The Music Art Lab Studios is located at the center of Athens (Greece), next to the Metaxourgeio metro station. Composer-arranger and sound engineer Nikos Asimakis, composer AchilLes Chatzinikos and composer-arranger and sound engineer Theodore Kouelis created the studio in 2014. Music Art Lab Studios is officially presenting Russian microphones Oktava in Greece since 2019.
All studio staff are experts in the field of recording or orchestrating. The company specializes in sound and sound design and works with projects involving the creation and the orchestrating of music compositions from around the globe. For example, it collaborates with Netflix, World media rights productions, The orchard, Vienna national theater, MC & THE 7 PEDALS, Indra Keyn, Panos Mouzouracis, Thanassis Vasilopolous and many others.
Seven separate spaces are located in the square of 240 square meters: two control rooms, two recording booths, three rehearsal rooms.
2 MACKIE DIDGITAL X BUS CONSOLE 96 CH
1 MIDAS HERITAGE 48 CH
1 SOUNDCRAFT UR 24
4 UAD APOLLO X 8 SOUND CARDS
2 MANLEY VOXBOX PREAMPS
1 TL AUDIO IVORY VALVE PROCESSOR
1 ART PRO VLA 2 CH VALVE PROCESSOR
2 T.C. ELECTRONIC M ONE DUAL EFFECTS PROCESSORS
1 SM PRO AUDIO EP 84 8 CH MIC PREAMP
2 YAMAHA NS-10M STUDIO MONITORS
2 MACKIE HR 824 MONITORS
2 BOSE MONITORS
1 IMAC 17
PRO TOOLS, LOGIC, CUBASE
The control room 2
PRESONUS 16.4.2
SOUNDCRAFT XD328
MOTU ULTRALITE
LYNXX CONVERTERS
2 X AMEK 9098 EQ and PRE
AMEK 9098 CL COMPRESSOR
2 X YAMAHA NS 10M STUDIO MONITORS
2 X KRK VXT 8
2 X BEHRINGER TRUTH B 2031A MONITORS
KRK ERGO ROOM AUDIO CORRECTION
M-AUDIO RADIUM 49
CASIO PRIVIA
BEHRINGER BCF2000
2 X UAD PLUGIN PACKS
LINE 6 POD X3 PRO
Backline
2 RANDALL NB KING 100
3 RANDALL NB 4X12
1 MESA BOOGIE DUAL RECTIFIER
1 ENGL THUNDER 50 FULL TUBE
1 KRANK KRANKESTEN
1 KRANK 4X12
1 KOCH POWERTONE
1 KOCH 4X12
1 AMPEG SVT3 PRO
1 AMPEG 4X12
1 AMPEG 1X15
1 HARTKE 3500A
1 HARTKE VX 4X10
1 PEARL MASTER STUDIO BRX
2 MARSHALL VALVESTATE 100
2 EDEN 320 BASS AMPLIFER
1 SWR FULL TUBE BASS AMPLIFER
3 SYNTS KORG TRITON, CME UF 80, KORG X3
DRAMS SET
1 Ludwig Classic Maple
2 Sonor Set Studio
1 Tomo STAR Drum Maple
1 Mapex Classic Maple
As a studio and producing company, Music Art Lab studios uses all kinds of microphones for professional sound recording. The Russian company Oktava (part of the State Corporation Rostec) produced the most part of the microphone fleet.
“We chose Oktava microphones for their particular tonal characteristic with wealth of harmonic series. They allow you to get dark and full sound with harmonic series and without additional noises,” said Nikos Asimakis, the owner of the studio. “I am a longstanding fan of tube microphones Oktava MKL-111 and MKL-5000. In my view, this is the top choice among studio tube microphones. They provide a clear and smooth sounding when recording vocals or solo instruments. Our idea is to give musicians, singers, sound engineers in Greece the opportunity to listen and study up more about the microphones of Russian manufacture.”
The studio's microphone fleet includes 25 Oktava microphones. Among them are MKL-111, MKL-112, MKL-5000, stereopair MK-012, MK-102 and MK-103, stereopair MK-519, MK-117 and MKL-2500. Also in the MICS list – 2 NEUMANN U87, one TLM-107, four KM-184, 10 SM-57 and 6 SM-58 from SHURE, drum sets from Audix and AKG, AKG C-414.
The company works together with Aegean College, an academic institution that implements educational programs in cooperation with the leading universities of Great Britain. Training workshops for musicians and sound engineers in Athens were held with the participation of the Russian manufacturer of electroacoustics in March 2020. Music Art Lab Studios and Oktava organized the series of meetings and microphone presentations for the music scene, which were held on the base of the recording studio, and a lecture for students within Aegean College. All of this was unified under the name of “The Days of the Russian Oktava in Greece”.
Also, Music Art Lab studios works together with the Museum of Art in Athens on topics that are related to ancient Greek sound and Byzantine music.
For more on the studio you can read here:
https://www.musicartlab.gr,
https://www.facebook.com/nikoasasimakis,
https://www.facebook.com/Musicartlab
All studio staff are experts in the field of recording or orchestrating. The company specializes in sound and sound design and works with projects involving the creation and the orchestrating of music compositions from around the globe. For example, it collaborates with Netflix, World media rights productions, The orchard, Vienna national theater, MC & THE 7 PEDALS, Indra Keyn, Panos Mouzouracis, Thanassis Vasilopolous and many others.
Seven separate spaces are located in the square of 240 square meters: two control rooms, two recording booths, three rehearsal rooms.
2 MACKIE DIDGITAL X BUS CONSOLE 96 CH
1 MIDAS HERITAGE 48 CH
1 SOUNDCRAFT UR 24
4 UAD APOLLO X 8 SOUND CARDS
2 MANLEY VOXBOX PREAMPS
1 TL AUDIO IVORY VALVE PROCESSOR
1 ART PRO VLA 2 CH VALVE PROCESSOR
2 T.C. ELECTRONIC M ONE DUAL EFFECTS PROCESSORS
1 SM PRO AUDIO EP 84 8 CH MIC PREAMP
2 YAMAHA NS-10M STUDIO MONITORS
2 MACKIE HR 824 MONITORS
2 BOSE MONITORS
1 IMAC 17
PRO TOOLS, LOGIC, CUBASE
The control room 2
PRESONUS 16.4.2
SOUNDCRAFT XD328
MOTU ULTRALITE
LYNXX CONVERTERS
2 X AMEK 9098 EQ and PRE
AMEK 9098 CL COMPRESSOR
2 X YAMAHA NS 10M STUDIO MONITORS
2 X KRK VXT 8
2 X BEHRINGER TRUTH B 2031A MONITORS
KRK ERGO ROOM AUDIO CORRECTION
M-AUDIO RADIUM 49
CASIO PRIVIA
BEHRINGER BCF2000
2 X UAD PLUGIN PACKS
LINE 6 POD X3 PRO
Backline
2 RANDALL NB KING 100
3 RANDALL NB 4X12
1 MESA BOOGIE DUAL RECTIFIER
1 ENGL THUNDER 50 FULL TUBE
1 KRANK KRANKESTEN
1 KRANK 4X12
1 KOCH POWERTONE
1 KOCH 4X12
1 AMPEG SVT3 PRO
1 AMPEG 4X12
1 AMPEG 1X15
1 HARTKE 3500A
1 HARTKE VX 4X10
1 PEARL MASTER STUDIO BRX
2 MARSHALL VALVESTATE 100
2 EDEN 320 BASS AMPLIFER
1 SWR FULL TUBE BASS AMPLIFER
3 SYNTS KORG TRITON, CME UF 80, KORG X3
DRAMS SET
1 Ludwig Classic Maple
2 Sonor Set Studio
1 Tomo STAR Drum Maple
1 Mapex Classic Maple
As a studio and producing company, Music Art Lab studios uses all kinds of microphones for professional sound recording. The Russian company Oktava (part of the State Corporation Rostec) produced the most part of the microphone fleet.
“We chose Oktava microphones for their particular tonal characteristic with wealth of harmonic series. They allow you to get dark and full sound with harmonic series and without additional noises,” said Nikos Asimakis, the owner of the studio. “I am a longstanding fan of tube microphones Oktava MKL-111 and MKL-5000. In my view, this is the top choice among studio tube microphones. They provide a clear and smooth sounding when recording vocals or solo instruments. Our idea is to give musicians, singers, sound engineers in Greece the opportunity to listen and study up more about the microphones of Russian manufacture.”
The studio's microphone fleet includes 25 Oktava microphones. Among them are MKL-111, MKL-112, MKL-5000, stereopair MK-012, MK-102 and MK-103, stereopair MK-519, MK-117 and MKL-2500. Also in the MICS list – 2 NEUMANN U87, one TLM-107, four KM-184, 10 SM-57 and 6 SM-58 from SHURE, drum sets from Audix and AKG, AKG C-414.
The company works together with Aegean College, an academic institution that implements educational programs in cooperation with the leading universities of Great Britain. Training workshops for musicians and sound engineers in Athens were held with the participation of the Russian manufacturer of electroacoustics in March 2020. Music Art Lab Studios and Oktava organized the series of meetings and microphone presentations for the music scene, which were held on the base of the recording studio, and a lecture for students within Aegean College. All of this was unified under the name of “The Days of the Russian Oktava in Greece”.
Also, Music Art Lab studios works together with the Museum of Art in Athens on topics that are related to ancient Greek sound and Byzantine music.
For more on the studio you can read here:
https://www.musicartlab.gr,
https://www.facebook.com/nikoasasimakis,
https://www.facebook.com/Musicartlab