Alex Rivero

Audio Engineer & Bassist

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I am a Berklee College of Music graduate in Music Production & Engineering and Electronic Production & Design double major program.

I am a mix engineer, mastering engineer, recording engineer and session bass player.

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Interview with Alex Rivero

  1. Q: Can you share one music production tip?

  2. A: the song is more important than the individual elements.

  3. Q: What type of music do you usually work on?

  4. A: Pop, Rock, Country, Jazz, Reggaeton, Electronic music.

  5. Q: What's your strongest skill?

  6. A: mixing.

  7. Q: What do you bring to a song?

  8. A: I bring life through mixing and corrections through tuning and editing.

  9. Q: What's your typical work process?

  10. A: Depending on the project. For mixing, I organized the mix by instruments, color code them for easy access, create submasters for the different instrument groups, a general submaster for 2-mix processing. I begin a mix overall levels, then focus on the rhythm section starting with drums, bass, guitars and keys. After the foundation of the mix is sounding great, I start introducing vocals, other lead instruments backgrounds, effects. As far as signal processing I begin with subtractive EQ to remove unwanted or unnecessary frequencies to open up space for other instruments to fit within the frequency spectrum, I then move to compression to even out performances then I work on what I call wings which is the low end and the high end. Once the low end and high end are working correctly I work on the mids which take the most time. I then add reverb and delay effects. Once the mix feels good, I introduce reference mixes to confirm if the mix is going in the intended direction, then after some passes I introduce 2-mix EQ and compression. The final step will be automation of levels throughout the whole song to bring the song to life and add dynamics to it.

  11. Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

  12. A: Pro Tools, Melodyne, Waves, Valhalla, Ozone, Focal Speakers.

  13. Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?

  14. A: Engineers like Andy Wallace, Chris Lord-Alge inspire me.

  15. Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.

  16. A: Tuning vocals, editing vocals, editing drums, recording vocals, recording bands, mixing tracks, mastering tracks.

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Terms Of Service

For mixing and mastering tracks I provide up to 3 revisions for free and after that, the price for the following revisions is negotiable.

Gear Highlights
  • Pro Tools
  • Melodyne
  • Waves
  • Valhalla
  • Ozone.
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