Musician, Mixind and Mastering

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

A: "No Record of Wrong" by Tanja Tzarovska. I was associate producer, orchestrator, keyboards, drums and percussion player, arranger, DAW operator, recording engineer, editor and mixer.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Ambient and meditation music, sound design, mixing and mastering for video, DJ-ing, teaching music theory and coaching.

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

A: No, I don't. I'm new here :)

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Analog then digital. Mostly digital because it's wide flexibility.

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

A: Highest possible quality for their budget, and some extras :)

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: It's hard work but very fulfilling at the end.

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

A: "Can you do this or that?" - Yes or no, or we talk it over, depending on the circumstances. "What equipment do you have?" - I give them a list and specific options for their particular project. "I have a mix that I did myself, I don't know how to mix, can you make it sound amazing?" - I can make it sound much better, for sure (with an explanation). "Can you do it for free?" - Yes, just give me the contract so I can look and decide. Or, no, if the project has no future.

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

A: That the work we do is easy-peasy to do and not worth paying for the services.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: "How do you want it to sound?" :)

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

A: To communicate clearly and to be sure they know what they want and like from the project.

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

A: Mac-book pro w/ all my plugins, decent audio interface, multi-purpose compressor, Neumann u87 microphone and a MIDI keyboard/controller.

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

A: I'm with the music and audio since I was a little kid because I studied music theory for 14 years. I started doing music professionally back in 1999.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: People often say "it sounds like you did it".

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

A: It's a difficult question... I'm open to collaborate.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: It's all about the groove and musical knowledge.

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

A: In the past 20 years I did variety of productions within any genre of music and multimedia projects.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Editing and Mixing.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I try not to ruin the song, find, understand the emotion, groove and dynamics, and make it work so you feel excitement and movement.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: It depends on the project but ussualy I cut my working sessions in 4 hours each with as much as possible break time in between.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: My own studio i for creation and post-production only. Recordings are made with my collaboration partners or other types of outsourcing. I have 3 pairs of Yamaha monitors (HS80, MSP5 and MSP7). I mainly work in the box, 80% I use waves plugins for production and mixing. For mastering I use Brainworks, Waves, Izotope and other minor tools if needed. I have bunch of vst synths, keyboards and MIDI keyboards and controllers. My main DAW is Steinberg Cubase.

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

A: Drummers, bass players and progressive DJ's and similar artists, and trend-setting pop artists.

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

A: Ambient music composing, song arrangements, keyboards tracks producing, vocal(s) tuning, editing, sound design, mixing, audio restoration and mastering.