• Excellent sound quality and refined artistic performance are essential for a good recording.
  
  
• The DNS (Digital Natural Sound) recording and audio production technique is the result of years of research and experience in acoustics, hi-tech recording equipment and sound engineering. Our state-of-the-art productions deliver every nuance of the original interpretation with extremely natural, transparent and warm sound. We are convinced that the listening experience should be as close to a live performance as possible: you should just enjoy the music and completely forget about the technology involved.
  
  
• DNS makes this possible by optimizing the whole audio production process:
  – the required studio equipment is carefully chosen according to the instruments, the musical style and the environment involved (with special attention to natural sounding halls like concert halls, concerts, etc.);
  – artistic direction is provided during the recording sessions to constantly monitor the musical output, to help the musicians deliver their very best and to ensure that the whole recorded program meets the required performance standards;
  – during editing, the takes with the best interpretation are musically combined with great care and with particular attention to details like phrasing, dynamics, color and rubato nuances;
  – mixing is performed using our total-recall, full automated digital audio workstations; a selection of some of the best plugin effects is available for sound design and optimization; we monitor on Quested loudspeakers to hear every detail of the original performance and make the "right" decisions about the sound;
  – the tracks are then optimized for the final master – be it audio CD, DVD, film soundtrack or video – using the most advanced audio DSP technology available today.
  
  
• As the quality of a recording is also depending on musical taste and background, it is essential to know well a wide range of musical styles: everybody at DNS is a professional musician with classical, jazz or pop/rock/dance experience. Name any musical style, and we have the specialist for it.
  
  
• The mastering process plays a very important role in the final sound of our productions:
  – the original environment acoustic is enhanced by detailed control over the stereo or surround image (for example, Waves S1) and using advanced virtual room simulation devices (including the excellent impulse response reverb IR1 by Waves,  the Vincent Burel Aphro V1 or "vintage" digital reverbs such as the Lexicon PCM91);
  – the color of the signal is optimized with vintage-type "musical" EQs (for example the Nomad Factory Blue PEQ2A or PEQ2B, which recreate the sound of the famous "Pultec" EQ) or phase linear digital EQs (Vincent Burel G3 EQ) to delivers optimal results at any listening volume;
  – advanced analog saturation algorithms (for example Nomad Factory LM2S limiter, or PSP Vintage Warmer) or real analog compressors are used to achieve a sound with all the "warm" qualities of vintage analog tape recordings, without the disadvantages usually associated with that technology (no additional noise or non-linear distortion are introduced - however good tape saturation algorithms do introduce a small amount of "harmonic" distortion which is pleasant to the ear).
  – depending on the music style, the 24-bit or 32-bit float dynamic range of the mixdown is subtly adapted to fit the range of the final media (for example a 16-bit audio CD) using transparent sounding digital compression and limiting, as well as POW-r or Waves IDR dithering and noise-shaping algorithms;
  
  
• In this way, most of the natural qualities of the original performance can be enjoyed in the final listening.
  
  
• In short, DNS means:
  
  superior sound quality: it offers all the warmth and the color of vintage analogue equipment together with the flexibility and sound transparency of advanced digital sound editing and processing.
  
  efficiency: our editing facilities are based on very advanced, custom built Digital Audio Workstations so every editing, mixing and mastering stage is achieved with the highest possible processing speed – waiting times are simply unknown to us, and the workstations are so carefully configured that they can run non-stop for several weeks without experiencing a single problem; even with complex multitrack productions, they can deliver enough DSP power to keep all the processing in realtime - bouncing and mixdowns are hardly ever required;
  
  superior musical performance: from the recording to the final master the interpretation is monitored by specialists and the editing is done in the most logical and "musical" way;
  
  best value for your money: the whole production process is very efficient and highly optimized – in other words, we can do more high quality work in less time – and the final price will positively surprise you.

Digital Natural Sound | the guarantee for sound and performance excellence.