Restraint
Emphasizes subtraction, limits, and choosing not to intervene.
Why Small Studios Can Compete With Big Rooms
For a long time, the industry equated scale with seriousness. Bigger rooms, bigger consoles, bigger budgets. If you wanted a “real” record, you booked a “real” studio. That logic came from a time when records were slow, expensive, and infrastructure-heavy by necessity. That era is over. Small studios compete with big rooms because the work
