Executive producer: Riccardo Studer
Speaker English: Daniel Richards, Networks
Speaker Italian: Federico Caprara, Edizioni e Voci
Sound engineer English: Riccardo Studer
Sound engineer Italian: Sandro Hess, Edizioni e Voci
Studio: Digilab Recording Studios
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Given the importance of the Arounder Milan project, we asked Riccardo Studer, our preferred sound consultant, to lead the production of the spoken texts required by the concept.
For the Galleria panorama, Riccardo went to the Galleria in Milan and recorded the audio there using a DAT TCD-D3 Sony and Sony micorphone ECM-959. He made minor edits to keep the sound as realistic as possible.
The spoken text recording session took place the 13th of May and lasted the whole day. We began recording with the English version; this phase had six ears monitoring it: Daniel for the english intonations, Riccardo for technical tidyness and Marco controlling the text adherence. After three hours we were done and Riccardo could begin the editing and the mastering of the files.
The original takes needed some equalization, a reasonable quantity of De-Essing and a medium-heavy compression, which took about two hours. Riccardo took a break and was replaced by Sandro for the recording of the Italian version. Here Federico watched for the intonation while Marco controlled the text adherence. We also employed three hours for these recordings which were finally edited and mastered adapting the parameters to the different voice characters.
An important part of the sound production was the site usability test, where we checked the understandability and quality of the speech coming from computer loudspeakers. This test was useful to make some fine corrections - mainly on the equalization - to the files.
Digilab Recording Studios, is a highly sophisticated audio recording facility fully servicing the film, television and multimedia industry. featuring dubbing, voiceover recording in many languages, production music and sound design. The innovative, highly creative team, supported by state of the art technologies and equipment, allows one to go far beyond simple sound postproduction: Digilab is a place where coherent and effective sound designs are created for a variety of applications. Major customers include: Idee Suisse (official Swiss broadcast channels), Saatchi & Saatchi, Young and Rubycam, Condor Film, Publisuisse, GW Thomson, Mediaset, Filmhaus Muenchen, and many others.
Edizioni e Voci is a department of Digilab Recording Studios focusing on voice production. The team is lead by Federico Caprara, actor and director, and Sandro Hess, musician and sound designer. Together they represent the conceptional core of the company. E&V provides artistic consultancy, art direction for any kind of voice related productions.
