Jay Bhatt

Logistics

Jay chose to leave his previous career in financial services in Hong Kong to pursue his passion in audio, picking up a diploma in Audio Engineering along the way. He is most comfortable as a recording engineer but also is responsible for the marketing, communications and promotion of HAL5 Studio.

Frank de Jong

Head Engineer

Frank has over a decade of experience in audio and is the Head Engineer at HAL5 Studio. Frank has won multiple awards for blues recordings and worked on singles, EPs and albums across many genres.

Martijn de Groot

Music Producer / Engineer

With more than ten years of experience working on music productions in multiple genres, spanning from Rock, Rnb, Metal and Jazz. Martijn has no lack in diversity to coming to not only understanding music, but also the artist behind the music and ensuring the music sounds as authentic and integer as the artist themselves.

Vasco Guedes

Developer

In this case, curiosity did not kill the cat. Instead it allowed for experimentation in various fields, later colliding into audio and musical development. At HAL5, Vasco is currently focusing on developing software for analog equipment control, plug-in production tools, and mixing/implementing immersive audio projects.

Jonas Cueni

Music Producer / Engineer

Jonas is one of the few producers is actively trying to bridge the gap between session musicians and beat makers by organising very unique writing sessions in Hal5's creative environment.

Dennis Boxem

DrumTech

Dennis is our go to drum tech for any big drum recording session. Being a larger format recording studio, drums is one of the instruments we specialise in recording. A good recording starts at the source, not the microphone, and we can always count on Dennis to make the absolute most of the source. Very few people in the Netherlands know as much about drum kits as this man due to his long standing position as editor in chief at the "slagwerkkrant" ( Dutch drum magazine).

Marius Bouwman

Maintenance Engineer / Designer

Marius is our electric wizard in the studio. Not only is he our in house solution for faulty equipment and repairs, he also designs his own equipment and diagrams to help us with custom solutions in the studio. Not depending on externals and existing tech to fit our setups is possibly one of our greatest assets at the studio. Marius also works on a great deal of his own designs which you will be able to read about on our blogs and his linked in page.