Isthmus Sound Collective
About · Panama → Madrid

Diego Ramirez

Producer and sound designer. Over a decade of hands-on creative work spanning composition, sound design, mixing and mastering, across personal and freelance projects.

Diego Ramirez DJing on a Pioneer setup, a long exposure catching light trails across the mixer.
Practice

Music and plugins.

I make house and electronic music under Obsidian Saints, and plugins under Isthmus Sound Collective.

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Training

Montreal, then Madrid.

My path into audio began at Concordia University in Montreal, studying Inter-media and Performance Arts. That meant video editing, projection mapping, small-scale robotics and audio programming in Max/MSP, with the focus landing on sound design and moving image.

I then moved to Madrid for a Masters in Audio Engineering at SAE Institute, which deepened the technical side: studio engineering, recording, microphone technique, console operation, hardware effects, and sound for film, television, podcasts and video games.

The room

Hardware, acquired one piece at a time.

Alongside the formal study I built up a personal hardware studio of synthesizers, drum machines and outboard gear, and the practice that comes with it: synthesis, MIDI integration, signal flow, and moving cleanly between analog and digital.

That room is also where STAB came from: a track needed something specific, and nothing available did it in a single move.

Diego Ramirez DJing, headphones on, working the mixer under a long exposure of light trails. A dithered halftone illustration of a bat-like winged shape. Diego Ramirez standing in a narrow old-town street with his dog on a lead.
Work together

Available for freelance work.

Freelance work is open: production, sound design, foley, mix and master. Get in touch →