Calvert’s production partner Chaz (Dabat) Kkoshi says: "We have just completed the intro music for a new PlayStation game in 5.1 called Dance Flight, a new album by Mona for the record company TLC, and we are in negotiations to start re-mixing Bob Marley’s greatest hits in DVDa. All this work was and will be in 5.1, so there was no choice we had to have the best, and as far as we could see the best is Genelec."
Says Calvert: "Genelec are used in most of the major studios in the world, so there was a sense of commonality in my choice, but the major reason for going with the Finnish solution was the incredible clarity and having a system which could be worked on for hours without tiring."
Completing the re-fit, Calvert found a unique Neve VR with flying faders which came from Sony Music in Tokyo. This desk had already been modified by adding quad outputs, so it was almost 5.1 ready. Finally, Calvert went to Stirling Syco to purchase a 48-track IZ radar system, which he claims "has the best sound of any digital system I have ever heard."
(Lee Baldock)
