About

WOODSHED STUDIO is a professional recording, mixing and mastering studio located in the countryside near Landshut, Germany. Even though it is a very quiet and peaceful place (literally in the middle of nowhere), you have good connections to the next motorways and to the Munich International Airport (only 30 minutes by car).

“Woodshedding” is a term to describe the process of locking oneself away with a musical instrument and practice like a maniac until the player has improved greatly and acquired admirable skills. Therefore, the concept behind “Woodshed Studio” is to offer you – as musician or band – the opportunity to lock yourself away for a while at a quiet and cozy place – to focus completely on your art and playing. When you come back from that place, you have created something truly outstanding.

Woodshed Studio is run by Victor Bullok, also known as V. Santura, guitar player

of bands like Triptykon, Dark Fortress and Noneuclid.

Credo

Like with every other good studio, there might be some kind of “Woodshed” signature style, but it is our credo to work with every band or artist individually and to keep the artist‘s unique style and sound as well as accentuate the individual strengths of each artist we are working with. We are very flexible and open to various ways of working. You are in the right hands, no matter if your music demands for a very natural, dirty or super precise-sounding production.

Studios

STUDIO 1
The „original“ Woodshed Studio

Studio 1 is located in a small village close to Landshut, and is the place where Victor is doing most of his work since 2008. The studio is primarily used for mixing and mastering, but also for tracking, as the recording room (a larger isolation booth) is with its dry acoustics perfectly suited for vocal-, guitar- and bass recordings, or any instrument that demands a rather „neutral“ acoustic environment.

STUDIO 2
Q7 / „The Church of Sound“

Studio 2 is located in Inning am Holz, a village close to Munich International Airport and is mainly used

for drum- and live recordings. The studio has two different control rooms and a great sounding large

live room. Also see the website of Q7 studios: www.q7studios.com

Gear

Microphones

Condenser Mics:
U47*
Advanced Audio CM47FET/CE
AKG C3000
Audio Technica AT 4033 x2
Austrian Audio OC18
Blue Bluebird
Brauner VMX Cardiod (on request)
Brauner Valvet X
Neumann U87 ai (on request)

Neumann KM184 x2 (matched stereo pair)
Sennheiser E614 x2 (matched stereo pair)
Shure KSM 137 x3
Shure KSM 141 x2 (matched stereo pair)

*handmade in Finnland by Lassi Pitkänen after the original specifications

Ribbon Mics:
Coles 4038 x2 (matched stereo pair)
Octava ML 52-02

Dynamic Mics:
AKG D112
Audix D2 x2
Audix D4 x2
Sennheiser E602 (Mk1) x2
Sennheiser E606
Sennheiser E904 x5
Sennheiser E905
Sennheiser MD 441
Shure SM7b
Shure SM57 x7
Shure SM58

Outboard / Pre-Amps

Aurora Audio GTQ2 („modern vintage“ Neve-ish Boutique 2-channel mic preamp with EQ)

Daking Mic Pre IV x3 (Total 12 Channels)

Tube Tech MP2A (2-channel all-tube high end mic preamp)

Phoenix Audio DRS 8 MkII

SPL Channel One

Empirical Labs Distressor EL8-X

Lexicon PCM 80

Fractal Audio Axe-Fx II

Interface / Converters

Studio 1:
RME Fireface 800
Apogee AD16X
Apogee DA16X

Studio 2:
3x Pro Tools HD I/O 8x8x8
Apogee AD16X

Console, Monitoring

Studio 1:

DAW Controller: Presonus Faderport 16

Monitoring Desk: Allen & Heath QU-16 Chrome

Monitors: KRK RP8, Avantone Mix Cubes, various small consumer speakers

Studio 2:

Desk: SSL AWS 924

Monitors: Genelec 1237B, Genelec 1030A

Headphones: Sennheiser HD 650, Sennheiser HD 380, Vic Firth, Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro

Software

DAW:

Avid Pro Tools 10

Avid Pro Tools 12.5

Steinberg Cubase Pro 13

Steinberg Wavelab Pro 11

Plug-Ins:

Native Instruments Komplete 14 Ultimate

Slate All Access Bundle (incl. SSL Complete)

Waves Mercury Bundle

DMG Equilibrium, Softube Weiss-DS1-MK3

iZotope Ozone 9, RX 7, Neutron, Nectar

FXpansion BFD3

Superior Drummer 3

Slate Trigger 2

Slate SSD5

Celemony Melodyne, Antares AutoTune

plus various plug-ins from Acustica Audio, AIR Music, Eventide, Softube, Soundradix etc.

Instruments

Guitars / Bass:

Ibanez RG Prestige RG2620ZE -BK
Ibanez Iceman IC400
Ibanez S7320 (7-String)
B.C. Rich Warlock Custom (handmade in US with Goto Tremolo and EMG Pickups, only on request)

Ibanez Soundgear Bass SR 505

Shiro AC50 Classical guitar (with nylon strings)
Hoyer HCD3CE-B Western guitar (with steel strings)

more instruments can be arranged on request

Drums:

Sonor Force 3003 Drumset:
Kick: 22“
5 Toms: 8“, 10“, 12“, 14“, 16“
14“x5“ Snare

Ludwig Black Beauty LB417KT 14“x6,5“ Snare
Yamaha 12“ Stage Custom Snare

Tama Ironcobra Pedals

Hi-Hat Stand, 6 Cymbal Stands (more available on request)
Please bring your own Cymbals!

Amps:

Diezel Herbert
ENGL Fireball 100
Orange Rockerverb 100
Peavey 6505
Peavey 6505+
Marshall JCM 800
Marshall JCM 900
Vox AC30 C2

Darkglass B7K Ultra
Fractal Audio Axe Fx II
Fractal Audio FM3
Tech 21 Sansamp Bass Driver

Cabinets:

ENGL E412VS Pro (with V30 speakers)
Marshall Fullstack (1960A + 1960B)
Orange PPC412

Marshall Bass Cabinet Model 7410
Trace Elliot 1048 Bass Cabinet
Peavey TKO75 Bass Combo

Other

Other:

Midi keyboard (M-Audio Keystation 49)

various pedals (Ibanez Tubescreamers, Boss HM-2 (Made in Japan), Wahwahs (Crybaby, Weeping Demons), Octaver, Tuner, Noisegates, MXR 10Band Graphic EQ, Volumepedals…)

Ebow

Tambourine, Cowbell, Shaker

Palmer PDI-02 DI Box

Radial X-Amp Reamping Box

more than enough of mic stands (mostly K&M and Herkules), cables (Mogami, Sommer) etc.

Microphones

Outboard / Pre-Amps

Aurora Audio GTQ2 („modern vintage“ Neve-ish Boutique 2-channel mic preamp with EQ)

Daking Mic Pre IV x3 (Total 12 Channels)

Tube Tech MP2A (2-channel all-tube high end mic preamp)

Phoenix Audio DRS 8 MkII

SPL Channel One

Empirical Labs Distressor EL8-X

Lexicon PCM 80

Fractal Audio Axe-Fx II

Interface / Converters

Studio 1:
RME Fireface 800
Apogee AD16X
Apogee DA16X

Studio 2:
3x Pro Tools HD I/O 8x8x8
Apogee AD16X

Console, Monitoring

Studio 1:

DAW Controller: Presonus Faderport 16

Monitoring Desk: Allen & Heath QU-16 Chrome

Monitors: KRK RP8, Avantone Mix Cubes, various small consumer speakers

Studio 2:

Desk: SSL AWS 924

Monitors: Genelec 1237B, Genelec 1030A

Headphones: Sennheiser HD 650, Sennheiser HD 380, Vic Firth, Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro

Software

DAW:

Avid Pro Tools 10

Avid Pro Tools 12.5

Steinberg Cubase Pro 13

Steinberg Wavelab Pro 11

Plug-Ins:

Native Instruments Komplete 14 Ultimate

Slate All Access Bundle (incl. SSL Complete)

Waves Mercury Bundle

DMG Equilibrium, Softube Weiss-DS1-MK3

iZotope Ozone 9, RX 7, Neutron, Nectar

FXpansion BFD3

Superior Drummer 3

Slate Trigger 2

Slate SSD5

Celemony Melodyne, Antares AutoTune

plus various plug-ins from Acustica Audio, AIR Music, Eventide, Softube, Soundradix etc.

Instruments

Guitars / Bass:

Ibanez RG Prestige RG2620ZE -BK
Ibanez Iceman IC400
Ibanez S7320 (7-String)
B.C. Rich Warlock Custom (handmade in US with Goto Tremolo and EMG Pickups, only on request)

Ibanez Soundgear Bass SR 505

Shiro AC50 Classical guitar (with nylon strings)
Hoyer HCD3CE-B Western guitar (with steel strings)

more instruments can be arranged on request

Drums:

Sonor Force 3003 Drumset:
Kick: 22“
5 Toms: 8“, 10“, 12“, 14“, 16“
14“x5“ Snare

Ludwig Black Beauty LB417KT 14“x6,5“ Snare
Yamaha 12“ Stage Custom Snare

Tama Ironcobra Pedals

Hi-Hat Stand, 6 Cymbal Stands (more available on request)
Please bring your own Cymbals!

Amps:

Diezel Herbert
ENGL Fireball 100
Orange Rockerverb 100
Peavey 6505
Peavey 6505+
Marshall JCM 800
Marshall JCM 900
Vox AC30 C2

Darkglass B7K Ultra
Fractal Audio Axe Fx II
Fractal Audio FM3
Tech 21 Sansamp Bass Driver

Cabinets:

ENGL E412VS Pro (with V30 speakers)
Marshall Fullstack (1960A + 1960B)
Orange PPC412

Marshall Bass Cabinet Model 7410
Trace Elliot 1048 Bass Cabinet
Peavey TKO75 Bass Combo

Other

Other:

Midi keyboard (M-Audio Keystation 49)

various pedals (Ibanez Tubescreamers, Boss HM-2 (Made in Japan), Wahwahs (Crybaby, Weeping Demons), Octaver, Tuner, Noisegates, MXR 10Band Graphic EQ, Volumepedals…)

Ebow

Tambourine, Cowbell, Shaker

Palmer PDI-02 DI Box

Radial X-Amp Reamping Box

more than enough of mic stands (mostly K&M and Herkules), cables (Mogami, Sommer) etc.

Credits

Selected Works

Alex Jung – Inside Passage | Mix, Mastering

Alkaloid – The Malkuth Grimoire | Vocal Recordings, Re-Amping, Mix, Mastering

Animalize – Meat We’re Made of | Mastering

Anomalie – Tranceformation | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Anomalie – Riverchild | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

ArsGoatia – Hiding Amongst Humans | Mastering

ArsGoatia – Agitators of Hysteria | Mastering

Ascension – The Dead of the World | Vocal Recordings, Mastering

Ascension – Under Ether | Vocal Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Asphagor – Pyrogenesis | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Asphagor – The Aphotic Vortex | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Barren Earth – A Complex of Cages | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Behemoth – The Shit Ov God | Guitar- and Bass Soundcheck, Bass Recordings

Behind Closed Doors – Metanoia | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Belzebubs – Damnation Memoriae | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Billy Odal – And The Search For Agartha | Mastering

Billy Odal – And The Search For Agartha Pt. 2 | Mastering

Blotted Science – The Animation of Entomology | Drum Recordings

Bölzer – Hero | Co-Recordings, Mix and Mastering

Cancer – Inverted World | Mix, Mastering

Celtic Frost – Morbid Tales | Remastering

Celtic Frost – To Mega Therion | Remastering

Celtic Frost – Into The Pandemonium | Remastering

Celtic Frost – Vanity/Nemesis | Remastering

Centinela – Panico | Mix, Mastering

Chaos Invocation – Devil, Stone & Man | Guitar + Vocal Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Chaos Invocation – Wherever We Roam… | Guitar + Vocal Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Chapel of Disease – Echoes of Light | Mastering

Christian Münzner – Timewarp | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Cold Cell – Generation Abomination | Mix, Mastering

Cold Cell – Lowlife | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Cold Cell – Those | Drum + Vocal Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Cold Cell – The Greater Evil | Drum + Vocal Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Cold Cell – Age of Unreason | Drum + Vocal Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Crescent – Carving the Fires of Akhet | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Crom – Vengeance | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Crom – Of Love and Death | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Crom – When Northmen Die | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Crom – The Era of Darkness | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Daeth Daemon – The Skeleton Spectre | Mix, Mastering

Daeth Daemon – Spawn of Aeons | Mix, Mastering

Dark Fortress – Stab Wounds | Producing, Recordings, Mix

Dark Fortress – Séance | Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Dark Fortress – Eidolon | Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Dark Fortress – Ylem | Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Dark Fortress – Venereal Dawn | Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Dark Fortress – Spectres From the Old World | Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Dark Fortress – Anthems From Beyond the Grave | Producing, Mix, Mastering

Dark Fortress – Tales From Eternal Dusk | Remastering

Dark Fortress – Profane Genocidal Creations | Remastering

Dark Fortress – Stab Wounds | Remastering

Dawn of Disease – Worship the Grave | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Dead Eyed Creek – Out of Phase | Mix, Mastering

Demonic Resurrection – Dashavatar | Mastering

Downfall of Gaia – Ethic of Radical Finitude | Mix, Mastering

Dyssidia – Costly Signals | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Dyssidia – Deeper Wells of Meaning | Mastering

(Dolch) – Feuer | Mastering

(Dolch) – Nacht | Mastering

Electrozombies – System of Terror | Mastering

Electrozombies – Darkness is Rebellion | Mastering

Ergodic – Ergodic EP | Mix, Mastering

Farsot – IIII | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Farsot – Faillure | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Farsot – Life Promised Death | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Festacorn – It’s Only Natural | Mastering

Festacorn – Slap City Central | Mastering

Freedom of Fear – Nocturnal Gates | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Freedom of Fear – Carpathia | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Freedom of Fear – Concerto (Single, Live) | Mix, Mastering

Grieving Age – Merely The Fleshless We And… | Mix, Mastering

Gutslit – Amputheatre | Mastering

Hannes Grossmann – The Radial Covenant | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Hegemon – The Hierarch | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Helfahrt – Drifa | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Hellhammer – Blood Insanity (Single) | Restauration / Remastering

Hemelbestormer – The Radiant Veil | Mastering

HOIA – Scavenger | Mastering

Horresque – Chasms Pt.2 | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Imha Tarikat – Birth of Grandeur | Mastering

Imha Tarikat – Confessing Darkness | Mastering

Infestus – Thrypsis | Mastering

Infestus – The Reflecting Void | Mastering

Kalaveraztekah – Ometeotl | Mastering

Kalaveraztekah – El Despertar de Los Tiempos | Mastering

King Dude – Death | Mastering

King Dude – Nursery Rhymes | Mastering

King Dude – Songs of the 1940s Vol1&2 | Mastering

King Dude – Songs of the 1940s Vol3&4 | Mastering

Kong – Phlegmatism | Mix, Mastering

Kuolemanlaakso – Uuljas ussi maailma | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Kuolemanlaakso – Tulijoutsen | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Kuolemanlaakso – Kuusumu | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Kuolemanlaakso – Kuolleiden Laulu | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Lunar Shadow – Wish To Leave | Mastering

Lykotonon – Promethean Pathology | Mastering

Metalium – Chapter 6 Nothing To Undo | Mix, Mastering

Metalium – Chapter 7 Incubus | Mix, Mastering

Metalium – Chapter 8 Grounded | Mix, Mastering

Marrowomb – Phisenomie | Mastering

Metasphaera – Metasphaera | Mix, Mastering

M. Laakso – Vol. 1 The Gothic Tapes | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Morast – Il nostro silenzio | Mastering

Nailed To Obscurity – King Delusion | Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Nailed To Obscurity – Black Frost | Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Nebelkrähe – ephemer | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Nebelkrähe – entfremdet (2024) | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Noneuclid – Metatheosis | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Obscura – Cosmogenesis | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Obscura – Omnivium | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Obscura – Illegimiation (Compilation) | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Obscura – Akroasis | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Obscura – Diluvium | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Obsidious – Iconic | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Order of the Ebon Hand – VII: The Chariot | Mix, Mastering

Order of the Ebon Hand – XI: Justice | Mix, Mastering

Our Survival Depends On Us – Scouts on the… | Mix, Mastering

Our Survival Depends On Us – Melting the Ice… | Mix, Mastering

Panzerballett – X-Mas Death Jazz | Co-Producing, Drum- and Saxrecordings, Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Panzerballett – Planet Z | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Panzerballett – Übercode Oeuvre | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Paradox – Tales of the Weird | Mix, Mastering

Pestilence – Doctrine | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Pigeon Toe – The First Perception | Drum Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Plague Throat – Evolutionary Impasse | Mastering

Plague Throat – The Human Paradox | Mastering

Polyptych – Defying the Metastasis | Mix, Mastering

Rootbrain – Breakwater | Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Rootbrain – Mothertomb (EP) | Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Rytmihäiriö – Gambinapsykoosi | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Saeko – Holy Are We Alone | Mix, Mastering

Saratan – Martya Xwar | Mix, Mastering

Schammasch – Contradiction | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Schammasch – Triangle | Drum- and Ambient Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Secrets of the Moon – Seven Bells | Mix, Mastering

Secrets of the Moon – Sun | Mix, Mastering

Secrets of the Moon – Black House | Mix, Mastering

Shaarimoth – Devildom | Mastering

Somniate – We Have Proved Death | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Starstrike – Legacy or Destiny | Reamping, Mix, Mastering

Stormkeep – Tales of Othertime | Mastering

Sulphur Aeon – The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos | Mastering

Sulphur Aeon – Seven Crowns And Seven Seals | Mastering

The Minerva Conduct – The Minerva Conduct | Mastering

The Ruins of Beverast – Exuvia | Mastering

The Ruins of Beverast – The Thule Grimoirs | Mastering

The Spirit – Cosmic Terror | Bass-, Guitar-, Vocal Recordings, Mix, Mastering

The Spirit – Of Clarity And Galactic Structures | Bass-, Guitar-, Vocal Recordings, Mix, Mastering

The Spirit – Songs Against Humanity | Bass-, Guitar-, Vocal Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Thulcandra – Fallen Angel’s Dominion | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Thulcandra – Under A Frozen Sun | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Thulcandra – Ascension Lost | Mix, Mastering

Thy Darkened Shade – Liber Lvcifer I | Drum Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Thy Darkened Shade – Liber Lvcifer II | Mix, Mastering

Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix

Triptykon – Shatter (EP) | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix

Triptykon – Melana Chasmata | Co-Producing, Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Triptykon with the Metropole Orkest – Requiem | Editing, Mix, Mastering

Triptykon – Live at Rock Hard Festival 2023 | Remix for Youtube / Streaming

Triumph Of Death – Resurrection Of The Flesh | Mix, Mastering

Unflesh – Inhumation | Mix, Mastering

Virial – Transhumanism | Mastering

Wall of Sound (Label):

EON, Fulana, Idreesi, Jai Nash, Klinsh, Skeleton Crowd, Sonaa Al Dayaa, Songs of Petrichor, Statues of Sining Men, taba2.tayer, Deathnoise Frequency | Mix, Mastering

Wayfarer – A Romance With Violence | Mastering

Winterhorde – Underwatermoon | Recordings, Mix, Mastering

Winterhorde – Maestro | Guitar Recordings, Mix

Wormwitch – Heaven That Dwells Within | Mix, Mastering

…and many more.

Pricing

Recordings / Full Productions

For complete productions, the daily fee in Studio 1 is

300€*

When working in Studio 2 there is an additional fee which will be negotiated individually.

Mixing (and Mastering)

The price for mixing or mastering really depends on the actual amount of work that needs to be invested into each project. Please get in touch with us to negotiate a deal matching your individual demands.
We also offer Re-Amping, Sound Replacement and additional editing, if needed (this is always open for discussion).

Mastering only

The price for mastering an album usually is 380€*, this includes a CD (pre-)master delivered as DDP as well as 16 Bit Wave files for listening reference. For any further format like a master optimized for digital streaming, a dedicated vinyl master or an Apple Digital Master there is an additional fee of 60€* per format.

Recordings / Full Productions

For complete productions, the daily fee in Studio 1 is 300€*

When working in studio 2 there is an additional fee which will be negotiated individually.

Mixing (and Mastering)

Mastering only

*all prices plus 19% VAT! Unless you are from outside of the EU or have an international VAT-ID.

Also please contact us for any other kind of questions.
Victor Bullok, Woodshed Studio

Contact

Studio Address:

Woodshed Studio

Krokusweg 7a

84095 Furth

Germany

Email: woodshedstudio@gmx.de

Attention:

If you are interested in booking one of our services please get in touch with us as early as possible.

Especially if you want your album to be mixed by Victor at Woodshed Studio it is a good idea to get in touch with

us before you actually start recording, so we can talk about technical details and ideas just to make sure that you

will be able to deliver the best possible recordings.