Recording studio

Mit Studio

Mit Studio

Photo: MIT STUDIO

Venue

Mit Studio

Type
Recording studio
Also known as
MIT Studio
Location
Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Website
https://mit-studio.com/

MIT Studio (エムアイティ・スタジオ) is a five-room recording and post-production sound studio on the ground floor of Lucid Square Shinjuku East, 1-3-21 Ōkubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo - a minute's walk from the B1 exit of Higashi-Shinjuku station. Two of its rooms are music studios built around SSL consoles; the other three are MA and ADR rooms for narration, dubbing, and game and anime voice work. It is operated by MIT Gathering Co., Ltd. (株式会社エムアイティギャザリング), established in February 1990, which beyond renting the rooms out produces music and sound effects for games, commercials and amusement machines, casts and manages voice actors and narrators, and administers music copyrights.

The studio has only been at this address since 2025. Everything in this catalogue that was made here was made at its previous rooms in Mita, Minato.

Worked On Here

Recorded, mixed or mastered here, from this catalogue:

  • Galneryus - Live for All-Live for One - Galneryus, released March 5, 2008 (VPBQ-19047), from the ALL FOR ONE!TOUR. Assistant Engineer (Ryu Tashiro), Engineer [Assistant] (Ryu Tashiro), Mixed At, Mixed By (Chifumi Karasawa), Recorded By (Chifumi Karasawa).
  • Galneryus - Live in the Moment of the Resurrection - Galneryus, released December 8, 2010 (VPBQ-19069), from the TIME FOR THE RESURRECTION. Assistant Engineers (Atsushi Yamaguchi), Chief Engineered & Mixed by (Naoki Sakurai), Filmed At, Mixed At.
  • Galneryus - VETELGYUS - Galneryus, released September 24, 2014 (VPCC-80669), from the WELCOME TO OUR EVOLVING IRONHEART ! TOUR 2014. Engineer [Engineered By] (Naoki Sakurai), Engineered & Mixed by (Naoki Sakurai), Mixed By (Naoki Sakurai).
STUDIO 1's recording booth, looking through the glass to the control room. The console side of this room is the photograph at the top of the page.
STUDIO 1's recording booth, looking through the glass to the control room. The console side of this room is the photograph at the top of the page.published August 2025 · MIT STUDIO - the studio's own photograph
STUDIO 2's control room, built around the studio's second SSL SL4064G. Finished in beige where STUDIO 1 is black; the two music rooms are otherwise a matched pair.
STUDIO 2's control room, built around the studio's second SSL SL4064G. Finished in beige where STUDIO 1 is black; the two music rooms are otherwise a matched pair.published August 2026 · MIT STUDIO - the studio's own photograph
STUDIO 3's control room. It is the larger of the two narration rooms - the booth takes up to four voices at once, for dialogue played back and forth rather than read alone.
STUDIO 3's control room. It is the larger of the two narration rooms - the booth takes up to four voices at once, for dialogue played back and forth rather than read alone.published June 2025 · MIT STUDIO - the studio's own photograph
STUDIO 5's booth, sized for one or two voices, with the control-room window on the left. The narration booths are deliberately built dead, to keep the sound of the room out of a spoken take.
STUDIO 5's booth, sized for one or two voices, with the control-room window on the left. The narration booths are deliberately built dead, to keep the sound of the room out of a spoken take.published August 2025 · MIT STUDIO - the studio's own photograph
STUDIO A, the ADR booth added as a new line of business at the 2025 move: up to four microphones at once, room for about twenty people, and the picture on screens along the wall.
STUDIO A, the ADR booth added as a new line of business at the 2025 move: up to four microphones at once, room for about twenty people, and the picture on screens along the wall.published June 2025 · MIT STUDIO - the studio's own photograph
Lucid Square Shinjuku East, at 1-3-21 Ōkubo. MIT Studio is a tenant here and takes a single floor - reception, all five rooms and the waiting space are on the one level, a minute from the B1 exit of Higashi-Shinjuku station.
Lucid Square Shinjuku East, at 1-3-21 Ōkubo. MIT Studio is a tenant here and takes a single floor - reception, all five rooms and the waiting space are on the one level, a minute from the B1 exit of Higashi-Shinjuku station.published August 2025 · MIT STUDIO - the studio's own photograph

History

Written from the studio's own ABOUT, ACCESS and per-room pages, and from its own posts dated January 28, 2026 and August 5, 2026.

The Name

The studio writes itself MIT STUDIO, and its own furigana is エムアイティ・スタジオ — the English initials read out, not a word. Discogs files it as Mit Studio, and that is the spelling the records here link, so it is the spelling this page is named for. It is not the recording studio of the same name in Trondheim, nor the one in Hollywood; both exist and both answer to the string.

Mita, and Then Higashi-Shinjuku

For most of its working life the studio was in Mita, near Tamachi, in Minato — which is still what Discogs' entry for it says, and still where its bankers are. In 2025 it moved to Higashi-Shinjuku, taking a single floor at 1-3-21 Ōkubo, and marked the first anniversary of the move on August 5, 2026. Its engineers' account of that year is mostly about the acoustics: the monitoring environment in the new rooms was arrived at by repeated trial and adjustment rather than delivered finished, and the booths were deliberately built dead, to keep box resonance out of rooms that have to serve music, narration and dubbing alike. Much of the outboard came across from Mita and moves between rooms, which is the studio's own explanation of why the five rooms sound consistent despite being built for different jobs.

Everything this catalogue touches here predates the move. The 2008 mix of VPBQ-19047 - a show recorded live at Shibuya O-EAST and mixed here - and the tour rehearsal filmed on September 10, 2010 that opens VPBQ-19069, both happened in the Mita rooms, which no longer exist. The address in the infobox is where MIT Studio is; it is not where those recordings were made.

Music, and Everything That Is Not Music

The two music rooms are the older half of the business — Discogs credits the studio on some 580 releases, running from TRF and avex dance pop in the early nineties through Yuki Kajiura and Kow Otani anime scores to the visual-kei and metal work that brought it into this catalogue. The other half is voice: television and commercial narration, anime ADR, and game audio, the last of which is substantial enough that the studio's Wikidata entity exists at all only because of its game credits. Its operator's clients include Sega, Koei Tecmo, Cygames, Colopl and ANYCOLOR alongside avex, King Records, Universal, Flying Dog, Dentsu and Hakuhodo. STUDIO A, the ADR booth, was added as a new line of business at the move.

Sources

  • Wikidata entity Q60193302.
  • Photograph: Mit Studio.jpg - Photo: MIT STUDIO.
  • Description, location, website: mit-studio.com.

The Rooms

Transcribed from the studio's own per-room pages, which also carry the full equipment lists and floor plans. Capacities are the ones it publishes for its control rooms; the booth figure for STUDIO A is its own.

Room Built for Console Monitoring Control room
STUDIO 1Music recording and mixingSSL SL4064G+ 64-PRGGENELEC 1238A SAM8–10
STUDIO 2Music recording and mixingSSL SL4064G 64-PRGATC150 + sub8–10
STUDIO 3Narration and voice, up to four-way dialogue-ADAM S2A6–8
STUDIO 5Narration and voice, up to two-way, dubbing-ADAM S2A6–8
STUDIO AADR, up to four mics at once, booth holds ~20SSL ORIGIN16ADAM S3V10–12

Every room runs Pro Tools Ultimate on HDX. STUDIOS 1 and 2 share a pool of vintage outboard and microphones - Neve 1066/1073 and Shep 1073 preamps, Fairchild 670, Neve 33609, a rack of UREI 1176s, Teletronix LA-2A, Pultec EQs, Lexicon 480L - and the Neumann, AKG and Sony microphone cabinet (U 87, U 47 fet, U 67, M 49, M 149, C12, C800G) is shared across the building. The MA and ADR rooms carry 65-inch monitors and video-linked dubbing systems, and the studio handles 5.1 surround mixing.

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