PMC celebrates with Studio Vienna
PMC will be celebrating its 35th anniversary at the High End Show in Vienna in June, by building a replica of the facilities in its own mixing studios (PMC Studios: London, Los Angeles and Nashville), to demonstrate its pivotal role at the heart of music production.
Throughout the four days of the world’s most important hi-fi show, PMC will be opening the doors to ‘PMC Studio Vienna’, a complete, studio-grade environment that places visitors in the same acoustic and technical setting used to create world-class music and film sound, helping them connect more closely with the performance. The space will play host to three curated sessions per day with leading engineers, artists, industry figures as well as demonstrations of the flagship fenestria loudspeakers.
Visitors are invited to join PMC at the scheduled sessions to hear from Grammy Award winner Steve Genewick (below, Bob Dylan, Diana Krall, Bastille, Gregory Porter), as he presents a ‘Behind the Hits’ story direct from inside the inner sanctum of the legendary Capitol Studios, Los Angeles.
Genewick will also be joined by PMC’s Maurice Patist, head of sales – studio, as they strip bare definitive jazz recordings and explore the technical mastery behind some of the most famous tracks of the genre.
Continuing the studio theme, Miles Showell, the master of vinyl mastering, will take a deep dive into the subtleties of his craft, including his speciality, half-speed mastering. The fenestria system will showcase his work, revealing what defines exceptional analogue sound.
The renowned singer, songwriter and producer SOHN, whose fourth album Albadas (Dawn Songs) was recently released, will take up residence in PMC Studio Vienna to explore the techniques behind spatial audio from an artist’s perspective. SOHN will be conducting a live demonstration of Atmos mixing using tracks from his critically acclaimed first album, Tremors.
Continuing the artist theme, the Canadian singer and High End Ambassador, Dominique Fils-Amié, will be also presenting tracks from her new album, My World is the Sun, in Dolby Atmos.
In a joint statement, PMC founder and chairman Peter Thomas, and co-CEOs Tom Loader and Oliver Thomas expressed their excitement at the forthcoming celebrations, “35 years is another fantastic milestone in the life of PMC, and what better way to mark it than at the world’s leading hi-fi show. We’ll be pulling out all the stops to proudly showcase our prominent role at the centre of music creation and playback over the past three and half decades.
“With our roster of special guests and certainly a few surprises, to coin a phrase from the BBC – our very first customer – we are going to inform, educate and entertain visitors at the show with insights into music recording, mixing and mastering, alongside demonstrations of our flagship home audio speakers to show just how good music at home can sound, and how absolutely faithful it is to the artists’ and producers’ creative visions.”
In between the scheduled studio sessions, a state-of-the-art audio system, comprising the PMC fenestria speakers, Bryston amplification, the Michell Gyro turntable, Apollo and Muse phono stage, and a high-resolution streaming source, will demonstrate some of the world’s best recordings. Steve Genewick, Maurice Patist and PMC UK’s Phil Millross will also showcase some surprising recordings to challenge perceptions of system performance.
Visitors to the High End Show are invited to register for up to two sessions per day by visiting the booking site, which goes live at 9am BST on 25th May. Alternatively, tickets may be booked in person at reception outside PMC’s room, M1.