ABOUT · TEAM · SINCE 2002
The People Behind the Sound.
Alessandro Guasconi and Jacopo Pettini. Two engineers, one vision — analog craft in service of the music.
ALESSANDRO GUASCONI · STUDIO OWNER & SOUND ENGINEER
“Non realizzavo solo dischi, ascoltavo le persone.”
— I wasn’t just making records. I was listening to people.
It started with my uncle, a musician, and his recording studio — to a child it looked like a spaceship. That was the first imprint, and it never left. I wanted to be in a room like that, finding sounds.
In 1998 I studied at SAE in Milan, then spent years on the road as a live engineer. But I had a clear picture of the studio I wanted — a real live room, a spacious control room, a good console, proper acoustics — and I built it myself, learning from the specialist magazines of the time. In 2001, at 23, Virus opened its doors in Monteriggioni.
In 2008 I added Studio B, run by Jacopo Pettini, and in 2017 I rebuilt Studio A from the acoustics up. Twenty-three years later there are more than 1,000 credits behind the studio — work with Tony Martin, Ivan Lins, Il Rovescio della Medaglia, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and many others. But the numbers are the consequence, not the point. The point is still the same as the day I started: the song, and the person making it.
Studio A — acoustic rebuild, 2017
JACOPO PETTINI · SOUND ENGINEER
Jacopo Pettini joined Virus in 2008, when Studio B opened. He brought a musician’s ear to the studio — letting us take projects from the ground up, not just record them. He works across recording, arrangement, mixing and mastering, with deep roots in heavy and progressive music: credits include Soul Secret, Profusion, Charun, Red Light Skyscraper and US black-metal band Nachtmystium, alongside Deschema’s Cristallo (arrangement, mix and master) and I Scream’s I Scream to Cows (recording and mix), plus live productions such as Planimio at Teatro Alfieri. Studio B is his room — focused sessions, held to the same standard as Studio A.