Færder Audio — Jonas Sjøvaag

Færder Audio | Studio, mix & mastering

Færder Audio

Overhead view of a music studio with two drum kits, guitars on the wall, keyboards, mixing gear, and colorful abstract paintings.

Færder Audio

Analogue + digital workflow

Færder Audio is a recording and mastering studio in Oslo, run by Jonas Sjøvaag. In autumn 2023, the studio moved to a spacious new home in the hills near Ekeberg, just above Oslo sentrum.

The studio is built around a high-quality stereo signal path with a focus on outboard processing – suited to stems, individual tracks, and full masters destined for CD, streaming, or vinyl.

Færder Audio is available for hire for preproduction sessions and recording.

jonas@jonassjovaag.no

Mastering

Album cover titled "One More" showing a serene teal-toned lake at sunset, with rocks in shallow water, distant hills, and a pine tree silhouette.

Album cover for Jonas Sjøvaag's Turmusikk, featuring a vibrant abstract painting with red, yellow, blue, and green brushstrokes on navy background.

Album cover for "Nærmere enn nå" by Jonas Sjøvaag: a man in white shirt and black pants wears a black tie with pink, salmon, and yellow stripes, image split into offset horizontal bands.

Album cover for "Alien Horticultures" by Jonas Sjøvaag & Juhani Silvola, showing lush tropical foliage with palms and a bamboo stalk, white text on tan.

Illustrated album cover with a man and woman standing before a dark blue background, grocery bags between them, yellow accents, text reads "Busy City Streets.

Black-and-white portrait of a bespectacled man running his hand through his hair, on cream album cover for Jonas Sjøvaag's "To planeter i samme bane.

Album cover for "West Wind Drift": minimalist boat with two blue mast lines against dark green mountains and pale mint sky, cream background.

Album cover for "A Sense of Place" by Jonas Sjøvaag, featuring an abstract expressionist painting in vivid greens, oranges, and blues, framed in gold.

Album cover for Sumi-E by Dørsdal/Sæter/Løwe: pyramid-shaped mountain peaks at dusk under a blurred pink and blue sky, silhouetted grass in foreground.

Album cover for "Elvesang" by Sigurd Hole: stylized landscape with deep purple-blue sky, dark mountain silhouette, and glitchy yellow-green fields below.

Album cover art: pale moon over dark teal starry sky above orange desert dunes, with title "In That//Dark///Night" and artist names in white text.

Album cover for "Thom Hell & Andreas Ulvo | Christmas Songs" showing a dark wooden cabin in a snowy field, bare tree, and misty forest under pale winter sky.

Grainy black-and-white album cover showing a flat field with distant treeline under overcast sky, dense dark foliage in foreground.

Album cover for "Music for Cities" by Jonas Sjøvaag & Juhani Silvola, featuring abstract dark blue and black textured, crystalline patterns resembling frost or ice.

Album cover for "I See Grief" by Jonas Sjøvaag and Mattis Myrland, featuring bold Mondrian-style blocks of red, blue, white, and black paint.

Album artwork for "Lost in Space" featuring two overlapping circular paintings of swirling cosmic scenes with orange planets, starfields, and orbital rings in deep blues and blacks.

Coastal cliff with weathered rock face beside blue ocean waves crashing against rugged boulders under a pale, hazy sky.

Illustrated city skyline at night with gray buildings, white and yellow lit windows, dark background, "LULLATOWN" text in white handwritten font.

Album cover for "Árbi" by Frode Barth and Ellen A. Oskal, showing them smiling against a teal aurora sky; he holds a yellow guitar, she wears traditional Sámi dress.

Minimalist seascape with a soft lavender-gray sky meeting calm water, a faint golden horizon line, and a small dark silhouette of land.

Black and white portrait of a bald, bearded man in a tweed jacket, serious expression, with text "Frode Barkved You know it all.

Abstract 3D sculpture with golden liquid-like form, rose-gold crystalline shapes, and silver splashes against olive background. "Rydin Heart of Gold" text overlay.

Gear

Close-up of studio rack gear: red "Berliner" Class A Pentode Preamplifier and black Rupert Neve Designs compressor with white and red knobs, VU meter.

The vintage pair

Sonic Farm Berliner dual tube preamp (V76)

Neve 5254 Diode bridge compressor (U73)

Rack-mounted studio gear: Portico II Master Buss Processor, Gyraf G-XXIV Cadmium Compressor, and G23-S Ambler Tilting Equalizer with black knobs.

The tube mastering pair

Gyraf Audio Gyratec G24 Passive compressor

Gyraf Audio Gyratec G23 Tilt EQ

Close-up of a black Gyratec XXII Vari-Mu tube compressor with EQ knobs, VU meters, and threshold/ratio/attack/release controls.

The tube colouring pair

Gyraf Audio Gyratec XIV stereo tube equalizer

Gyraf Audio Gyratec XXII stereo tube compressor

Studio equalizer unit with LowCut/HighCut filters, Baxandall EQ knobs, and glowing orange VU meters, illuminated by red LED lighting.

The super clean with optional saturation

In a Rupert Neve R6 500 rack:

Bereich03 Filter

Bereich03 BAX EQ

Bereich03 Density

Studer A80 reel-to-reel tape recorder close-up, showing spinning AGFA tape reels, transport controls, and glowing red counter display.

The tape

Studer A80 Master Recorder

The rest

Headsets:

Sennheiser HD800 / HD650 Headphones, Beyerdynamic DT770

Focal SM9 Monitors

Technics SL-D2 / Ortofon Turntable -> Mytek RIAA

Preamps:

Merging Hapi 16 I/O

Sonic Farm Berliner

2X Merging Anubis

Mics:

Stereo pair 1: Microtech Gefell M92.1S, selectable pattern, modified and matched by Andreas Grosser

Stereo pair 2: Pearl CC22 cardioid

Stereo pair 3: AKG D19 dynamic cardioid

Stereo pair 4: Shure 545 dynamic cardioid

Stereo pair 5: Stager SR-2N

Vox-O-Rama U49

Stager SR-3 Ribbon

Sennheiser MD441

AKG D2000C

DPA4099

Shure SM57

3X Beyerdynamic TG58

3X Line Audio CM4

Drums:

Ludwig Transition badge '58: 12" 13" 13" 15" 16" 20" 22"

Kicks: Walberg & Auge 27" w/ calf skin heads, Tacton 20" w/ Remo Fiberskyn / Powerstroke III.

Snares: Ludwig Acrolite 14X5, Ludwig Transition badge 14X5, Sonor Prolite 14X5, Custom walnut stave shell w/ calf skin head 14X5, Premier Olympic 14X6,5, Lefima 14X12, Slingerland 12X10, Walberg & Auge 14X5 vintage snare w/ cat gut strainer

Various percussion: Hand made Tombak (Iran), Cooperman 18" Tar, Schlagwerk 12" Riq

Software:

Reaper, Samplitude Pro X3 Suite, ProTools 12, Ableton 9, Adobe Audition, Reaper 5, DSP-Quattro

Acustica Audio Nebula 4, Brainworx, FabFilter, Soundtoys & many other high end plugins