Analog front end,
commercial-sized sound,
without the overhead.

Built around a 32-channel Soundcraft Ghost, a deep rack of outboard, and a live room's worth of instruments (from a Yamaha C3 grand piano, a vintage drum kit, rhodes to a wall of synths and a modular). Assembled and wired by hand over many years, with the DIY aesthetic to match.

About

A new home

inconvenient.studio is my private studio. I'm Tim Coggins, a musician and engineer — it's mainly a personal space, though I take on outside projects now and then.Get in touch to talk about availability.

It's meant to grow into a home in Brussels for improvising musicians. I also want it to be a room for the musicians who work outside the obvious lanes — improvisers, jazz players, indie and electronic acts, players from other traditions. If your music doesn't fit a template, it'll fit here.

The space

  • 40m²Live room
  • 15m²Control room
  • 12m²Booth / workshop

Who it's for

  • Solo artists

    A full production chain in one room — write, track, and mix without handing the song off between studios.

  • Bands

    A 32-channel console and a live room built for tracking a full band together, not one part at a time.

  • Pianists

    A Yamaha C3 grand and a '70s Rhodes MK2, mic'd and ready — rare to find outside a commercial room.

Full inventory

Gear list

Every piece currently in the studio, grouped by category. Quantities are noted where more than one is on hand.

Console

  • Soundcraft Ghost 32

Piano

  • Yamaha C3 Grand Piano (2005)
  • Rhodes MK2 73 (1980)

Guitars & Bass

  • Fender Jazz Bass
  • Fender P Bass
  • Harley Benton Fretless
  • Squier Jazzmaster
  • Nylon Acoustic

Synthesizers

  • Roland System 100 (101 + 102)
  • Roland Juno 6
  • Korg Mono/Poly
  • Roland SH-101
  • Eurorack Modular Synth (450hp)
  • Roland MC-303

Drums & Percussion

  • Japanese 1970s Stencil Drum Kit (22/16/13)
  • Various Percussion

Amplifiers

  • Fender Princeton Tweed Clone (5F2)
  • Markbass 802 MkII
  • Roland KB-550

Sequencers

  • Squarp Hapax
  • Akai MPC60 MkII
  • Akai MPC X

Keyboards & Controllers

  • Kawai VPC-1
  • Studiologic SL88
  • Korg MicroKey 61
  • M-Audio Oxygen Pro 61
  • Novation LaunchControl XL 2
  • Novation Launchpad Mini

Microphones

  • Peluso 2247
  • Brauner Phantom
  • Austrian Audio OC818 (x2)
  • BeesNees Lulu FET (x2)
  • SE Electronics SE 3300
  • Sennheiser 415T
  • Sennheiser MD441
  • Sennheiser MD421
  • Shure SM57 (x2)
  • SE Electronics V7X (x2)
  • Electro-Voice RE20
  • AKG D112
  • Warm Audio D19
  • Sennheiser e604 (x2)
  • Sennheiser e609
  • Shure SM7B
  • Golden Age Projects R1 MkII (x2)

Interfaces & Converters

  • MOTU PCIe 424 + 24 I/O (x3)
  • RME Fireface UFX
  • Universal Audio Volt 2

Outboard

  • Great River 2MP-NV
  • Avedis MA5
  • CAPI 312
  • Buzz Audio Essence
  • Universal Audio 6176
  • Empirical Labs Distressor (x2)
  • Publison CL20C
  • SSL G Bus Compressor
  • DBX 903 (x7)
  • DBX 905 (x2)
  • Sound Skulptor 250EQ
  • Lindell PEQ
  • Lexicon PCM60
  • TC Electronic M300
  • Boss KM6A

DI & Reamp

  • Radial P48 Active DI
  • Radial Reamp
  • 3 x ART DI

Pedals

  • API Tranzformer LX
  • Hudson Broadcast
  • TC Electronic Rusty Fuzz
  • Boss OC-2
  • Boss PH-2 Super Phaser
  • Boss CH-1 Super Chorus
  • Boss GE7 Equaliser
  • Boss RE2 Space Echo
  • Boss Tuner
  • Universal Audio Heavenly Reverb
  • Vox Delay Lab
  • Boss TR-2
  • Electro-Harmonix Hot Tubes
  • ProCo Rat

Monitoring

  • Amphion One15 + Amp 500
  • Yamaha NS10 + Quad 405
  • Yamaha HS8S Subwoofer
  • Mackie 4ch Headphone Amp
  • Headphones (x4)

Computer

  • Intel Core i7-14700K
  • 64GB RAM
  • Dedicated USB card + PCIe card (MOTU)

DAWs

  • Pro Tools
  • Cubase 14
  • Bitwig Studio
  • Ableton 12
  • Reaper

Plugins

  • Fabfilter
  • Soundtoys
  • Valhalla
  • Universal Audio
  • Plugin Alliance
  • Native Instruments