Q: I saw your studio on a photo and read that you do mastering. Can you give me some pro tips for my own studio please? Room symmetry, acoustic treatment and speaker placement seem to be important. Thanx

A: I couldn't tell it better than those guys: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb06/ar...

;-)
Answered on 03/30/2012 by Ingo Vogelmann

Q: I read on twitter that you've quit smoking. What are your reasons?

A: There was always only one reason why I would stop smoking: when I don't feel good with it anymore. And that's the case. Not suddenly, but I believe I needed a key moment for stopping it. I had that moment.
Answered on 03/21/2012 by Ingo Vogelmann

Q: Hi, i'm not shure if you know my work, but i would like to expand my promo list,
especially outside of Belgium, so if you are interested to get my promo's
give me your email address and i will add i

A: I know you by artist name, and I like your tunes. You don't need to add me to your promo list as I receive your promos via Release Promo already. But thanks! :-)
Answered on 03/15/2012 by Ingo Vogelmann

Q: I really like all the Roger Nichols plugins, too bad they're all end of life.

A: They've been amazing when they were property of Elemental Audio Systems. Much more fun GUI and all this. Then Roger Nichols bought it and fucked it up. But I still like to use them anyway.
Answered on 03/08/2012 by Ingo Vogelmann

Q: what is your favorite VSt and why))))

A: This one: http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/st...

Because it allows you to make something out of music that is not "static" or "linear" aka. boring. It gives things a new/own life that hasn't been there before. Try it. :-)

All the izotope stuff is really good.
Answered on 03/08/2012 by Ingo Vogelmann

Q: How do you get to keep enough headroom in your mix to keep enough dynamics on the final master?

A: Oh, what a nice question. :-)

Well, I sort of get almost all of my sounds from Reason rewired with Ableton. I watch my levels in Ableton and try to keep everything -- both Ableton and Reason audio -- at max. -12 db. This is how I mix, -12 db is my absolute ceiling. At this point there are absolutely no compressors, limiters or other crap like maximizers involved.

When I'm happy with the mix (and the tune itself) I bounce the audio as 24bit/48khz WAV and re-import that one thing to Ableton and do my mastering.

At this stage of things I always watch the level meter to avoid clipping and such. I do not push everything to the 0 db ceiling because I want to let the tune be able to breathe ... call this dynamics.

Sounds easy, doesn't it? Most good things are easy. The more complicated processes become the worse the results are. My experience.
Answered on 03/07/2012 by Ingo Vogelmann

Q: What are you doing before sleep?

A: Being awake. ;-)

Okay, seriously. Usually I'm getting down from the day by watching one or the other episode of US TV shows in their original language via DroidTV on my smartphone.

I like watching "A Gifted Man", "The Good Wife", "Grimm", "Blue Bloods" and "Person Of Interest" -- which are my favorites -- and some other crap occasionally. 9 from 10 times I don't get to enjoy a full episode because I've fallen asleep already, so it happens that I watch the same episode 3 or 4 nights from another perspective.

I have a Breffo thing for my phone ( http://www.breffo.com ) which is fixed to my bed construction, so I can be in bed and watch that very comfortably.

I also drink coffee all day, even before going to bed. It makes me sleepy, no kidding. Some things in my body work vice versa, obviously.

Also a nice glass of (mostly) red wine is something I enjoy before bed. Makes me even more sleepy. And a bit drunk sometimes when it's more a bottle than a glass.

That's it basically.
Answered on 03/07/2012 by Ingo Vogelmann

Q: Hi Babe, i' dt just saw your website and it's so amazing for me. I wanna know more about your feelings. Your music sounds spirituell Please give me a picture of you"!! Is there a woman im your life at

A: Wow, er ... let me sort this question ...

About my "feelings"? I have a lot of "feelings", what exactly you wanna know?

The woman thing is quite a private thing, and I'm not too much into talking about my private life. Sorry, we don't know each other, so I won't distribute my intimate life to a public audience.
Answered on 03/06/2012 by Ingo Vogelmann

Q: Hallo Ingo, wenn ich das richtig mitbekommen habe, bist du sozusagen fulltime Musiker und machst nichts anderes. Wie hast du es geschafft, davon leben zu können, und wie läuft ein Arbeitstag ab?

A: Das hast du zu (fast) richtig mitbekommen. Nun, nicht alles an meiner Arbeit hat direkt etwas mit Musik zu tun, aber meistens. Es gibt auch viel Administratives zu erledigen, zu managen, zu entscheiden, zu verkacken. ;-)

Ich kann von meiner Arbeit leben, weil ich Dinge besser und in ihrer Quantität mehr gemacht habe bzw. mache, als andere. Ich habe mich abgehoben und bis zu einem gewissen Maß insgesamt-qualitativ unersetzlich gemacht. Fleiß ist wichtig.

Als "freier Künstler" muss man sich selbst eine Tagesplanung machen, andere haben dafür feste Strukturen bzw. Vorgesetzte. Ich muss mich selbst motivieren und vor allem disziplinieren. Ich plane immer eine Woche vor, was ich alles tun muss und möchte. Das versuche ich dann so gut wie möglich alles abzuarbeiten. Weniger wichtig dabei ist es, das genau so zu schaffen, als einen Fahrplan zu haben und zu verfolgen.

Ein Ziel vor Augen und Disziplin ist (für Leute wie mich) enorm wichtig, um etwas Wertiges zu schaffen und zu erhalten.
Answered on 02/22/2012 by Ingo Vogelmann

Q: Hello, Ingo. Recently my friend gave me to listen Vogelmann Fuckin' Deep House Baby (Summer 2010 Promo Mix). Is this really your track? Where I can buy it in wav-format?

A: It's mine, yes. You can't buy it as WAV since this was a free promo set in MP3. I remember it being very long, so a WAV download would be massive, to say the least.
Answered on 02/20/2012 by Ingo Vogelmann