Producer Jon Kong, who’s also half of the music duo Leftwing: Kody, has become the first in the UK to implement the new PMC 8-2 monitors following their introduction earlier this year, deployed for mixing and mastering in his own studio in Maidstone, Kent.
The recently introduced 8-2 monitors incorporate all-new drivers, high-end DSP and class-D amplification combined with the company’s ATL bass-loading and Laminair air flow technologies. “I first heard PMC monitors at a friend’s mastering facility,” Kong explains. “I loved them because the low end extension and the clarity in the mid range was so impressive. When the time came to upgrade my studio monitors, I demoed various brands but kept coming back to the new PMCs because they sounded so good.”
Kong was introduced to the new range by Dale Chapman at SX Pro. While Kong’s monitors were being built SX Pro lent him a pair of the smaller PMC6-2 monitors. “Everything I have heard through these new monitors has been ridiculously clear,” he says. “The smaller 6-2 system was perfectly adequate for the room I am currently in and I could easily have kept them, but I plan to move studios in 2022 so I went for the larger system because it gives me more flexibility in terms of room dimensions in the future. With both sets of monitors I have created amazing mixes that have now been approved by my clients. I can really hear the difference between these and my previous monitors. It is like night and day – especially the bass which is incredibly clean and clear and has no distortion at all.”
Since installing the new monitors, Kong has completed projects for RCA, Sony and Positiva, and is also working on his own material and collaborating with other artists as a songwriter, with a new release with Brazillian man of the moment Vintage Culture on Musical Freedom/Spinnin.
