...is someone who won‘t give up before what he's working on sounds exactly the way it should. In times when he worked for Deutsche Grammophon, if he needed some special type of equipment that didn‘t exist on the market, he would simply build it himself. Nowadays, next to his job as recording producer and sound engineer, he spends a lot of time developing studio equipment for his own company, DirectOut Technologies. To make up for the energy he puts into all this work, he saves it on other things – for instance his low-energy house, of course featuring a home made studio...

If he‘s not behind the mixing console or on the road, involved in a recording, Daniel is in charge of quality control for various internal and external projects and takes care of all the computer-related things at EBS. His passion for the studio‘s espresso machine might be a kind of reconciliation for that. Just like Rainer, he is a passionate photographer – though we ensure you that was not a key criterion in hiring him.

...likes to jog to work, which, by the way, might as well be 26.22 miles from home. He is also a professor at the Tonmeister institute of the University of Music in Detmold, and incidentally devotes a great amount of time to another type of media: photography. Here, once again, he loves to combine digital and analogue technology. (We‘re glad his running shoes are still entirely analogue.)

...Dutchman no. 2 in our team (next to our vinyl expert Maarten de Boer), used to work for Philips Classics as sound engineer. For us, he‘s swapped the sound board for a desk and is now in charge of project management and finances – being as unperturbable as he used to be in the control room.