The Perfect Sound
for Every Project
No matter if warm, full-bodied or punchy—each label has its own sound and each artist or label comes with different preferences. With our work, we are able to shape the sound of the tracks significantly. That’s why at Schnittstelle, we always adapt the mastering as well as the vinyl cut to the individual requirements of our customers. For this, we rely on our excellently equipped studios with first class monitoring and mastering gear as well as a high-end cutting equipment including all common brands of lacquer discs. Most of our equipment have been produced or modified exclusively for our purposes. For special analog projects, we also offer a tape machine.
Two Mastering Studios
in Berlin
Both of our Berlin-based mastering studios are especially designed for our purposes as fully floating rooms, so-called room-in-room concepts, by Karlheinz Stegmaier and the architect office B C K Architektur + Bauphysik. They are extremely well insulated, especially for low frequencies. At the same time, thanks to the wisely installed diffusors, they reach a vivid sound without any musical reflections. Further optimizations were realized in 2022 by Jochen Veith.
An Experienced
Mastering Team
Since 2003, Schnittstelle has been active—at first in Frankfurt am Main and since 2015 in Berlin. By now, our team consists of four very experienced mastering engineers, each of whom is an enthusiastic musician or music lover. We handle each new project with great joy and motivation. Because we know that our customers like to listen to the final product as soon as possible, we try to finish all orders within one week.
14,000+ Vinyls &
25,000+ Masterings
With most of our customers, we are proudly looking back at a ten-year or longer relationship. We value a personal communication and a profound consulting very much. In total, since the foundation of Schnittstelle, we have cut more than 22,000 productions on lacquer discs and mastered more than 25,000 tracks for major labels as well as for indie labels—starting from techno, minimal, house and E.B.M. up to rock, pop, acoustic, experimental and ambient.
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Andreas Kauffelt
Already as a young child, Andreas was making music and experimenting with electronic circuits. As trained radio and television engineer, he started to work with entertainment electronics and later with high-end mixing desks until he finally followed his passion and started to master tracks–first for his own productions as techno, ambient and electro artist, later for friends and eventually for the first customers. He has learnt to cut vinyl from the experienced cutting engineers Dipl. ing. Djamiel Mehtieff and Sean W. Davies, who also installed the first cutting system at the newly found Schnittstelle in 2003. Since then, Andreas has dedicated every day to mastering & cutting. In 2015, during the relocation to Berlin, he enlarged and modernized the studios to meet his increased requirements.
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Thomas P. Heckmann
Musician, music lover and gear head from the heart, autodidact with a 35 years learning curve in sound and frequencies, Thomas has shaped the early German acid and techno and is still adding to the contemporary music scene to this very day. Dedicated to sound and objective in his mastering skills and open and dedicated to all kinds of music genres from electronic, hiphop, rock, pop, psychedelic, classic, avantgarde, to name but a few, working without prejudice for customers with great respect to their music.