Facilities
The Recording studios
In the sixth floor of the building are the recording studios. They consist of structurally identical control rooms and two studio rooms with different design and dimensions. The studios are acoustically isolated from the rest of the building by floating, i.e. by building new rooms within the existing rooms. This way the sound isolation and the acoustics of the rooms are very good. Also the air-conditioning is designed to operate at extremely low noise levels. The recording rooms can be freely used with either of the control rooms. Also the lighting studio 601 can be utilized as a recoding space for large scale music recording.
The control rooms are designed to ensure largest possible listening area for course work. The monitor system utilises active speakers from Genelec 8050-series. The surround listening environment is calibrated and ITU-775-compliant. It is possible to produce, listen and edit sound material in many formats from stereophonic up to 6.1.-surround sound. The students have an opportunity to work with Audio Workstations on both MacOS and Windows-platforms.
Room 607: Dialog studio
This studio is designed for dialog and sound effect recording. The recording room is 11 m² in size.
The control room is equipped with:
Carillon PC Audio Workstation
Nuendo 3
TC PowerCore
Mackie Control
SPL 2489 Surround Monitor Controller
Aviom Pro16 Monitor Mixing System
6.1 surround monitoring system:
6 x Genelec 8050A and Genelec 7070A subwoofer
Room 609: Music studio
This studio is designed for music recording. The recording room is 49 m² in size. It is designed for music recording and is equipped with movable acoustic panels for controlling and varying the room acoustics.
The control room is equipped with:
Mac Pro Quad-Core 2,66
Pro Tools HD2 Accel
Dolby Surround Tools
Command 8 control surface
SPL 2489 Surround Monitor Controller
Aviom Pro16 Monitor Mixing System
6.1 surround monitoring system:
6 x Genelec 8050A and Genelec 7070A subwoofer
Lighting studio
General
Lighting studio is a laboratory space rather than a performance space. It is not only a black box, there are windows and light tones on walls too. The stage area can be turned to black with curtains. The space is not approved for public performances, but it can seat up to 40 people.
For educational purposes the layout for the technology is transparent. There are fixed dimmers and motorized trusses in the Space. The cabling includes socapex, DMX, ethernet, fibre optic, microphone, 3-phase power, relay switched AV power and direct AC mains in several locations around the space.
Lighting bridges in two levels give easy access for all lighting bars. The studio is small enough for quick, efficient working and big enough to try things out for real.
The floor is black film faced plywood. It is possible to use staple gun and screws on the floor. It is possible to use smoke, haze and mist in the space. There is a timer switch for the fire alarm smoke detectors. The extensive heat from the lighting fixtures is cooled down with district cooling convectors.
There is a little lobby for the lighting studio. There is a sound isolated window to the next door recording studio.
Dimensions
Area 225 m² (2400 sqf), Foyer 53 m²
Depth 15,8 m (58ft)
Width 15,6 m (51ft)
Height 7,6 m (25ft)
Rigging
Lighting bars are 50 mm in diameter and are rated to 80 kg/m. The lighting bridge rails have a flipping centre bar to add space for large fixtures.
There are permanently 6 trusses, 6m long, on half ton chain hoists. The trusses can be moved to any position along the length of the space. Instead of ladders, work can be done from Esca 3000 working platform, working height 5,5m.
There are front and rear projection screens with and without frames and one motorized screen.
Sound
Basic Sound system with 6 Nexo PS8 loudspeakers and 2 LS400 subwoofers and Nexo amplifiers
Dimmers
There are 25 Socapex outputs (for 150 channels) trough out the space and 60 permanent dimmers and 84 portable channels in road cases.
Moving light
There are 36 moving lights. The set consists of 12 VL1000 arc and tungsten versions and classic VL5 B fixtures. For the club/rock type moving light needs we do have 12 Robe Color 250AT and 6 Robe Scan 250 XT.
Conventional fixtures
The conventional rig, some 250 pcs, consists of ETC, Selecon, Arri, Strand and Dexel fixtures. In addition there are color changing Chroma-Q Color Block LED fixtures, strobos, UV spots, tubular ripple effect and even fluorescent soft lights for video lighting.
Lightboards
For moving light control there are Grand MA (light and micro) and Chamsys MQ100 light boards. Compulite Spark and Strand series 200 are for conventional lighting. For visualisation there are ESP Vision and WYSIWYG software’s.
Video
There is one moving video yoke Beamover 57 and 3 5500ANSI lumens videoprojectors, Hippotizer Stage V3 and Arkaos mediaservers, Edirol V-4 vidomixers, DVD players, HD camera and video extenders.
Painting room
There is a workshop room for the messy projects. The painting room has a robust floor, water station, washing machine and downdraft table to extract the painting fumes.
The Sound Workshops
The Sound Workshops are in the fourth floor. They are designed for sound editing and small-group work. They are furnished with simpler systems than the recording studios, the main focus here is in learning sound creation, editing and production techniques. Sound workshop 1 has a Doepfer A-100 modular synthesizer system. The systems are designed to ensure easy integration with laptop computers that the students are using for production work. It is possible to work in surround sound here. The monitoring setup is realised with active speakers from Genelec 8020-series.
Room 409: Sound Workshop 1
| Sound mixer: | Yamaha 01V96V2 |
| Sound interfaces: | 1 Motu 828 mkII |
| 4 Motu Ultralite | |
| Active monitors: | 5 Genelec 8020A |
| Genelec 7050B subwoofer | |
| Controller: | Frontier Design alphatrack |
| Midi-controller: | Novation ReMOTE 49 LE |
| DSP: | t.c. Electronic PowerCore Firewire |
| Modular synthesizer: | Doepfer A-100 |
| Headphone amplifier: | Behringer HA8000 |
| Video projector: | Sony VPL-CX5 |
| Projection screen: | MediumFrame 160 x 120 |
| Computer: | MacPro |
| Software: | Logic |
| Ableton Live |
Room 410: Sound Workshop 2
| Sound mixer: | Yamaha 01V96V2 |
| Sound interfaces: | 1 Motu 828 mkII |
| 4 Motu Ultralite | |
| Active monitors: | 5 Genelec 8020A |
| Genelec 7050B subwoofer | |
| Controller: | Frontier Design alphatrack |
| Midi-controller: | Novation ReMOTE 49 LE |
| DSP: | t.c. Electronic PowerCore Firewire |
| Headphone amplifier: | Behringer HA8000 |
| Video projector: | Sony VPL-CX6 |
| Projection screen: | MediumFrame 160 x 120 |
| Computer: | MacPro |
| Software: | Logic |
| Ableton Live |
The Video Workshops
The Video Workshops are in the fifth floor. They are designed for video editing and small-group work. Video Workshop 1 is 23 m²; Video Workshop 2 is 19 m². Video Workshop 1 has four desktop Mac Pro computers, while Video Workshop 2 has one, as it is intended for working with laptop computers. The monitoring setup is realised with active speakers from Genelec 8020-series.
Room 512: Video Workshop 1
| Video interface: | Canopus ADVC 110 |
| Portable Video Recorder: | Focus FireStore FS-4 PRO HD 100GB |
| HDV deck: | Sony DSR-11 |
| Video projector: | Sony VPL-CX70 |
| Projection screen: | MediumFrame 160 x 120 |
| Sound mixer: | Behringer Xenyx 2222FX |
| Active monitors: | 2 Genelec 8020A |
| 7050B subwoofer | |
| Computers: | 4 Mac Pro Quad-Core 2,66 |
| Software: | Final Cut Studio |
| Adobe Design Premium |
Room 513: Video Workshop 2
| Video interface: | Canopus ADVC 110 |
| Portable Video Recorder: | Focus FireStore FS-4 PRO HD 100GB |
| HDV deck: | Sony DSR-11 |
| Video projector: | Sony VPL-CX70 |
| Projection screen: | MediumFrame 160 x 120 |
| Sound mixer: | Behringer Xenyx 2222FX |
| Active monitors: | 2 Genelec 8020A |
| 7050B subwoofer | |
| Computers: | Mac Pro Quad-Core 2,66 |
| Software: | Final Cut Studio |
| Adobe Design Premium |
The IT Classes
The IT Classes are in the fourth and in the fifth floor. Both classes have nine pc computers. The IT Class in the fourth floor is dedicated to CAD usage.
Room 401: CAD Class
| Video projector: | |
| Projection screen: | |
| Active monitors: | |
| Computers: | 9 Dell Optiplex745 Core 2 Duo 1,86 |
| Software: | AutoCAD |
| 3ds Max Design | |
| Adobe Photoshop | |
Room 514: IT Class
| Video projector: | |
| Projection screen: | |
| Active monitors: | |
| Computers: | 9 Dell Optiplex745 Core 2 Duo 1,86 |
| Software: | Adobe Design Premium |
| Adobe Production Studio Premium |
Other Facilities
Students have a 24 access to the premises. The lounge areas can be used for student exhibition.
Room 411: The Painting Room
There is a workshop room for all those messy projects. The painting room has a robust floor, water station, washing machine and downdraft table to extract the painting fumes.
Rooms 405 and 407
There are two regular class rooms. The small one is 57 m² (510 sqf) and bigger is 95m² (1022 sqf). There is a video projector and 5.1 sound system in the classes. There are tables and chairs for 10 students in each room. In addition the bigger classroom has large trestle tables for drafting, model making and other long lasting projects. The general lighting has a high color rendering and 4000K color temperature fluorescent lighting.
