Tech Talk: Go inside Matador’s breathtaking Dublin studio (Electronic Beats TV) 

This is both inspirational and envy provoking simultaneously. Thanks for taking the time to make this video Gavin and TEB!

Blessed be the ones who maintain these instruments alive and support this industry. For the vintage pieces it's no easy task to hunt down, salvage, maintain and ACTUALLY record these instruments.

Matador has the sickest studio and such a good approach to music making. Definitely inspiring.

The room you will never leave !!

Can’t believe he didn’t mention the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor. Casual.

Studio dream goals

Exceptional sound and exceptional studio. Thanks for sharing your insights.

Gorgeous studio, awesome energy, wise words. Thanks for sharing.

wow what a studio! Thanks again for another great video! Between this and the Kenny Larkin studio there is a lot to aspire to!

Thanks TEB for another amazing video. And thanks Matador, incredible skills and love for the music... inspiring! What's the track starting at 1:47? Reaaally good!!

best studio visit ever ; thank you som much !

From what I could pick up here, I gather this musician has this 'touch'...rather unique sound and after having seen this very fine vid, I understand it all, it all just blends together...it all fits perfectly. An artist, who's intentions are, to make just a beautiful product.

by far the most beautiful and amazing studio I've seen, except for maybe deadmau5's

First of all, I really appreciate the effort that goes into putting this content out. Now...I would appreciate highlighting some more minimal, conservative (frugal) studios, which can still be set up in inspiring and insightful ways, and most importantly, can produce great music. I can imagine a well-developed studio under $10k total. Most expensive thing is the laptop. There must be many studios like this. (Mine) Especially because the music in this video sounds like it came straight out of a daw. If anything, why not show live footage of him putting things through the manley. Sometimes these videos are a little too streamlined, jumping from cut to cut, showing flashing lights of the equipment, when what would also be nice is just live footage with diegetic sound. Maybe 5 minutes of different demonstrations.

I pray to the synth gods to have a shrine to worship.. like this😢

Great interview 👏🏾 lovely view and dog 👍🏾

Amazing studio, dull/bland/unoriginal music

I don’t really know about this dude but did he really afford all that gear by making music like that? It’s not bad, But the gear and the location is insane

Funny how all those people with massive studios filled to the brim with tons of vintage analogue equipment, all produce fairly simple club music that could be made almost as good with a laptop from Aldi...

beautiful instruments ❤️👌🏾

What’s the fcking track at the beginning?! Can’t find it for years now

Jesus, moneybags over here... 💰💰💰 (Edit: I assure everyone my comment was meant in jest and came from a place of pure and seething jealousy.)

Would pay a lot for this intro track

this dude turned all the lights on for the show

This is how you Techno...

YES

Cute studio dog!

Amazing

anyone know what that main keyboard / sequencer combo they keep showing is?

Such a humble guy and lovely music to my senses. Respect!!

All this series of videos are just gold, when Im stuck at the studio, for sure I watch one of the videos and get insta inspiration.Big fan

this looks like the room that led the man to the moon

Nice!

what he said about his levels and gain staging from the get go is the number one production tip

ohhhh my godness

Awesome!

Perfectly Attuned!

Good stuff Telekom - it would be very interesting to see some content relating to the Romanian minimal scene, maybe a 'one to watch' type of video with some of the rising talents in Romania.

track id?

"...how many pen do you have in the office, or how much paper do you have? It's irrelevant...because all you have to do is write." This. Just like Hans Zimmer said: "Ideas are not limited by budget, the creative process takes place in your head."

Song @ 3:35?

It's true the importance to have the red 101 but also the blue 101...everything gets usefull, like collecting cars. That's funny :D

I heard him on Transitions for the first time and then I fall in love with a track he played from "OC & Verde - solstice" and THEN he was about to play at CRSSD with Digweed and I had to go and see it. He definitely put a better set than Digweed... I loved it.

I love this channel.

That’s one of best collections of hardware I ever seen in a home studio!!!

Bruh that 5088 console is the real flex

Incredible and inspirational video on how much more there is to be considered in the process and progression of digital sound production. Great to see you in your natural habitat. 😎

What's extraordinary is the creativity some people are able express with so much less. For example, on RU-vid >> Electric Independence: Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) - Motherboard clip

Cool as!

What a nice guy with a healthy obsession!

This is a very well put together video, very motivational and I'm looking forward to producing now. well done champ! =)

First track ID please?

This is very cool. My only question is why does it seem to me that all the dance music or electronic music always seem to use the same old tired drum sounds? I would think that what with all this marvelous technology with all these great technicians we could have a lot more variety in the drum sounds. I'd also really like to see less reliance on the standard 4/4 beat. Let's try and get more creative. Please! Pretty good nonetheless.

Well of course it's breathtaking. There's a Moog One in the room.

Thats a lot of gear investment....Close to $200k plus looking at this video. Given the state of artist revenues he must be selling a lot of streams to justify it, or his DJ fees are huge etc. Granted its tax deductible (against his music income). Amazing setup, and great to see that commitment to sound, but all that for a compressed mp3 audio file ?

Class

does someone know which track it is at 5:50?

This is quite surprising. I love how he takes care of very specific things such as which pre-amp is using on which drum machine and slight compressing them before the record stage. This is what basically becomes "your sound" regardless of what timeless drum machine you're using and re-using, as long as you make them yours they'll never grow old.

Lovely studio, thanks for the nice episode again Telekom. Hope you feature Fort Romeau one day.

I never heard about this guy in my life but I lived 10 years in Ireland in Dublin. Is he hiding in a cave somewhere? He must be famous on other name because his studio looks serious.

Track ID at 5:50 please somebody must know

Corkonian here , down in midleton. Love your talent and the set up . You make me feel normal , I spend a lot on equipment. I dont smoke or drink so that's my drug so to speak. More power to ya , hope you get a major film score contract. 👍.

Theres like 200k worth of equipment in this studio. How successful is this dude? Crazy...

IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE INTRO SONG?!?!

Yeah. Just a casual $8000 Moog One as my midi keyboard. Nothing to see here.

Ace video! I can't make out the name of the limiter he uses for bass with the la610 preamp. Around the 4:40 mark

It's not about the gear, but once you try a hardware there is no return :)

5:50 ID?

Get comfortable working at low levels...been my life for the last few years. And I’m mostly traveling for work, so my studio is on the go. One day I will have my set up look like this. Looks like heaven. I could sit in there all day.

Love the way he talks about the Apogee converters - that got me wondering what *exactly* he is using? 🤤🤔

'Yeah I don't want too much colour going on in the music" Studio full of the vibeyest grittiest analogue gear money can buy 😅🤣

"I don't want colour"......... but then smashes everything through UA compressors and Neve preamps.

Awesome content! A true artist Right here. Tracks id's anyone?

Half a million worth of gear to make these basic-ass beats. Why do people make music so fucking complicated?

It's funny how he has all that gear for such easy sounds and producers like Shinra and djrum use only ableton and sound complex af like they use twice as much synths as matador. it's not about the gear, its about the mind which can't be replaced by overpriced/overengineered gear

Love the Devilfish modded TB303!

I wonder will there ever be a viedo series about how they've earnt so much money to afford all those boxes!? ;)

Sherman Filterbank! I was waiting for it to get introduced. Great video though and that sure is a beautiful studio!

the vocal sample @5:59 is the same voice as from biceps apricots but a lower octave and other delay. :)

FUCKING RELEASE THIS SONG AT THE BEGINNING MATADOR!! BEEN NEEDING IT FOR YEARS NOW AND MY EARS AND MIND NEED IT

Can anyone itk guesstimate the cost of all this gear? £100,000?

Moog One, CS-80... Okay, I've seen enough 🤯

I like this guy. Real studio folk.

The only thing that's missing in this studio is Studer multitrack tape recorder.

I pretty much can assure you the dude is not using 80-% of his equip. this inflationary consumer-oriented handling of Instruments is senseless. Even more so if you listen to the guy saying that barely two years ago the studio had two synths. 90% eye candy 10% actual use.

Top man, brilliant insight🙏

Wow. So much knowledge in this video. Mind blown! Thank you for making this.

I want to go to there.

This is my dreamstudio. That scene at the end.. GOLD.

If you _want_ to spend 60-70k on a studio fine, but listen to the music - it’s nothing that can’t be done on a laptop by someone who knows their craft. It’s not like he’s recording orchestras or anything.

Beautiful studio and setting. I noticed that there is no acoustic treatment anywhere yet there is a huge amount of hard surfaces and glass. Does this create problems?

I want to buy some music this guy has made. What’s a good album to get?

Ah, modesty... :)

the tools are great but the music played in the clip is honestly pretty standard?and when he rants on about "listening" and "music".

all good stuff, but show a minimal studio as hardly anyone watching is gonna get all of this gear! (or really need it?)

Incredible space. Inspirational vibes. Respect.

If you trust your ears no acoustic treatment is needed.....yeah but......LOL

man., this setup scared me. obviously just the best.

No it's Not insprational seeing Somebody with loot of Gear making good Thing ....Show me Somebody with Laptop making sick music ......

Id of track at @1:45 ?