Workspace

The building is sitting on a large concrete slab. The facility is a room in room-design, floating floors, extra thick wall and ceiling layers, air gaps, silenced and customized air exchanger system, silent heating/cooling, chunky double doors and of course fully treated to get a balanced frequency response and lowest reverberation times all the way down to 20hz. The main studio has a mastering room, lounge and a machine room which also serves as a kitchenette for some snacks and cold beverages.

Main monitors are the KEF 207/2 Reference alongside a HEDD Audio BASS 12 subwoofer. That’s roughly 165kg of loudspeakers right there! The KEFs are driven by 2x EMOTIVA XPA HC-1 High Current Mono blocks. Incredible power and accuracy from 16hz to 50khz+. Extended low-end, effortlessly reaching below our hearing, an impressively pure midrange, clear and naturally balanced high-end and an accurate and stable stereo image. As a monitor controller we rely on the transparent Drawmer MC3.1. It incorporates a quantity of convenient features for master-checking right at the finger tips.

The DAWs run on a custom built 12-core Ryzen with 128GB DDR4 RAM, water cooling, the quietest active parts available at the time of building and its built in a silent case. The Lynx Hilo mastering converter is taking care of the DA/AD conversion. The heart of the analogue mastering chain is the custom and handmade Dutch Audio IM2.1s. All the analogue equipment is connected via custom Mogami cables & gold Neutrik connectors to the IM2.1s and becomes available as options within the chain.