Tue Madsen. Producer, mixing and mastering engineer. Djursland, Denmark.
Tue Madsen is a Danish producer, mixing and mastering engineer. He founded Antfarm Studios in 1997 in the Djursland countryside near Aarhus, and has been making records there ever since — mostly heavy ones.
To date, the Antfarm catalogue runs to more than 170 albums.
Selected work
A short walk through the room, in no particular order. The full discography has the rest.
- Meshuggah — Sweden
- BABYMETAL — Japan
- Sick of It All — USA
- The Haunted — Sweden
- Heaven Shall Burn — Germany
- Behemoth — Poland
- Halford — UK
- Moonspell — Portugal
- Dir En Grey — Japan
- August Burns Red — USA
- Dark Tranquillity — Sweden
- Aborted — Belgium
- Hatesphere — Denmark
- Mnemic — Denmark
- Ektomorf — Hungary
- Baest — Denmark
Where his work is noticed
Pointers, not bragging.
- Nail the Mix — Tue has appeared as a featured engineer on Nail the Mix, walking subscribers through a multitrack from one of his records.
- Press & interviewsTODO — profiles and interviews in metal and pro-audio press.
- Awards & nominationsTODO — Danish Music Awards and other industry recognition.
How he works
Tue likes to make the band’s album — not his own album with the band’s name on it. The starting point is always whatever the band wants their record to sound like. Pro Tools rig, room mics, players in the room, not a grid.
The long version of that approach lives on the specs & dogma page.
The studio
Antfarm Studios sits in the Djursland countryside, about an hour from Aarhus. There’s a live room, a control room, and a place to sleep on site so visiting bands can stay through the session. Get in touch →