D.E.S. Studios

Recording studio in Brussels, Belgium. Short for "Diffusion Électronique Sonore".

Starting in 1966 Jack Say used the rehearsal room of the Onyx Club (owned by Pol Clark) for recording demo sessions. Say subsequently bought the building (including the bar and the apartment where engineer Dany Bernard lived) and started a professional recording studio in 1968. The studio was used by major record companies such as Vogue, EMI and Polydor. The bar was a regular location for jam sessions featuring the biggest names in the Belgian jazz scene.

In 1976 the company Studio D.E.S. SPRL was founded and a new Scully console (the first in Belgium) installed. Having started as a 2-track studio, it now had 24 tracks. Around this time an echo chamber was also installed and the basement converted to a studio B for recording background music for striptease acts.

In 1982 Say sold the studio to chief engineer Francis Dewell, Michèle Abs (Clark's wife) and Marc Hermant. In 1989 the studio was renamed to New D.E.S. Studios.

Engineers known to have worked here: Dany Bernard, Michel Lecloux, Pic Cornet, Pierre Jonckheer, Francis Dewell, Erwin Vervaecke.

Also appears on releases as:
Studio D.E.S. Musicland
Studio DES Brussel
Studio DES, Bruxelles
Studio D.E.S.
Studio DES

For the French mixing/mastering studio in both Paris & Aubervilliers, and credits for engineer Poussin, please use Studio D.E.S.
For the American editing/mastering studio in Dallas, Texas, please use Digital Editing Services.
For the UK mixing/mastering studio, and credits for engineers Adam Skeaping or Duncan Cowell, please use The Digital Editing Suite.