Emil Berliner Studios

26/04/2024

Since our start working with immersive audio in 2018, over 600 projects have been realized at Emil Berliner Studios in Dolby Atmos.
We acted back then as consultants in the improvement of the binaural playback together with Dolby and Universal Music, and have collectively spent over 4000 hours creating for this format.

Our studio is equipped with two 9.1.4 speaker setup calibrated control rooms as well as the latest production and control tools for delivering immersive mixes and masters.

We have developed and optimized workflows to work on full multichannel speaker setup and specialized in the translation between target reproduction formats such as multichannel speaker Dolby Atmos, Apple Spatial Audio and Binaural rendering for headphones.

Consumers can nowadays experience the immersive audio via binaural headphone reproduction, multichannel speaker setup, a Dolby Atmos soundbar or any device compatible with Apple Spatial Audio.

17/04/2024

Looking for an ideal recording studio in the center of Berlin?

Emil Berliner Studios is based within walking distance from Potsdamer Platz.
Our studio is built as a room within a room and has been acoustically treated for every kind of sound recording.

With an area of 100m2 and a reverberation time of 0,42s it is perfect for projects ranging from speech, soloists and different kinds of ensembles.

All of our four control rooms are connected to the studio and it offers the possibility for high end digital recordings as well as purely analogue recordings on tape or vinyl.

20/05/2022

Happy Birthday Emil!

"He had the great vision that phonography contained the elements of a mass media. Being too intelligent to reinvent what already existed, he took a closer look at what was out there and, with diligence and skill, developed all the missing links in order to obtain a coherent system. [...] yes, he even thought about artist licences and copyright. Thus, even our present-day record still contains all the basic elements of the Berliner principle - Berliner is therefore rightfully considered the actual father of practical phonography, notwithstanding Edison's undisputed right of being the first."
- Dr. Hans-Werner Steinhausen, Geschäftsführer der Deutschen Grammophon Gesellschaft, April 1977

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"Er hatte die großartige Vision, in der Phonographie steckten die Elemente eines Massenmediums. Zu intelligent, um Vorhandenes noch einmal erfinden zu sollen,
sah er sich genauer um, was es gab, und entwickelte mit Fleiß und Geschick praktisch alle fehlenden Zwischenglieder, um zu einem einheitlichen System zu kommen. [...] ja, er dachte sogar an Künstlerlizenzen und Urheberrecht. So enthält auch unsere heutige Schallplatte noch alle Grundelemente des Berliner Prinzips – Berliner gilt darum mit Recht als der eigentliche Begründer der praktischen Phonographie, unbeschadet des unbestrittenen Erstlingsrechts Edisons."
- Dr. Hans-Werner Steinhausen, managing director at Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, April 1977

01/04/2022

We are proud to announce the result of our long-term collaboration with THORENS and MSM-studios

DOLBY ATMOS NOW ON VINYL!

Tune in and see the new product
https://youtu.be/wioAjoZnSRY

19/11/2021

A little video from the recent recording session for LowSwing recording studio at EBS with Eleonora Strino, Greg Cohen and Joey Baron! This is analog heaven: pure analog recording, direct to 2-track tape and transistorless at that. Using Neumann M49, U67 and Myburgh M1, V72 preamps, a vintage DG 16-track mixing desk from 1959 and a Studer C37 from 1964. This all-tube recording is ear candy!

15/10/2021

ITS OUT!!🥳🥳🥳
One year of Hard work and amazing fun and it’s finally yours to enjoy!
Every sound you’ll hear on this album is made only by me and only on the CELLO👌
Making all of these arrangements and recording every single voice has been a unique and unforgettable experience, which made me relive my childhood and teenage years 🙂
If you’re a 90s kid like me, you’ll particularly enjoy it!

http://dgt.link/cello-unlimited

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Check out the first music video, made by the fantastic Adam Csoka Keller

https://youtu.be/Rn47GTUT3uo

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Huge thanks to Deutsche Grammophon - DG for giving me complete free artistic space in creating the whole album and to Philip Krause for being my second set of ears in the studio (Emil Berliner Studios )
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Lots of bonus content and videos will be Shared over the next few weeks so watch this space 🙂
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Now enjoy the journey on any platform of your preference and let me know below how it was for you!
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21/10/2020

Today: 10 Years Berlin Anniversary at Emil Berliner Studios! We are celebrating 10 years in Köthener Strasse 38, Berlin after the opening celebration on October 21 in 2010. Thanks again to all our supporters!

We would have loved to invite you to a big feast, but Covid-19 does not really allow us to do that. Nevertheless, as a special birthday treat we are launching our new website! Check it out here:

www.emil-berliner-studios.com

After opening on October 21, 2010 the Emil Berliner Studios celebrate their 10th year in Berlin, Köthener Strasse. More Info: www.emil-berliner-studios.com

20/10/2020

10 years Berlin anniversary flashback #1: In 2019 there was a new development in immersive audio: Amazon Music HD offers a streaming platform for 3D music content. Due to our newly installed 9.1.4 monitor setup we were happy to contribute with more than 200 titles, mixed in Dolby Atmos at Emil Berliner Studios.

19/10/2020

10 years Berlin anniversary flashback #2: The year 2018 will stay in our memories for a long time. It was Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft's (and thus our studio's) 120th anniversary, being the heritage of the originally Hanover-based company founded by the two brothers Joseph and Emil Berliner in 1898. For that occasion, we were asked to record the anniversary concert inside the Forbidden City in Beijing on October 10.

Check out the following video from the concert: https://youtu.be/XZXDcDGVTQs

18/10/2020

10 years Berlin anniversary flashback #3: In 2017, we substantially redesigned our control room 1 in a short time period, which was quite intense. The digital mixing desk was removed, about 1km of multicore cable was installed and the complete infrastructure was changed into a hybrid of analog and digital environment. This gives us the possibility to use our 32-channel analog mixing desk for purely analog signal flow while the DAW can still remain the center of audio processing. On top of that, that the 1961 vintage console from control room 3 was moved here as well. On November 4, the whole setup was used for the first time in the course of the Verband Deutscher Tonmeister's "Goldener Bobby"-Award ceremony at the Meistersaal and a direct-to-disc recording with the band KALON.

17/10/2020

10 years Berlin anniversary flashback #4: Looking back on 2016, we remember the day when recorded a bonus track for his album "57th & 9th" at Emil Berliner Studios. With today’s little photo collection we would like to thank everyone who came in to record at our studio in the past 10 years!

16/10/2020

10 years Berlin anniversary flashback #5: In 2015, the Vatican opened its doors for a studio production with the Sistine Chapel Choir for the first time in history. We were honored to do the recording. The album "Cantate Domino" was released in the same year and more projects at the Sistine Chapel followed.

Watch the following video for some behind the scenes footage:

# sistinechapel # sistinechapelchoir

Veni Domine Advent & Christmas at the Sistine Chapel - About the Album (Trailer) Discover "Veni Domine": https://dg.lnk.to/sistinechapel Subscribe here - The...

15/10/2020

10 years Berlin anniversary flashback #6: The year 2014 was an extraordinary step in our history of direct-to-disc recordings. Continuing in the tradition of our pre-pre-predecessors, EBS took their Neumann VMS80 cutting lathe to an on-site recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchestra to record all four Brahms symphonies on lacquer discs in real time. The recordings were made during a concert series and were finally released as a strictly limited edition of only 1833 copies. The image on the cover shows Sir Simon Rattle engraving his initials on one of the laquer masters.

This video shows some insights into the process: https://youtu.be/qBf3OBMjRAg

Two more orchestral direct-to-disc productions followed in 2020.
Stay tuned for more on this!

14/10/2020

10 years Berlin anniversary flashback #7: 2013 was a year of great recordings and wonderful memories. Can anyone name the locations we visited? Maybe you even participated and can name the production? (Some might be easier than others...)

13/10/2020

10 years Berlin anniversary flashback #8: Having gathered a unique collection of vintage tape machines and other analog devices including a custom designed quadraphonic mixing desk from 1977 and a vintage V72 tube desk from 1961, Emil Berliner Studios redesigned their control room 3 into an „analog suite“ in the year 2012. This makes the room not only the centerpiece for all direct-to-disc recordings but also the place for tape remastering and DSD master generation.

Thanks to everyone who trusts in our crafts and ears! In particular we would like to thank Universal Music Japan International for a longtime collaboration in the field of remastering! Also many thanks to the amazing Peter Dietz and his team for the outstanding technical support.

12/10/2020

10 years Berlin anniversary flashback #9: In 2011 Emil Berliner Studios revived the real vintage recording experience: Direct-to-Disc recordings. We were able to convince a few brave people to record one side of a vinyl record in one take. The first ones to do it were „Die Tommys“ (aka Lutz Krajenski and Matthias Meusel) who recorded „Volume one“ on Feb 21 2011. The record was later released on the newly founded spin-off label Berliner Meister Schallplatten.

A number of „D2D“-albums followed: https://www.berlinermeisterschallplatten.de/de/katalog.html

Thanks to everyone who was involved!
Paavali Jumppanen Pianist
Bolivar Soloists
Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig
Jocelyn B. Smith
Elaiza
Meta4
Chamberjam Europe
Friedrich Liechtenstein
Katie Mahan
Samson Marzbani
Ruth Palmer
Joscho Stephan

11/10/2020

Dear Facebook community, this year we are celebrating our 10 years Berlin anniversary! Therefore we are sharing a few precious moments with you in our little flashback-fotostory-countdown until October 21st. We would have loved to celebrate together with you here in our studio, but due to Covid-19 pandemic this has to be postponed.

Today: Flashback-Countdown #10. The year 2010, when Emil Berliner Studios opened their new facilities at Köthener Straße on October 21st after an intense reconstruction period. With a small team from their old site in Hannover a new period in the long history of the studio began.

Ever since then we’ve been in good neighbourhood. Thanks Meiselmusic | Meisel Musikverlage, Hansa Studios, Meistersaal am Potsdamer Platz!

09/10/2020

Thank you Talibam!, Silke Eberhard and Nikolaus Neuser for this unique live experience! Recorded direct to our lathe and now released on Esp Disk

2 track album

08/10/2020

Congratulations Henning Fuchs to your new video "The Storm Will Pass"! Including nice shots from the recording session at Emil Berliner Studios

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06/10/2020

Recent release: Helene Grimaud's new album "The Messenger". Recorded by Emil Berliner Studios for Deutsche Grammophon

25/06/2020

Congratulations Elen! A wonderful Album has been released and we are proud to be part of this journey. A large portion was produced and recorded by Emil Berliner Studios.

Now available here: https://umg.lnk.to/blindueberrot

09/06/2020

Tune in tonight, to the live stream from Jan Lisiecki at Philharmonie Essen at 20:30 CET. Audio provided by Emil Berliner Studios

Ein klassisch-romantisches Programm: Jan Lisiecki spielt Werke von Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy sowie Frédéric Chopin.

26/03/2020

Tomorrow, Friday / March 27, at 7pm CET we have the pleasure to provide a concert livestream from Meistersaal am Potsdamer Platz for ARTE Concert and Deutsche Grammophon.

Join in on https://DG.lnk.to/DGYouTube and enjoy Andreas Ottensamer, Anna Prohaska, Avi Avital and Albrecht Mayer

Stay healthy!

Bringing performers and audiences together today demands creative solutions. DG presents 'Moment Musical' - a series of professional live streams at Berlin's legendary Meistersaal am Potsdamer Platz, in collaboration with ARTE Concert. Starting tomorrow, Friday, March 27 at 7pm CET and Sunday, March 29 at 4pm CET, the first four episodes will feature clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer, Anna Prohaska, Avi Avital and Albrecht Mayer. Tune in on our YouTube channel: https://DG.lnk.to/DGYouTube

17/02/2020

09/12/2019

Wonderful news: Our first batch of 3D music productions have been released on „Amazon Music HD“!

Over 200 titles have been mixed at EBS and there is a lot more on the way... Check out the „3D Classical“ playlist: 7 out of the 10 titles went through our hands.

Thanks Deutsche Grammophon and Universal Music Group







With kind support from
Dolby
Merging Technologies
Avid
Bowers & Wilkins
PreSonus Audio Electronics
Digital Audio Service
DirectOut

25/11/2019

20/11/2019

Audio Recorded by Emil Berliner Studios for Deutsche Grammophon

Live in Berlin - Daniil Trifonov plays Etude Op. 8 No. 12 by Scriabin on the piano during his Yellow Lounge performance at Musikbrauerei, Berlin. Listen here...

07/11/2019

06/11/2019

Proud to share this new video from Anna Depenbusch, recorded by Emil Berliner Studios at Meistersaal am Potsdamer Platz

Filmed by Siehste Productions

14/06/2019

The Hollywood Vampires

About one year ago, The Hollywood Vampires decided to record a few songs, among them their version of David Bowie's "Heroes", at the same place where the original was made in 1977.

And here is the result, showing some footage from the session at Meistersaal am Potsdamer Platz (formerly Hansa Studio 2), recorded by Emil Berliner Studios. We are looking forward to the release of their album "Rise" on june 21st!

Thanks Thilo Schmied for arranging the connection

Have you had a chance to watch the music video "Heroes" yet?
If not, click here: https://youtu.be/U8VnYZLWr_s

And don't forget to pre-order "Rise": https://HollywoodVampires.lnk.to/Rise