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Studio A

Our recording room offers a generous 150 square meters and can be divided into 4 separate rooms, ensuring optimal acoustic Separation. In particular, our recording studio is suitable for Orchestras, Big Bands and Bands who want to record together. For pianists, our Grand Piano Steinway D offers the highest sonic pleasures. The recording room, flooded with daylight, is divided into 2 elevation levels, with a height of 4m in the front part. Due to this height and the controlled and balanced acoustics, the front part is well suited for drum and wind instrument recordings. In addition, the space can be adapted to other needs by placing our acoustic panels.

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Grand Piano Steinway D
Steinway's largest concert Grand Piano
Our Studio A Recording Room is equipped with this beautiful top manicured concert grand piano, which meets the highest standards in our jazz and classical productions.
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Studer Vista 8
Hi-End Studio Console
The heart of the controll room is this flagship of Studer with a nominal 64 mic inputs. The console features clear but warm microphone preamplifiers and top-end digital converters.
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Equipment
Controll Room

50m², acoustic design by Andy Munro

Recording Room
  • 150m²
  • Separable into 4 booths
  • Acoustics can be modified with acoustic panels
Console
  • STUDER VISTA 8
  • 64 I/O’s at Single Rate (44.1 kHz / 48 kHz)
  • 32 I/O’s at Double Rate (88.2 kHz / 96 kHz)
  • 24 line I/O’s im Siderack
Monitoring
  • Main: DYNAUDIO M4 powered by Quested Amps
  • Nearfield: Fugu C4
  • Midfield: Bearfoot “MicroMain35”
  • Optional: Yamaha “NS-10”
  • Optional: Auratone “AudioCube”
  • Optional: United Minorities “Ginkos”
Recording System
  • AVID ProTools HDX mit MacPro
  • AVID HD Madi Interface 64 I/O
  • AVID SYNC HD
  • SNS Storage Server
  • Glyph HD Systems
Backline
  • Grand piano – Steinway D-274
  • Piano – C. Bechstein Model 8
  • Premier vintage Drumset (1970)
    • Bassdrum 24″x14″
    • Bassdrum 20″x14″
    • Floortom 16″x14″
    • Racktom 14″x8″
    • Racktom 12″x8″
  • Snaredrums
    • Premiere 14″ x 6.5″ (wood)
    • Slingerland 14″ x 5.5″ (wood)
    • Mapex Maple Deluxe 14″ x 5.5″ (wood)
  • Hardware
    • 1x Sonor Giant Step Single-Pedal
    • 1x DW 5000 Series Hi-Hat Stand
    • 2x DW 9300 Series Snare Stand 14″ / 10″ to 12″
    • 5x DW 5000/9000 Series Boomstands
    • 1x DW Air Lift Throne
  • Guitar Amps
    • Fender Vibro King
    • Fender the Twin
    • Marshall JMP Model 2204
    • Marshall 1960A (Box 4 x 12″)
    • Grossmann SG-Box (Isolation Box)
    • Celestian 12″ & Jensen 12″ Speaker
Outboard Equipment
  • Chimera V47 Line Drive Repl. of TAB V47 (Tube)
  • Chimera U73B Dual Compressor Repl. of TAB U73B (Tube)
  • DIY-Racked DR-NEQ3D Stereo EQ
  • Ecoplex EM-1 Multi Channel Tape Echo
  • Eventide HS 3000 Ultra Harmonizer
  • Joemeek SC2 Compressor
  • Lexicon 480L Reverb Processor (2pc.)
  • Lexicon PCM 60 Reverb Prcessor
  • Lexicon PCM 70 Digital Effects Processor
  • Manley VoxBox (Tube)
  • MXR Pitch Transposer & Display
  • Neve V-Rack 8EQ’s/2Dyn.
  • Recording The Masters KERWAX Replica (Tube)
  • Roland Dimension D
  • Roland SDE 3000 Digital Delay
  • Seventh Circle Audio A12 Mic Preamp, API style (6pc.)
  • Seventh Circle Audio N72 Mic Preamp, Neve style (2pc.)
  • Summit Audio TPA-200B Dual Tube Mic/Line Preamp
  • Summit Audio TLA-100A Tube Leveling Amplifier (2pc.)
  • TC Electronics TC6000 System (2pc.)
  • TC Electronics Fireworx Multi Effect Prozessor
  • TC Electronics 2290 Digital Delay
  • Tube Tech MP1A Mic Preamp (Tube) (2pc.)
  • Tube Tech CL 1B Compressor (Tube)
  • Urei 1178 Peak Limiter
  • Urei 565 Filter Set (2pc.)
Microphones
  • Coles 4038 ribbon microphone (2 pc.)
  • RCA 77-D ribbon microphone (1 pc.)
  • Royer R-122 ribbon microphone (Aktiv) (3 pc.)
  • Neumann U87 (5 pc.)
  • Neumann U-89 (5 pc.)
  • Neumann U-47 (Tube) (1pc.)
  • Neumann U-47 fet (1 pc.)
  • Neumann TLM-170 (4 pc.)
  • Neumann KM-84 (4 pc.)
  • Neumann KM-184 (8 pc.)
  • Neumann M-149 (Tube) (1 pc.)
  • Neumann SM-69 fet (1 pc.)
  • Brauner VM-1 (Tube) (2 pc.)
  • Brauner Phantom (2 pc.)
  • AKG C-414 ULS (2 pc.)
  • AKG C-414 B (2 pc.)
  • AKG D-12 (1 pc.)
  • AKG D-125 (1 pc.)
  • Sanken CU-41 (2 pc.)
  • Sony C48 (1 pc.)
  • Schoeps MK4 (6 pc.)
  • Schoeps MK2 (3 pc.)
  • Schoeps MK2S (2 pc.)
  • Schoeps CMT-55 (2 pc.)
  • Schoeps CMT-54 (2 pc.)
  • Schoeps BLM-3 (3 pc.)
  • Schoeps MTSC-54 (ORTF) (1 pc.)
  • Bruel & Kjaer C-4006 (2 pc.)
  • Electro Voice PL-20 (2 pc.)
  • Sennheiser MD-441 (4 pc.)
  • Sennheiser MD-421 (6 pc.)
  • Sennheiser MD-421 grey (3 pc.)
  • Shure SM 7 (3 pc.)
  • Shure SM-57 (5 pc.)
  • Shure Beta 57A (4 pc.)
  • Shure Beta 91 (1 pc.)
  • Shure 55SW (1 pc.)
  • Shure Modell 556 (1 pc.)
  • Shure Revere CR81A (1 pc.)
  • DPA 4099C (4 pc.)
  • Placid Audio Copperphone (1 pc.)
  • Melodium Melodynamic 75A (1 pc.)
Studio B

Our Studio consists of a mixing control room and a small recording room, which is ideal for overdubs, voice-overs and voice recordings thanks to dry acoustics. The Proximity between musician/reader and engineer is also highly appreciated for efficient working. The Heart of the controll room is an AVID S3 controller designed for mixing in the box. There are enough I/O’s for hybrid mixing with our outboard equipment.

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Fugu Speakers C4
The ideal near field speaker
The main feature of our Fugu Loudspeakers is their superior sound quality. A precise broadband speaker in a wooden spherical case and passive electronics for equalization result in a very linear phase progression and frequency response, natural stereo level width and remarkable transient behavior.
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Focus
Efficient vocal recording
Studio B, with its furnishing, is laid out for work on detail. Here one can quickly get into a creative flow for in-depth vocal producing and one can work efficiently and focused on vocal and instrument overdubs.
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Equipment
Dimensions
Controller
  • Avid S3
  • Hardware Controller for ProTools
Monitoring
  • Crane Song Avocet II Monitoring Controller
  • Midfield: Dynaudio Air15 + Air Base 12 (2.1)
  • Nearfield: FUGU C4
  • Optional: KRK “Exposé E7T”
  • Optional: Yamaha “NS-10”
  • Optional: Auratone “AudioCube”
  • Trinnov Audio ST2 (Room Optimization Solutions)
Recording System
  • AVID ProToolsHDX
  • AVID HD I/O 8x8x8
  • MacPro
  • SNS Storage Server
  • Glyph HD Systems
  • Universal Audio 4-710D
Outboard Equipment
  • Chimera V47 Line Drive Repl. of TAB V47
  • Chimera U73B Dual Compressor Repl. of TAB U73B
  • DIY-Racked DR-NEQ3D Stereo EQ
  • Ecoplex EM-1 Multi Channel Tape Echo
  • Eventide HS 3000 Ultra Harmonizer
  • Joemeek SC2 Compressor
  • Lexicon 480L Reverb Processor (2pc.)
  • Lexicon PCM 60 Reverb Prcessor
  • Lexicon PCM 70 Digital Effects Processor
  • Manley VoxBox
  • MXR Pitch Transposer & Display
  • Neve V-Rack 8EQ’s/2Dyn.
  • Recording The Masters KERWAX Replica
  • Roland Dimension D
  • Roland SDE 3000 Digital Delay
  • Seventh Circle Audio A12 Mic Preamp, API style (6pc.)
  • Seventh Circle Audio N72 Mic Preamp, Neve style (2pc.)
  • Summit Audio TPA-200B Dual Tube Mic/Line Preamp
  • Summit Audio TLA-100A Tube Leveling Amplifier (2pc.)
  • TC Electronics TC6000 System (2pc.)
  • TC Electronics Fireworx Multi Effect Prozessor
  • TC Electronics 2290 Digital Delay
  • Tube Tech MP1A Mic Preamp (Tube)
  • Tube Tech CL 1B Compressor (Tube
  • Urei 1178 Peak Limiter
  • Urei 565 Filter Set (2pc.)
Microphones
  • Coles 4038 ribbon microphone (2 pc.)
  • RCA 77-D ribbon microphone (1 pc.)
  • Royer R-122 ribbon microphone (Aktiv) (3 pc.)
  • Neumann U87 (5 pc.)
  • Neumann U-89 (5 pc.)
  • Neumann U-47 (Tube) (1 pc.)
  • Neumann U-47 fet (1 pc.)
  • Neumann TLM-170 (4 pc.)
  • Neumann KM-84 (4 pc.)
  • Neumann KM-184 (8 pc.)
  • Neumann M-149 (Tube) (1 pc.)
  • Neumann SM-69 fet (1 pc.)
  • Brauner VM-1 (Tube) (2 pc.)
  • Brauner Phantom (2 pc.)
  • AKG C-414 ULS (2 pc.)
  • AKG C-414 B (2 pc.)
  • AKG D-12 (1 pc.)
  • AKG D-125 (1 pc.)
  • Sanken CU-41 (2 pc.)
  • Sony C48 (1 pc.)
  • Schoeps MK4 (6 pc.)
  • Schoeps MK2 (3 pc.)
  • Schoeps MK2S (2 pc.)
  • Schoeps CMT-55 (2 pc.)
  • Schoeps CMT-54 (2 pc.)
  • Schoeps BLM-3 (3 pc.)
  • Schoeps MTSC-54 (ORTF) (1 pc.)
  • Bruel & Kjaer C-4006 (2 pc.)
  • Electro Voice PL-20 (2 pc.)
  • Sennheiser MD-441 (4 pc.)
  • Sennheiser MD-421 (6 pc.)
  • Sennheiser MD-421 grey (3 pc.)
  • Shure SM 7 (3 pc.)
  • Shure SM-57 (5 pc.)
  • Shure Beta 57A (4 pc.)
  • Shure Beta 91 (1 pc.)
  • Shure 55SW (1 pc.)
  • Shure Modell 556 (1 pc.)
  • Shure Revere CR81A (1 pc.)
  • DPA 4099C (4 pc.)
  • Placid Audio Copperphone (1 pc.)
  • Melodium Melodynamic 75A (1 pc.)
Studio C

Our Studio C is our go-to mixing controll room and mastering suite, which stands out with its great acoustics, not least thanks to its large room height. Our acoustician Applied Acoustics had few structural limitations to consider and thus had optimal conditions, which were exhausted and led to this unique sonic environment. The Result is a homogeneous sound image at every point in the room, so that our customers who are not seated in the sweet spot of the speakers can judge sonic nuances ideally.

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5.1 Surround System
by Dynaudio
A trinnov corrected Dynaudio surround system is installed. For film mixes, in combination with the Beamer, the cinema atmosphere is guaranteed, unfortunately without a popcorn machine.
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Creative Mastering
Studer A812 Tape Machine
Shaping the Sound soft and coloring it warm are some (historically undesirable) idiosyncrasies of tape that can be used in the mastering process. The resulting saturation and compression can be used to gain volume. So a few dB for free without the unwanted artifacts of a limiter.
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Equipment
Controller
  • Avid S3
Monitoring
  • PMC MB2S XBD-A Mastering Lautsprecher
    • 2x 10B Active Crossover engineered by Bryston
    • 2x Active 3B SST engineered by Bryston
    • 2x Active 7B SST engineered by Bryston
  • Grace M904 Monitor Controler
  • Dynaudio Surround 5.1 System
    • LCR Air20
    • SL&SR Air15
    • SUB AIR Base12
  • Trinnov Audio MC (Room Optimization Solutions)
  • Beamer für Filmproduktionen
  • Nearfield: Fugu C4
  • Optional: United Minorities “Ginko”
Mastering Equipment
  • Chimera V47 Line Drive Repl. of TAB V47
  • Chimera U73B Dual Compressor Repl. of TAB U73B
  • DIY-Racked DR-NEQ3D Stereo EQ
  • Summit Audio TLA-100A Tube Leveling Amplifier (2pc.)
  • CraneSong HEDD192 harmonicaly enhanced digital device
  • TC6000 System
  • Lavery Blue LE4496 DA/AD
  • Grimm CC1 House-Clock
  • Z SYS z-16.16. digital detangler
2-Track/Mastermachines
  • Studer A812 1/4″ DOLBY SR/A
  • Technics Turntable 1200 MKII
  • Workstation
  • AVID ProTools HDX
  • AVID HD I/O 8x8x8
  • MacPro
  • SNS Storage Server
  • Glyph HD Systems
  • UAD-2 PCle DSP Accelerator mit diversen PlugIns
Design

Applied Acoustics GmbH

Studio D

Attached to our studios is Alexius Tschallener with his creative suite, which who deeper into arrangements, show music and “sound to picture.” For sounds from the software library and midi programming, he is the specialist in the House.

    Equipment
    MIDI SUITE Hardware
    • Intel Mac Pro 2 x Quad Core, 2.8 GHz, 18GB RAM
    • 2 Displays
    • Roland Phantom (76 Keys Master Keyboard)
    • Digidesign MBox2
    • RME Multiface
    • Adam A7 Monitors
    Software
    • Apple Logic Pro
    • Protools HD 8
    • Vienna Symphonic Library Various Instruments
    • East West Symphonic Orchestra Gold Edition
    • East West Colossus Quantum Leap
    • Native Instruments Kontakt 3
    • Steinberg Virtual Guitarist 2
    • Synthogy Ivory Grand Pianos
    • Toontrack EZdrummer plus DFH und Percussions
    • IK-Multimedia Sonic Synth2
    • Spectrasonics Omnisphere / Stylus RMX / Atmosphere
    • div. Apple Jampacks + various Library
    Arranger

    Our in hoouse arranger Alexius Tschallener can support you competently in terms of midi, sound and arrangement.

    Hardmobile

    For on-site recordings, we can bring some of the qualities of the Hardstudios on wheels. The Hardmobile is a mobile controll room equipped with a Vista 5, ProTools HD and a floor heating;) built into a Renault Master.

    Both for live broadcasts of concerts and events, as well as for external recording in a concert hall, our Hardmobile is a compact and efficient solution.

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    Multitrack
    Redundant System for secure Tracking
    The built-in ProTools HD is designed to record up to 110 channels. In addition, it is Possible to use two Systems in parallel to ensure redundant Tracking of 64 Channels.
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    Flexibility
    Everything is on board for every case
    Thanks to the compact design of our Hardmobile, we can carry some material for on-site flexibility on a bus of useful size.
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    Equipment
    Equipment
    MONITORING:
    CONSOLE:
    • STUDER VISTA 5
    RECORDING:
    • 64 TRACKS ON PROTOOLS (HD3) AND 48 TRACKS ON ALESIS HD24
    • 92 TRACKS TOTAL ON REQUEST
    • 2-TRACK ON SAMPLITUDE (FIREFACE 800)
    • 2-TRACK ON MASTERLINK
    OUTBOARD
    • LEXICON 480
    • TC ELECTRONIC SYSTEM 6000
    • TC ELETRONIC M5000 (2 ENGINES)
    • TC ELECTRONIC D-TWO TAP DELAY
    • JUENGER MASTER LIMITER
    • CUSTOM MADE QUAD COMPRESSOR FOR SUMM
    MISCELLANEOUS
    • GLYPH HARDDISK SYSTEM
    • DRAWMER DISTRIBUTION AMPLIFIER
    • PANASONIC/MARSHALL VIDEOSYSTEM WITH REMOTE CAMERA (CCTV)
    REFERENCES
    SCHWEIZER RADIO UND FERNSEHEN
    • BALOISE SESSION BASEL
    • BLUE BALLS FESTIVAL LUZERN
    • OPENAIR HEITERE
    • ZERMATT UNPLUGED
    • OPENAIR FRAUENFELD
    • OPENAIR GAMPEL
    • OPENAIR GURTEN
    • OPENAIR ST.GALLEN
    • ROCK AND BLUES CRUISE
    • COUNTRY NIGHT GSTAAD
    • ART ON ICE
    • Diverse Liveübertragungen für SRF3 UF DE GASS
    • Diverse Konzertaufzeichnungen für Abteilung Classic und Jazz
    • U.V.M.
    PRIVATE
    • Diverse Aufträge von Privatkunden in allen Bereichen, z.B.:
    • JAZAAR
    • JAZZ FESTIVAL BERN
    • ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER
    • MUSIK KOLLEGIUM WINTERTHUR
    • DIVERTIMENTO
    • PEACH WEBER
    • U.V.M.
    Flying Studio

    Our equipment, your room

    If you already have the ideal setup for your project in a/your room, we can record Hardstudios quality at your desired place with our mobile compact rack and microphones. That way we also already have the sessions in the right format in order to be able to continue working efficiently.

    Equipment
    work in progress…
    Second Hand Shop
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    TK Audio BC2-ME
    Stereo Mastering Compressor
    Condition: Good

    CHF 1'800.- (NP: CHF 2'300.-)

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    Digidesign ProControl
    Professional DAW controller
    Strong signs of usage
    Analog Section (Monitoring) only partially usable

    Price on request

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    t.c.electronics Intonator
    Vocal Processing Tool
    Pitch Correction, De-Esser, LoCut Filter

    Condition: Good

    CHF 400.-

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