Studio / Facility

RECORDING HALLS

The cultural house, Hof, has two main halls used for recordings. The larger one is a 500 seat concert hall with a terrifically open and transparent sound which offers the capability of adjusting the length of the natural reverb tail, using drapes or reflective wooden shells. The audience area of the hall is 436m² in addition to the 266m² stage. The stage itself is 17.3m wide by 15.4m meters deep. Ceiling height is up to 14 meters to the ceiling above the acoustic baffles.

The smaller hall is a wood paneled room with a lovely warm sound, which also offers a variable reverb time via electronically controlled drapes on the walls and in the ceiling. The hall has a floorspace of 180m² and ceiling height of 10 meters. There are also various spaces in the building that can be recorded in, suitable for special occasions, when clients are after a specific sound (or even look, if doing television performances). The cabling infrastructure of the building yields many possibilities.

CONTROL ROOM

At the heart our recording system are world class preamps from NEVE and RME, all remotely controlled from the Control Room, with the audio streamed via our SSL AlphaLink MADI converter to an AVID ProTools HDX3 system. There is a real-time video feed from the recording stage to the control room and the film is fed down to the stage for the conductor. Monitoring in the control room as a 5.1 Focal system and down on the stage end a Hearback system makes sure everyone hears what they need, be it click track, guide tracks, the conductor or the people in the control room.

AN OVERLOOK OF OUR TECHNOLOGY

Tech / Equipment

Microphones

1x Shure Beta52

1x Shure Beta91

6x Shure SM57

4x Shure SM58

4x Shure Beta57

10x Shure Beta58

4x Shure Beta98

2x Shure KSM44

1x Shure SM7b

6x Shure MX412

2x Sennheiser MD421

4x Sennheiser e906

3x Sennheiser MKH-40

2x Sennheiser MKH-20

1x Sennheiser MKH-30

12x Neumann KM184

6x Audix SCX-25

1x Audix D6

2x AKG C414-XLS

2x Audio-Technika AE5400

4x Audio-Technika ATM-350

2x Royer Labs R-122

2x Line Audio OM1

10x DPA 4099 – High Sensitivity

10x DPA 4099 – Low Sensitivity

2x DPA 4023

2x DPA 4028

10x Klark Teknik DN-100 DI’s

2x Klark Teknik DN-200 Stereo DI’s

5x Whirlwind IMP-2 DI’s

1x Schertler Dyn-P P48

Other microphones available on request

Equipment

AVID Pro Tools Ultimate 20 – All Included Plugins

Waves Diamond Bundle

3x AVID Pro Tools | HDX (768 voices)

AVID HD I/O

AVID HD MADI

AVID SYNC HD

AVID C|24 Control Surface

24 Channels of NEVE 4081 remote controlled preamps

16 Channels of RME Preamps (Micstacy/Octamic XTC)

SSL AlphaLink MADI converter

Focusrite Clarett 8pre in control room

Focal 5.1 Monitoring

Left, Center, Right: Focal TRI06 Be
Rear Left, Rear Righ: Focal Twin6 Be
Sub: Focal Sub6

Hear Technologies Hearback system. 3x Hubs – 24x Mixers
BeyerDynamic DT102 Single Ear Headphones
Shure SRH240 and Shure SRH440 Headphones
Mac Pro (Late 2013)

3.5GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5
32GB 1866 MHz DDR3
LG 34UM88 Ultra-Wide Display (3440×1440)
Pro Tools Keyboard
Pegasus R4 RAID Thunderbolt Hard Disk Array
Magma ExpressBox 3T Thunderbolt Chassis for HDX Card

Instruments (Updating)

Strings, woodwinds, brass

Our players have a collection of some of the finest instruments available in the world.

Pianos

Steinway D Grand Piano
Bösendorfer 225
Yamaha YUS 3S Upright Piano

Yamaha CEL-56P Celesta

Thomas & George Martin Double Bass

Percussion

SinfoniaNord has access to one of the largest, ever growing, collection of percussion instruments in Iceland, belonging to the Akureyri School of Music. See the full collection here.

Yamaha Custom tour drum kit – 18” + 22” Kick, – 10-12-14-16 toms, hardware + snare

Fender HotRod 2×12”

Ashdown ABM500 EVO RC II + 4×10” + 1×15”

Ampeg PF500 + SVT410HE

Network / Remote sessions

Network Connection

We have a 1Gbps fiber optic network connection dedicated for our studio for file sharing and communication.

Remote Sessions

For remote sessions we can offer clients to listen in to the session via Source-Elements Source-Live or Source-Connect. With Source-Live you can listen to high quality stream, live from the recording session in any web browser or directly on your iPhone.

Floor plans

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