Noor Haddad
Founder and vocal producer
Vocal producer and multi-instrumentalist coaching breath, harmony stacks, natural pitch polish and phrase-by-phrase comping.
Tracking, mixing & mastering · Austin
Tuned rooms, real takes
Plugins do remarkable things, but nothing replaces a great drum room, a Class-A preamp on the way in and an engineer who keeps the room relaxed. On Afterglow Court in Austin, bands, solo artists and voice talent track and finish records built to translate everywhere.
Tracking, mixing & voice rates
Straightforward hourly sessions, full-day lockouts and per-song mixing and mastering, always staffed by a house engineer who sets up before your downbeat.
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Vocal recording, comping & production
Floating vocal booth, a tube and FET condenser shootout, real-time hardware compression and clean playlist comping.
$85/hour
Vocal session details -
Full-band & live-room tracking
32-channel Class-A tracking across the tuned live room and two sightline iso booths, house drum kit, tube amps and personal cue mixes.
$95/hour
Tracking session details -
Analogue-hybrid stereo & stem mixing
Hardware bus compression, analogue EQ warmth, precise vocal editing, three revision rounds and full instrumental, TV and a cappella stems.
stereo or stems $320/song
Mixing details
Signal paths checked before you arrive
Nothing drains a session faster than spending the first ninety paid minutes chasing a scratchy patch cable or a buzzing headphone cue. Before you load in, the crew patches and line-checks drums, vocal chains and personal cue mixers from your pre-session sheet, so the red light goes on while the idea is still fresh.
Inside the control room & mic locker
Tuned monitoring, Class-A preamps and hardware compression within arm's reach of the mix position.
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Digital desk with lit channel meters, set to your input list before the first take. -
Analogue console framed by nearfield reference monitors and the main soffit speakers. -
Condenser pairs from the mic locker, auditioned against your voice in the first fifteen minutes.
Engineers & producers
Calm, musical ears at the desk, and the people who keep the signal chains working.
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Vikram Shah
Lead tracking engineer
Avid-certified Pro Tools HDX operator and drum-sound specialist running full-band live tracking and multi-day lockouts.
Notes from artists & bands
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Noor tested three mics against my voice in ten minutes and pulled the best vocal performance I have ever put on record.
Elliot N.
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We tracked ten live rhythm-section songs in four days because every mic and headphone cue was dialled in before we had poured the morning coffee.
Rosa O.
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I sent bedroom-tracked stems remotely and got back wide, punchy mixes that held up against the playlist references I had chosen.
Jonah L.
Lockouts, stems & backline
Is an engineer included in the rate?
Yes. A house tracking or vocal engineer comes with every hourly session and lockout. Guest engineers are welcome, and a house assistant still handles the patchbay at no extra charge.
Which instruments come with the room?
The tuned upright piano, the house drum shells, the tube guitar amps, the bass rig and the full microphone locker. Give 24 hours’ notice if the piano needs fresh tuning.
How should tracks be exported for remote mixing?
Consolidated 24-bit WAV files, all starting at bar one, at the session’s native sample rate, with master-bus limiters bypassed and every track clearly labelled.
How do deposits and rescheduling work?
A 50% deposit holds the dates and the balance is settled at wrap. Dates move without penalty with at least 72 hours’ notice.
Put the red light on
Send the song count, the lineup and a rough demo link, and the right room and engineer are matched before your first downbeat.