The Panchathan Record Inn and AM Studios is composer/music director

A. R. Rahman Allah Rakha Rahman (; born A. S. Dileep Kumar; 6 January 1967) is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer and songwriter, popular for his works in Indian cinema; predominantly in Tamil and Hindi films, with occasional forays in int ...

's studios 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, S. Sivakumar, Aditya Modi,

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, S. Saisarvajith, J. Ravinder, his manager Noell James, and Co-Ordinator Samidurai. In 2005,

built a new studio associating with

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

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. Mixing takes place at both the inn and the commercial A. M 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

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recording capabilities. The sound mixing for the Tamil film '' Maryan'' whose score was composed by A. R. Rahman himself.

Rahman's engineers

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

References

{{Coord missing, Chennai A. R. Rahman Recording studios in India