About Me

My name is Robin Reumers, and I have always been obsessed with music. Music was destined to be my number 1 focus in life, and it felt great to complement it with three key passions of mine: engineering (mixing & mastering), education, and technology. When it comes to engineering, I have been very fortunate to have worked with some fantastic artists, such as Alejandro Sanz, Alessia Cara, Paula Arenas, Pablo Alborán, Bryan May, Fonseca, Lola Astanova, Hardwell, Oliver Heldens and Ela Taubert. Albums I worked on were nominated for 4 Latin Grammys, and Alejandro Sanz' #ElDisco even won a Grammy in 2020. When it comes to education, I recently came to Miami to set up the new Abbey Road Institute, a brand I have been working with for almost five years, and I love everything it represents. In the technology field, I co-founded Leapwing in 2016, and with an excellent team, we have created some amazing award-winning plugins. Why am I so passionate about all of this?: "I want to bring out the full potential of songs and help people to emotionally connect to them!"

Growing up, I always loved music. I used to love recording songs from the radio onto my cassette deck. In high school, we used to have a PA system in the courtyard, only used to make announcements. I convinced the school board to allow us to play music during the lunch breaks, so we ended up playing our favorite music there all the time. I couldn't stand the acoustics of the space, so I even recommend buying better gear (mind you, I was 14 years old). I also was the go-to person to hook you up with the latest CD releases. I loved the guitar and piano but was never good enough to be a professional musician.

At age 15, I was able to do a summer job touring and helping with live shows. It made me realize I was meant for studio life. That year, I saved up and worked for a whole year to be able to afford my first set of speakers, Genelec 1031As. It was the year when Norah Jones released Come Away With Me, an album I fell in love with and listened to over 1000 times. I was so intrigued with the quality of the vocal, I then knew I had to become an engineer.

I must say that I couldn't have done this without my parents. They've always supported me. When I decided I preferred music over professional football or that I wouldn't get a normal job and wanted to study audio engineering, I always received their full support. So after graduating high school, I moved to Amsterdam to study Audio Engineering. While stuyding, I became a supervisor at the school, which meant I even had access to the studio after closing hours. This meant I was literally in the studio 16hrs a day, you had to drag me out of there. For my final project, I recorded and mixed a Belgian band. The band wanted to release the song so I recommend that we had it mastered by a professional. After searching, I found Bob Katz who agreed to do the job.

Before mastering, he offered a listen/eval to decide whether the mix was good enough. He gave me some nice pointers to improve the mix, which I subsequently did. We went back and forth a few times and he seemed to like what I did with it. We kept in touch and with nothing to lose, I told him that if he ever needed an intern, I would love to be that person. Surprisingly he agreed, and after filling out the necessary paperwork to get a visa, 6 months later I landed in Orlando, ready for my 6 month internship. 6 months turned into almost 3 years as I become Bob's full-time assistant. Those were some amazing years and I truly learned so much sitting in the room mastering with him, every day, sometimes doing up to 3 albums a day! I loved every minute of it. We ended up remastering a lot of the Fania catalog, with legends such as Hector Lavoe, Celia Cruz and Willie Colon, and got hooked on latin music. Then unfortunately my time in the US had run out as there was no way to renew my Visa anymore.

Having to move back to Europe, Bob was kind enough to give Wilfried van Baelen, CEO of Galaxy Studios, a call. At first we didn't hear back (Wilfried is a busy man), and fearing that I wouldn't have a job, I actually decided to take on an education management position in Brussels. Right after agreeing, Wilfried rang back and Bob told him "Listen, I have this great Belgian engineer who has to move back, you have to hire him". So Wilfried said "Ok". At that moment, I had agreed to 2 full-time jobs. I was grateful to have been given the job in Brussels and I didn't want to disappoint them, and I also didn't want to turn down the job at Galaxy, ultimate becoming their CTO. So for the next 5 years, I actually balanced 2 full-time jobs, oftentimes working in Mol (Galaxy) from 7am until 11am, then driving 1h30 to Brussels, work there until 7pm, go back to Mol and work until 1pm. Then do it all again the next morning. I was a bit crazy to say the least.

My time at Galaxy was really great. It was the time where Auro Technology was created and we were really at the forefront of immersive audio, back in 2009. It created amazing opportunities such as having to go to Hollywood (Paramount Pictures), with about 2hrs notice, to install a full Auro-3D Mix setup in one of their stages. We also had the pleasure of welcoming George Massenburg to record the drums for Superior Drummer 3, as well as many unforgettable recording sessions. It's really such a unique place, I haven't seen anything like it in the world! Oh and I proudly received their Employee of the Year Award in 2015.

Then at the end of 2015, I felt like I had seen enough and felt it was the time to really start creating something for myself. I was used to balancing 2 jobs so I decided to co-found 2 projects: Abbey Road Institute in Amsterdam and Leapwing! I moved to Amsterdam where we built an amazing studio from scratch (Sonic City Studios), with the Institute inside of it. For the next 4 years, I took on the role of Director of Education, and truly feel blessed to have witnessed some amazing students. We had multi-cultural classes, with students from everywhere in the world and unique tastes in music. I absolutely loved it!

Leapwing has been another great adverture. We launched our DynOne, CenterOne and StageOne plugin. We try to be really innovative in the plugins we make, with a unique design and extremely talented developers. We are still innovating as we speak and can't wait to share what will happen in the next few years! My role within Leapwing has been to come up with the original plugin ideas, concepts, UIs as well as managing our website, marketing and distribution network.

While living in Amsterdam from 2016 until 2020, I tried to immerse myself in the Dutch music scene but somehow I never got a local foot on the ground. I felt more attracted to the Latin scene in Miami and kept going off for trips, which is where I connected with one of the most amazing producer/composer I know, Julio Reyes Copello. We hit it off, started working together and when he told me he had always dreamed of having his own school, things started to click again. So that's why in March 2020, I came to Miami to help with the setup of his Art House Academy & Abbey Road Institute Miami.

Nowadays, I try to find a healty balance between mixing & mastering projects, developing new plugins and educating the next generation of producers and engineers. And if you haven't met me yet, I really am passionate about all of this!