Mastering

You’ll need good acoustic design and careful placement of equipment to achieve room symmetry, and then of course your choice of monitors will hugely influence your ability to work confidently and produce masters that translate perfectly.

Straight out of the box, all Genelec monitors produce a beautifully flat frequency response, but for those instances where your room is still introducing some unwanted acoustic influences, we provide a palette of tools to help compensate for this – from simple rear-panel room correction EQ switches to the full-blown power and flexibility of our GLM calibration software.

So trust Genelec to turn a good room…… into a great room.

For mastering engineers, this combination of point source precision and adaptive low frequency performance is a game-changer. Used together, the two create a full range monitoring system that can work at higher SPLs and longer listening distances, delivering both direct sound and reflections that are free from colouration - and a flatter and smoother in-room frequency response with more coherent low frequency imaging.

This free-standing system can be located in optimal positions within your mastering studio; even providing the option to switch between nearfield and main monitors without image-shifting.

Based on experience from thousands of studios around the world, GLM’s calibration features allow you to optimise every Genelec smart active monitor for your unique space by analysing and adjusting level, frequency response and distance delay.

But GLM’s ability to also calibrate and monitor your listening level is as just as crucial to the mastering engineer, since our sensitivity to audio frequencies varies significantly with SPL. Only by working at a carefully calibrated SPL level can we be sure of consistency and accuracy in all our mastering decisions, and GLM’s software master fader is designed to monitor in either relative dB or absolute SPL scale, or with external wired or wireless level controllers available as accessories.