Skills
A hallway in Berlin, Köthener Strasse, close to Potsdamer Platz. A simple stairwell, narrow windows. Sound engineer Rainer Maillard claps his hands a couple of times. »This is real reverberation. We sometimes use it for recordings.« Only very few people in the world allow themselves the luxury of a reverberation room like this one. Two of them are Rainer Maillard and Evert Menting, Managing Directors of EMIL BERLINER STUDIOS, named after the inventor of the gramophone and the gramophone record, and one of the most renowned recording studios for acoustic music. The two men proudly show us around their renovated rooms. Apart from the reverberant stairwell they also have a stateof-the-art studio and the magnificent Meistersaal that is big and high enough to fit an entire orchestra inside. This historical concert hall, built in 1913, is equipped with a specially modified technical infrastructure and allows large-scale orchestra recordings. Kurt Tucholsky came to read here, and Zara Leander and David Bowie came to play and record at the Meistersaal. But that is not all, they have mobile equipment that is packed in numerous boxes and ready to be taken
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