René Hofmann
music producer
“Free your mind and your ass will follow”
-George Clinton-
Fat&Holy Records is a music production company by René Hofmann.
– born 1986
– based in Darmstadt, Germany
– autodidactic musician, producer and sound engineer
– music nerd
I am a workaholic. There are always projects running and if I have a spark of creativity, nothing else has importance in that moment.
Releases I was involved in production, mixing and/or mastering
Yes, you can talk about equipment. But it’s about the right guy, the right choice and decision. Trust your ears and it will be right!
What I don’t own by myself, I can organize. I love SM57s, the rock! …and I love ribbon microphones, they are good to your ears. Room microphones are my personal favourite to make a performance real.
I prefer using real instruments than plug-ins. The haptic feeling, advatages and disadvatages have an impact on your performance. I have a lot of percussions, keyboards, guitars etc. Also what I don’t own by myself can be organized within hours.
Of course, I love mixing „in the box“. Plug-ins nowadays are sounding so good and it saves so much time with total recall and automations. I want to get most of my sound already before the recorded track. Choosing the right equipment, microphone, preamp etc. makes already 90% of the sound. The roughmix should give you already the true impression of your performance. Where you wanna go from there is a creative choice and it seems with software effects there are so limits. But there are many things a computer can hardly simulate, especially „dirt“. That’s why I built a complete hybrid surface with a Dante Network to work with all analog and digital gear simultaneously.
Front of House Mixing since 2012 for My Sleeping Karma
Front of House Mixing since 2019 for The Alligator Wine
In-house technician since 2014
In-house technician since 2014