Hear the cause. Judge the result.
Practical audio education built around working systems, critical listening and cause and effect—not brands or recipes.
Learn the mechanism. Then make it musical.
Every topic starts with a listening question. We expose the mechanism, measure what the tools can tell us, deliberately break the system, repair it, then decide whether the music improved.
What we teach.
Phase, polarity, time, level, masking, depth, translation and how fast A/B changes what you can reliably hear.
Transducer mechanisms, directivity, placement, proximity, geometry, room and what the measurement does—and does not—predict.
From first principles: capture, matrix math, mix processing and the differences between them.
Envelope, detector behavior, shared versus isolated interaction, wet/dry architecture and perceptual targets.
Tubes, iron, tape, saturation and why level, loading and program material change the result.
Mechanical reverb, tape echo, delay and phase—including what happens when delayed material is blended with dry.
Frequency, phase, impulse, distortion, noise, dynamics and measurement without measurement worship.
What stays out of the classroom pitch.
We do not sell preset collections, universal signal chains or the idea that one technology is morally superior. Internal REAPER macros, exact house routings, proprietary component values and unvalidated experimental patches stay internal unless an advanced lab is specifically about them.
Formats include in-person work in Vienna and live online teaching where the subject translates well. Courses and workshops are announced when they are ready to run; dates and pricing are published with each session.