Mixing & Mastering Engineer

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: On a big smasher! Stay tuned!

Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?

A: poorly no, I'm new ;-)

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both, because there are benefits on both sides ;-)

Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?

A: I'll do my best to bring out the best of the material i get.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I like that you can do what you want. There are no rules. It only has to sound good in the end!

Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A: How much is the service? Will I be successfull with my track? ... I tell them that i first have to check the material to give an answer.

Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?

A: When people think that you can make gold out of shit.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What do you wanna do with it? Where did you record it? How much money do you have ;-) (just a joke)

Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A: Check the Demos to be sure that the guy you're going to hire is the right one for your production!

Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?

A: A microphone, a field recorder, a MacBook, an interface and many many cables :-)

Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?

A: I'm doin this since 10 years.

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?

A: I'm really proud of my productions with the really great Reggea artist Gentleman and his wife Tamika. I was the Mixing and Mastering Engineer and it was a charity project for poor children in Africa.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: I don't have a specific style. My style is the style of the current song to get the best out of it.

Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?

A: At the artist side I would really like to work with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike because their ideas are really innovating and at the engineers side I would love to work with Chris Lorde Alge because he made so many different productions.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: I think it's really important that you don't overload your mix with effects and so on. Sometimes it's really adding by subtracting.

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

A: It's different. i often work on electronic tracks but also on songs with real instruments like Pop, Rock or Reggea

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: My strongest skill is to hear what other people won't hear. With that gift i will make the songs ready for the indusrty.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I try to figure out the musical keynote to award it the finesse that it deserves.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: At first I have to listen to the Song several times to get an impression of it. Meanwhile, i get ideas and i start to edit the stems. After that the mixing process beginns.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: At home I have just a little bedroom studio but I'm working in a real big professional recording & mixing studio provided by my former college. A little summary of the equipment: Avid D-Control & Interfaces ProTools 10 & 11 UAD Bundle UA Twin Finity UA 1176 UA LA2A Lexicon Reverb Neumann KH120A Neumann TLM67 .....

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

A: There are many big names in the industry where you can get inspiration or where you learn a lot. If I had to name some it would be Chris Lorde Alge, Sam Holland & John Hanes

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

A: Usually I get the stems from my clients and i mix and master the songs!