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Monster teams up with Fatal1ty gaming
Written by
Jesus Figueroa
Staff Writer
Monster announces partnership with gamer
Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel at a special
luncheon at The Palms restaurant in Los
Angeles, California on June 17.
Fatal1ty and Monster will collaborate on
the design and technical specifications for
“Fatal1ty by Monster,” which will bring higher
quality sound made to improve the gaming
experience.
“We are collaborating with Fatality,” Noel
Lee, CEO of Monster, said.
The line of gaming gear is set to improve the
sound of gaming and have it affordable.
Gaming systems continue to push the limits
of the visuals, but have neglected the sound.
Monster hopes to make the sound as good as
the visual.
“It’s called pure monster sound.,” Lee said.
Lee stressed the clarity of the sound, the
response in the headphones and it gets the
listener closer to the music.
“We reproduce with pure monster sound
what the microphone hears so that hitting or
the pick on a guitar sound, the bow drawing on
a violin, that Alicia Keys voice which comes
from here (the heart) as well as here (vocal
chords) flows,” Lee said. “You are going to
hear that.”
The idea is to make the sound responsive to
time and location where the sound would be
coming from.
“How do you hear things? You hear three
things. One is how loud, two is what frequency
it is and three is time,” Lee said. “Time is the
arrival of those signals to your ears.”
The purpose of the improvement to the
Johnathan Wendel (left) and Noel
Lee at the announcement of the
partnership.
sound would be to increase the enjoyment and
emergence of the video game experience.
The brain can interpret distance because
of the time it takes to hear the noises around
people.
Monster hopes to be able to work with
Fatal1ty to bring that aspect to gaming.