Remote Mixing and Mastering

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

A: I promise to be understanding and communicate with you. I promise to deliver a project you will love

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

A: My role was an audio engineer during the project . A client from South Africa needed someone to mix his music and decided to pick me. It made me ecstatic that someone put their faith in me

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Mixing a Song for an artist called Genom

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: Listening to new music every day

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

A: Customers ask me how I started mixing I just tell them I was inspired

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

A: You dont just press one button. A lot of time and effort goes into mixing and beatmaking

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What sound are you going for, How long have you been making music What inspires you What artists do you listen to

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

A: Make sure to communicate whoever you hire, That is very important

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

A: HAHA, does the island have electricity? My Macbook pro, DT 990 headphones, Rhode NT1 and my Arrow Preamp

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

A: My career Path is actually Data analyzing so I am very much into numbers and specifics when it comes to mixing

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Modern

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

A: Rmr His voice is modern and angelic

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Give your Ears a break!

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

A: Hiphop Rnb

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Enthusiasm

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I bring originality and lush A lot of music needs to sound different for it to 'pop'

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Understand what the artists wants is key first Basic * Took out Bad frequencies * Autotune Edit * Removed Background scrapes and noises * Removed harsh S sounds * Eq’ed Low and mid ends * Used Basic Compressors to end initial mix * Compressed the Vocals with the beat to make some elements pop Mix Down * Compression -Compressed the vocals and limited them to keep them in an ideal box and to make the bright vocals pop. Removed more ‘bad’ low end frequencies from the mix * Delays - Created multiple delays for the track. Used 1/4, 1/2, 1/8 and slap delays to make mix sound more appealing/dance around the headphones * Reverbs - Created both long and short revels for the track specifically as to not disturb the high end or muddy to vocals Master * Altered some frequencies to make the mix sit better in the vocals * Saturated the mid end to make it more full * More Compression * Frequency editing * More de essing to eliminate harsh vocals * High End - Mastered the high end by isolating the high frequencies and using compression and limiters to make the vocal tear through the mix * Used a delay to let some high vocals ‘dance’ at high frequencies. Final Automation to Finish

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: Macbook Pro 2018 KRK Rokit RP7 G4 Rhode Nt1 DT 990 Pro

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

A: Hans Zimmerman Drake Pharrell RMR

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

A: Modern Hiphop, I mix and master your song to get that modern loud radio ready professional song