Emil Berliner Studios

30/12/2025

We would like to thank all our clients, partners, friends, and everyone we had the pleasure of working with this year, whether digital or analogue, in recording, post production, vinyl, or consulting.

It has been a productive and successful year, and we’re excited for the adventures the coming year has in store.
Wishing you a great start to the New Year and hoping to see you again soon!

Your Emil Berliner Studios team ❤️

22/12/2025

tb from October: our very own Philip Krause spent an intensive working period on an opera production in Mexico City.
Many thanks to everyone involved — it was a true pleasure working with such incredible artists in such an exceptional location.
This is definitely a release to look out for in 2026!

18/12/2025

An early Christmas present to ourselves 🎄

We’ve just had our two Studer C37 machines completely restored - ready to serve us for another 60 years.

These two beauties are like new and, according to our technician, sound just as good - if not better - than any A80. The C37 is considered one of the most legendary tape machines in history - not least - because it’s the little sister of the J37, famously used by the Beatles.
With its tube amplifiers, it sounds absolutely incredible.
We can’t wait to record you on these machines in the coming year.

19/12/2024

The team at Emil Berliner Studios wishes you a wonderful winter break and a good start into the new year! 🥳

We thank everyone who has worked on their projects with us over the past 12 months and look forward to a productive and exciting 2025 ✨

12/11/2024

Our land line is not working, please send us an email instead 📧

14/10/2024

Congratulations to all winners of the Opus Klassik 2024! We are thrilled to receive the award for our project „Steinberg & BSO: The DG Recordings“.

Giving these legendary recordings new shine has been an honor and a significant responsibility for us, and we are very happy that the project is so warmly embraced.

We developed an innovative signal chain that allowed us to transfer the original multitrack tapes directly to lacquer, bypassing the conventional step of a stereo mixdown on tape.

In today’s digital age, presenting a fully analog recording—one that has already sold millions of copies and represents a benchmark in recording history —is a bold statement.

The success of the Original Source Series underscores the continued demand for authentic, expertly crafted products, made with the utmost care and expertise in sound and technology.

Photo credit: Stefan Höderath

11/10/2024

Composed and lost 250 years ago, Serenade in C Major, K 648 "A Very Little Night Music" has now been rediscovered.
Video premiere on is on Saturday, 12.10.24 at 8pm.

Recorded at in Salzburg by Philip Krause, recording producer.
Mixed and mastered by Lukas Kowalski at Emil Berliner Studios.

On behalf of Mosaic Arts & Media– Ute Fesquet, executive producer, under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon GmbH.

Leonhard Baumgartner, violin
Maragarita Pochebut, violin
Svenja Dose, bass
Oscar Jockel, harpsichord

31/08/2024

https://youtu.be/G3l0Hq2ZZL8?si=x7EXaV6kdbC7cE77

Rainer Maillard and Sidney Claire Meyer from Emil Berliner Studios talk about technical aspects of mixing and cutting form the 8-track original tape directly...

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