Recording Studios in Aarhus: A Guide for Alternative Bands (2026)

Aarhus has a small number of studios and engineers that alternative bands actually use, and most of them are connected: Aarhus Lydstudie, run by Asger Christensen and Iris Marie Jakobsen since 2007; Tallman Studio and MACH Mastering, both with public per-song prices; Everloud Studios for metal and hard rock; and the Lydhavnen community, home to ET Mastering and Gyraf Audio. Tapetown, which started at the old Feedback studio in 2011 and co-founded Lydhavnen in 2012, still mixes in Aarhus: our mix studio in the city is open, we record at our recording studio on Djursland, about 30 minutes out, and we mix and master online. This guide lists what each does, with a link to their own page, and what to ask before you book anyone.

How we built the list

Everything here comes from the studios' own pages, Tape Op and MusicTech interviews, and marketplace listings, each linked. We include ourselves where our history places us. Prices appear only where a studio publishes them. Checked 31 October 2026.

Studios and engineers in Aarhus

Studio or engineer	What they do	Known for	Source
Aarhus Lydstudie	Recording and mixing with four engineers; also a rehearsal space; started 2007 in a city-owned building	Local bands with drums; Asger Christensen's layered, arrangement-heavy recordings	Tape Op #110, Nov 2015
Tallman Studio	Mixing at about 300 dollars a song, mastering at about 70, writing	EDM, electronic, pop, indie pop, heavy rock; Manley, Pultec, Neve and API hardware	SoundBetter
MACH Mastering	Stereo and stem mastering at about 90 dollars a song, unlimited revisions, 3 to 5 day delivery	Analogue mastering with Gyraf compressors and EQs and ATC monitors; indie, soft pop and rock	SoundBetter
Everloud Studios (Kristian Øgir)	Mixing and mastering	Metal and hard rock	SoundBetter Aarhus list
ET Mastering (Emil Thomsen)	Mastering, based at Lydhavnen	Mastered most Tapetown live sessions	Tapetown session credits
Gyraf Audio (Jakob Erland)	Studio hardware maker with a workshop at Lydhavnen	Compressors and EQs in use at MACH Mastering and Tapetown	MusicTech, 2018
Tapetown Studio	Mix studio in Aarhus, band-in-a-room recording studio on Djursland, online mixing and mastering, live sessions	Sessions with Iceage, The Murder Capital, Elias Rønnenfelt, Pale Honey, Les Big Byrd and Mikal Cronin; more than 150 artists	Session credits

The Aarhus scene in brief

Feedback was the city's historic studio until it closed in 2011; its engineers started their own companies, Tapetown among them. Lydhavnen, the Sound Harbour, opened in 2012 in a former meatpacking district with local-authority support and houses twelve businesses in recording, mastering and music technology. SPOT Festival brings the Nordic music industry to Aarhus every spring; we recorded live sessions at SPOT in 2019, 2024 and 2025, including Elias Rønnenfelt in Musikhuset's Great Hall, all listed in our session credits. Drowned in Sound once called Tapetown the Sound of Aarhus, a line we still get asked about.

Where Tapetown fits now

We started in 2011 at Feedback in Viby and co-founded Lydhavnen in 2012. Our Lydhavnen recording studio, above a 300-capacity venue, has closed; the Tapetown mix studio in Aarhus is open and operating. Recording happens at our recording studio on Djursland while we build our new home at Friland, The Reserve, a 400 square metre complex with around 200 square metres of studios plus art space and accommodation, about 30 minutes outside Aarhus in a nature reserve, opening in 2027. Mixing and mastering are online for artists anywhere, and Rasmus Bredvig still records and mixes the Tapetown Sessions. If you want a recording room inside the city limits, the studios above are the ones to call; if you want a mix in Aarhus, a band-in-a-room recording 30 minutes out on Djursland, or a mix from Denmark wherever you are, that is us.

What to ask a studio before booking

1. Who will engineer the session, by name, and what have they recorded in your genre?

2. Can the whole band play in one room, and how many channels can they track at once?

3. What is included in the day: setup time, backline, an assistant, mix time?

4. Who mixes and who masters, and are they the same people?

5. How do revisions work, and what exactly do you deliver?

6. Can you take the multitracks with you afterwards, and in what format?

What it costs

Aarhus studios rarely publish day rates; the two that publish per-song prices are in the table. Professional mixing in Europe is commonly quoted between roughly 400 and 1,200 euro per song, with mastering separate. We quote each project after hearing a rough mix or talking through the days needed, because scope, song count and studio time change the price; the contact page is the way to ask.

FAQ

Which recording studios are in Aarhus?

Aarhus Lydstudie, Tallman Studio, MACH Mastering, Everloud Studios, ET Mastering and Gyraf Audio at Lydhavnen, plus a longer list of individual engineers on SoundBetter's Aarhus page. Tapetown started in Aarhus, still mixes in the city, and records about 30 minutes away on Djursland.

Does Tapetown still have a studio in Aarhus?

Yes. The Tapetown mix studio in Aarhus is open and operating. The former Lydhavnen recording studio has closed; recording happens at our recording studio on Djursland, and The Reserve at Friland opens in 2027. Mixing and mastering are also done online.

Can a band from abroad record in or near Aarhus?

Yes. Aarhus Airport is on Djursland about 41 kilometres from the city, Grenaa has a ferry to Sweden and Ebeltoft a ferry to Zealand. We have recorded and mixed sessions for bands from the US, Mexico, Sweden, the UK and Ireland, including Mikal Cronin, Mint Field, Pale Honey, Ulrika Spacek and The Murder Capital.

Is online mixing from Aarhus different from mixing in person?

The work is the same; the difference is how you take part. We run attended remote sessions across time zones so you hear the first pass with us, and we deliver stereo WAV files with stems or other formats on request.

Read on

If you are searching in Danish, our page on lydstudier i Danmark covers the country. For how a remote mix from Denmark works, start with the online mixing page.

Records Made at Tapetown: Release Credits

Most of what we do never gets a studio credit online. Streaming services do not list engineers, and a lot of the records we worked on only came out digitally. This is the list we keep ourselves: releases recorded, produced or mixed at Tapetown, with what we did on each one. Rasmus Bredvig is the engineer on all of them unless another name is given.

It sits next to our session credits, which cover the live sessions on YouTube. Where a public page states the credit, we link to it. The rest comes from Rasmus, who made the records.

Recorded and mixed at Tapetown

Abdomen, Yes, I Don't Know (2025). Produced, recorded and mixed by Rasmus Bredvig at Tapetown. Stereogum. The single Dazed was also produced by Rasmus. Bandcamp

Sauna Senere, EP (2021) and EP 2 (2023). Every song on both was recorded and mixed at Tapetown.

Twin Dive, Lavish Material (2022). Recorded and mixed. Also the single Joy Will Follow (2019).

Hollow Birds, Murder of Crows (2020). Recorded and mixed by Rasmus Bredvig at Tapetown, mastered by Emil Thomsen at ET Mastering. Bandcamp

Flowers, Doom City (2019, Luik Records and Meduse MagIQ). Recorded and mixed. Bandcamp

why sun, Traffic (2019, 7-inch single). Recorded and mixed.

Catch The Breeze, Glow (2018, Kundalini Records). Recorded at Tapetown, engineered and mixed. Bandcamp

Shocking White, Ghosting (2017, Tapetown Records). Recorded and mixed. Sound of Aarhus

Lessons in Sailing, Tapetown Sessions (EP). Recorded and mixed.

Tin Can Telescope, Born To Rule The Uy Scuti (2015). Produced and mixed, recorded at Tapetown Studio. Discogs

Recorded at Tapetown

Soon, Soon (2022, Subroutine Records). Recorded by Rasmus Bredvig at Tapetown Studio. Discogs

Phosphor Kid, All The Usual Strangers (EP). Recorded.

Catch The Breeze, Into the Wide (2022). Most of the album was recorded live at Tapetown. Mixed by Christian Alex Petersen at Grapehouse Studios. Radar

Tales of Murder and Dust, Fragile Absolutes (2020, HPNG Records). Partly recorded at Tapetown. Destroy//Exist

The Telescopes, Radio Sessions 2016-2019 (2024, Tapete Records). Two tracks recorded at Tapetown in 2017. Discogs

Produced

Cloudwalk, Rise Again; My Sun, My Mind. Produced by Rasmus Bredvig, mixed by Sebastian Wolff. Bandcamp

A Mess, Woman (2021, Puffin Artlab). Produced tracks 1, 2 and 5. Discogs

Love Talk, Her Name Is Jenny (2017). Produced by Rasmus Bredvig at Tapetown. Discogs

Tin Can Telescope, Winding Up The Reeling Sensation (2016). Produced and mixed at Tapetown, with Rasmus producing tracks 4 and 5. Discogs

Moon Loves Honey, Apart (2016). Produced by Nikolai Fuglsang and Rasmus Bredvig. Discogs

John Alcabean, Real Time Fiction (2016, Tapetown Records). Produced by Nikolai Fuglsang and Rasmus Bredvig. Discogs

Mixed

Lukas Vanggaard, Håndspillede Hits and Frisk Prins (both 2020). Mixed. Bandcamp

Bonnie Cried, We Were Lovers (2019, Final 500 Records). Tracks 6 and 7 mixed at Tapetown Studio. Bandcamp

The Survivalists, Breakfast Is A Scam (2017, Tapetown Records). Mixed.

Broken, Eternal Fallout (2013). Mixed and mastered. Discogs

Rasmus Bredvig, earlier and outside the studio

These credits are Rasmus's own. Some are from before Tapetown had its own rooms.

Squaresville, Not If You Were The Last Square On Earth (2011, EP, Birds With Records). Produced, engineered and mixed. Recorded at The Factory Studios and Feedback Recording. Discogs

Squaresville, Hush, Here Comes The Whizbang (2010, 7-inch). Mixed by Rasmus Bredvig and Jesper Jungløw. Bandcamp

Er De Sjældne, Lyserød Lyseblå Beige (2009, Geiger Records). Recorded by Rasmus, who also mixed tracks 7 and 8 and produced track 7.

Captain Casanova, If You Come Around Here (2013, 7-inch, Für Records). Rasmus's own band. He sings and plays guitar.

Why we keep this list

A credit is the only proof a studio has. If nobody writes down who recorded and mixed a record, the work disappears the day the band changes its Bandcamp page. So we write it down here, and we only list what we did.

The list is not complete. If we worked on your record and it is missing, write to us and we will add it. More about who we are on our About page.

A lot of what we mix was recorded somewhere else. If you have a record that needs mixing or mastering, this is how we work.

FAQ

Who is the engineer on these records?

Rasmus Bredvig, founder of Tapetown and our head producer, unless the entry names someone else.

Where were these records made?

At Tapetown in Aarhus. We started in 2011 at the old Feedback studio in Viby, and from 2012 we had our own studios at Lydhavnen. Lydhavnen has since closed; our mix studio in Aarhus is open, we record at our recording studio on Djursland, and our new studio, The Reserve at Friland on Djursland, opens in 2027.

Why are some of these credits missing on Discogs and streaming services?

Streaming services do not show who recorded or mixed a record, and Discogs only lists what someone has submitted. Many of these releases were digital only and nobody entered them.

Does Tapetown mix records that were recorded somewhere else?

Yes. Mixing and mastering are done online, and several records on this list were recorded elsewhere and mixed by us.

Is this list complete?

No. We add releases as we confirm them.

Recording on Djursland: Why Tapetown Is Building Its New Studio at Friland

Tapetown is building its new home at Friland on Djursland, about 30 minutes outside Aarhus, opening in 2027: a 400 square metre complex called The Reserve, with around 200 square metres of studios plus art space and accommodation for visiting bands. Djursland is the peninsula east of Aarhus that reaches into the Kattegat; Friland is an experimental, debt-free community near Rønde where the houses are built from straw, clay and wood fibre. We bought a large part of a former warehouse and workshop building there, inside a Danish nature reserve, and we are turning it into rooms built for acoustics first. Until it opens we record at our recording studio on Djursland, mix at our mix studio in Aarhus, and mix and master online for artists anywhere.

Where Djursland is

Djursland is a hilly lowland peninsula of about 1,400 square kilometres in eastern Jutland, split between Syddjurs and Norddjurs municipalities, with around 80,000 people. Its largest towns are Grenaa, a seaport with ferries to Sweden and to the island of Anholt, and Ebeltoft, a tourist town with a ferry to Zealand. Mols Bjerge National Park, established in 2009, covers part of the south, including coast, seabed and open hills kept clear by grazing. Aarhus Airport is on Djursland, about 41 kilometres from the city. For a band, that means an airport, two ferry ports and Denmark's second city within reach, and mostly fields and coast in between.

What Friland is

Friland sits at Ravnen 4, 8410 Rønde. It is an experimental community where residents cannot borrow against their land or houses, where price caps stop speculation, and where each household is expected to run a business or have a workplace at home. Houses are built from straw bales plastered with clay and insulated with wood fibre, sheep's wool, flax or hemp, some on foundations of mussel shells. Residents treat their own wastewater and aim to produce very little waste. Visitors are welcome to walk around the houses and gardens.

Part of the area is zoned for business, which is how a recording studio ends up there. A studio that hosts bands for days at a time fits a place built around people working where they live, and the quiet is the point: there is no traffic to mix around and no neighbour above the control room.

Why recording moved out of the city

Tapetown started in 2011 at Feedback in Viby, the Aarhus studio that closed that year, and in 2012 we co-founded Lydhavnen, a community of twelve music businesses in a former meatpacking district that opened with local-authority support. Our Lydhavnen recording studio, above a 300-capacity venue, has since closed; the Tapetown mix studio in Aarhus is open and operating, and recording has moved to our studio on Djursland. Ten years of live sessions in the city taught us what the next room needed: space, quiet, control over the building, and the chance to build rooms for acoustics from the floor up rather than adapting someone else's walls. Friland gives us a building we own a large part of, in a nature reserve, with, as the build page puts it, a lot of space to record.

What we are building

A 400 square metre complex, The Reserve, with around 200 square metres of studios, plus art space and accommodation. The old floor tiles from the building's warehouse years have been taken up and are being reused as storage along the side of the building and as the base of a small outdoor stage. Under the new concrete floor goes underfloor heating. An engineer has to assess the roof's load capacity before we take roofing quotes. Insulation and floors were the first work after a long planning phase on materials, budget and people; dividing the rooms, built for acoustics, comes next. The acoustic consultant, who posts as @hterkel, has built several studios and venues and advises on construction and treatment. Meanwhile the mix room has a new equipment rack, and several compressors, including 7110 units, have moved into the recording setup. The studio build page carries the diary in order: the announcement, removing the floor, roof planning, materials arriving.

What it means for bands

Recording away from a city changes a session. Nobody leaves at six, there is no load-in through a bar, and the room is yours for the length of the record. Our recording studio on Djursland already works this way; the Friland building will do it with rooms designed for it, and accommodation on site so a band can stay for the length of the record. We will publish travel details and the opening date on the studio page as they are fixed. Mixing and mastering do not wait for 2027: we mix remotely now, hybrid analogue, with attended sessions across time zones.

Who is building it

Rasmus Bredvig, owner and manager, has run Tapetown for about 15 years, recording and mixing the Tapetown Sessions with Iceage, The Murder Capital, Elias Rønnenfelt and others, and well over 100 releases. Troels Damgaard Holm is lead recording engineer, with credits including First Hate, Blaue Blume, When Saints Go Machine and Turquoise Sun. Gustav Scheel mixes indie, folk and Americana. Together the team has worked with more than 150 artists.

FAQ

Where is Friland?

On Djursland in eastern Jutland, Denmark, at Ravnen 4, 8410 Rønde, about 30 minutes outside Aarhus by car, in a nature reserve, and roughly 40 kilometres from Aarhus Airport, which is also on Djursland.

When does the new Tapetown studio open?

In 2027. The Reserve is a 400 square metre complex with around 200 square metres of studios, art space and accommodation. Insulation and floors are underway and the rooms are built next. The build diary on the studio build page is updated as each stage finishes.

Can we record at Tapetown before 2027?

Yes. We record at our recording studio on Djursland while The Reserve at Friland is built, and the Tapetown mix studio in Aarhus is open. Write to us with your dates and song count through the contact page and we will quote the project; days in the studio and the number of songs set the price.

Does Tapetown still mix online while the studio is built?

Yes. Mixing and mastering are online for artists anywhere, hybrid analogue, with attended remote sessions. The build does not change that.

Follow the build

The studio build page has the diary and photos, and the studio page describes the current setup and the team. If you want to record on Djursland before or after the opening, the contact page is the place to start.