Remote Mixing & Mastering

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

A: I am proud of some songs which I mixed and mastered in my first album for an artist. One of which, which was mastered by me, crossed 1Lakh views in just a week.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Mixing hip hop songs for clients.

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

A: No. I am new here.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Digital. Cheap, less space constraint, Number of options to pick from, updates, new technologies, Clean Sounding

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

A: Pay me only after you are satisfied.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: Listening to the raw sound full of creativity and music taste of musicians and enhancing it to meet the modern sound requirement.

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

A: How much do you charge?

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

A: Mixing engineer can make a bad singer with 0 feel and 0 creativity to next level.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: How do you want it to sound like. i.e Reference Track.

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

A: A mixing or mastering engineer can not do magic and can not (should not) add production elements to change the feel to sound right. The work of mixing engineer is to understand you, your skills, your intention and to enhance it to bring the best out of it and to make it sound professional.

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

A: Water, Headphone, Laptop with battery backup, DAW, Software Plugins

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

A: Started just from experimenting and learning, 7years

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Clean, airy, punchy, catchy, well balanced

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

A: Post Malone, I like his voice and production style. Ed Sheeran, Like his voice and arrangements

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Make sure nothing fights with anything in frequency spectrum i.e give everything space to breath, at the same time do proper panning and sharing separation, keeps the energy & feel right and take care about transients with proper compression when required, Compress less for even transients and try to smooth out odd transients.

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

A: Hip hop, R&B, Pop, Electronic, EDM, Rock-pop

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Vocal Mixing

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: Clarity, cleanliness, pro quality

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Making the instruments sit together with proper punch and clarity with leaving space for vocal. Clean and Tune Vocal. Mix Vocal. Mix Bus Processing Masterinjg

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: Yamaha HS7 monitor Izotope Neutron 3 Izotope Nectar 3 Izotope Ozone 9 & many more

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

A: Jonathan Wyner Dave Pensado Post Malone Ed Sheeran

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

A: Mixing Mastering Mixing Vocal Mixing Beats Tuning Vocal Cleaning dialogue or podcast