Mixing & Mastering Engineer

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: currently mixing an album and doing sound design for a short film

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

A: N/a

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: digital recall but analog gear some of the newer ssl/ dangerous gear have the ability to recall your sessions in your daw along with having a plugin version of the desk hardware so I think were finally in a space that allows people to hard the best of both worlds

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

A: to deliver a product you're happy with every time.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: listening to upcoming producers and musicians carve out new subgenres and styles its really exciting knowing that someone is out there giving their all into this music and cares about having the best possible sounding final product

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

A: is this the loudest you can make it? yes

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

A: "you can't polish a turd"

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: what is your over all intent for the track what are you looking for in a professional mix use some words to describe the sound you want can you provide a reference track is there anything we can do before hand to help the mix did you put anything on the stereo bus before sending this to me

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

A: the mix starts with your arrangement as you grow as an artist you'll develop an ear for what works which in turn makes my job easier

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

A: fab filter pro q 3 macbook 16 a fan so it doesn't over heat running 20 instances of serum Yamaha open back headphones

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

A: 10 or so years interned in studios and fought my way into the local scene to be able to work on records and level up my skill

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: easy going passionate about the music willing to listen to request and provide as best as possible

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

A: tame impala have you heard their music?

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: you probably don't need as much low end as you think cut sub 70hz and add saturation to low mids to emphasize an 808 and audibility in headphones and on laptop speakers and phones 70+% of music is consumed on the go now a days most people aren't sitting in front of monitors wondering how you got your sub to smack so hard

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

A: all electronic and dance trap (not electronic) and hiphop

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: finding issues in the mix that prevent the track from reaching its best listening potential

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: hopefully excitement energy and clarity sometimes the artist is looking for something opposite that it varies

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: listen to original mix ask questions to artist about intent mix according to their intent also provide a mix that I believe might be more appropriate based on genre standards send revise if need be

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: M Audio bx8s Yamaha hs5s several recording interfaces I Mac Macbook pro15 lexicon reverb (hardware) Deepmind 6 Korg Ms1

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

A: mike dean max martin Luca pretolesi