Cutting Room Studios is an audio mastering studio located in Stockholm, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 since 1980. Cutting Room was founded in the 1970s by Peter Strindberg and is currently owned by Björn Engelmann. Sitting in a five studio location they have dedicated three of them to audio mastering. The remaining two studios have been dedicated to digital film, video restoration, DVD & Blu-ray as well as 7.1 audio mastering, which Cutting Room has been also working with since 2001.

Swedish Grammis 2010

Cutting Room was nominated for 18 Grammy Awards, winning 4.

Winners: Årets kvinnliga artist Amanda Jenssen

Amanda Jenssen

Jenny Amanda Katarina Jenssen is a Swedish singer and Idol 2007 runner-up. Jenssens first album released in 2008 became one of that year's most sold music albums in Sweden which saw it peak at number 1 on the Swedish album chart...

 – Happyland

Happyland

Happyland was an Australian band, whose music is best described as "pop but a little punky". They were composed of Spiderbait's bassist/vocalist Janet English and her boyfriend of the time, Quan Yeomans from Regurgitator and were originally intended to be named "The Shits", but decided on...

, Årets låt Mando Diao

Mando Diao

Mando Diao is an alternative rock band from Borlänge, Sweden. The band got their breakthrough with the release of the album Hurricane Bar. Their main fan base is in Sweden, Germany, and Japan although their influence has recently spread to Western Europe, most notably the UK.-Origin:The roots of...

 – Dance with somebody, Årets nykomling Erik Hassle

Erik Hassle

Erik Hassle is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter.-Biography:Hassle was raised in a rural village two hours south of Stockholm and originally aspired to be a professional footballer. He grew up listening to soul music and realised his love of music early after listening to Wilson Pickett...

 – Hassle, Årets pop Fibes, Oh Fibes! – 1987.

Swedish Grammis 2011

Cutting Room was nominated for 20 Grammy Awards.

Gold & Platinum Albums

Through the years, Cutting Room Studios has received numerous awards in the form of gold and platinum albums. In 2010, Chief Mastering Engineer, Björn Engelmann received an award for mastering the Christmas album for the Norwegian artists Sissel Kyrkjebø

Sissel Kyrkjebø

Sissel Kyrkjebø , also simply known as Sissel, is a Norwegian soprano.Sissel is considered one of the world's top crossover sopranos. Sissel's musical style runs the gamut from pop recordings and folk songs, to classical vocals and operatic arias...

 and Odd Nordstoga

Odd Nordstoga

Odd Nordstoga is a musician, actor and editor from Vinje in Telemark, Norway. In 2004, he went from relative obscurity to becoming the country's biggest selling recording artist, with the phenomenal success of his first solo album proper, "Luring"...

, which is titled “Sissel & Odd - Strålande Jul”. (Brilliant Christmas). This album has gone Eleven times Platinum in Norway selling over 330,000 copies. In 2011, Mando Diao sold platinum in Germany. Mats 'Limpan' Lindfors mastered that album.

Expansion & Collaborations

In October 2010, Cutting Room invested 2 million SEK (an equivalent of $300,500 at the time) in the expansion of their film department. This involved upgrading the film studios to follow the specifications made by DCI Digital Cinema Initiatives

Digital Cinema Initiatives

Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC or DCI is a joint venture of major motion picture studios, formed to establish a standard architecture for digital cinema systems.The organization was formed in March 2002 by the following studios:* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

. At the same time Cutting Room created a partnership with the film lab at Stockholm Post Production AB utilizing their ability to scan film up 2K and 4K resolution for a Digital Cinema Package

Digital Cinema Package

A Digital Cinema Package is a collection of digital files used to store and convey Digital cinema audio, image, and data streams.The term has been defined by Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC in their recommendations for packaging of DC contents...

 (DCP). They call this studio D-Cinema and offer complete digital cinema packages.

Digital Cinema Package

Audio Mastering Equipment used at Cutting Room

4 Audio Suites with workstations powered from Pyramix and Pro-Tools and Logic.
Speakers from ATC & Genelec's in control rooms designed for acoustics.
Interfaces used are Prism, HDCD-Pacific Microsonics, Mytek, Danish Audio, 192 Protools.


Analog Playback Tape machines

• 1/2" Ampex ATR 102
• Studer A820
• 1/4" Studer A820
• Telefunken Special (custom made)

Analog Outboards
Digital Outboards

• Weiss Eq's and Dynamics units

Restoration Tools

• CEDAR Audio for De-Noise
• CEDAR Audio for De-Crackle and
• CEDAR Audio for De-Click
• Pyramix internal options

D-Cinema Equipment used at Cutting Room

• DCI compliant reference projector from BARCO
• DCI compliant sound processor from DOLBY
• Support for 7.1 sound
• Audio mastering for D-Cinema

Current engineers at Cutting Room

Former engineers at Cutting Room

Sales & Press

External links

• Cutting Room Studios
• Wiki Audio Mastering
  Audio mastering
  Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
  
  
• History of previous Grammi award winners
• D-Cinema Expansion & Collaboration with Stockholm Post Production AB