With Oscar-winning film credits such as Gravity and Slumdog Millionaire in its portfolio, Pinewood-based Sound 24 is one of the leading post production sound facilities specialising in film and TV.
While Glenn Freemantle picked up a 2014 Oscar for best sound editing on Gravity, his Sound 24 partner Niv Adiri shared the award for best achievement in sound mixing on the same movie, while both have many BAFTA award credits to their name.
Both are highly discerning when it comes to sound production, and in upgrading their studio at Pinewood to an immersive Dolby Atmos mix room they have chosen HARMAN’s JBL 7 Series reference monitors for all monitoring; front, surround and overhead. The system incorporates JBL’s new Intonato 24 monitor controller for Atmos. All were supplied by reseller Jigsaw 24.
Ben Todd, Application Engineering Manager at Sound Technology Ltd, provided a system design and demonstrated the recently introduced JBL 7 Series. Having tried the JBL solution out, the studio chose the 708i for LCR and 705i for Surround and Overheads.
The JBL 705i and 708i feature a patent-pending Image Control Waveguide and custom driver technologies for both the HF and LF. The resulting high output is unrivalled in their sector, which combined with their linearity under pressure make them particularly suited to post-production applications.
In terms of system design, Avid’s S6 console provides the control interface with ProTools, the output of which is sent via the Avid Omni to the JBL Intonato 24 monitor controller. Within its comprehensive on-board DSP, the Intonato takes care of routing, level and session EQ’s. Signal leaves the controller using Harman’s proprietary digital audio bus ‘Blu-Link’ and is passed to the Crown DCi amplifier. Within the DSP on the amplifiers, all the of the Dolby calibration for SPL levels, EQ and delay is inserted along with the presets for the passive 7 Series monitors, keeping the room line-up consistent at all times. This allows the Intonato to do fine adjustments for each session as required.
“All these tools make it very flexible and avoid the need to monitor a project somewhere else.” says Adiri.
HARMAN's JBL Professional is distributed in the UK by Sound Technology Ltd. For further information please call 01462 480000 and visit www.soundtech.co.uk.
In an elegant compact form factor, the optional Intonato Desktop Controller provides live control of the features needed during sessions. Instant recall of user-created Scenes allows down-mix monitoring and monitoring of selected sources via main and alternate speaker systems. The Desktop Controller is connected to Intonato 24 using a single CAT5 cable and powered over Ethernet.