Patchwerk Recording Studios is a top recording and mastering facility in the US. The Atlanta studio has recorded more than 60 platinum and gold albums and worked with the who’s who of rap, hip-hop, R&B and pop artists including 50 Cent, Sean Combs, Pit Bull, Flo RIda, Jay-Z, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, and Kanye West. Patchwerk’s tracking engineer Nick Bassani relies on Harman’s JBL LSR308 powered studio monitors as his go-to near-field loudspeakers.

Bassani says that in the urban music scene there’s an insatiable appetite for more low-end response in the music and this creates a challenge for urban market producers and mix engineers. Many monitors and headphones on the market cater to this appetite with low-end response that’s often misleading and inaccurate.

“The JBL LSR308 is the perfect solution to the need for bass-accurate near-field monitors. Accuracy and clarity tend to be expensive – but not in the case of the LSR308. They’re not “boomy’ or exaggerated in the bass, yet have more low-end response along with far better high-frequency extension – all the way up to 24kHz – than any other near-field I’ve used.’

The powered-bi-amplified LSR308 employs a long-throw 8-inch woofer and a 1-inch woven-composite neodymium tweeter that is mated to JBL’s exclusive Image Control Waveguide, developed for the company’s new flagship M2 Master Reference Monitor.

“The LSR308’s wider frequency response and clarity and ability to let me “hear into’ the mix at lower volumes has caused me to make huge improvements in my overall mixing technique,’ explains Bassani. “Thanks to the exceptional definition of the woofer and tweeter and the accurate on-and off- axis coverage pattern of the waveguide, the stereo image is deep and wide and the clarity is phenomenal. I can hear reverbs and delays extremely well.’ Bassani was also impressed with the LSR308’s improved resolution allowed that him to begin experimenting with mid-side panning in his mixes.

Bassani installed the LSR308 at Patchwerk’s Studio 9000 (one of Patchwerk’s main tracking and mixing rooms) and says he is now unable to part with them. He now takes a pair of LSR308 monitors to every room on any project he’s involved with, whether it’s a small project studio or a multi-million-dollar facility.