Recording
The sound of the room, not an effect added afterwards.
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INÉGAL STUDIOS
Sound, carefully heard.
The practice
Production, recording, mixing and mastering for music that benefits from close listening. Every project starts with the musicians, the repertoire and the space in which it will be heard.
Technical partner
The classical music recording company · Est. 2006
A recording should let the music speak with its own weight.
Phonoclassical works with soloists, ensembles, orchestras and labels in classical music and jazz. The work begins with listening to the room, the score and the musicians, then continues through recording, mixing and production.
Visit PhonoclassicalMixing & production
Detailed decisions, made slowly and in service of the performance.
Live & immersive
Concert sessions, studio work and immersive formats when the music calls for them.
The first album recorded, produced and mastered entirely remotely through Phonoclassical's system.
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Sound, led by listening.
INÉGAL Studios
Dr. Iker Olabe Goxencia
Sound engineering · Music production
Recording and post-production shaped around the acoustics, repertoire and expressive scale of each performance.
Iker Olabe is a sound engineer and music producer specialising in classical music, jazz and immersive audio. A trained violinist, he holds qualifications in audio and music technology and acoustics, and completed doctoral research on the historical evolution of classical-music recording techniques and a new recording model. He is part of Phonoclassical, the specialist classical-recording company established in 2006, where his work encompasses recording, production, mixing and mastering.
- Specialisms
- Classical and jazz recording · immersive audio · acoustic strategy · post-production
- Research
- Doctoral work in classical-music recording techniques and recording-model design
- Phonoclassical
- Classical and acoustic recording · production · mixing · mastering
- INÉGAL collaboration
- Technical and production partnership across Yago Mahúgo’s recent discography, including Éclectique
Practice team
Recording & session
Location crews, microphone systems and session support assembled to the scale of each production.
Editing & post-production
Specialist editing, mixing, mastering and immersive-audio workflows under senior supervision.
Production coordination
Schedules, venues, technical riders, deliverables and artist communication held in one production line.
Source photograph: CMY Baroque
Capabilities
Where we add
value.
Scope is tailored to the project. Every engagement begins with a clear definition of need, responsibility and outcome.
Production
Musical and technical decisions held together from planning to master.
Recording
Sessions, performers, rooms and microphone choices prepared for the particular project.
Mixing
Balance and detail without processing simply to make an effect.
Mastering
Final work for the release formats and the ways people will actually listen.
Our approach
Prepare
Settle what can be settled before the session begins.
Capture
Give the performance the right conditions to happen.
Refine
Finish the record without sanding away what made it alive.
Production, recording, mixing and mastering engagements are available by appointment.
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