The studio

A room built
for listening.

Step inside Chauvel Mastering. A dedicated listening space, carefully chosen tools and personal attention — all focused on your music.

The mastering room viewed from the entrance, showing ceiling treatment, wall absorbers and the listening position
01 / The listening roomSpace to hear the whole picture.

Beyond the equipment

The room is
part of the instrument.

Mastering begins with listening. The ceiling and wall treatment form part of the listening environment, alongside the monitors and their placement.

The full-room view gives you a sense of the space where decisions about balance, detail and dynamics are made.

A full-height view of the studio, including acoustic ceiling panels and wall treatment
02 / A closer look at the space
Stephan Chauvel adjusting the mastering equipment at the listening position
03 / At the listening position

The human element

Tools serve
the music.

Every track brings its own character. I listen, compare and make deliberate adjustments to support the music — choosing the processing that the material needs.

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Inside the signal path

The details behind the sound.

Equalizers, compressors and limiters in the analog signal path.
The mastering rackEqualizers, compressors and limiters in the analog signal path.
The Dangerous Music compressor and its monitoring controls.
A closer lookThe Dangerous Music compressor and its monitoring controls.
The Lavry converter and the limiter section of the rack.
Analog to digitalThe Lavry converter and the limiter section of the rack.

Listening comes first.

Equipment is part of the process. The aim is to find the tonal balance, dynamics and level that support your music while keeping its character intact.

The rack shown here includes Maselec equalizers, Dangerous Music compression, a Thermionic Culture Phoenix, a Knif equalizer, a Jünger limiter and Lavry conversion.

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