A pair of truly accurate studio monitors are arguably the most important pieces of equipment in any professional recording studio.
Music Studio
Telling the truth
Every single decision you make in the recording or mixing process involves your monitors telling you the absolute truth about what you’re hearing: otherwise it’s like trying to paint a picture while wearing sunglasses. Genelec monitors deliver a completely truthful reference, allowing you hear the finest details of every sound without any artificial colouration. What you hear is the real deal.
Free your creativity
Once you know you can trust your monitors, then artist, engineer and producer alike can all really focus on what’s important – the creative process. Genelec's legendary neutrality ensures that your monitors will never get in the way of making great records.
Challenges we can help you with
Getting your mixes to translate
Ever got a track sounding superb in your studio - only to find it falls down flat when you hear it on another system?
What you hear from any studio monitor is potentially hugely influenced by the room, so it’s easy to find your mixes sounding very different in other spaces. Our aim has always been to minimise the room’s negative influence on the sound you hear - through innovative driver, cabinet and electronic design.
Once you have carefully positioned our monitors, use the simple rear panel room correction switches - or the GLM calibration software of our smart active monitor range - to tailor your Genelecs for your individual space. Then you’ll start hearing more of your music, and less of your room.
Working in tight spaces
Over the years, studio spaces have generally shrunk in size and our range has similarly evolved to reflect the needs of the modern music recording studio.
While you may have the space and budget for wall-mounted full range monitors, it’s as likely that you’ll be working in a more compact room.
Happily, our range of studio monitors equips you for all eventualities, by delivering consistently neutral reproduction from our flagship 1236A, through our midfield models, to our smallest nearfield monitor: all delivering the high SPL, extended frequency response, low distortion and bulletproof reliability that you’ve come to depend on from Genelec.
Staying in the sweet spot
Many monitors will boast about their great on-axis response, but what’s harder to achieve is great performance off-axis.
Genelec monitors offer a wide, uncoloured listening area that enables you to make accurate decisions even when you are sitting outside the traditional narrow ‘sweet spot’ of other monitor designs.
This gives you the freedom to move around the mixing desk, reach for the outboard rack, and still be totally confident of what you’re hearing. So you’ll benefit from working faster, and with Genelec’s renowned lack of colouration you’ll be able to avoid listening fatigue, even on longer sessions.
Recommended solutions
8351 Stereo Pair
8361 and W371 Stereo System
1236A Stereo Pair
References
One on One with Christian Walz | Genelec 8351 | Interview
Genelec Visits Morten Lindberg’s Stunning Immersive Audio Studio
One on One with Paul Norris, Metropolis Studios | Genelec 8351 | Interview
One on One with Sylvia Massy | Genelec 8351 | Interview
One on One Interview | Engineer Richard Chycki reflects on Genelec The Ones and GLM software
Trina Shoemaker on Genelec 8351 SAM™ Monitors “I’m glad I love my speakers”
Engineer David Reitzas Reflects on the Genelec 8351A Studio Monitors
One on One with Christian Walz | Genelec 8351 | Interview
We visited the home and studio of Christian Walz, one of Sweden’s top producers, to learn more about his creative process.
Genelec Visits Morten Lindberg’s Stunning Immersive Audio Studio
In the world of immersive music recording, no-one has done more than Grammy-winning sound engineer and music producer Morten Lindberg to set the gold standard for what can be achieved in this field.
We visited Morten at his incredible studio in Oslo, Norway to talk about his approach to immersive recording, and how his new 7.1.4 Genelec monitoring system has become an essential part of his workflow.
Welcome to a fascinating insight into the world of a true immersive audio pioneer.
One on One with Paul Norris, Metropolis Studios | Genelec 8351 | Interview
In the first of our One On One interview series, we talk to Grammy award winning engineer Paul Norris about life at Metropolis Studios, 8351 monitors, and why SAM technology makes such a huge difference to him. “Having good speakers is a great asset, and they’ll last you a lifetime. That’s an investment that you’re not going to get from a lot of other gear.”
One on One with Sylvia Massy | Genelec 8351 | Interview
Sylvia Massy has built her resume with legendary acts such as Tool, Johnny Cash, Prince, System of a Down, Tom Petty and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. We went to her studio in Ashland, Oregon to find out what she thinks about her new 8351 SAM™ studio monitors.
One on One Interview | Engineer Richard Chycki reflects on Genelec The Ones and GLM software
“I haven’t experienced this before, where I could take speakers to any studio and they always sound 100% consistent.”
Trina Shoemaker on Genelec 8351 SAM™ Monitors “I’m glad I love my speakers”
Acclaimed record producer Trina Shoemaker counts among her credits such top acts as Rodney Crowell, Queens of the Stone Age, Josh Ritter, Emmylou Harris, Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow and many others. She has won three GRAMMY® Awards, for her work with Sheryl Crow and Stephen Curtis Chapman, and been nominated for several others. She recently has taken a bold upgrade in monitoring with the acquisition of 8351 three-way Smart Active Monitors™ (SAM™). Take a watch and hear how she describes her new found love.
Engineer David Reitzas Reflects on the Genelec 8351A Studio Monitors
Noted live and studio engineer David Reitzas, a multi-GRAMMY® and Emmy® Award winner whose credits include such acts as The Weeknd, Josh Groban, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Seal, Stevie Wonder, Guns N’ Roses and Barbra Streisand discusses using the 8351As Smart Active Monitor. "For someone like me who goes around to different studios and different home studios, the Smart Active Monitoring system allows me to calibrate the speakers to whatever room I find myself in."
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