The Studio - About Us

Recording Studio and
Audio Post Production
Frederick, MD

Located in the Washington, D.C. Metro Region, Tympanic Media hosts a beautiful facility, designed by world famous recording studio designer Wes Lachot, along with custom built furniture and acoustical treatment by Tony Brett of Brett Acoustics.

Our meticulously treated recording studio offers plenty of space to record Jazz, Classical, Indie Rock, Folk, Rock and Roll, Pop music, World music, Voice Over and narration for picture, and just about anything else you can think in the creative media sphere. The studio is designed to function equally well as a recording, mixing, mastering, or post-production facility.

Chief Engineer - Domenic Sabol

Domenic began his recording career on a Tascam 4 track with one SM 57 and a dream. Now he has no four track because someone stole it and the 57 is broken. "I still have the dream," he says, "but I don't remember it so well." As an IMA award winning producer/engineer, the former co-owner of Ava Recording Facility has recorded a vast variety of musical genres, and his work has been released nationally and internationally with artists including Bill Boublitz and Robben Ford (Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell), Kathleen Smith, El Warren Weatherspoon (Santana, Heatwave), Nellie McKay, Leron Thomas (Lauryn Hill), Frank Owens (Musical Director, Apollo Theater, Ret), The Escher Quartet, Composer Alejandro Rutty, Tanya Blount (Sister Act 2), The American Globe Theater, and many more. Domenic also studied cello performance and music composition at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's School of Music, and knows his way around a guitar as well as a studio. As owner and Chief Engineer of Tympanic Media, he keeps busy with projects of all genres, tasked with everything from pre-production, tracking, mixing, editing, mastering and video post. When he's not doing any of those things, he spends his free time building DIY audio equipment and recording his own music. Otherwise, he retreats to the woods to fly fish with his wife, or spend time with their daughter.

Domenic is also endorsed by Peluso Microphone labs. You can check them out here:

Technical Information

Equipment

ATC SCM 25A Pro Loudspeakers
Dynaudio BM5 Mkiii
Prism Sound ADA 8-XR
Merging Technologies Hapi(DSD)
Merging Technologies Horus(DSD)
Millennia NSEQ-4
Dangerous BAX EQ
SPL PQ
API 550A's
Manley VariMu (Custom)
GSSL 4000 2 Bus
Spectra Sonics V610's
HA 1176
Warm EQP-WA's
Valley People 440's
Aphex Compellor
Rupert Neve Designs 511's
API 312's
Custom Console

Formats

Apple Masters Provider
Mastered for Spotify
Audio CD
DVD Audio
Digital Releases
Metadata Insertion
BluRay Audio
SACD
DSD Audio
Broadcast Audio
Surround Mixing
5.1, 7.1, Dolby Atmos capable

Software

Mac and Windows
MT Pyramix 25th Anniv. Pro
Avid ProTools 2021
Steinberg Wavelab Pro 9.1
Adobe Creative Suite
iZotope RX 7 Advanced
FabFilter
Waves
Brainworx
Elysia
SoundToys
Nugen Audio
SPL