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RIC | HERTZ

The room

Built from the ground upfor one thing:accuracy.

A room-in-a-room build, floated off the structure around it and treated until it tells the truth. This is where Ric sits with your record and judges it — honestly, and at full resolution.

The build

A room inside a room.

The shell floats free of the structure around it — structure-borne transfer is cut before it starts. Every decoupled cavity is damped, every surface finished, so the room reads flat from first reflection to the modal region.

The finished mastering room — fabric-walled, with Amphion monitoring flanking the screen and the desk at the listening position
The finished roomSix layers behind the fabric

The listening position

Read the room.

This is the view from the chair. Everything in frame is doing a job — run your pointer over the markers, or tap them, and the room will introduce itself.

Straight-on view of the mastering room from the listening position: Amphion monitors, iLoud MTM pair, session display and synth shelf

Tap a marker to read the room

The monitoring chain

Calibrated from converter to chair.

One reference chain, measured end to end — then a wall of cross-references, because almost nobody hears your record in a treated room.

  1. 01 · Conversion

    Prism Sound Lyra 2

    Reference-grade AD/DA — the truth leaves the computer intact.

  2. 02 · Correction

    Dirac Live

    Frequency and time-domain response corrected at the listening position, measured with a PreSonus PRM1.

  3. 03 · Nearfields

    Amphion One18

    Passive monitors with nothing hyped and nothing hidden.

  4. 04 · Subwoofer

    RCF Arya Pro 10

    A single sub for controlled low-end authority.

Cross-checked on

  • IK Multimedia iLoud MTM — independent second opinion
  • HIFIMAN Ananda Nano — planars on a dedicated Topping amp
  • Austrian Audio Hi-X65 — open-backs
  • AirPods Max & AirPods Pro — where most listeners actually are

If it holds up across all of that, it holds up everywhere.

The studio rack: compressor-limiter, Prism Sound conversion and reference amplifiers
The rackConversion lives here
A monitor cabinet in the corner of the room beneath a mosaic lamp and olive tree
The quiet cornerSee marker 05
Panoramic close-up of a red Avantone tube microphone in its shockmount, the desk out of focus behind it
Signal in — the tracking corner

The desk

An SSL at the centre. An arsenal behind it.

The desk is anchored by a Solid State Logic UC1 running the full SSL plugin ecosystem — hands on real controls, with an industry standard collection loaded behind every channel.

The Solid State Logic UC1 controller face-on: channel strip, bus compressor and metering
Solid State Logic UC1Channel strip · bus compressor · 360°

The mastering arsenal

  • FabFilter Pro
  • Crane Song Phoenix II
  • Soundtheory Gullfoss
  • Soundtheory Kraftur
  • oeksound soothe3
  • iZotope Ozone
  • Empirical Labs Arousor
  • Eventide
  • Exponential Audio
  • UAD
  • Softube
  • Waves
  • Acustica Audio

Sessions run natively in

  • Logic Pro
  • Pro Tools
  • Ableton Live 12
  • Bitwig Studio

How Ric works

Hertz Magic.

Not a plugin, not a preset, not something you could buy and run yourself. It's the working method Ric built over thirty years — his own chain, assembled and re-tuned by hand for every track that comes through. The tools don't make the calls. He does.

It isn't sold and it isn't licensed, because it doesn't work without him. The only way to hear it is to send a track.

Close-up of the UC1 bus compressor VU meter with input and output LED meters lit
Gain reduction, by hand

The engineer

Thirty years at the faders.

Ric Hertz mixes and masters records the way they were made — by hand, in a room built for the job, with ears shaped by studios, live rooms and an ever growing number of finished songs.

  1. 1995

    The first faders

    Music had been the thread all along; the console made it a trade. Early experiments on basic gear turned into paid sessions.

  2. KJM

    The studio years

    Professional rooms at KJM Music Studios in Hereford — session after session with artists like The Attix, Lucia Nicole and The Undivided.

  3. UK/EU

    The records that travelled

    Mixing for Verden Allen of Mott the Hoople. A close working relationship with Italian producer Marco Barusso (Lacuna Coil). The last two Rature Power albums out of Ukraine, raw energy intact.

  4. Now

    This room

    Everything on this page, engineered from the ground up and aimed at one job: the room tells the truth, so the decisions come faster.

Ric Hertz seated at a large-format mixing console
Rooms along the way
Ric Hertz with a fellow mix engineer
Good company
Ric Hertz working a console, hands on the faders
Hands on the desk
In their words

Ric did a great job throughout the whole process. He gave us the space to explore our own ideas creatively while knowing exactly when to step in with guidance to keep everything moving.

When it came to the mix, he really brought the song to life, pulling out details and energy we’d overlooked and helping it become the best version of itself. It always felt like a genuine collaboration, and we’re really pleased with the final result.

Joe DissonThe UndividedMix & master

The manifest

Everything in the room.

The full inventory, no mysteries — every line links to its maker. One entry has no link, because it isn't a product you can buy. It's how Ric works.

Bespoke

  • Hertz Magic · Ric's own chain — built in-house, driven by hand, never sold

Output

Now put your record on these monitors.

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