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FILM COMPOSER WAYNE SHARPE SELECTS GENELEC ACTIVE MONITORS ACROSS TWO
CONTINENTS
— Acclaimed American composer, working
in both Hollywood and India’s growing Bollywood film industry,
discovers Genelec Monitors while on location in Mumbai and then selects
8250A Bi-Amplified DSP Monitoring System for his personal studio —
NATICK, MA, April 30, 2009 — Wayne
Sharpe is building bridges between the film score cultures of Hollywood
and India’s Bollywood. In addition to his work on American films
including Southie (with Donnie Wahlberg) and Pigeonholed (with Rosanna
Arquette), as well as commercial scores for companies like Revlon, Mobil
and McDonald’s, Sharpe is the first American to win the Indian
film industry’s coveted Filmfare Award for his work on noted director
Prakash Jha’s Gangaajal, for which Sharpe won in the Best Background
Score category in 2004. He has also drawn critical acclaim for his work
on Afghan director Jawad Wassal’s critically-acclaimed Firedancer.
And in the process of bringing his musical influences to eastern films
in Mumbai’s scoring studios, he became acquainted with Genelec
active monitors, which have since become an indispensable part of his
film scoring process. In April, a Genelec 8250A
Bi-Amplified DSP Monitoring System, purchased through Guitar
Center Professional (GC Pro), was installed in Sharpe’s home
studio in the New York City area.
“Indian films are unbelievable – their budgets
are getting bigger and their scoring studios are very advanced,”
says Sharpe. He will generally travel to India to discuss the film with
its director, review rough cuts and take them back to his studio to
create the score, returning to Mumbai for overdubs of choirs, orchestras
and regional instruments like the sitar and the tabla. It was in those
studios that he encountered Genelec active monitors. They made quite
an impression. “The engineer I work with there, Pramod Chandorkar,
mixes on Genelecs all the time and I became aware of how good they sound
because we loved the mixes we were getting,” says Sharpe. Back
home, Sharpe’s 8250A’s continue to provide that same kind
of consistency in monitoring that he grew to depend on during his time
in Mumbai. “I really like Genelec’s AutoCal™ automated
calibration system, which automatically adjusts the speaker’s
response based on the acoustical environment in which it is working,”
he explains. “No matter where you put the speakers, you know you’re
always going to get a predictable response. The system tailors itself
to the room, and they’re working great in my studio.”
About the Genelec 8250A Bi-Amplified DSP Monitoring
System:
The compact and powerful 8250A package is ideal in applications where
a wide frequency response is needed but space is limited. The 8250A
is the ideal monitoring tool for recording studios, post-production
houses, broadcast installations, digital edit suites, home studios and
mobile production vehicles. It builds on the rock-solid technology of
the highly-acclaimed 8050A, featuring an ingenious, flow-optimized reflex
port that provides solid, clear and articulated low frequencies without
compression, distortion or port noises. Combined with the advanced Genelec
DCW™ (Directivity Control Waveguide™ technology) and the
rounded edges and gently curved front and sides of the MDE™ (Minimum
Diffraction Enclosure™) enclosure, the result is an astoundingly
flat frequency response both on and off axis. Other benefits include
superb imaging precision and minimum listening fatigue. The Genelec
Loudspeaker Manager™ (GLM™) control network and software
enhances further the performance of the 8250A: it features adjustment
of levels, distance delays and flexible room response improvement equalization
with the reliable and robust AutoCal™ automated calibration system
via the GLM control network.
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