INTERVIEW
KLANG:TECHNOLOGIES’ MARKUS PESCH AND PHIL KAMP TPi’s Stew Hume speaks to the KLANG duo about the future of immersive and spatial audio for personal in-ear mixing and how the company is helping to aid the live environment as live gigs return.
Over the past decade, the on-stage environment has seen a radical change as more and more musicians have traded wedges and side fills for in-ear monitoring systems – and according to the team at KLANG:technologies, the story doesn’t end there. For the past six years, the company has been pushing the agenda that stereo in-ear mixes are limiting for the artist, and there is a much more elegant solution that creates a more realistic audio environment for musicians on stage. “When we first came into the market, we spent several years explaining to people the benefits of immersive mixes for in-ear monitors,” began Phil
Kamp, Head of Sales. “Thankfully in the past four years or so, most of the industry have begun to understand the advantage of immersive mixes – especially with the immersive processors from some of the big speaker manufacturers, and how the use of these technologies can drastically improve the audience experience.” As Kamp rightly points out, we are programed to hear in ‘immersive’. When we hear a noise, we can tell where it has come from, and our brain intuitively evaluates the priority within all sensory inputs. KLANG’s mission has always been to recreate this for an artist’s in-ear mix so there is a seamless transition from an acoustic 48
