About Us
The Tom-Tom Studio
Since its founding in 1988 by the owner, head engineer and managing director Péter Dorozsmai, Tom-Tom Studio has become a mainstay name of the Hungarian and international music industry. During its history we have continuously expanded our range of services, always maintaining the highest standards – as shown by the numerous awards received as well as the ever growing clientele from all across the world.
The story of Tom-Tom began in 1985 with the construction of a rehearsal space for bands. Péter Dorozsmai has built the house with the rehearsal room on a hillside, with the earth providing sound isolation from one side while the other side of the building got natural sunlight. The room in the beginning was used by his rock bands Korál and East to have their own creative space.
In those days recording sound in the studio was but daydreaming. But soon an 8-track reel-to-reel tape recorder marked the beginnings of the professional recording facility Tom-Tom Studio.
The challenges facing a sound studio keep changing with the times and Tom-Tom Studio has always bravely expanded their range of services when needed.
Our expertise encompasses the widest range of musical genres, be it academic classical music, jazz, pop, rock, world music. It is an honour and a joyful experience to us when we can be present at the birth of contemporary music pieces.
Péter Dorozsmai
musician, composer, producer and engineer
founder and director of Tom-Tom Studios
As a child he dreamed of being an astronomer or physicist. He constructed radios when 10 years old but soon enough he turned to music, first learning piano and then the drums.
He graduated as a jazz percussionist from the Music Conservatory of Budapest in 1981 (today: Franz Liszt Academy of Music), where he was a student of classical music as well.
After graduating, he became the drummer of one of the most successful Hungarian rock bands – Korál. They toured non-stop and recorded albums for years – and on these albums he did not only play the drums but wrote songs as well. Later on he became the drummer and writer for the progressive rock bands East and iLand.
He founded his own recording studio in 1985, starting his career as a sound engineer and music.
He began releasing music produced in his studio in 1989.
He founded his own independent record label, Tom-Tom Records in 1996.
During the years he has worked in mixing live sound for theater musicals and summer festivals. He has been the head sound engineer of a score of live shows since the 1990s. He has produced and released countless recordings of pop, rock or classical concerts.
He is also involved in music for TV, being music director and head sound engineer for a large and ever growing number of TV shows for more than 15 years now.
He returned to the stage as a drummer of the progressive rock band iLand in 2021 – founded by him and his old comrades, the best musicians in the business.
His professional and artistic career has been rewarded with a score of awards by the industry.
For his career as a musician he was awarded the Knight of Cross from the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic.
“It is a particular honor and joy for me… there is a special charm in being present at the birth of contemporary music. The excitement of recording and mixing is accompanied by the feeling that the future’s classical music is being created at that moment, and to feel the responsibility for it cannot be compared to any other feeling.”
Péter Dorozsmai
Our Team
At Tom-Tom we believe that the calibre of your engineers & producersis just as important as the quality of the studio you work in.
Sound Engineers
Péter Dorozsmai
Gergő Dorozsmai
musician – sound engineer
Tamás Kurina
musician – sound engineer
Tamás Kontor
musician – sound engineer
Károly Paczári
musician – sound engineer
Sándor Nyíri
musician – sound engineer
Attila Kölcsényi
musician – sound engineer
Péter Barabás
musician – sound engineer
Gergő Láposi
sound engineer
Office
Erika Magyari
office manager
Viktória Wolcán
marketing and promotional manager
Andrea Török
administrative associate
Bea Melkvi
general assistant
More information and booking
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Dorozsmai Gergő
I literally have grown up in the studio world, making my first experiments with an Atari computer already – since then I’ve become proficient in Pro Tools and Logic as well as the art and craft of recording sound. I am a touring musician since my college years and have been playing in numerous bands and have toured Europe and the USA – I play the piano, drums and guitar. I have recorded my first client in 2007 and ever since I have perfected my skills in conducting a wide range of sessions: commercial VO and movie ADR and post production, rock or pop and jazz band and big band recording-mixing-mastering, chamber orchestra and full symphony – I have had the honour of working with countless international acts as well as Hungarian ones. I also have experience in producing radio talk shows and TV and live show mixing. I have written and produced music since I was in high school – and recently started producing other artists’ work as well
Kurina Tamás
I started at Tom-Tom Studio in 2000 and ever since I have worked on a lot of high profile productions, Hungarian and international ones as well.
I have a wide range of expertise, ranging from classical academic music and orchestral film scoring to rock and pop genres – be it a studio recording session or a live mixing job, I am an experienced, versatile and reliable sound engineer.
I was the leading sound engineer on all the seasons of the TV talent show “Megasztár”
I was awarded the prestigious Artisjus prize in 2010 for my outstanding role in contemporary Hungarian music.
My IMDB page: IMDb
https://www.discogs.com/artist/3300160-Kurina-Tam%C3%A1s?filter_anv=0&type=Credits&page=1
Tamás Kontor
I have been working at Tom-Tom Studio since 2018. I started with film sound post-production but soon enough as a musician-engineer I have built up my clientele of bands and singers. At any recording session, I am very involved and if need be, I am open to providing creative input to the production. I do not like to call myself a music producer, but without doubt I keep getting more and more jobs that require just that – being a producer. I am passionate about finding new ways of recreating the essence of live music on recordings.
Károly Paczári
I am a musician whose passion is recorded sound – as an art form as well as a technological and engineering challenge. I work as a musician and I hold courses in engineering – also I am doing live sound on bigger shows. I am part of Tom-Tom’s team since 1993 and I have engineered more than 150 productions.
As a sound engineer I was awarded the Artisjus prize and the grand prize of the Hungarian Recording Association, the Golden Giraffe.
Sándor Nyíri
If you would like to experiment with new and exciting sounds, I am a willing partner in the quest. If you need fast, precise, high quality work with an easygoing workflow – be it recording, mixing or mastering – I am offering my decades of experience to help the production to realize its full potential.
Attila Kölcsényi
What I love to do in life is music – it has always been. I play guitar, percussion and sing – I do all these in the rock group Verkli.
In my free time I am a member of the A-team of Tom-Tom studio ever since 1985.
Péter Barabás
I started at Tom-Tom Studio in 2015 where I could perfect my skills of making a professional sound recording. I have started with recording solo instruments but I quickly moved on to movie ADR, recording bands and live shows. In the past few years my main area of expertise became recording orchestral music and film scoring – this is where I strive to do my best.
Gergő Láposi
I am part of the team since 2017 – I have been a sound technician before and here I could take on more challenges of the sound engineering profession. Recently I have specialized in orchestral recordings – classical and film scoring likewise.