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SUS4 Aurum 670
Flip Sus and it glues your whole mix into one slow, breathing pull. The kind of weight that makes people lean in without knowing why.
Studio · Label · Music Software
4chordsStudios
A boutique UK studio and label that invests in artists, and the maker of SUS4, a suite of 25 music apps and 25 studio-grade plugins built in a real working room.
Made in the UK25 apps · 25 pluginsAU · VST3 · iOS · Mac
SUS4 Apps · iPhone · iPad · Mac
Flagship apps
25 focused music tools on the App Store. Four sit at the top of the range, built for musicians who are serious about getting better and getting things done.
FlagshipSUS4 Ear Pro
A full relative-pitch curriculum that starts at intervals and works up to chord progressions. The ear training that actually transfers to the instrument.
FlagshipSUS4 Score
Point your camera at sheet music and get a clean, editable score back in seconds. Write lead sheets that look like they came from a publisher.
FlagshipSUS4 Transcribe
Slow any audio down to a crawl, loop the bar you cannot work out, and figure out exactly what is being played without the guesswork.
SUS4 Plugins · AU · VST3
Studio-grade processors
25 pro plugins in one bundle. Each behaves perfectly, until you flip its Sus switch and it does something it was never meant to: a compressor that gets louder where it should duck, a reverb that swells before the note. Weird, on purpose, and somehow musical.
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SUS4 Strike 76
Flip Sus and it’s all bite and attitude. It grabs a part by the scruff and drags it, snarling, to the front of the mix.
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SUS4 Channel Strip
Flip Sus and the whole clean channel goes through the looking-glass. A familiar sound, suddenly unrecognisable and alive.
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SUS4 Lume 2A
Flip Sus and it rides your vocal into a slow, living swell. It breathes with the performance instead of pinning it down.
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SUS4 Bond 609
Flip Sus and it stops holding the mix still and starts shoving it forward. Pure energy and urgency, leaning right at the listener.
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SUS4 ParametricEQ
Flip Sus and it turns into an EQ that pushes back. Boosts where you cut, rings where you push, and still sounds musical doing it.
The Sus switch · on every single plugin
Every sound you love broke a rule first.
“Does that plugin even do anything?” Fair question. Most ‘character’ plugins do so little you couldn’t pick them in a blind test. So we went the other way. Every SUS4 plugin has a Sus switch. Off: the clean processor you trust on every mix. On: it does something it was never meant to. Weird, on purpose, and somehow musical.
- Compressoryour drums get launched, louder and meaner where they hit hardest
- Reverbthe room arrives before the note. Haunted, sucked-in, possessed
- Gatepunches rhythmic, danceable holes through your loudest hits
- Crimson preampa thin, polite sound grows teeth and starts to snarl
- Limiterthe ceiling becomes a launch pad. Peaks come back bigger
- HummingComposerevery chord hangs unresolved. That yearning ache
Recording · Songwriting · Atmos
Record here
A boutique recording and songwriting studio in a quiet village with views over fields and hills. A 1904 Steinway Model K, brass, strings, a full drum kit, and ribbon and vintage-style microphones in a fully treated live room. Atmos mixing room for releases at any format. No upfront studio fee. The focus is on the music, not the clock.
Inside the studio
Real sessions, real room
A look inside the live room and control room, and the artists we work with. Session films are coming to our YouTube.
The Label
Artists
4chordsStudios is a label that invests in the artists it works with. No upfront fees, no studio cost to carry. Real creative partnership from first session to distribution via LANDR, with PRS, MCPS and PPL handled.
Get in touch
Questions, projects, or just curious?
Whether you want to record, release, use the apps, or understand the plugins, the right place to start is a short note.