Mando Diao at Omnivox Studio
Photo shoot with Mando Diao during the recording of “I Solnedgången”.

Big live room.

The studio’s greatest asset is the large recording room. With 5.5 meters high ceilings, soundwaves gets the chance to bloom properly. The room also offers great opportunities for experimenting with microphone placements.

The stu­dio has the capac­i­ty for record­ing bands, choirs etc live, all togeth­er in the live room.

The live-room has wood­en walls and angled and damped ceil­ings. Every­thing usu­al­ly sounds great, straight off. 

The record­ing room (and the whole build­ing, actu­al­ly) presents quite a few pos­si­bil­i­ties when it comes to exper­i­ment­ing with micro­phone place­ments. Ambi­ence micro­phones on the stand, in the kitchen or in the upstairs hall can add a lot to your record­ing. A nice drum sound is more than possible.

 

On the technical side

Micro­phones
Lots of Ehrlund micro­phones here, includ­ing two hand-built tube mics by Göran Ehrlund him­self. A pair of Ehrlund EHR, six Ehrlund ‑D and ‑E mics, Ehrlund T + mics from Bey­er­dy­nam­ics, Shure, Sennheis­er, Rode and others. 

Instru­ments
Pre­mier Res­onator drum set, con­gas, two acoustic pianos, synths, string machines, dou­ble bass, acoustic and elec­tric gui­tars, elec­tric bass and much more. Marshall‑, Bassman‑, Roland Jazz Chorus‑, Music Man- and Acoustic ampli­fiers, all from the 60s and 70s.

The room itself
The live-room stands on its own con­crete slab with dou­ble exte­ri­or walls and ceil­ing to min­i­mize sound leak­ing in and out. The inner walls are made of wood and wired for micro­phones, speak­ers and for re-amp­ing purposes.

There are two amplifier/song booths with win­dows fac­ing the live room that sup­plies good sep­a­ra­tion between the instru­ments for live tracking.

Dur­ing record­ing, you con­trol your own mix with Hearback-mixers.

Most things sound good in the big room, straight off. Vocals are most often record­ed in the live-room. We encour­age you to  exper­i­ment with all the pos­si­bil­i­ties when it comes to micro­phone place­ments. Ambi­ence micro­phones on the stand, in the kitchen or in the upstairs hall can add a lot to your recording.

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