Genelec loudspeaker systems have been installed within MUBA (Tallinn College of Music and Ballet) in Tallinn, Estonia.
Located in the heart of Estonia’s capital city, the Tallinn College of Music and Ballet (known popularly as MUBA ), it unites three historic institutions: Tallinn Music High School, Tallinn Ballet School, and Tallinn Georg Ots Music School, MUBA prides itself on producing highly independent, passionate, creative graduates.
Spread across 26,000 square metre campus, MUBA also includes 4 music halls, 2 auditoriums, 6 ballet studios and a plethora of classrooms and practice rooms. Equipped and installed by local Genelec partner msonic Baltic, the Sound Recording Studio provides MUBA’s musicians and sound engineering students with a facility where they can hone their skills and gain invaluable studio experience to equip them for their future careers.
“Control Room 1 houses our Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console and takes the user back to the ‘age of analogue consoles’ for recording and mixing,” explains Andres Olema, MUBA’s sound studio manager. “It serves as our main control room for recording from our studio room, allowing our first course Sound Engineering students to do their mixing assignments fully analogue with the Neve and outboard gear for the first half of the year,” he adds. The space is equipped with a pair of Genelec 8341A coaxial nearfield models to complement the room’s main monitors which Olema says, “gives us the nearfield accuracy that you definitely need when working long hours with the console.”
Control Room 2 is set up in a 5.1 configuration, deploying five 8351B coaxial models complemented with a 7370A subwoofer. Elsewhere in the campus, Genelec 8000 series monitors are deployed in various production and classroom spaces, while a pair of floating 4430A Smart IP PoE loudspeakers are used to provide talkback for recording performances where the musicians aren’t using headphones.