Pacific Studio - Recording and rehearsal studio in Sofia, Bulgaria

WELCOME TO THE PACIFIC STUDIO

Sofia based recording studio offering Recording, Mixing, Mastering and Rehearsal services to a wide range of clients

Where?

Pacific Studio is conveniently located in Vitosha Buisness Center, only 15 minutes far from the administrative and cultural center of the capital. We offers 24 hours collaboration to our clients. The rehearsal and recording room is air conditioned, wide and spacious with a very good acoustics available for pleasant and enjoyable atmosphere for beneficial joint work.

What?

At The Pacific Studio, we work with a wide range of clients from Pop music to Jazz and from Rock music to Hard Core. Whether you need a demo, single, EP or a fully produced album, The Pacific Studio has been the right choice since we opened for business in 2006.

How?

Building a reputation for delivering the very best recording services and offering the most professional guidance and assistance when perfecting your sound we remain dedicated to constantly searching for ways to improve our services even further. Our recording studio expertise and vast knowledge will help you make the most of your talents.

Studio

The Control Room
Our control room is both spacious and acoustically designed. The room has been treated with various absorbers and bass traps to provide an accurate mixing environment. This means you know your mix will sound great both in the recording studio and when your CD is played on other systems.

The Live Room
The Pacific Studio features 38m live room which can accommodate large groups of musicians. The acoustics in this room are excellent and this makes a huge difference to the quality of the recorded sound. In the lively end of the room drums sound huge and vibrant and the dead end provides a more intimate sound. We also have some movable gobos to tailor the acoustics for the required sound. The room features a fully floating wood floor, fresh air replacement and excellent sight lines to the control room.

COMPUTER. HARDWARE. SOFTWARE:
Custom Build PC for audio recording, CPU 8-Core, 64bit
Windows 7 Professional
Allen & Heath ZED R16 Firewire Recording Mixer - 24bit/96Hz
Yamaha HS80M Professional Studio Monitor
Joemeek OneQ Master Studio Chanel
CuBase 9.5 Pro

MICROPHONES:
Neumann TLM 103, Shure B52, Shure Beta 91, Shure SM57, Shure SM7B Vocal Microphone, Electro-Voice RE20, Sennheiser E602, Sennheiser E604, Sennheiser E609, MXL 960, MXL 990, MXL 993, Subkick

DRUMS:
Tama Superstar Birch Drum Kit - 22"x18"Bass Drum, 10"x8"Tom Tom, 12"x9"Tom Tom, 16"x16"Floor Tom, 14"x5"Snare Drum, Pearl Virgil Donati Signature 14x5 Snare Drum

AMPS, COMBOS, CABINETS, PEDALS:
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Head, 4x12 Recto Cabinet, Peavey 6505 Guitar Head, Randal 4x12 Cabinet, Hughes&Kettner Attax 80, Fender Frontman 212R, Roland Studio Bass 100
Yamaha AG Stomp, EBS Micro Bass II, Hughes&Kettner Tubeman MK2, N-Audio Firesound 3

Staff

Alexander Kalanov

Manager & Sound Engineer

General studio manager and Sound Engineer at Pacific Studio. Bass player since 1992. He has over 10 years professional experience in audio recording and music composing.

Jay Dimoff

Mix & Mastering

Professional Drummer, Studio Sound, Mixing, Mastering Engineer and Drum Teacher. With strong background of gigging and touring with various bands in the UK and Europe.

Jordan Borisov

Producer

24 years Percussion Instruments, 8 Years Piano, 5 Years Guitar and Singing – Yordan have worked with every kind of metal, rock, classical, blues, jazz, pop and acoustic music.

Mira Kalanova

Art Director

Mira Kalanova is our art director. She is graduated The National Academy of Art and she is a lector in the National Academy for Theater and film arts. Mira works successfully as a costume designer and scenograpfer in theater and cinema.

Peter Rangelov

Mix & Mastering

Published songwriter/guitarist/mixer and record producer graduated from the National Music Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria, bachelor degree/guitar department and develop his skills and knowledge that brings him to graduate in addition the Manchester Midi School, UK with Music Production and Construction Diploma, and Commercial Engineering Diploma.

Services

Audio recording

Pacific Studio is designed to accommodate various audio recording demands for as wide a range of clients as possible. They include self contained music groups from hardest sounding metal and hard core to pink, rock & roll, jazz, blues and pop, voice-overs, TV and Radio commercials, industrial/corporate audio productions.

Mix & Mastering

Pacific Studio offers high-quality professional mixing and mastering services. Whether your project is large or small, our expert mastering engineers has the resources and solutions to provide you with great sounding songs. Our track record for consistency, timely service, and expertise guarantees you get the best possible results for your music.

Composing & Arrangement

As a musician, music producer or publisher, you know the arrangement of a song can make or break it. A great song with a weak arrangement will fail, while a weak song with a great arrangement may become an hit. The goal of the arranger ought to be to create a track that will interest and inspire the greatest number of listeners. That's what we're good at.

Video recording

Let Us produce the perfect promotional video of your band. A quality video allows the professional entertainer to show your perspective clients what you sound like, what you look like, and and how you perform. We can help your act in every part of the process, creating a quality promo video that will set you apart from your competition. We have the skills and equipment to showcase your performance.

Rehearsal

Pacific Studio offers an ultimate room for rehearsing groups up to 8 people. It features a Mesa Boogie, Fender and Hughes&Kattner guitar amps, Roland bass combo and Tama drum kit. With it's 38 square meters and 5 meters high the room provides a very warm sound and good lighting. The room is also equipped with air conditioning to provide a pleasant atmosphere during rehearsals.

Producing

If you need to we can become producers of your music. Or in very pragmatic terms, a project managers during the recording, mixing and mastering process. With our overall vision for the music, sound and goals of your project we can assist you to became more successful. As your producers we can make the record more than the sum of it’s parts - we can create a musical alchemy.

If you need an audio-related service, that is not listed above, just contact us.