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Lumit performing arts school turns to Genelec for sound system upgrade

Established in 2015 in Kuopio, Finland, Lumit is the country’s premier performing arts school. In 2022, Lumit - now numbering around 600 students from all across Finland - moved into a new building with high-tech facilities dedicated to the learning and practice of the performing arts. Earlier this year, the building witnessed a further upgrade, this time to its sound system with a range of Genelec smart active loudspeakers, which power the facility’s four music classrooms and studio.

Ville Heikkinen is a music lecturer and coordinator of the music studies department at Lumit, teaching band playing, music technology, music production, staging and lighting. He is responsible for the maintenance of these spaces and also works closely with the school’s in-house AV engineer on the upkeep of the three stages in the school. Heikkinen was Lumit’s planning lead for the music classes, studio and stages during the development of the new building.

“We were looking for an audio system that would provide high quality listening and also act as a great band PA”, he explains. “I knew of Genelec, but only in a studio context. Following discussions with Henri Ulmanen from Genelec about what I hoped to achieve, he offered to provide us with a pair of S360s and a subwoofer for testing in our band class - so that we could properly evaluate their performance as a band PA system.”

Heikkinen and his students were able to test the system for an entire month with numerous bands and musical styles. “It worked out great across all genres”, he says. “Initially I was a bit nervous about the short-term max SPL of 118 dB for the band - but in reality, even pushing it as hard as we could during our rehearsals, we couldn’t make it peak out - and we tried pretty hard.”

Heikkinen and his colleagues opted for a pair of S360 two-way loudspeakers plus a 7380 subwoofer in both the band rehearsal class and the largest music classroom. In both instances the S360s are wall-mounted, while the subwoofer is in its own designated position on the floor beneath the wall furniture. In the main band room, they are connected to the rackmount mixer and to a desktop mixing console in the second rehearsal space.

In the other two music rooms that are more dedicated to listening - rather than playing and performance - there is a combination of wall-mounted 8330s and the slightly larger 8340 two-way loudspeakers, complemented by a 7370 subwoofer in each room. Finally, in the studio, Heikkinen selected a pair of 8361 three-way coaxial studio loudspeakers, flagships of “The Ones” range, combined with a 7380 subwoofer.

Henri Ulmanen calibrated all of the loudspeakers via Genelec’s GLM software.

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