Technology

We records on HD Recording "Pro Tools TDM" by Digidesign, that enable us to make full automatic mixes. A great real time power to edit and mix!

Working Areas

Recording areas and control room are new and with structural and technical improvements, so they can allow also a "live" recording of many musicians at the same time.
Rooms have air-conditioning, they're comfortable and they offer great technology.

Mobile Studio

The Mobile Studio, active from about 10 years,
has greatly improved thanks to "Alesis HD24" standard, which with blocks of 24 digital tracks
(up to 120 tracks) makes us easily able to record audio files at live concerts, in the big theatres or
in external recordings.

Pentagramma Studio Recording

Pentagramma Studio started in 1990.
It is located North of Palermo, in a residential zone,
and can be easily reached from “Falcone e Borsellino” Airport.

The great professional knowledge, the international standard technical level, the experience acquired in the years, due to important collaborations, have made of Pentagramma Studio a well recognized company for professionals in the recording field.

About Us

Alfonso Dilio is a guitarist and the promoter of Aut Aut, a band born in Palermo and very appreciated in the Italian Independent Rock Scene
in the mid eighties.
After having achieved a great experience in the field of home recording
and having founded, together with other partners a recording studio for
the city bands, he finally decided to invest his professional expertise and
his knowledge in a new structure able to fill an artistic and technological gap in Palermo.

The sound engineer Renato D'Anna joins the studio as a partner in 1999.
He is a polyhedric musician and a multi-instrumentalist, an arranger and
a composer.
Starting from his first experiences in rock music (bass, violin, keyboards),
he arrives to classical music passing through jazz. (He is the first jazz bass teacher of Palermo's Brass Group).
He performs in different chamber ensembles and for about twenty years
he played as First Viola in several symphonic orchestras and opera houses.
In the 70'es he began to study the different recording techniques and, as
an informatics pioneer, he is recognized as a IBM and Honeywell electronic programmer.
With the arrival of digital technology he became "Pro Tools Specialist".
He has been teaching Viola in "V. Bellini" Conservatory of Music in Palermo since 1980.
Often he is request to hold courses of sound engineering, sound treament and digital technology by public and private organizations.

Equipments

We use "Schoeps, Neumann, Akg, Sennheiser, ElectroVoice, Shure" microphones and "Millennia, Midas, Drawmer" preamplifiers.

Studio keyboards facilities: "Emu 6400 Sampler, Roland, Korg and Yamaha Synths", "Oberheim Xpander" and "Fender Rhodes 73".

Piano Yamaha C3 available.

Also available are acoustic guitars Gitane, Gibson and Guild '70,
electric vintage guitars Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster,
Rickenbacker 12 strings and Gibson, acoustic basses Tacoma and
Dean Markley fretless, MusicMan 5 strings, Rickenbacker '74 and
a lot of Fender Precision basses from '69 to '79.

We also have "Yamaha Beech Custom Signature" drum with 4 toms, and "Premier" Vintage jazz drum, 500 watts "Ashdown" bass ampli, "Marshall, Fender, Peavey and Mesa Boogie" guitar amplifiers.

Two or more "Alesis HD24" are available for Mobile Studio from 48 up to 120 tracks. As monitoring system we use "Yamaha 02R", "Roland M12E" mixers, e "Genelec 1030A" monitors.