747 Mastering Studio · Brussels
Six projects that came through the studio — what arrived, what it needed, and how I knew the master was there.
Seven in the morning, my phone lights up: eight tracks from ST4N D4W — 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, 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 do work a mix would normally do. I built it around the intensity already sitting 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 I already knew the room he was trying to build.
Warmth, softness, intimacy. I let the acoustic instruments breathe and gave his crooner vocal the kind of 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, I knew what was coming: hard beats, raw old-school hip-hop, and lyrics with a lot of moving parts.
I pushed the chain 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’s when I knew the master was there.
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.
I used the warmth of the analog chain to open 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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