Masters of mastering

Today is our last day of production for this summer’s Rooms of Red Bull music studio project. Last week was a mixing week, where we mixed all of the material we’ve been recording this summer, and this week we are doing the mastering of said material. The SAE Institute has been running the studio at the Rooms of Red Bull this summer and today’s mastering sessions are being held at two of the SAE’s own studios.

Frank was wearing an appropriate shirt for the occasion

Studio 1 is our Icon studio, where Bart and Frank have been doing their work today. Their weapons of choice have been the Sony Oxford and DigiDesign Revibe mastering plug-ins, working through Pro Tools 7.4. The tracks they’ve been working on are from collaborations from artists such as Terry Toner & The Party Squad, Boemklatsch & DJ Pitto, Sense & Esperanza, Boemklatsch & Chocomel, Brakko & Sotu and JayKid & The Space Pirates.

Frank working in the Icon studio

Matthijs and Simon, our other two engineers mastering today, have been conducting their work in Studio 4, which is the SAE’s production suite. They have primarily been using the Ozone 4 and Oxford Mastering Suite plug-ins with Logic 8, running through a Digidesign HD1 Pro Tools interface. The guys have been working on tracks from The Fringe, M.O. & Brakko and The Space Pirates amongst others.

Matthijs and Simon hanging out in SAE's Studio 4

Once all the mastering is done these tracks will be ready for release. The Rooms of Red Bulls organization plans to release the work that was done in the music studio over this past summer on CD within the next few weeks. So stay tuned for that!

Tomorrow we break down the studio at the Rooms of Red Bull, and then during the weekend we’ll have the closing party. After that the Rooms of Red Bull project will be officially over for the summer. There are plans to repeat the project next summer, but whether it will be in Amsterdam again or another city remains to be seen.

Peace out!