STUDIO S4/6
One of the best studios specialising in recordings of light music. In 1996 the control room was thoroughly modernised, according to the design by the British firm Recording Architecture. It is a studio section composed of three studios, that enable simultaneous recording of separated instrumental sections. Permanent connection of the control room of this studio to the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio and Studio S2, offers recordings for a large symphony orchestra in multi-track technology, greatly enhancing the options offered by Studio S4/6.
The section of Studio S4/6 is equipped with a double-circuit headphone sound monitoring system for performers, and internal closed-circuit television system. The control room of Studio S4/6 is permanently equipped with Beta video recorder, synchronised with multi-track recorder. All premises of S4/6 are air-conditioned.
The studio S4/6 produced records for such bands as Varius Manx, HEY, VOX, IRA, T. Love, Wilki, Republika, De Mono, Bajm, Pod Budą, Maanam, Kwartet Jorgi, and most popular Polish vocalists - Edyta Bartosiewicz, Ewa Bem, Danuta Błażejczak, Jan Borysewicz, Robert Chojnacki, Mirosław Czyżykiewicz, Robert Gawliński, Anna Maria Jopek, Natalia Kukulska, Alicja Majewska, Kasia Nosowska, Stanisław Sojka, Justyna Steczkowska, Grzegorz Turnau, Wanda Warska. It also delivered the record „Perfect symfonicznie” (Perfect Symphonically), as well as the hugely successful record „Duety Ireny Santor” (Irena Santor’s Duos).
Thanks to state-of-the-art equipment and technical potential, Studio S4/6 has been the choice of leading film soundtrack composers: Krzesimir Dębski, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, Wojciech Kilar, Michał Lorenc, Zbigniew Preisner. Our studio recorded, among other films, for „Ogniem i mieczem” (With Fire and Sword, Krzesimir Dębski), Quo vadis (Jan A. P. Kaczmarek), The Pianist (Wojciech Kilar), „Zemsta” (The Revenge, Wojciech Kilar), „W pustyni i w puszczy” (In Desert and Wilderness, Krzesimir Dębski).
Recordings in studio S4/6 are done by sound directors Ewa Guziołek-Tubelewicz, Leszek Kamiński, Tadeusz Mieczkowski, Przemysław Nowak, Wojciech Przybylski and Mikołaj Wierusz (they also use the Agnieszka Osiecka Music Studio of Programme 3).
Studios:
Studio S6
cubage 470 m3
area 86 m2
echo time 0.4 second
Studio S4
cubage 680 m3
area 112 m2
echo time 0.5 second
Studio S4a
cubage 110 m3
area 39 m2
echo time 0.3 second
Microphones:
Schoeps - MK 2s, BLM-3;
Neuman - U 47i, U 87i;
B & K - 4007, 4011;
AKG - C 414, D112, D 12;
Elektro-Voice - RE-20;
Shure - SM-7, SM 57;
Beyer - M-88, M-201N, M-260C;
Sennheiser - MD 421
At prior agreements it is possible to additionally equip Studio S4/6 with Brauner and Neuman microphones, and microphones Schoeps group MK4, MK2S, MK2, MK21.
Control room
console SSL 4040B (32 tracks E + 8G)
Pro Tools|HD3 Accel:
5 converters Digidesign 192 I/O
40 inputs / 48 analogue outputs
40 inputs/ 40 outputs AES/EBU in network NEXUS
computer Power MAC G5 Dual Processor 2 GHz 2 GB RAM
SYNC I/O Digidesign
MIDI I/O Digidesign
visual cards Aurora; Canopus 110
Plug Ins: Waves Diamond, HD Pack (Digidesign), Antares-Autotune and other
multi-track recorders Studer A820 24 MCH (dolby SR) and Studer A800 MKII 16MCH (dolby SR)
recorders DAT Sony PCM 2700 A; Tascam 122 MK III
player CD Sony CDP 2700
audio monitoring ATC 200 amplifiers ATC P4; Genelec 1031; Auratone 5CV
processors Lexicon 960L; Lexicon 224L, Lexicon 300, Lexicon Jamman, TC M5000 (MD-2); Alesis Midiverb II, Dynacord DRP 20, Eventide H3000-SE
optocompressor Millennia Media TCL-2 Twincom, UREI Dual Peak Limiter; Drawmer DL251; Drawmer DS201; Drawmer 1960 - 2 units
preamps: Focusrite (red), Millennia Media HV-3B
BETA video recorder with synchroniser MICRO LYNX