Entropic Labs — Music Engineering / Studio

Entropic Labs, Music Engineering / Studio — wordmark glowing over a violet nebula sky, with cascading code, neon figures in motion, and a spectrum analyser along the bottom
Session live · By appointment

Entropic Labs is a recording and production studio built on one idea: order emerges from noise if you listen long enough. Real amps, a pedalboard built over years, and a room tuned for patience and for accidents.

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The room

01 / MANIFESTO

Entropy is what happens to a signal left alone — pedals drift, amps breathe, a room has its own opinion whether you ask for one or not. We don't fight it, we mix with it. Guitars come straight off the wall, the pedalboard's been built up over years, and it all runs into a treated room and a proper monitoring setup — nothing simulated unless we choose to. We work across recording, mixing, and production, for songwriters, bands, and anyone building something track by track.

  • Est.2026
  • LocationShared on request
  • RoomConverted home studio
  • RigGuitars, amps, pedalboard, DAW
  • BookingBy appointment

Behind the board

02 / LEAD PRODUCER
Portrait of the lead producer and owner of Entropic Labs, composited into a green matrix-code studio scene surrounded by monitors and gear, with a glowing neon "despite the finite" wordmark overhead.

Entropic Labs is run by its lead producer and owner, recording and performing under the name Despite the Finite. The alias is the studio's whole philosophy in three words: everything starts as noise — a pedal drifting out of tune, a take that almost works — and gets shaped, patiently, into something that holds together anyway. That instinct runs through every session here, whether it's tracking a full band or programming a single bar of a beat.

  • RoleLead producer / owner
  • Recording asDespite the Finite
  • FocusRecording, mixing, production

Inside the room

03 / THE STUDIO
Panoramic view of the Entropic Labs studio room: an orange leather couch beneath a shuttered window, two electric guitars mounted on the left wall above an amp stack and pedalboard, and to the right a desk with dual monitors, acoustic foam panels, and a ukulele and acoustic guitar on the wall, all lit with blue and green LED lighting.
The room as it stands today — guitars off the wall, pedalboard on the floor, desk running the sessions.

Gear list

04 / PATCH SHEET
UnitTypeNotes
PRS Hollow Body IIGuitarSemi-hollow, wall-mounted and ready to grab mid-session.
Ibanez RG300 seriesGuitarFast neck, the go-to whenever a take needs speed.
Kala ukuleleStringsWall-mounted on the right, in reach for a quick overdub.
Hand drumsPercussionDjembe-style hand drums for texture and rhythm parts.
Tube amp + cabinetAmplificationFloor stack, mic'd or run direct depending on the take.
PedalboardEffectsFull multi-pedal board, built up over years of sessions.
KRK Rokit 5MonitorsMatched nearfield pair, wall-mounted either side of the desk.
NI Komplete KontrolMIDI controllerKeyboard controller with deep Komplete integration.
Custom MIDI controllerMIDI controllerBuilt in-house for one-off performance control.
NI audio interfaceInterfaceNative Instruments interface running the whole signal chain in and out.
AKG mic + compressorMic / OutboardAKG microphone run through outboard compression.
Lenovo ThinkPadProduction PCRuns every session, start to mixdown.
FL StudioDAWPrimary recording and production software.
Dirty BassPlugin / in-houseVST3 synth built here with JUCE, for gritty saturated bass — sawtooth and sub oscillator through a tanh waveshaper into a state-variable filter, eight voices. Source on GitHub.
Acoustic panelsTreatmentBroadband absorption across the front wall.

Projects

05 / CATALOG
P.01 Can You Rap?Awaiting upload Coming soon
P.02 Restructured PhoenixAwaiting upload Coming soon
P.03 MM StudioAwaiting upload Coming soon
P.04 Silver LiningAwaiting upload Coming soon

Side room

06 / GAME DESIGN

Alongside the sessions, the studio doubles as a small game design desk — a minor function next to recording and production, but the same working method: start from noise, keep whatever holds together. The projects are browser games — an office RPG, a reading adventure, a hospital game for children, a live trivia platform — three of them playable right here.

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The observatory

07 / CURIOSITY

The studio is what gets made here and the side room is what gets played. The Observatory is the third one — a darker room with a chart on the ceiling, catalogued with whatever this place finds worth wondering about: cities found under the Amazon, what a tardigrade survives, why the galaxy is so quiet. It runs on the same principle as a session. Start from noise, keep whatever holds together, and be honest about how much is still unresolved.

Enter the Observatory

Butterfly Trails

08 / CONSEQUENCE

The studio is what gets made here, the side room is what gets played, and the Observatory is what gets wondered about. Butterfly Trails is the room that isn’t about this place at all — a family archive built on one idea: that a life turns on moments too small to notice while they are happening. A decision, a coincidence, a letter that arrives on the wrong day. Every story in it is a point on a much longer path, and the room is built to show what each one led to, decades later, to people who were not born yet. The archive is still being collected, so for now most of the trail is dark. That is the honest state of it.

Follow the trail

Book time

09 / CONTACT
Booking By enquiry
Location Shared once a session is confirmed
Hours Tue–Sat, 11:00–23:00
Response Within a day or two

Sessions run by appointment only. Send a rough date, what you're working on, and a link to a reference track if you've got one — the studio replies with everything you need, including where it is.

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