JMF Audio inaugurates its own recording studios
The year of its 40th anniversary, JMF Audio unveils the creation of its own cutting-edge recording studios. A project of passion built upon a long experience in the fields of acoustics and audio equipment design for famous recording facilities.*
These studios would allow JMF Audio to expend its expertise, covering every aspect of recorded music and possibly provide unique recordings to JMF Audio music-loving customers, among other challenges.
Published on December 9, 2025. (inauguration dating June 21)
Located in a quiet environment, easily accessible and surrounded by nature, featuring a park, at the foot of mountains and near lakes, our facility offers artists unique conditions to create and perform.**
The studios, totaling 150 sqm and designed by JMF Audio over more than 25 years, are based on two independent buildings located inside the same enclosing building. Their dual walls made of concrete, with sand filled intervals, ensure extreme phonic isolation down to very low frequencies. The rooms’ advanced and up to 2m deep sound trapping over the acoustically transparent ceilings prevents standing waves down to the lowest notes, while preserving the energy of the musical performance.
The historical studio A, an experimental space for more than 20 years, has retrieved to its original architecture and been transformed into a large recording room with a unique vibe and advanced acoustics, to welcome musicians and continue its vocation.
The more recent, and daily occupied studio B, can now also function as the most precise, faithful and musically fulfilling control room a sound engineer could dream of, while preserving its initial role, which is research and development as well as sound quality control of all the instruments coming out of the JMF Audio manufacture.
Most of the microphones at JMF Audio’s come from a Tom Hidley* designed studio; composer and friend Alain Amouyal’s own, whose music was orchestrated by Conrad Pope, played by the London Symphony Orchestra and recorded by Shawn Murphy at Abbey Road Studios of London for the new millennium. Both the orchestrator and the sound engineer being known for their works on John Williams’ scores (Star Wars, to name just one).
The fact that these microphones were used to record major artists such as American jazz icons Charlie Haden, Ernie Watts, Lawrence Marable, Alan Broadbent, adds to their already particular meaning to us. They are part of our growing collection of vintage and precision models, all with their own history.
The recording equipment will essentially be based on JMF Audio’s components and technologies, from cables to microphone preamplifiers, through mains filtering and power supplies…
Productions are possible in multitrack digital up to DXD format (8 times higher sampling rate than on a CD) using an advanced workstation, as well as in analog through some of the most regarded reel-to-reel tape machines and a custom console.* The communication between the two rooms being ensured through off-the-grid networking (audio) and fiber optics (visual).
The recording setup has been thought for mobility to also enable location recordings, in order to capture the musical expression in different acoustics, and possibly support the major classical music and acoustic jazz festivals that take place in abbeys, churches and cathedrals around our manufacturing facilities.**
The JMF Audio Recording Studios, a development over a heritage, aim at becoming a new research and development platform to serve the music as well as the music lovers.
A new milestone in JMF Audio’s history.
“We are a family of music lovers, some musicians; starting with our grand-mother who played the Hammond organ. Our uncle, a pianist, who experimented in his home studio when my eyes were just at the height of his keyboards, was featured on a couple of records in the 70’s. He later designed and built custom consoles for studios, broadcast and stage.
As teenagers, my brother played the electric guitar in a band, which got me to design different sorts of preamplifiers while he designed and built a rather large sound system for concerts, mostly with parts we snatched from the prototypes piled in the warehouse. The band even entered a studio. Our hands had gotten on both sides of a mixing console (and inside) before we turned 20 years old…
There also was that day, when Jean Marie Fusilier came back from the USA after a demonstration and a first sale in famed studios of Nashville. Several world-class studios would later be equipped with JMF Audio power amplifiers and cables. And we ourselves would build several listening rooms and spend countless hours calculating and experimenting on acoustic treatment...
The JMF Audio Recording Studios is a long time project of mine, that has matured along the development of our manufacture. Decades later, we are thrilled to be able to produce and record music through JMF Audio’s technologies, in a room that has such a great vibe, as well as in places of our region which offer remarkable acoustics and host wonderful musicians during the summer’s classical and jazz festivals.”
Laurent Fusilier, JMF Audio’s co-owner, research and development.
JMF Audio has designed and hand-built reference power amplifiers since 1985. Their selection by leading Nashville studios in 1989, owned by a Grammy Awards winning mastering engineer, started the international development, mostly through advisor and famous studio designer Tom Hidley.*
Our thoughts go to major mentors of ours:
Jean-Marie Fusilier who sadly left us 10 years ago and Tom Hidley who coincidentally passed away the year we open our own studios…
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