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At the moment I'm working day and night in the studio. I have some deadlines I have to make and it is all not easy. I also have a little...

Last weekend I visited the yearly Grill Fest in Essen organized by the German Music club Schallwende EV. As always the atmosphere was nice a...

The Dutch Masters project is well on its way, but it seems like some of the artists are not going to make the deadline that was set. Groove...

I recently came across a French radio station called 'Radio Equinoxe'. It is run by and made for fans of Jean Michel Jarre. Since my...

You can listen to a new track I made on the Syndae Podcast. Today Stefan has a nice anniversary by the way. It is his 100th show. Because it...

Last week my friend Chris was here to take pictures again of my studio. This time he brought a very special lens called a 'Fish Eye'...

Last week our constructor came by again and removed a bigger part of our terrace. And now we are trying to find out ourselves where we have ...

Last year I bought a drum kit. It is an Alesis DM-6 kit that is of course an electronic drum kit. It does have it's own internal sounds ...

Last week I added another very nice synthesizer to my collection. It is a Korg Mono/Poly. It is a small but remarkable analog synthesizer. I...

During my travel to the Norberg Festival in Sweden I picked Bjorn Jeppesen up in Denmark to go there together. Bjorn played on the festival ...

Last week I visited Ron Boots in his studio again. The 'Refuge en Verre' album we are making together is really taking shape now. So...

In the previous posts I focused mainly on creating and processing of the audio on my PC, but off course it is also quite nice to hear the ou...

In the past I used only software plugins for sounds effects like reverbs, filters , chorus, flanger and delays, but while mastering my first...

Yesterday we coordinated an effort in finding the leak in my studio. There was a specialized company here together with my constructor. We f...

Another very important protocol in my studio is Midi. Midi is used to record the notes you play on a synthesizer on the computer and then yo...

I wrote in previous articles that all the digital audio equipment is running on 48 Khz in my studio. When you transfer digital signals at th...

I said I would get back on the concert that Bjorn did. Here is a little compilation video that he did. I filmed it by the way and also recor...

Since I have a lot of digital audio signals I need to be able to creatively patch and merge signals. Again I made a stripped version of the ...

I just got back from my trip to the Norberg Festival in Sweden. I drove there by car and I can tell you it is quite a ride. I drove 3150 kil...

In this article I want to talk a bit about the AD/DA converters in my studio. On the left you see again a stripped down version of the studi...