cleaner mids and highs and it remains non-fatiguing. The mix is maintained perfectly, even at high levels. The same can be said for stereo, being the best I have heard anywhere. The balance is just so consistent with this design. The mid and highs are so well integrated they provide a phase coherence that is the best I have experienced on this type of array.”
Located in a 3,000sq.m building where Hauck’s family used to operate a Christmas decorations factory, Audio Porto is a commercial facility that can tackle recording, mixing and post production. Alongside PMC MB2 XBD monitors, Audio Porto’s main control room houses a Euphonix CS3000 console, Pro Tools and Pyramix. The facility also has an extensive collection of new and vintage microphones, outboard gear and instruments including a 1949 Steinway piano, a 1958 Hammond B3, and an array of analogue synths and electronic drum machines.
Recent Audio Porto clients include Grammy Award winning engineer Moogie Canazio who was recording a project with composer Vitor Ramil, a local artist from a well know Gaucho family.
(Jim Evans)
