From analog to 5.1: Genelec demonstrates its versatility at the prestigious MUBA school

The integrator Msonic Baltic leads the installation of a complete monitoring system Genelec in the Tallinn Higher School of Music and Ballet (IN), institution that brings together the Tallinn Music Institute, the Tallinn Ballet School and the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School.

Spread over a campus of 26.000 square meters, IN has 4 music rooms, 2 auditoriums, 6 ballet studios and a large number of classrooms and rehearsal rooms, which allows your 700 music and ballet students collaborate extensively during classes and on joint creative projects, supervised by a teaching team of 300 personas. Equipped and by the local Genelec partner, msonic Baltic, New sound recording studios offer musicians and sound engineering students world-class facilities from which to hone their skills.

Andres Olema, MUBA sound studio director, explains that the Control Room 1 transport introduces students to the “analog console era” by being built around a Rupert Neve Designs console 5088: “It serves as our main control room for recording from our studio room, which allows our first-year Sound Engineering students to carry out their mixing work completely analogically with the Neve and external equipment during the first half of the year”. The space is equipped with a pair of coaxial near-field models Genelec 8341A to complement the main monitors in the room. On the contrary, the Control Room 2 is set to 5.1, with five coaxial models 8351B complemented by a subwoofer 7370A.

Genelec series monitors have been installed in other production spaces and classrooms on campus. 8000, while a pair of floating speakers are used 4430A Smart IP PoE to provide talkback in the recordings of performances in which musicians do not use headphones. “The ease of use of Smart IP, thanks to Dante and Power-over-Ethernet integration, offers a really quick and easy way to configure talkback from the Control Room 1 throughout the facility, whether in our study room, in our three upstairs rooms or in any other room that has access to our studio's Dante network.”, explains To be.

Calibration of all equipment was carried out through the speaker management software GLM: “The GLM software helped us a lot to calibrate and perfect the monitoring systems in both rooms, which is especially important with the surround sound system 5.1 what we have in the Control Room 2. With GLM it is very easy to calibrate the settings and get the most out of The Ones”, add a To be who feels that their goals have been met: "Definitely, we have achieved what we expected. Of course, some tweaks and improvements were needed to get everything working perfectly, but, in general, we are very happy. We believe that, besides being a really nice studio, It is also very versatile as a whole., something very necessary in a school environment like ours”.