747 Mastering Studio · Brussels
What arrived. What it needed. Records mastered here.
Seven in the morning, my phone lights up: eight tracks from ST4N D4W, who is YemGuy’s alter ego, and one question. What do you think?
The music sits somewhere between hip-hop and EDM, but with a space and a polish of its own. The masters were about protecting that depth and atmosphere while making sure the groove still landed.
Stereo mastering
Listen · Everyday Is a Loop
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Viva Belgica began with Perrine, Quentin and me in the studio, cutting every vocal in a single session over Quentin’s arrangements. The World Cup was coming, and this one simply had to be out in time.
Perrine’s flute and her lead vocal had to stay intimate; the supporters’ chorus had to sound like a room full of people. The master was built to hold both. Loud, immediate and joyful, without flattening the quiet half.
Recording·Mastering·Words, voice & flute: Perrine Van Obberghen·Arrangement & mix: Quentin Plumey·Video: Qpics
Listen · Viva Belgica
Watch · official clip
Arthur arrived with an unusual problem: his mixing engineer had vanished, leaving a half-finished mix and no way back to the original tracks. There was nothing left to remix, only what had already been printed.
So the master had to take on some of what a mix would normally handle. The intensity was already in the performance: weight and definition on the guitars, and room for the urgency in Arthur’s voice to cut through.
Mastering
Listen · Love Bomb
Seb and I have shared studios, projects and stages for years, so when he brought me Xmas Vibes he didn’t have to explain the room he was trying to build.
Warmth, softness, intimacy. The acoustic instruments needed room to breathe, and his crooner vocal wanted that rich, enveloping weight that belongs indoors in December. Mastered as a set, so the EP plays as one evening rather than five singles.
EP mastering
Listen · Silent Night
Watch · full EP
YemGuy and I started producing and performing together twenty years ago, in a band called Low Cost Music. So when he asked me to master his latest album, he sent over hard beats, raw old-school hip-hop, and lyrics with a lot of moving parts.
The chain got pushed hard enough to make the beats hit and the words come forward. A few hours in, I caught myself bouncing in my chair, and hearing lines I’d had on loop all afternoon as if for the first time. That was the point to stop.
Album mastering
Listen · Dr Jekill
SJH moves between rich acoustic texture and the raw power of electric fusion, with the powerful and expressive voice and words of the singer at the centre throughout.
The warmth of the analog chain opened up the band’s dynamics and depth without taming them, so the music still travels from delicate harmony to full fusion intensity under its own steam.
Mastering
Listen · Lonely Place
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