With a 12-year track record as one of the Philippines’ most creative sound and location recording companies, WildSound Studios has opened a Dolby Atmos audio mixing studio for its film and video production clients.
The studio owners are Mike Idioma and Tony Tuviera – both accomplished recording engineers with multiple feature film and commercial credits. Having found an ideal space in Quezon City’s Sampaguita Pictures Compound for the new facility, they called on the Walters-Storyk Design Group to create a state-of-the-art mixing theatre. WSDG Brazil partner Renato Cipriano met with Idioma to discuss the new studio…
The WildSound team envisaged a spacious mixing theatre with a large screen, multi-format projection, an expansive mixing desk, comfortable seating and impeccable acoustics. In addition to superb technical qualifications, the 640-sq-ft room with an 11ft-high ceiling mixing room had to offer an aesthetically pleasing working atmosphere.
Furished with deep red fabric covered walls and ceiling acoustic panels, and a handsome natural wood rear wall resonator, the completed WildSound Mixing Suite is a vibrant workplace. Seven banks of Dolby-certified, Atmos speakers set in groupings of four each on the side and rear walls and two ceiling-mounted quartet banks, provide the room with impeccable surround sound reproduction. The mixing desk features an Avid Icon D-Control ES 32 faders console and a 203-inch x 100-inch – 240-inch diagonal perforated screen. The plush red fabric client couch was set on a 3-inch-high platform in front of the desk and well within the mixing area sweet spot. WildSound also offers sound effect design, Foley, localisation and synching services.
‘WildSound is considered as one of the Philippines’ most creative and technically advanced sound recording and mixing companies,’ Cipriano says. ‘The studio’s credits include numerous award-winning films. This new Dolby Atmos Mixing Suite represents an important step in their continuing growth. WSDG is delighted to have helped create this impeccable room, and we are currently developing TVJ Stage, a second (and larger) 1,480-sq-ft film mixing suite to accommodate a growing client base.’
‘We had an outstanding experience with WSDG,’ Idioma reports. ‘Their design met all our requirements for a handsome room with extraordinary acoustics. Our initial broadcast and cinema clients have been extremely pleased with the work they’ve mixed here, and word is spreading throughout the Philippines that we have one, if not the best of the best facilities in the country.’
