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Tannoy User Stories<br />
Randy Kling<br />
The home page of Randy Kling’s website<br />
(www.discmastering.net) sums up a familiar<br />
story of studio professionals worldwide<br />
who discovered Tannoy early in their career<br />
and have never found a reason to move<br />
away. From Elvis Presley to Alice Cooper<br />
and through to the present day Randy’s<br />
engineering talents span over 50 years in<br />
the business during which time he has<br />
racked up an astonishing 300 gold and<br />
platinum records. A constant in his studio<br />
equipment list throughout his career -<br />
Tannoy monitors. As he says on his website,<br />
“Through the passage of time, from tape to<br />
vinyl to digital, I’ve always used the same<br />
brand of monitors.”<br />
Tony Maserati<br />
When mixing ace Tony Maserati shows up<br />
<strong>for</strong> work, whether in Manhattan mixing<br />
Mary J or Beyonce, out in Los Angeles with<br />
Ron Fair and the Black Eyed Peas, or in<br />
Miami with J Lo, he’s com<strong>for</strong>ted by a few<br />
certainties. The software on his hard drive,<br />
the analogue outboard in his fl ight case,<br />
and his trusted Tannoy monitors, provide<br />
a level of consistency from studio to studio<br />
that Maserati trusts to help him nail each<br />
mix. Ever mindful of advances in speaker<br />
design, Maserati recently discovered<br />
Tannoy’s Ellipse 10 iDPs; a speaker system<br />
that’s compatible with everything he loves<br />
about his Tannoy DMT-12s, which he has<br />
worked with <strong>for</strong> years, yet more portable<br />
and effective <strong>for</strong> detail work.<br />
Carmen Rizzo<br />
Producer and mixer, Carmen Rizzo, is a<br />
busy man. In addition to a growing and<br />
increasingly eclectic mix of studio projects,<br />
he’s co-written and played on a wide variety<br />
of infl uential artists’ albums and has a<br />
burgeoning solo career himself. Recently<br />
remixing a Dave Stewart song, featuring<br />
monitors <strong>2009</strong><br />
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Consistent Product Development<br />
Landmark speaker models and developments punctuate<br />
Tannoy’s history – classic loudspeaker models such as<br />
the Monitor Red (1958), Monitor Gold (1967), and the<br />
Super Red (1980). More recently the long running and<br />
highly successful Reveal series has brought Tannoy<br />
to a wider audience offering a high per<strong>for</strong>mance and<br />
competitively priced range of studio monitors.<br />
Sarah McLaughlin,<br />
Annie Lennox,<br />
and Imogen Heap,<br />
that was written<br />
<strong>for</strong> Greenpeace,<br />
he used his new<br />
system comprising<br />
Tannoy Precision 6<br />
iDP monitors and<br />
TS112 iDP sub. “On<br />
the fi rst listen I was<br />
literally so impressed<br />
I couldn’t believe it,”<br />
he said. He further<br />
explained that the<br />
appeal was multifaceted;<br />
the ability and ease of control when<br />
it comes to adjusting speaker parameters,<br />
the simple setup – one Ethernet cable<br />
between the sub and monitors, the degree<br />
Signifi cant<br />
advances in<br />
digital speaker<br />
measuring<br />
techniques such<br />
as Klippell<br />
symmetry and<br />
non-linear<br />
distortion<br />
analysis, laser<br />
scanning<br />
interferometry, and acoustic CAD<br />
simulation, has allowed further<br />
refi nement of the Dual Concentric<br />
drive unit. This, combined with our highly<br />
exacting manufacturing processes,<br />
ensures that the Precision and Ellipse<br />
monitor ranges deliver wide bandwidth,<br />
signifi cantly low levels of distortion, very<br />
smooth response, extremely accurate<br />
phase control and high sensitivity levels.<br />
of control, and above all, the fact that they<br />
represent a lot of speaker in a compact<br />
package, and are consistently accurate at<br />
any volume.<br />
HEADQUARTERS AND MANUFACTURING<br />
Tannoy Ltd.<br />
Rosehall Industrial Est, Coatbridge,<br />
N. Lanarkshire. ML5 4TF. Scotland.<br />
t +44 (0) 1236 420199<br />
f +44 (0) 1236 428230<br />
e enquiries@tannoy.com<br />
w www.tannoy.com<br />
STUDIO MONITOR SALES CONTACT<br />
TC Electronic A/S<br />
Sindalsvej 34<br />
DK-8240 Risskov<br />
Denmark<br />
e info@tcelectronic.com<br />
SALES IN NORTH AMERICA<br />
TC Group North America<br />
t +1 (519) 745 1158<br />
e info@tcgroup-americas.com<br />
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