2 T h e C OV I D p a n d e m i c m a d e The studio has always been a proud Genelec companies in every industry look user and the monitoring solutions for the new at their business models and see rooms continue this relationship. how they could be made more robust for future challenges. A Founded in 2013 by Mayur Tekchandaney and perfect example of this can be Jiten Solanki, BOING has been an active player in found in Mumbai’s busy recording studio Mumbai’s vibrant studio market, working closely market, where BOING Recording Studios with a number of advertising production houses. has just expanded its facility with rooms to With acoustic design by the legendary Sam handle both stereo and immersive projects. Toyoshima, BOING started life with two recording
3 GENELEC HAS HELPED ESTABLISH BOING AS ONE OF THE BEST STUDIOS IN INDIA.
suites. Its flagship main production studio, Studio we were presented with an opportunity to expand One, is equipped with Genelec 1038CF main our facility, on a higher floor in the same building.” monitors paired with a 7071 subwoofer and 8341s for nearfields. Meanwhile, Studio Two was created While the need for more space was demanded to be a workhorse space to handle down edits and by existing clients, it was the experiences from occasional tracking. the pandemic that led to a new direction for the studio. “The disruption of COVID taught us that we “When we started, we were a one-of-a-kind modest needed to build another vertical in our business recording studio, with a pool of excellent talent,” model, something complementing our advertising recalls Jiten Solanki – CEO and senior engineer at work,” explains Solanki. “So we decided that in the BOING. “We were easily able to cater to our clients’ expansion project, we’d make one of the two new requirements. As time passed by and requirements studios an Atmos room. The room would be able to grew, we realised that we desperately needed more do OTT broadcast work along with advertising.” studios. Post the disruption of COVID, in early 2022,
This decision meant that Studio Three would be which was to run hand in glove with a high SPL a relatively straightforward project – cloning the stereo production environment, we were trying to flagship Studio One – with 1238DFs as the mains, understand what monitoring to go with. At first, we 8351s for nearfield work, and a 7380 subwoofer. thought of keeping stereo and Atmos as two different However, Studio Four would prove to be a much monitoring systems, and we were considering more complicated project. getting a pair of midfield monitors for stereo, and a nearfield Atmos system which would be affordable. “We were able to build the room to our requirements But after doing some research and a few demos, with some extensive design expertise from Bharat we realised that most of the usable nearfield Reddy of Dolby, but deciding on monitoring was monitors only had analogue inputs. This meant that a challenge,” recalls Solanki. “Advertising meant a the cost of our I/O would go up and the external stereo setup, whereas OTT meant a 7.1.4 setup, DSP calibration setup would go through additional so we needed a hybrid monitoring system. As we conversion steps. Even if we took another route by were taking our first steps into immersive monitoring, getting analogue I/O, the external DSPs within our
5 budget were pretty average in performance. All in all, match with the 8351s – tonally the same but with an it would have been a convoluted workflow.” SPL which suited our Atmos requirement. For the surrounds and overheads, we went with two-way After discussions with Shiv Sood from local Genelec 8330s, perfect for our Atmos requirement – and distributor Sound Team, who had supplied BOING’s the 9301B handles the bass management of all original Genelec system back in 2013, they found monitors. Finally, we use Genelec’s GLM calibration an ideal solution in the 9301B multichannel digital software, which manages our workflow seamlessly.” audio interface. “The 9301B provides seamless multichannel audio to the AES input of the With the expansion project complete, Solanki is subwoofer,” continues Solanki. “This became the happy to reflect on the positive relationship that the basis of the monitoring setup in Studio Four. For studio has with the manufacturer. “Genelec and the main 2.1 monitors, we chose the 8351 three- BOING have a symbiotic relationship. Our monitoring way coaxials along with a 7380 subwoofer. This is almost exclusively Genelec, and this has helped gave us the SPL required for advertising work. For establish BOING as one of the best studios in India.” the centre channel we chose the 8341; a fantastic
Avishek Sen - junior engineer, BOING Studios.
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