NFTS installs PSI systems in major refit
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The NFTS provides practical tuition across its postgraduate courses including its Sound Design MA and Composing MA. To ensure the utmost teaching quality, both two-year courses enrol only eight students per year, so each student benefits from the luxury of their own fully equipped room for the duration of the course.
Comprising A14-M, A17M, A21-M and A125-M sub units, a total of 66 PSI Audio speakers have been installed throughout eight surround post-production rooms, a large dubbing suite, a TV production room, a small studio and eight music composition rooms.
Jeremy Rodeschini, NFTS senior supervising engineer says: “We didn’t have a firm idea of which speaker brand we would choose. We wanted to listen to what was out there in the market, allow the manufacturers to present their products, install them for a while, carry out some objective tests and then make our choice.
“Our evaluation lasted three months and involved 17 different monitors from five manufacturers. NFTS staff, students and external professionals were involved in three phases of critical listening tests, analysis and elimination, which finally allowed to us to realise how good the PSI Audio speakers were. They were so good in fact that we hadn’t originally planned for new monitors in the eight music composition rooms, but as more people sampled the speakers, everyone agreed that we had to add a further eight pairs of A17-M.”
Jeremy continues: ”A number of important factors became apparent to us when testing the PSI Audio equipment. The PSI Audio monitors give minimal fatigue, which is really important to us, as we want our students to spend as much time as possible experimenting and learning. They can be in the studios 24/7 if they want.
“PSI audio offers accurate and true sound and even a small adjustment on a compressor, EQ or reverb is apparent. This will be a fantastic tool to help the students develop their critical listening skills and usage of the tools. The monitors have now become part of each room, they blend in; you know that they’re there and that you can trust them.”
(Jim Evans)
