A one-stop studio for music and audio - production, recording, mixing and everything in between.
Founder and owner Herwig Scheck has been active in the Belgian music scene since the early 2000s — as a live performer, session musician, producer, and engineer. He's worked with the who's-who of Belgian artists and bands, and built Prunes & Spoons around one simple idea: an artist who feels at ease performs better. Everything about the studio — the room, the gear, the workflow — is built to get out of the way of the music.
As engineer-producer, the studio handles full productions, album recording and mixing, demos, songwriting and pre-production support, music-for-picture, remote mixing, location recording, and more.
What really sets this room apart is the depth of analog outboard, and how it's combined with digital control. Nearly every piece of gear has been hand-modified to vintage specifications — the API console at the heart of the room runs on period-correct 1970s-spec discrete op-amps and output transformers, for a sound that's unmistakably classic. But the console is fully automated, and every outboard chain can be recalled digitally, so that vintage tone comes with none of the old-school slowdown: dial in a sound once, and it's there again instantly on the next session. Proven studio techniques from the heyday of the great studios, running at the speed of modern digital production.
Fast turnaround, high-quality mixes, at a fair price. Every mix runs through a deep collection of hand-modified, vintage-spec analog outboard on a fully automated console — with digital recall, so nothing about that analog character slows the process down.
A room built for band tracking, with a punchy, modern drum sound. A wide-ranging microphone collection — from classic tube condensers to vintage ribbons — tracked through the API console, so the sound is shaped at the source, not fixed later.
Invisible editing and audio repair: timing, tuning, or general technical fixes. When a track needs more — additional instrumentation, live musicians, a fresh production pass — that's available too, with experienced players for any style or budget.
Help shaping a song from the ground up: arranging, co-writing, and getting a project pre-production-ready before it ever hits record.
What makes Prunes & Spoons stick out is a mixture of a passion for the craft of audio engineering, a sizable collection of outboard gear, and 25+ years worth of expertise in musicianship and sound. All of this in a room with high-end acoustics and a cozy and comfortable working atmosphere. A mix of classics and modern equipment — all hand-picked, modified and/or selfmade.
32-channel, automated console. Modified with 1970s-specced discrete op-amps and transformers.
Tube microphones, large diaphragm condensers, small diaphragm condensers, dynamics and ribbons.
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