Mixing Engineer

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

A: Listen to your material, get to know it well and figure out what you want, or at least what you don't want, before sending it to mix.

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

A: Why I don't sound like ...... ? Do not try to sound like someone else. Find your own sound and we will make the best out of it!

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Do not try to sound like someone else, find your own sound and make the best out of it

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

A: A single named Alfabeto do Canhoto, which is a song I wrote, produced and mixed entirely, hiring musicians I like to work with, having time to recall the mix and feel the flavor of what I was doing.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Mixing an electronic music album for Pedro Canoeiro, recording the debut album for a brazilian composer named Helena Caetana and mixing a feature film

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: I use both. Analog for the punch and texture, Digital for the speed and workflow.

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

A: Make they sound better than their last record

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: The silence of the studio, the contact with artists and their different artistic views, the challenge to get a certain sound and texture, the surprises that show up in a song where I didn`t expect to.

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

A: That mixing is just about setting up the correct levels

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What are your references, how do you want to sound like,

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

A: SM57, Neumann KM86, Sound Devices 788 Recorder, Nevaton MC50 microphone and MD421 microphone.

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

A: I started in 2001 as a location sound engineer on films, and also as a sound designer. Later I set up my own studio, to edit, design and mix film sound. Got my master degree on sound art in 2015, when I became a teacher of sound engineering in the Federal Institute of Science and Technology of Goiás, Brazil. Since 2001 I have mixed hundreds of short and feature films, animation, documentaries and dozens of music records.

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

A: Rock, Hip Hop, Country/Folk, Electronic, World Music

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Finding the right space for every instrument and texture on a track

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: Depth and texture. Ambiences, Low end!

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: I usually work remotely, receiving the raw material and after a first listen I like to set up a meeting with the client, to understand better and is expected. Than I take my notes and like to work on the mix alone for some days before I send the first results to the client. One more virtual meeting to understand what is working and what is not, and one recall is what I usually need to get the mix done. Some jobs, however, take more time and round trips

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: A recording and mixing studio on the countryside of Brazil.

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

A: Andrew Scheps, Vance Powell, Fab Dupont, Leonard Cohen

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

A: Production and Mixing

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

A: Mateus Aleluia, to learn from the master.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Brazilian clean and polyphonic style, combining ancestrality and contemporary influences