Pyntago Installs Euphonix System 5-MC for new HD Room

Dutch Studios also becomes a Certified Euphonix Training Facility

Palo Alto, Oct 18th 2007

Euphonix, a world leader in large-format mixing consoles and control surfaces, announced today the grand opening of Pyntago, a new HD studio featuring a 32–fader Euphonix System 5-MC. The studio, based in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, is geared for HD audiovisual post productions and also serves as an HD education center for professional and aspiring sound engineers and producers. Furthermore Pyntago is one of the leading production studios for Dressage Freestyle Music.

“Pyntago is a production studio with many different clients and projects. For this reason we needed to design a versatile environment where we would be able to change studio and equipment configurations at the push of a button,” said Olaf Ramak, co-owner of Pyntago. “Coming from different platforms and various remotes we needed a solution that not only tied them together, but also enabled us to accept bigger and more complex productions. The Euphonix System 5-MC simply does the job.”

The System 5-MC will control two Nuendo workstations via EuCon, Euphonix’ high-speed, high-resolution Ethernet control protocol.

Studio co-owner Martin Meinders first saw the sheer endless possibilities of the system at a demo session in Germany last year. “It was love at first sight,” he commented. “I immediately knew this would be the tool we needed to further realize our dreams. It’s only been a few weeks since we installed our Euphonix and already we are seeing our investment pay off.”

Pyntago also has the unique distinction of becoming a Certified Euphonix Training Facility for the System 5-MC. Pyntago Partners, Meinders and Ramak offer in-depth, hands-on Euphonix training classes and one-on-one lessons for those wanting to learn and practice the Euphonix System.

“Our background is music production and education. We have been training engineers and producers since 1999; from young, enthusiastic wannabees to established professionals. At that time, the step from analog to digital required a new and different approach to training. Our courses helped studios to embrace the new digital workflow,” said Meinders. “Based on experience and education we can offer a different approach and insight in working with the Euphonix EuCon system and more generally remote controlled HD studios.”

“Having mixed on all the major consoles and DAW’s over the years, we know the problems and the workarounds. With the Euphonix System 5-MC, a lot of those workarounds become obsolete,” explained Ramak.  “We were able to improve our workflow beyond our own expectations. Now our goal is to share this knowledge with other Euphonix owners.”

Pyntago Studios makes for a remarkable total of 12 new Euphonix installations to have hit Europe’s Benelux- a name given to the area comprised of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg- region in the past year.

“Sales in the Benelux region just exploded this past year,” commented Mark Hosking, Sales Manager for Euphonix. “Euphonix has supplied a total of seven MC/S5-MC controllers in the Netherlands alone and then another five in Belgium.”

“Such growth signifies a major acceptance of the Euphonix as a workstation controller for all the major workstations. With the likes of leading Dutch studios John Meijer, Martijn Schimmer, Cybersonic, PAT Sound Studios, and now Pyntago all enjoying real benefits of EuCon to enhance their workflow and harness the power of their workstations, Euphonix has captured the imagination.” explained Hosking. “In Belgium Studio L'Equipe have a 16 fader System 5-MC installed in their foley theatre while renowned classical & jazz recording studio Odeon 120 and the new recording studio, Ferme du Biereau, have installed theirs for music production and mixing.”

The Euphonix MC workstation control surface is equipped with full sized keyboard with trackball and jog wheel for standard operations, 56 LCD SmartSwitches, 4 faders, 9 rotary controls plus a monitoring section for the ultimate in extended control. Using the innovative EuCon high-speed protocol the MC can control any DAW application such as Pro Tools, Nuendo, Digital Performer, Logic Pro, Pyramix, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer and Avid Express. Moreover the MC works with both PC and Macintosh platforms.