Studio & Gear

The studio is located at Vallila district in Helsinki. There are two rooms, the control room and the rehearsal room. The control room is the main workspace for mixing albums or creating sound design for radio or film. The rehearsal room can be used for recording loud instruments or as an vocal booth (or whatever). The studio is designed and build by Ville-Matti.

Gear for location sound

Heavy soundcart build for production sound (with SD 888) and light audio bag (with SD 833) for documentaries etc.

Recorders:

Zoom H4n (x2)
Sony PCM D100
Zoom F8
Sound Devices 833 (with NoiseAssist plugin and SL-2)
Sound Devices 888 (with NoiseAssist plugin and SL-2)

Wireless:

Eight wireless channels in stock.

Wisycom MCR54 - 4 channel receiver (x2)
Wisycom MPR52 - 2 channel receiver
Wisycom MTP40 - Transmitter (x8)
Sennheiser G4 - Transmitter (x2)
DPA 4060 lavaliers (9x)
DPA 6060 miniature lavalier
DPA 4097 (2x)
Betso Bowtie antennas (for both audio bags)
Betso Sharkie antennas
Wisycom MTB40s (for wireless boom)

Also six channels of Hollyland Lark MK2. These are on wifi frequencies so they can be used when normal UHF channels are forbidden.

Reference sound to camera:

Sennheiser G4 (2x)

Monitoring:

Sennheiser G4 IEM (5x)
Audio Technica ATH M30 Headphones (7x)

Headphone splitter (3 channels)
Speakers for different uses

Boom & Microphones:

Ambient Booms & Rycote and Bubblebee windshields
Sound Devices MM-1 Preamp
Schoeps CMC6 MK41 (2x)
Schoeps CMIT 5u
Sanken CS-3e
Oktava MK 012 with hypercardioid capsules (3x)

Timecode:

Ambient Nanolockit (4x)
Ambient Lockit

Gear in studio

Control room built for audio post-production with 5.1 monitoring system.

Software:

• Protools Ultimate 2024
• Sound Particles 2.1
• Plugins for all uses from all modern brands

Hardware:

Preamps

• Soundcraft B200, 16 Channels

• Yamaha PM1000, 2 Channels

• Universal Audio LA-610 MKII
• Tascam MX-80

Interface / Conventers
• RME Fireface UFX+
• Ferrofish Pulse16 MX

• Ferrofish a32 Pro

Outboard
• Aphex Compellor 300
• DBX 160xt
• Drawmer 1978
• SSL Fusion
• Warm Audio WA76
• Universal Audio LA-610 MKII

• Alesis Midiverb II

• Watkins WEM Copicat mk2

Reel to reel and cassette

• Fostex G24S

• Sony TC-399 (Reel to reel)

• 2x Tascam Porta Two (Four track cassette recorder)

Speakers:

• Genelec 8340 (3x), Front
• Genelec 8330 (2x), Rear
• Avatone Mixcubes
• Yamaha H7

Microphones:

• Shure SM57 (3x)
• Shure SM58
• Shure Beta 52
• Shure sm7b (3x)
• Beyerdynamic M201TG
• Beyerdynamic M88TG
• Sennheiser e604 (2x)
• SE Electronics 4400A (2x)
• Vintage Telefunken stereo pair (2x)
• Oktava MK 012 stereo pair (cardioid)
• Cascade Fat Head ribbon pair
• AKG D12 VR
• Mic & Mod M47 (with m7 capsule / Neumann U47)
• Neumann TML 193
• Audio Technica BP4025 (Stereo mic)

• Warm Audio WA-19N

• Ambient ASF 2 - Hydrophone