Focal News.

After checking all the alternatives, Steve Winwood and his engineer, James Towler, recently chose Focal Twin 6 Be monitors for Steve's private studio. However, not content with this, Steve is now installing a pair in his writing room whilst James has purchased a pair for his own home studio. James says, "What has been critical to me in finding a new set of monitors, is the ability to balance a mix fast and judge the bottom end. With the Focal Twins I can do both. They are just that good."

Steve Winwood has been an international success since the 1960's. As well as his multi-million selling solo records, he was in groups such as Traffic, Spencer Davis Group, & Blind Faith (with Eric Clapton). He still records and tours regularly. Last year, he toured with Eric Clapton and they received many awards for the recording of their Maddisson Square Garden show.

James Towler is Steve's front of house, live sound engineer and also his recording engineer and studio manager. Last year James won the award for Best Recording Engineer 2009.

Focal Professionnal attended the IBC show in Amsterdam from the 9th to the 14th of September. You have been a lot to come and visit us, thank you!!

The TEC Award is the world's most prominent forum for honoring outstanding Technical Excellence and Creativity in professional audio production and product design. The 25th Annual TEC Awards will be held at the AES Convention, in New York City from October, 9th to 12th. The CMS 65 was chosen by the Audio Engineering Society, Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy and Broadjam.com to participate in the "STUDIO MONITOR TECHNOLOGY" category. Everybody can vote for their favorite monitor, from Saturday, October 10th by clicking on the following link: www.broadjam.com. It's up to you now!

For the 10^th time, more than 100 magazines from all over the world got together to choose the best products of 2008/2009. The awards have been presented to the winners at a special mipa-Party/Awards-Ceremony held during Musikmesse / Prolight + Sound, April 2^nd, 2009. More than 300 international representatives of manufacturers and distributors of musical instruments and audio equipment have joined for the 10^th mipa Awards Show including guests from the USA, Canada, Japan, Brazil, South Africa, Russia, Poland, Great Britain, Italy, France, Greece, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland and Germany.
Focal Professional presented the CMS 50 to this worlwide competition. Focal CMS 50, Genelec 6010 and Event Opal have been selected to compete for the final round of the MIPA in the Studio Monitor category. The result? The CMS 50 has been awarded best studio monitor! Our 220 employees are very proud to receive this worldwide recognition, which highlights our core know-how consisting into doing all the R&D and manufaturing process in France. This shows that more than 30 years of experiment in manufacturing speakers and loudspeakers really makes the difference.
Go to MIPA website.

The Focal Professional catalogue is now available, have a look at it here to discover all our professional speakers in details.