4 years in this world, main work mixing Albums, and Songs , Some Rock, Pop, Singer-songwriter recordings. Some works dependent on the budget i mix on a SSL 4000 G+, other just mix it on a normal analog simple console to write some analoge stems automation with a Pro tools and Waves plugins and many other things.
- Audio post-production;
- Mixing and Mastering;
- Recording;
- FOH;
- Live Sound stage services;
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Interview with Luis Carmelo
Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: An orchestral recording live concert and mixing it was the biggest challenge i had in this 4 years
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: EP of a singer songwriter album, and mixing an Ep of a pop rock band
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: Analog forever
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: The music by it self
Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A: If i can do this and that on mixing :)
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: From me they will get the best final product that i can offer to them
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: SSL 4000g+ 64 Channels Computer Complete rednet system all neumann mic collections 1176 compressor :)
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: 4 years now
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: Im the type of people who doesn't be sastified with the best i want the perfection
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: I would like to have the opportunity to work with artist like Bruno Mars, QOTSA, RHCP, some american pop artist because of the complexity of the work and the timing and the sound quality that, that artist and many other expect is really high.
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: I had a lot of projects that can't be publish and the artist payment but the song is from the artist so becaus of that i can't publish most of the work that i already did. Others the recording process did't finish yet.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: It depends a lot i don't like to stay in just on style of music i like to change and make a little bit of everything
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: Mixing Drums
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: What my clients say is that i give punch to the mix vibe to the mix and most important the sound quality
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: First i always clean the tracks, than i import my normal mix template do all the routing and start from there, normaly i dont take more than one day to mix one song
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: It depends a lot sometimes i use an ssl 4000 g+ with analog and make an hybrid mixing with top equipment but the budget its not always that high so most of the times mix
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: Mixing most of the time
I was the Mixing Enginner in this production
- Mixing EngineerAverage price - $250 per song
- Recording StudioAverage price - $350 per day
- EditingAverage price - $30 per track
- Post MixingAverage price - $250 per minute
- Live SoundAverage price - $200 per concert
- Game AudioAverage price - $400 per day
- YouTube Cover RecordingAverage price - $350 per song
- Pro tools 12
- SSL console in some works and some good outboard gear
Mixing Albums and LP everyone have a the 2 last songs free