Panchathan Record Inn and AM Studios is composer/music director

A. R. Rahman Allah Rakha Rahman (; born A. S. Dileep Kumar; 6 January 1967), also known by the initialism ARR, is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and philanthropist known for his works in Indian cinem ...

's studio on his street at

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History

The Inn was established in 1989, attached to Rahman's backyard, and developed into one of the most developed studios in Asia. Located very close to his home, it houses equipment like the Euphonix System 5 Audio Mixing system. The studio has been designed by Studio 440 and the state of the art equipment is from Daxco Digital. His team includes acclaimed sound engineers of

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including the late H. Sridhar,

Mani Sharma Yanamandra Venkata Subrahmanyam (Telugu: యనమండ్ర వెంకట సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం; born 11 July 1964), professionally known as Mani Sharma, is an Indian composer and music producer known for his work primaril ...

, S. Sivakumar, Aditya Modi, A. S. Laxmi Narayanan, S. Saisarvajith, J. Ravinder, his manager Noell James, and Co-Ordinator Samidurai. In 2005,

built a new studio associating with

, part of a redevelopment and extension project of the inn, called

AM Studios Panchathan Record Inn and AM Studios is composer/music director A. R. Rahman's studio on his street at Kodambakkam, Chennai in Tamil Nadu. History The Inn was established in 1989, attached to Rahman's backyard, and developed into one of the ...

. Mixing takes place at both the inn and the commercial AM Studios for films. Other music directors use AM Studios for recording. Rahman also owns newly built KM Musiq Studios in Mumbai, London and Los Angeles where he has also mixed scores. In 2013, AM Studios acquired a Barco Auro 11.1 system to enhance its

3D sound Surround sound is a technique for enriching the fidelity and depth of sound reproduction by using multiple audio channels from speaker (electronics), speakers that surround the listener (surround channels). Its first application was in movie ...

recording capabilities. The sound mixing for the Tamil film '' Maryan'' whose

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was composed by A. R. Rahman himself.

Rahman's engineers

* H.Sreedhar-sound engineer * Sivakumar - Sound engineer * Suresh permal - Sound engineer * Karthik sekaran - Sound engineer * Aravind Crescendo -Sound Engineer

References

* Coordinates = {{coord, 13.0468, N, 80.2173, E A. R. Rahman Recording studios in India