About
Supple 9 started out as a small mixing, mastering and film-sound studio run by Alex Leonard. Our name is inspired by the Autechre track spl9 from their incredible Exai release
In 2018, Supple 9 branched out and started a small boutique record label with a focus on lovingly produced electronic releases backed by a physical format.
If you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
About Alex
After orchestral and choral involvement at a young age, Alex studied music at the Dublin Institute of Technology before getting drawn towards the technical side of things. After completing his music studies, he studied Sound Engineering and Music Technology at the Sound Training Centre in Temple Bar.
Since completing his training he has been heavily involved in a wide variety of music-related activities. He has worked extensively in film sound editing, mixing, design and composition; theatre sound and experimental art installations; studio production of his own electronic output as Ebauche, Dronal, and Exan; mixing and mastering of numerous electronic and non-electronic artists; running and producing for the label Pattern Zero, and even as a vocalist in a fusion-bluegrass band in Cambodia.
Studio
We believe that it's not the tools that matter, but what you do with them. In this world an audio engineer's most important tools are their ears, their intuition and their experience.
However, musicians and engineers alike cannot resist gear, and you can find some details of the equipment stocked in the Supple 9 studio below.
Hardware
| Monitoring | Genelec 8331 pair & GLM Monitoring Software Genelec 7350A Subwoofer Sennheiser HD650 Reference Headphones Shure SE425-CL-E In Ear Monitoring |
| Interfaces / Controllers | RME Fireface UCX Softube Console 1 Ableton Push 3 |
| Synthesis / Sampling / Effects | Elektron Analog 4 Elektron Digitone 1010 Music Nanobox Lemondrop Bastl Thyme |
Software
| Digital Audio Workstations | Presonus Studio One |
| Plugins by | Softube FabFilter iZotope Waves Vienna Symphonic Library McDSP Synapse Rob Papen and many more |
Acoustic Treatment
The studio has been carefully acoustically treated to ensure the best possible unbiased sound. Custom made acoustic baffles, high-quality acoustic tiles, & bass traps have all been carefully placed to ensure a neutral and accurate listening position. Additionally tuned bass traps from GIK Acoustics have been added to target specific frequencies in the studio.