Mastering studio located in Lier (Belgium).

Foon bvba was founded as mobile recording studio by Paul van der Jonckheyd in August 1972. This studio has its own profile: Foon, Mobile Studios. The mobile studio was sold in 1979 after which a studio, designed by Sean Davies, was built in Lier. This facility went into operation in July 1981. In 1987 the "Foon Mastering Center" was established for CD mastering and ended again in 2011. Subsequently Flemish Masters was started (an "Apple approved Mastered for iTunes supplier") which ended in April 2015. This also meant the end for Foon.

The studio can easily be recognized by "FOON" or "FOON MASTERING" etched in the runouts. Typical for Foon is that the engraved runouts end with a subscripted number after the side indication: these etchings looks like -Aı / -Bı, but please enter these in BaOI as -A1 / -B1. Records mastered by Paul van der Jonckheyd often have “Mastered by: [email protected]” on the sleeve. In these instances add a "Mastered By" credit for Paul van der Jonckheyd (ANV Paul) and a "Mastered At" credit for Foon. If the credits are derived from the runouts don't use "Mastered At" but "Lacquer Cut At Foon". It has been confirmed that when a runout only says "FOON" or "FOON MASTERING", Paul did the mastering. However, unless his name explicitly appears only credit the studio. On the occasions where Paul did not do the mastering, the name of the actual engineer would be etched, for instance "FOON-Sean" refers to Sean Davies. Please enter this credit using the appropriate ANV.

In its early days, Foon also acted as a label for local releases.

Name variations as found on this profile:
- Foon
- Foon Mastering
- Foon Mastering Center
- Foon - Belgium
- Foon - Lier