im a recording and mix engineer with almost 10 years experience in the industry. owner of a small project studio
NAME OF COMPANY : a country called earth(Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def)
EMPLOYED FROM : 2014 - present
POSITION : Sound Engineer/ Producer
DETAILED DUTIES : Sound engineering/Live sound engineering
NAME OF COMPANY : Basemint Studio
EMPLOYED FROM : AKA
POSITION : Sound Engineer
DETAILED DUTIES : Sound engineering
NAME OF COMPANY : Basemint Studio
EMPLOYED FROM : 2012 - present
POSITION : Director/ Sound Engineer/ Producer
DETAILED DUTIES : Sound engineering/running of the business
NAME OF COMPANY : Cape Audio College
EMPLOYED FROM : 2012
POSITION : Substitute Lecturer
DETAILED DUTIES : Teaching students about sound engineering
NAME OF COMPANY : Basemint Studio
EMPLOYED FROM : 2012
POSITION : Sound Engineer
DETAILED DUTIES : Worked on producing Whosane’s Brooklyn
to Cape Town Album
NAME OF COMPANY : Basemint Studio
EMPLOYED FROM : 2012
POSITION : Sound Engineer
DETAILED DUTIES : Engineered sound SA hip hop producer-Draztik
NAME OF COMPANY : Cape Town Jazz Festival
EMPLOYED FROM : 2011
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Interview with tumi
Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: time is always now Yasin Bey live mix and streamed it on the internet once off
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: Red Bull House combination with T Bo Tazz Uno July from ill skillz solo project
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: hybrid cause you get the best of both worlds
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: better sound work
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: opening up a new song a listening to where it wants to go
Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A: can they sit in the session and watch me mix and I normally say yes but if they let me work in silence for the first hour
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: that I am a producer
Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?
A: what sound are you going for and who are you influences
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: be open and honest in what you get as you first submission so when corrections are mad to the peace last the work is done faster
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: ua1176ln sm57 neve portica5015 fair child u47
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: sound engineering been doing this since 2009
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: minimal and true to the song I try not to mess this the so much that you cant recognize it
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: Quincy jones the man is a legend across the world his credits speak for them self
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: less is more
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: hip-hop and rock
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: mixing
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: better clarity and more emotion
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: depends on the song
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: designed and built the studio from the ground up the best description of it is a warm sounding room with digital and analogue hybrid rack
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: I am inspire by all of it really. all genres have there own way of talking in a way that people under stand what each song is saying and they bring people together in ways one can never imagine
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: mixing
- Recording StudioAverage price - $250 per day
- EditingAverage price - $40 per track
- Mixing EngineerAverage price - $200 per song
- Post EditingAverage price - $200 per track
- Post MixingAverage price - $200 per minute
- Sound DesignAverage price - $150 per minute
- Production Sound MixerAverage price - $300 per day
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