About  Us 

I am a full time sound engineer with almost 10 years of professional experience in the industry. My beginnings were a few years before covid in Golden Hive studio in Prague.

From that period I'm proud of my mastering work for the Swedish band Batboner, you can find my name in the credits:

https://batboner.bandcamp.com/album/batboner

 

I also worked on a very famous band in England - Cardiacs. You can find some of them in the credits down here:

https://cardiacs.org/tims-autograph-tune-for-jason/

 

Even back then I was somehow more inclined towards mastering than recording and mixing.

Then Covid came along and I found a job at the world's biggest vinyl record factory at GZ Media in Lodenica as a vinyl mastering engineer.

 

I worked there for three years. During that time I was able to sign between the out grooves of many titles. You can find a list of some of them on my Discoqs profile here:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/14363456-Pavel-Cajthaml

 

I like dark music myself. I think it's evident in the list of albums on Discoqs. :-) But the main thing is that thanks to my experience in GZ Vinyl in Lodenica and my love for electronic music I understand it. And actually thanks to the fact that I compose it myself. :-)

But I grew up as a musician on classical music and jazz and heard so much different music of so many genres that it would be enough for three lifetimes. So I know what to sound like!

 

After those years in Lodenica at GZ Media (GZ Vinyl), because I fell in love with vinyl mastering and wanted to do it properly and honestly, I decided to try to make vinyl records myself.

About a year of preparation has passed and in 2025 I am starting with my own studio and cutting machine.

 

As far as my cutter is concerned, our studio owns a T560 in a very superior configuration. I myself have encountered several dubplate reccords cutted on the T560 with basic configuration, which were cut on a regular Technics SL1200mkII with only 1.5kg motor torque and no external motor, with a basic platter. The records were wobbling, they were muddled. It didn't play good.

 

Thanks to my experience in GZ Vinyl, I know what is needed, so I got a T560 with an external belt motor with 75kg of torque! I replaced the Technics with a Reloop RP-8000mkII turntable which has an honest 4.5kg torque. Both motors run simultaneously and give me a giant torque of 79.5kg. I have a modified platter which is almost 6kg in total.

So overall I am very close to the specs of the Neumann VMS-70 cutters in terms of the quality of these parameters. Plus the external motor and turntable RP-8000mkII allow me to cut at half-speed, which is the best kind of recording for sound quality! Feel free to ask me about it!