2sl

space

The studio: a modular case and a synth on a stand at left, a desk with a laptop and a channel-strip controller, a pair of plywood speakers under a tall industrial window, and a tiered stand of drum machines and controllers at right.

Our room in Emeryville.

It's a 480 sq ft loft with brick walls, big steel windows and a 13 ft ceiling. Everything is plugged in and ready to play. Both speakers are set to the same level with pink noise.

whereEmeryville, CA
room13 × 21 × 23 ft, about 480 sq ft
monitorsour own Altec 620s with GPA 604 coaxials
treatmentdeep hung absorbers, measured
dawAbleton Live 12, with our own control-surface scripts
The mix position: a laptop and a Softube Console 1 channel and fader in front of the speakers, with a plugin on the screen at right. The whole room from above and behind: roof trusses, storage shelves, the modular, the desks and the tiered instrument stand. Looking toward the window past a Doepfer modular case and a synth on a stand. The full height of the room: white trusses, two banks of windows, and the tiered instrument stand side-on.

the room

room treatment project

The room is 13 × 21 × 23 ft. A room this size has axial modes at 25, 27 and 43 Hz, and their harmonics pile up through the low end, so some bass notes ring longer and louder than others. We've been treating it a bit at a time and measuring after each step.

So far there are six porous absorbers, 20 in deep (R-30 fibreglass), hung 2 ft off the walls. At the mix position the T20 is now 0.3–0.5 s from 100 to 250 Hz, which is within EBU Tech 3276 for a room this size. 63 and 80 Hz still ring for 0.8–0.9 s, so those are next. The monitors are a pair of Altec 620s we built with Great Plains Audio 604-8H-III coaxials.

frequency response at the mix position, aug 1 2026 20 50 100 200 500 1k 2k 5k 10k 20k -80 -60 -40 -20 0 +20 +40 +60 frequency, hz relative level, db (0 = 40-200 hz mean) mix position
Frequency response at the mix position, both speakers. Decay times, distortion and the rest of the measurements are in the room treatment project.

production & mixing

We take on music, sound design and mixing work, either for hire or as collaborators. If you have a project in mind, the first call is free.

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gear

monitoring
monitorsour own Altec 620s in plywood, Great Plains Audio 604-8H-III coaxials, Rick Craig crossovers
ampTombo Bliss, built from the diyAudio design
interfaces2 × Behringer UMC1820
dacSMSL
calibrationpink noise, per speaker
drum machines
ElektronDigitone II, Syntakt
JomoxAlpha Base
KorgElectribe ER-1
Native InstrumentsMaschine+
synths
BehringerMS-5
ClaviaNord Rack 2
NorandMono
RolandJV-1080
DoepferA-100 modular, with ALM mmMidi
effects
RolandRE-201 Space Echo
TC ElectronicM350
controllers
SoftubeConsole 1 Channel + Fader Mk III
Melbourne Instr.ROTO-CONTROL
AbletonPush 2
NovationLaunchpad X, running LPX Grid
FaderfoxMX12, PC12, with our own scripts
SoundForceSFC-60
2slpress
software
AbletonLive 12
CelemonyMelodyne 5
ElektronOverbridge
Native InstrumentsMaschine 2, Kontakt 8, Reaktor 6
plug-ins
Universal Audio18 UADx: 1176, LA-2A, Fairchild 660/670, Pultec EQP-1A, Lexicon 224, Ampex ATR-102 and more
SonnoxOxford Dynamics, EQ, Inflator, Limiter, Reverb, SuprEsser, TransMod
SoftubeConsole 1, Flow Mixing Suite, Amplifiers, Saturation Knob
SoundtheoryGullfoss
XferSerum 2
LunacyBEAM
Sonic ChargeMicrotonic, Synplant, Permut8, Bitspeek, Echobode
D16Drumazon 2, Frontier
ValhallaSupermassive
TALTAL-U-NO-LX
KushUBK-1
othersBABY Audio TAIP, Excite Audio VISION 4X, Erica Synths Zen Delay, Audiomodern Riffer, iZotope Vinyl