MasteringLive set
Darwin Wagner @ Ambivalent
Techno live set mastering with club-focused impact and controlled low-end translation.
Steinbach Audio Engineer
Records that translate. Focused on clarity, low-end control, and musical impact across club systems, headphones, and streaming.
Hamburg based
Precision for
electronic and
acoustic music
I’m Hauke Steinbach, an audio engineer and producer based in Hamburg with over a decade of experience in electronic music. I specialize in production, mixing, and mastering, delivering music with precise translation, controlled low end, and impactful loudness, always preserving musical dynamics.
Plugins & hardware
Built in
the studio
Tools that came out of daily studio work, and are now finished enough to hand on.
RecLight
Hardware · WiFi
A recording light for your studio door that switches itself on while your DAW records. Free AU and VST3 plugin for macOS and Windows.
RecLightSteinbach Chain
Plugin · CLAP · VST3 · AU
Equaliser, saturation, transient shaping and a limiter in one window, with a level matched comparison and a null test.
Steinbach ChainHead Tracker
Plugin · Binaural
Head tracking for binaural mixing, so the stereo image stays put when you turn your head.
Head TrackerSample instruments
Steinbach Instruments
Sampled instruments with their own player, among them a late romantic Roever pipe organ and a sixties transistor organ.
Steinbach InstrumentsWork in progress
Patreon
What is still being built, and the early versions of it. Supporters get their hands on things before they are finished, and steer where they go next.
PatreonIR Maker
Tool · In the browser
Turns sine sweeps into impulse responses without uploading anything.
IR MakerSelected work
Featured
ProductionSingle
Hauke Steinbach & Billy Orean
Produced and engineered with old hardware and new creative mixing techniques.
ProductionRemix
Anja Schneider — Mystic Love
Production and engineering for Joe Metzenmacher’s remix of electronic music icon Anja Schneider.
CompositionShort film
Sterneneltern Achim e. V. — Sternenkind
Original score for short film, composed to support narrative tension and emotional pacing.
Next step
Send me
your track
Tell me about your project and send your files. You get an honest assessment of what your music needs, a fixed price and a delivery date before any work starts. No obligation.