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Genelec helps MUBA bring state-of-the-art recording to Tallinn

Natick, MA, April 8, 2026 — Located in the heart of Estonia’s capital city, the Tallinn College of Music and Ballet – known popularly as MUBA – is the most cutting-edge music and ballet school in Europe today. Uniting three historic and prestigious institutions: Tallinn Music High School, Tallinn Ballet School, and Tallinn Georg Ots Music School, MUBA prides itself on producing highly independent, passionate, creative graduates. And helping to drive that creativity are the two rooms that make up MUBA’s Sound Recording Studio facility, both of which are powered by Genelec monitoring solutions. Spread across an impressive 26,000-square-meter campus, MUBA also includes 4 music halls, 2 auditoriums, 6 ballet studios and a plethora of classrooms and practice rooms. Equipped and installed by local Genelec partner msonic Baltic, the state-of-the-art Sound Recording Studio provides MUBA’s musicians and sound engineering students with a truly world class facility, where they can hone their skills and gain invaluable studio experience to equip them for their future careers. “Control Room 1 houses our Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console and takes the user back to the ‘age of analogue consoles’ for recording and mixing,” explains Andres Olema, MUBA’s Sound Studio Manager. “It serves as our main control room for recording from our studio room, allowing our first course Sound Engineering students to do their mixing assignments fully analogue with the Neve and outboard gear for the first half of the year,” he adds. The space is equipped with a pair of Genelec 8341A coaxial nearfield models to complement the room’s main monitors which Olema says, “gives us the nearfield accuracy that you definitely need when working long hours with the console.” Jürgen Urbanik, Marketing & Business Development Manager at msonic Baltic, is equally enthusiastic about the room: “For an educational institution shaping the next generation of audio professionals, dependable monitoring is not just a technical choice but a long-term investment in quality listening and critical decision making. The combination of world class analogue recording through the 5088 console, and highly accurate Genelec monitoring, creates an exceptional ecosystem that reflects real world professional studio standards.” In contrast, Control Room 2 is set up in a 5.1 configuration, deploying five 8351B coaxial models complemented with a 7370A subwoofer. “This space functions more as our ‘working in the box’ room, together with the possibility to get acquainted with 5.1 surround mixing,” comments Olema. Elsewhere in the campus, Genelec 8000 series monitors are deployed in various production and classroom spaces, while a pair of floating 4430A Smart IP PoE loudspeakers are used to provide talkback for recording performances where the musicians aren’t using headphones. Explaining the choice of three-way models from The Ones series for both Studio 1 and 2, Olema points out a connection with Genelec that pre-dates the creation of MUBA in 2022. “The origins of our department here at MUBA stretch right back to the Georg Ots Music School, which always had Genelec two-way monitors in its small studios. So, The Ones family offered us a familiar and trusted sound with even more precision. With The Ones, you can always rely on getting the optimal sound from your setup.” The Ones’ internal DSP and tight integration with GLM loudspeaker manager software allows them to be completely tailored to the acoustics of any room. “GLM software really helped us to calibrate and refine the monitoring systems in both rooms, which is especially important with the 5.1 surround system that we have in Control Room 2. With GLM it’s really easy to calibrate the setup and get as much precision as possible out of The Ones,” adds Olema. With the Sound Recording Studio now in daily use by MUBA’s students, Olema is in no doubt at all that the project has been a resounding success. “We certainly achieved what we hoped for. Of course, some adjustments and improvements were needed to make everything run smoothly, but all-in-all we’re very happy. We feel that in addition to just being a really nice studio, it’s also very versatile as a whole – which is much needed in a school setting such as ours.” “We’re proud to have supported MUBA in creating a truly future-proof monitoring environment where accuracy, reliability and musical truth are at the core of the learning experience,” concludes Urbanik. “It’s especially rewarding to see how actively the facility is being used across disciplines, from sound engineering to rhythm musicians and ensemble recordings. This level of daily engagement confirms that MUBA now has a reference grade studio environment that will inspire creativity, support high level teaching and serve students for decades to come.” For more information, please visit www.genelec.com.

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Photo file 1: MUBA_PR_Image_1.JPG Photo caption 1: In Studio 1 – the Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console paired with Genelec’s 8341A monitors, bridging classic analogue workflows with modern precision. Photo file 2: MUBA_PR_Image_2.JPG Photo caption 2: In Studio 2 – Genelec The Ones monitor providing precise nearfield monitoring for analogue mixing sessions. Photo file 3: MUBA_PR_Image_3.JPG Photo caption 3: MUBA’s 5.1 surround setup featuring five Genelec 8351B coaxial monitors for immersive learning in multichannel mixing. Photo file 4: MUBA_PR_Image_4.JPG Photo caption 4: Genelec 7370A subwoofer anchoring the low-frequency performance of the school’s 5.1 training environment. PDF file: Genelec_MUBA_Case_Study.PDF PDF caption: Genelec MUBA case study Genelec, the pioneer in Active Monitoring technology, is celebrating over 45 years of designing and manufacturing active loudspeakers for true and accurate sound reproduction. Genelec is credited with promoting the concept of active transducer technology. Since its inception in 1978, Genelec has concentrated its efforts and resources into creating active monitors with unparalleled sonic integrity. The result is an active speaker system that has earned global acclaim for its accurate imaging, extremely high acoustic output from small enclosures, true high-fidelity with low distortion, and deep, rich bass. Genelec is also marking its 20th year of Smart Active Monitoring™ technology, which allows studio monitors to be connected, configured and calibrated for the user’s specific acoustic environment. Each Smart Active Monitor or subwoofer is equipped with advanced internal DSP circuitry, which tightly integrates with the GLM (Genelec Loudspeaker Manager) software application, running on Mac or PC. GLM’s reference microphone kit allows the user’s acoustic environment to be analyzed, after which GLM’s AutoCal feature optimizes each Smart Active Monitor for level, distance delay, subwoofer crossover phase and room response equalization, with the option of further fine tuning by the user. By minimizing the room’s influence on the sound, Smart Active Monitors deliver an unrivalled reference, with excellent translation between rooms. Visit Genelec on social media: https://www.facebook.com/Genelec https://www.linkedin.com/company/genelec-oy https://www.instagram.com/Genelec_oy/ https://x.com/Genelec https://www.tiktok.com/@genelec_oy Other brand and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. —For more information on the complete range of Genelec Active Monitoring Systems, contact: Genelec Inc., 7 Tech Circle, Natick, MA 01760. Tel: (508) 652-0900; Fax: (508) 652-0909; Web: http://www.genelec.com/.