Atelier HudSonic
Your classical music recording SPECIALISTS in Chicago.
Pictured: Tudor style organ at
Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, England
(Home Parish of William Byrd)
Offering You Rich and Dynamic Sound
Unique Capabilities Based on classic technique and the best analog and digital equipment.
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Offering You Best Pure Analog Sound--Can record on tape and release on LP.
10,000+ Recordings
Super High Resolution Recording
7 Grammy nominations and wins
including
"Best Classical Album,"
and 2 times for
"Best Classical Vocal Recording."
German Deutscher Schallplatten Kritiker award for Chamber Music Record of the Year. Complete Hindemith Quartets,
Juilliard String Quartet
"Gramophone" Magazine (UK) Award for
"Excellence in American Recording"
6 times awarded "Tube and Tape SUPREMO" award.
Most recently in 2025
Honoring expertise in releasing recordings made with vacuum tube equipment and analog tape.
10 Diapason D'Or Medals,
11 Grand Prix du Disque awards.
Call us at (773) 551-3529
[email protected]
Grammy
winning
Vocal Recording
Choral
Recording
Organ Recording
Chamber
music recording
Early
music
recording
Piano Recording
Orchestra
Opera
We do it.
What is YOUR great sound?
Let us capture it!
Mystery Magicians M808A Vacuum Tube Preamp
All Tube All the Time
Get its Luscious Sound on your tracks at HudSonic
Call (773) 551-3529
[email protected]
At Lincoln Cathedral in Lincoln, England.
Incredible Sounds Captured at the Home Parish of William Byrd.
One can hear the same sounds that Byrd heard there from 1563 to 1571.
Atelier HudSonic LLC
Hudson Fair
Artistic Director, Engineer, Producer
The Classical Recording Specialists in Chicago
(773) 551-3529
[email protected]
We have the most experience of anyone!
My expert crew and I have you covered!
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In a famous Music Recording Room. Ravinia Festival for 24 years
with Pueblo Audio Preamps, Rens Heijnis Custom Built preamps, Quantec Yardstick
We offer beautiful ANALOG
Superb tape recordings with the Stellavox SM-8 tape recorder.
Stellavox SM8-our constant companion.
Now rebuilt / customized by Johan Polman in Amsterdam for even higher sound resolution.
Tube and Tape SUPREMO.
with AnalogueTube AT-3 vacuum tube mic preamps from SOHO, London.
Pearl ELM-T
Tube Mics
The First Two Bernt Malmqvist Signature Edition tube mics in the world were delivered to Atelier HudSonic. Here they are in the test chamber.
Grammy Award Winning Sound
Get it Here.
WON Best Classical Vocal Recording
NOMINATED Best Classical Recording
NOMINATED Best Classical Vocal Recording (Again)
Hello! I'm ready for sound capture
Using proven technique for YOUR great sound
Singer + piano set up. Rens Heijnis 60 volt mics.
SONOSAX is the best sound in the world.
Ready to capture YOUR great sound
We work in Opera.
Stellavox SM-8 records Chicago Symphony in Mahler Symphony No. 2
Sound is mindblowed.
The record is finished in the editing room. Multi-colored Schoeps mics with van den Hul cable.
Full capabilities for YOUR Great Sound
Sonosax Recorder-World's Best Recorded Sound. 12 tracks in compact form. The size of a paperback book.
Rens Heijnis "Custom Built" mic preamplifier (From Holland)
We specialize in singers--
here: Danielle de Neise
More About Atelier HudSonic LLC
Producer and engineer Hudson Fair, head of Atelier HudSonic LLC, has recorded classical music since 1981.
10,000+ recordings
Over 480 LP's, CD's and hi-res releases.
We are a full service classical recording service doing recording, editing, and mastering.
Call us at (773) 551-3529
email: [email protected]
A Limited Liability Company
Unique Capabilities in Recording
Leaders in Binaural Recording
We use the Neumann head named Hermann to capture a "You Are There" listening experience. Perfect for headphone listening. And everyone listens to headphones these days.
Awarded Tube and Tape Supremo in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019 and AGAIN in 2024 and 2025.
We use vacuum tube equipment such as the ANALOGUETUBE AT-3, Highland Dynamics Delta 4, Mystery Magicians 808A mic preamps, and IGS Pure Tube preamps to offer a sparkle-y and beautifully liquid tone to your recordings.
Advantages of working with HudSonic
House of Nagra and SADiE
Nagra-Kudelski and its successor,
Audio-Technology Switzerland, make highly desirable recorders. We have owned one of every machine made since 1981.
We use the Nagra Seven. The British music editor SADiE v. 6.1 from PrismSound has been our companion for many decades.
We rely on MAGIX Sequoia V.17 editor for multi-track mixing and editing.
Sonosax provides the High Dynamic Range at 135dB.
Sonosax (Swiss) supplies mind blowing sound recorders and mic preamplifiers. Here we use the Sonosax SX-R4+ recorder,
and the SX-AD8+ eight channel mic amp and a/d converter.
Rens Heijnis Custom Built
The Dutch electronics genius, Rens Heijnis, builds incredible sounding microphones and preamps. His 60 volt designs offer more nuance, more detail, more dynamics, and better defined bass in our recordings. We run his tube microphones, his custom modified Bruel & Kjaer mics, as well as his custom modified Schoeps microphones.
We know all the best locations to record in.
Great musicianship and innovative programming sound best in the best halls. We know all of them and have business relationships with all the managers.
Miscellany
Member VDT Tonmeister
AES Member Since 1981
Connected!
Hudson Fair (lft.) and David Bock of Bock Microphones at Spago Beverly Hills. We know all the movers and shakers. At Atelier HudSonic, we are Action Men.
Stellavox SM-8 Tape Recorder
Recently rebuilt in Holland by Johan Polman (Superstar) our SM-8 recorder is ready to capture your 100% analog recording. I worked with Georges Quellet, the inventor of Stellavox, in Hauterive, Switzerland. Here, Georges holds his Stellavox SM-8 tape recorder.
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