tumi

recording and mix engineer

tumi on SoundBetter

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

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

  2. A: time is always now Yasin Bey live mix and streamed it on the internet once off

  3. Q: What are you working on at the moment?

  4. A: Red Bull House combination with T Bo Tazz Uno July from ill skillz solo project

  5. Q: Analog or digital and why?

  6. A: hybrid cause you get the best of both worlds

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

  8. A: better sound work

  9. Q: What do you like most about your job?

  10. A: opening up a new song a listening to where it wants to go

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

  12. 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

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

  14. A: that I am a producer

  15. Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

  16. A: what sound are you going for and who are you influences

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

  18. 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

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

  20. A: ua1176ln sm57 neve portica5015 fair child u47

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

  22. A: sound engineering been doing this since 2009

  23. Q: How would you describe your style?

  24. A: minimal and true to the song I try not to mess this the so much that you cant recognize it

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

  26. A: Quincy jones the man is a legend across the world his credits speak for them self

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

  28. A: less is more

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

  30. A: hip-hop and rock

  31. Q: What's your strongest skill?

  32. A: mixing

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

  34. A: better clarity and more emotion

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

  36. A: depends on the song

  37. Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

  38. 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

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

  40. 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

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

  42. A: mixing

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