The Studio
The Room
The studio is a purpose-built recording and mixing space, acoustically treated from the ground up. It features a live room capable of capturing full drum kits with natural ambience, alongside a control room designed for critical listening and detailed mixing work.
The acoustic design prioritises a flat, neutral frequency response — essential for making mixing and mastering decisions that translate faithfully across any playback system. Broadband absorption, corner bass traps, and strategic diffusion work together to create a space that is both accurate and inspiring to work in.
The room is comfortable and productive for long sessions, with a deliberate separation between the technical environment and the creative atmosphere.
Philosophy
"The best technology is the one you stop noticing."
Alberto’s approach to recording, mixing, and mastering is built on a few core principles:
Serve the music. Every decision — from microphone placement to the final limiter setting — must serve the song and the artist’s intention. Technique is never an end in itself.
Trust your ears. Specs, measurements, and presets are useful starting points. But the reference that matters most is what you actually hear — and what the listener will feel.
Less is more, until it isn’t. The goal is always clarity and impact. Sometimes that means extreme restraint; sometimes it means pushing something to the edge. Knowing the difference is the craft.
Analogue warmth, digital precision. The studio blends a curated selection of outboard hardware with modern DAW workflows, seeking the best of both worlds without dogma.
Studio Gear
DAW & Software
- Reaper
- FabFilter Pro Bundle
- iZotope Ozone (Mastering)
Converters & Interface
- BEHRINGER UMC1820
- BEHRINGER U-PHORIA UMC202HD
Microphones
- Shure Beta 52A (dynamic)
- Shure SM57 (dynamic)
- Behringer 19A (condenser)
- the t.bone RM 700 (ribbon)
- Shure Beta 56A (dynamic)
- Rode M5 x2 (condenser)
- Sennheiser e604 x3 (dynamic)
Monitoring
- db Technologies B-Hype 10
- Shure cl215 (in-ear monitors)
Acoustic Treatment
- 6 Oudimmo bass traps Kombat 20 w/membrane (corner placement)
- Foam acoustic panels (edges placement)
Drum Gear
Equipment Alberto uses for live and studio drumming performances.
Drum Kit
- Gretsch Catalina maple (22/10/12/16)
- Gretsch Catalina maple Snare 14×6"
- Pearl Steel Snare 14×5.5"
- Mapex Maple piccolo Snare 14×3.5"
- Evans Genera/HD dry drumheads (snare)
- Evans G2 drumheads (toms)
Cymbals
- Zultan Caz Hi-Hats 14"
- UFIP Natural series Crash 17"
- Paiste PST8 Rock Crash 17"
- Paiste PST8 Rock Crash 18"
- Zildjian ZXT Medium Ride 20"
- Paiste 900 Series Ride 22"
- Zildjian ZBT China 18"
Hardware
- Pearl Eliminator Bass Drum Pedal (double)
- Gibraltar, Millenium, Tama Drum Hardware
Gear lists updated periodically. For session inquiries, use the Contact page.