Musicians, studio producers, film score composers, video game music composers, bedroom pop artists – in our book they’re all creators. And as the popularity of the home recording studio has evolved, so has our monitoring range. No matter where you love to create, or your room size and budget, our goal is to help you write and record pure, neutral sound – just like a pro.
Create in your space. We’ll bring the professional sound.
Danish star Kewan Pádre - The Art of Creating in Your Space
Ville Valo interview - The Art of Creating in Your Space
BEHM interview - The Art of Creating in Your Space
Jonna Tervomaa interview - The Art of Creating in Your Space
Creative inspiration with Genelec's Michael Bohlin
Making hits and how to build an audience: in the studio with artist and producer LA Vision
Louis Bell: In the studio with one of music's biggest hitmakers
"When I get into my creative space, I don't take anything. I become part of everything."
"Music Doesn't Influence My Life, It Is My Life."
Danish star Kewan Pádre - The Art of Creating in Your Space
Discover how one of Denmark’s hottest hip-hop talents, Producer, Composer, Songwriter and Performer Kewan Pádre, sparks his creativity and pieces together hit songs, time and time again. https://www.genelec.com/en/-/reference/genelec-visits-danish-star-kewan-padre
Continuing our 'The Art of Creating in Your Space' series of exclusive video interviews, we’re delighted to give you the chance to get behind the scenes at Kewan’s personal recording space and learn from how he fires puts songs together for top Danish artists and his own projects.
Kewan’s studio is powered by our intelligently adaptive Smart Active Monitors with GLM software – courtesy of a pair of high-SPL 1238A main monitors, a pair of compact 8330A monitors and a 7370A subwoofer.
Ville Valo interview - The Art of Creating in Your Space
Genelec visits global rock icon Ville Valo at his stylish home studio, the scene of his recent solo album sessions. https://www.genelec.com/-/reference/genelec-visits-global-rock-icon-ville-valo-s-home-studio
Continuing our 'The Art of Creating in Your Space' series of video interviews, Ville invites you to take a sneak peek at his cosy home studio, which is powered by Genelec Smart Active Monitoring courtesy of a pair of 8341 The Ones and a 7360 subwoofer. This is the space where Ville went through the most freeing - and in his own words "traumatic" - creative experience of his life - don't worry though, he's very much OK!
Valo’s forthcoming solo record, Neon Noir (Out 13.1.23), marks a brand-new chapter in what's been a truly illustrious career, a journey that's seen him become one of the world's most recognisable rock stars - largely as the much-celebrated co-founder and lead singer of self-proclaimed pioneers of 'Love Metal' HIM, who were the first ever Finnish band to earn a Gold Record in the US.
Alongside his over ten million record sales with HIM, Ville has collaborated extensively with other major acts, including Bloodhound Gang, Apocalyptica, The 69 Eyes and The Mission. In 2017, shortly after laying HIM to rest, Valo realised his dream of singing for Finnish rock ’n’ roll legends Agents - going on to create the platinum-selling album 'Ville Valo and Agents'.
Watch the video to see Ville’s home studio and find out more about his creative process and the challenges he set himself for his debut solo record.
BEHM interview - The Art of Creating in Your Space
Finnish pop sensation, BEHM, reveals the creative process behind her string of homeland hits.
In September 2020, BEHM erupted onto the Finnish pop scene with just three years of musical experience under her belt, Her debut single scored millions of streams and received very generous radio play during its first few months, going on to win the Finnish Music Publishers’ Song of the Year Award.
Having followed that success with an unbroken run of number-one singles, extensive airplay and the release of her first album ‘Draaman Kaari Viehättää’, BEHM took a record-equalling seven trophies at the 2020 Emma Gala Awards, the Finnish equivalent of Grammys. She also became the only new act among Spotify Finland’s top ten most listened to artists that year.
BEHM identifies herself as a fiercely album-orientated music maker, and in this video, you can find out just why she’d have it no other way as she takes you deep into her successful methods.
BEHM’s creative space is powered by a pair of white Genelec 8330A monitors.
Discover more about BEHM on our website, visit here.
Jonna Tervomaa interview - The Art of Creating in Your Space
Long-time legend of Finnish pop culture, Jonna Tervomaa, reveals the secrets of her creative process.
After first rising to musical fame in 1983 at the age of ten, Jonna began her illustrious career in earnest with her self-titled debut album released in 1998, going on to win seven Emma Gala Music Awards - the Finnish equivalent of Grammy Awards.
Her music has proven consistently popular in her native land of Finland, earning her chart success, plus platinum and gold sales.
Although mostly known for her evergreen hits ‘Suljettu Sydän’ (Closed Heart) and ‘Yhtä En Saa’ (I Won’t Get A Single One), Jonna has a diverse catalogue of fresh treasures to explore, including her first entirely English language album called ‘Fortunate Beast’.
Jonna’s creative space is powered by Genelec 8330A RAW monitors and a GLM Kit.
Discover more about Jonna on our website, click here
Creative inspiration with Genelec's Michael Bohlin
Genelec's International Sales Manager, Michael Bohlin, explains how modern technology allows him to create professional music productions in his home studio.
Michael, who’s a lifelong music maker, expresses his appreciation of the modern recording and monitoring equipment that’s made it possible to record, produce, mix and master music at home. He provides an insight into his childhood dreams, his early steps into music making, finding day-to-day inspiration, making his own ideas, and utilising his home space for living, work and music.
Michael’s home studio is powered by Genelec Smart Active Monitoring from a pair of 8341As and a 7370A subwoofer. His office space audio is handled by two Genelec 8020 monitors.
Making hits and how to build an audience: in the studio with artist and producer LA Vision
Genelec joins Marco Sissa, AKA LA Vision, to give you a behind-the-scenes look at how he makes his hit records at home in Brescia, Italy.
LA Vision’s debut single ‘Hollywood’ was viewed over 80 million times during its first year on YouTube. His singles since then have helped propel him to even greater international acclaim beyond his Italian base.
To create the right listening environment, he has equipped his home studio with Genelec 8351B smart active monitors calibrated with GLM software, plus a pair of Genelec 8010A compact nearfield monitors.
Marco adopted the artist name ‘LA Vision’ after finding success already as a writer and producer, making popular songs with many artists including Il Pagante, Marnik, and Fabio Rovazzi. As LA Vision, he has worked with Gigi D’Agostino, Tallisker, Alok & Timmy Trumpet, and most recently VINAI.
Louis Bell: In the studio with one of music's biggest hitmakers
Genelec and Electric Feel Studios present a unique look into the creative process of Producer & Songwriter Louis Bell to discuss studio environments, his career, working with Post Malone, and relying on Genelec's Smart Active Monitoring for mobile studio setups.
The meaningfulness of space.
It’s an interesting time for us at Genelec. The way our contribution to monitor technology has transformed the industry and built our reputation among audio professionals is truly humbling. It’s the result of years of continuous research and development, in both our monitors and our software. And a great deal of that research has focused on the effects that room acoustics have on monitor performance.
What’s remarkable is how our technological advances and the tangible benefits of our products have now seemed to completely align with this growing desire among artists to think beyond the studio. Honestly, we should probably call it a growing need among artists, knowing that so many of us have had no choice but to find a way to create outside the traditional studio now. Still, need or desire, there has been an explosion of artistic talent and an incredible push among artists to create in new ways – and in their own spaces. Bedroom pop artists alone are proof of that.
Never before has an artist’s creative space – that physical, mental and even spiritual space where you have the freedom to breathe, dream and evolve creatively and as a human being – meant so much. And Genelec is perfectly poised to help artists make it work because no other monitor manufacturer tames the negative acoustic influences caused by the physical spaces in which artists create more than Genelec. Our goal has always been to help you adapt your physical space and setup so that it can produce pure, truthful sound. To us at Genelec, the space where you love to create has always mattered, and it always will.
Because with Genelec, as our Managing Director, Siamäk Naghian, says,
"The physical space is not the limitation. The only limitation is your imagination."
Be creative, anywhere.
At Genelec we have an unwavering belief that anyone can create professional-level sound at home, or wherever you like to create. So don’t worry if your setup is small or if you only have the most basic acoustic treatment. The beauty of Genelec monitors is that they actively adapt to any room. This combined with their neutral, transparent sound will allow you to hear how your tracks truly sound. You’ll immediately start producing better mixes that sound fantastic, even in other rooms and on different playback systems. With Genelec, you can create professional-quality music anywhere.
Challenges we can help you with
Sounding good on other systems
There’s nothing more disappointing than hearing your song on someone else’s system and finding that it sounds completely different from the way it sounded in your room.
A common problem in poorly-designed monitors is an over-emphasised bass & treble response, since you are much more likely to dial back the EQ during your recording and mixing to compensate, and so your mix will end up lacking in both LF and HF on other systems.
With Genelec you can be sure that every monitor ships with a beautifully flat, neutral frequency response, and if your room introduces some unwanted effects (i.e. some bass lift when the monitor is close to a wall), we give you the ability to tailor the response of your Genelecs accordingly. No other monitor gives you as much help in producing mixes that sound great - everywhere.
Taming difficult room acoustics
Many home studios are by necessity located in a space that is not primarily designed for recording purposes, and so you and your kit need to be adaptable.
While we’d suggest that you consider some basic acoustic treatment and follow our simple recommendations on how to position and set up your monitors (see our Monitor Setup Guide), our design philosophy has always been to minimise the negative acoustic influence of your studio so that you hear much more of your music - and much less of your room!
We achieve this by a combination of clever driver, cabinet and electronic design, meaning that you’ll hear precise, uncoloured audio even if you move your listening position. And with our simple rear-panel room correction switches, or GLM calibration software, you can further optimise your Genelec monitors for your individual studio.
Tight spaces
The advent of the digital audio workstation has empowered a whole generation of music makers to squeeze home studios into the most amazingly small spaces.
It’s natural then that your studio monitors need to be compact - without sacrificing the LF extension and generous playback levels that you need to make accurate decisions when recording and mixing.
Our range of monitors is truly staggering in their ability to deliver a huge sound in a small footprint – due in part to our eco-friendly recycled aluminium enclosures, whose thin walls and large internal volume produce a bass response and SPL that put many physically larger monitors to shame. And with our extensive range of speaker mounts and carry cases, positioning, adjusting and travelling with your Genelecs is easy too.
The professional’s choice
Every sound you hear when writing, recording and mixing is influenced by the quality of your studio monitors – they are arguably your single most important equipment investment, so choose wisely. For over forty years, Genelec monitors have been trusted by the world’s top recording professionals to deliver truthful playback – without any hype or colouration. Doesn’t your music deserve the same?
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