We are Carriers of Emotion in Music
We capture and convey the emotions of your performance.
Preserving nuance and carrying your intentions to your audience
This site is where we share the latest releases, updates, calendar, and more from engineer Hudson Fair. His company, Atelier HudSonic LLC, where he is Chief, has been recording for 38 years.
Hudson is a great listener, practitioner, and collaborator who wants the best capture of YOUR GREAT SOUND. Hudson's skills help him to offer you a rich and unique sound. With a client list of the top top musicians and groups in the world, he has the experience to make your next recording one you will be really proud of.
mail him at hudsonic1@me.com
Selected Artistes We Record
Chicago Gargoyle Brass and Organ Ensemble
St. Charles Singers
The Cathedral Singers
William Ferris Chorale
The Oriana Singers
Bella Voce
Juilliard String Quartet
Emerson String Quartet
Takács String Quartet
Wolfgang Rubsam, organ
Thomas Weisflog, organ
Peter Serkin ,piano
Cyprien Katsaris, piano
Ivo Pogorelich, piano
Garrick Ohllson, piano
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
Denis Matsuev, piano
Evgeni Bozhanov, piano
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo soprano
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Lyric Opera
The Ravinia Festival
Shanghai Symphony--Long Yu, conductor
Martin Theatre, Ravinia Festival
View of Martin Theatre building (1904)
Millennium Park, downtown Chicago
Partial view of Ravinia control room
Tall microphone stand
Meyer Sound AMIE monitor
Rens Heijnis Custom Built preamp working on 60 volts.
Live broadcast on WFMT Radio,
Chicago
Live broadcast on WFMT Radio,
Chicago
Gyraf Audio Gyratec IX tube preamplifier
You're Nobody without a Neve.
Wolfgang Rübsam records Widor Organ Symphony No. 1 at Rockefeller Chapel, Chicago
Richard Proulx
At The Ravinia Festival control room
Chicago Symphony plays Mahler 2 with Jimmy Levine conducting
With Jonathan Smith, on a brass recording session. John is now the Recording Fellow at New World Symphony, Miami, Florida
Sonosax Faders
He plays the hammer
Schoeps M221B
In Paris with Funky Junk Crew
At Lincoln Cathedral UK
with Philip Moore
Tonmeister Gunther Appenheimer
John Dunkerley
At Alvernia Studios outside Krakow
1 of 5 new halls at DePaul University, Chicago
with trusty Nagra Seven
JIm Pugh, organist
En France
In edit room
Lincoln Cathedral Chapter House
Telefunken Loop
Gargoyle Brass
Bella Voce, Brahms Requiem (London version)
St. Charles Singers
Lawo console in Cologne
Setting up for a mic shootout
Temporary basement control room for Mahler 2
Analog and digital coexist
135dB dynamic range
Parisian outlet
Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires
2 Nagra T-Audio for Tom Waits
Stellavox SM-8
Out with Josh Thomas, Rupert Neve Designs
Custom color Schoeps
At Sonosax, Le Mont sur Lausanne, Switzerland
Hudson Fair day at Nagra,
Romanel sur Lausanne, Switzerland
Lascaux Caves,
Montignac,
Dordogne Region, France
At NOSPR,
Katowice, Poland
At Durham Cathedral, UK
In Russia
Funkhaus, Brlin
FLEA Microphones
Superfet 47 & 48
At Tonstudio van Geest,
Sandhausen, Germany
Wojciech Kilar
Funkhaus, Berlin
Funkhaus, Berlin
Muscle Shoals Sound,
Sheffield, Alabama
Universal Recording, Chicago
Special piano
Dennis Moore plays a Fazioli
Chrzanow, Poland is where I have my European headquarters
Neumann Head
Kerwax Replica tube box
Where William Byrd's house once stood, Lincoln, England
Live broadcast, WFMT Radio
Ambrose Gauntlett, cello
First chair, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Played with The Stones and the Beatles
Grant Park Orchestra Live Broadcast for WFMT
Ewa Kowcz, soprano
Early music recording in Binaural sound
Stage plot for Mahler 2