pune union minister for information and broadcasting sushma swaraj will inaugurate a new rs 3crore sound recording studio at the film and television institute of india ftii here at 11 30 am on mondaythe new studio spread across 20000 sqft has the countrys most advanced and stateoftheart facilities like computerised mixers fully equipped analogue and digital recording studios electronic labs surround sound listening rooms and projection roomsftii director prem matiyani told tnn that the old sound studio building was inadequate for modern computerised sound and recording techniquesfor nearly four decades students have been trained at the prabhat film companys analogue sound studio with some interim technical updates subsequently we had to face technical flaws like sound loss echo and distortion the new sound studio has been certified soundproof and leakagefree by experts matiyani saidthe construction work for the muchhyped studio started way back in 1994 by the civil construction wing of the all india radio however the studio was handed over to the ftii only six months backmentioning some of the outstanding features of the new studio ftii academic coordinator satish kumar said all audio operations were automated with total recall expertise facilities like computer grabbing simplify mixing operations likewise predub tracks can be transferred on conventional fourtrack analogue tapes eightchannel digital tapes hard disks and magnetooptical disks he explainedthe new building has two main sound studiosrecording studio and music live recording studio the complex also houses three independent digital work stations which can be linked to the main mixing studio the studios have surround sound listening areas where films in dvd format can be played in 51 surround sounds matiyani said