Located in the East of Amsterdam near the centre, Flowriders Music Studio is the studio of choice for some of music’s most respected artists, producers and engineers. Welcoming clients from around the globe, The FMS features remarkable sounding rooms, a stellar maintenance program, and an impressive collection of recording gear, some of which is not seen in The Netherlands studios at any price. We have created a comfortable environment with a layout and vibe that has been described as having a "New York loft feel." At the heart of the Mixing Room is a D&R Orion mixer surrounded by a lot of (vintage) outboard gear. Next door studio from Berry Goodmans can provide almost any sort of microphone, some of them are extremely rare, and most possibly the only ones in the Netherlands. The collections of vintage synths is quit unique.( Mini moog,Hohner clavinet, Memory moog, Prophet 5 ,Roland MKS 80, Rhodes mark I, Rhodes MarkII, Roland juno 6,JD 800, Arp 2500)

Our engineers are not only recording engineers but have a long history of producing and playing music. If there is something you don't see on our gear list but have to have for your session, more often than not we can get it. Please get in touch, questions are always welcome.

Studio Equipment:

Digital Harddisk Recording System:

Mac G5 2x 2gb

Apogee Ensemble 3x

Apogee Big Ben

Logic pro 8 

Universal audio plugins + pci card

Analog recording system:

Studer A 80 MKII 16 track 2’’

Mixing:

D&R Orion

Monitoring:

Dyn audio m1

Fostex 6308 B

Quad 606 amp

Furman HDR 6 + 6x hds 6 Headphone distribution

Outboard reverbs/delays

EMT vintage 140 stereo plate reverb

Korg DRV 1000

Lexicon 1300s

Boss RX 100 spring reverb

Sony R7

Yamaha rev-500

Eventide H3000 se

Bel BD-80S stereo delay

Lexicon 1300 S

Dynacord vintage echochord tape delay

Roland  vintage RE-201 space echo

Roland SDE 2000

Roland SRE 555 vintage

Other outboard effects:

Eventide Instant Phaser

Ensonic DP4 multi effect

Synton 203 Phaser

SPL Classic Vitalizer

Outboard equalizers:

Filtek MK3 2x

Pultec passive eq Custom made

Polygram EQ 4x

Philips ldc eq/pre amp 4x

Compressor/limiters:

Aphex 661 tube compressor/limiter

Audio Developments stereo compressor/limiter

Barth Dynaset Compressor/limiter

DBX 160 VU vintage 2x

Dbx 163 compressor

Focusrite Red 3 dual/stereo compressor

Joe Meek Sc2 compressor

Summit TLA 100 tube levelling amp

LA Audio TX20 stereo tube compressor/limiter

SPL Tube Vitalizer

SPL Transient Designer

Telefunken U273 diode bridge compressor/limiter vintage 2x

Tubetech SMC-2B stereo multiband compressor/limiter

Pre-amps:

D&R Orion 24 ch pre amp

TAB Discrete vintage pre amp 6x

Tubetech MP1a 2 channel

Philips  vintage LDC pre amp/eq 4x

Microphones:

AKG C12a vintage

AKG D-12 vintage

AKG D202 vintage

AEA R92 ribbon mic

Audio Technica 4047

Beyer M201

Electrovoice RE-20

Neumann U47 vintage

Microtech gefell mv 692 cardiod

Royer 122 Ribbon mic matched pair

Sennheiser md 409u vintage 2x

Sennheiser MD421 vintage 2x

Sennheiser MD441 vintage 3x

Peluso P28 2x

Shure SM 58

Shure SM57

Pedals:

Akai Head Rush delay-loopsampler

Boss CE-1 chorus

Electro Harmonix tube-zipper

Korg Kaos Pad

Line 6 vintage modeller

Morley Wah Wah

Emma discum bobulator

Small Stone phaser

Instruments

Rhodes Mark 1 88 keys

Rhodes Mark 2 73 keys

Minimoog model-D

Solina String ensemble

Honher Clavinet/Pianet

Roland Juno 6

Korg MS 2000

Roland RS 09 string ensemble

Kurzweil K2000

Kawai Accoustic Piano

MPC 2500

Oberheim Matrix 6 R

Roland MKS 80 + programmer ( jupiter 8 rack version)

Studio Electronics Midi moog

Amps:

Fender twin reverb orig jbl speakers vintage

Rates

€ 300 (8 hour day). Any time over 8 hours will be charged at 37,50 per hour. Day Rate includes one of our house engineer or an assistant for clients bringing in their own engineer.
 

Deposit and Payment

A 50% deposit on the total number of days you are booking is required to reserve the studio. For all Indie bands and labels: Payment is due at the end of the session, no masters or roughs can be released without balance paid in full. Sessions may be rescheduled or cancelled up to 48 hours in advance. Cancellation within 48 hours will result in loss of deposit.

Clients:

Artists:

Marc de Clive lowe

Vanessa Freeman

Xanton Blacq

Jenna G

Legends of the underground

Lady Alma

Colonel Red

Delgui

Gerd

Moon Baker

Florian Friedrich

Bas van der Wal

Sebastiaan Kaptein

Richard Spaven

Akwasi Mensah

Jenny Wilmenstijn

Hartog Eysman

Joachim Staudt

Kees Post

Piet jan de bel

Casanova Blues band

Jan Wouter Oostenrijk

Phil Horneman/Wicked jazz sounds

Jan Willem Verbeek

Monsieur Dubois