Electronic & Instrumental

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

A: Beyonce - Lemonade | Jon Hopkins - Immunity | Sigur Ros - ( ) | Vangelis - Blade Runner | Alicia Keys - Here | Pharrell Williams - G I R L | Coldplay - Ghost Stories | Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool | Submotion Orchestra - Finest Hour | Thirteen Senses - A Strange Encounter | U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind | Tiesto - In Search Of Sunrise | Avril Lavigne - Let Go | Era - Era | Gorillaz - Plastic Beach | GusGus - 24.7 | Travis - The Boy With No Name | Abba - Abba Gold | Four Tet - 0181 | Burial - Rival Dealer | Nils Frahm - All Melody | Nina Simone - Here Comes The Sun | Trentemoller - The Last Resort

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Digital! Flexibility, fast recalls, fast revisions, many advantages, and still it sounds great. Many engineers, including the top ones, do everything in the box.

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

A: I do this work very seriously, with full responsibility and sincerity. I handle each detail very accurately. After few revisions you'll be surely satisfied with the result.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: That I perceive it not as "job", but as interesting creative activity, that gives inspiration and pleasure. Most people I worked with gave me very nice music, and I was glad that I was "cooking" it.

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

A: "Can you make my track sounding like e.g. David Guetta?" I politely answer "No", for several reasons: 1 - your track may have nothing (very few) in common with his, 2 - he's got a top-level production team, I'm not one of them, 3 - there is a chance, that the quality of your arrangement and recordings isn't of the same level as his, so the final result can't be the same. Anyway, if a customer sends me David Guetta as a reference I'll do my best to be as close to him as it possible. But I never give empty promise like "Of course your track will sound like David Guetta, even better".

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What are your plans about the song: is it going to be on a radio, iTunes, or is it for commercial or soundtrack, or just for your social media, in other words the "global". (It's not about curiosity, I do better job if I clearly understand what it's all for). Time limitations/deadlines? Your expectations about the sound? How it should sound like (bright/dull, dynamic/compressed, loud/soft etc.) Describe all the ideas you tried to bring to the song. The priority of the instruments/parts? Do you like the examples in my portfolio? Maybe some of them are close to what you expect from your tune?

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

A: Just a macbook with software and any monitoring system.

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

A: The very first steps were somewhere in 2005. Making money from music, work with clients - since 2013.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Emotional

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

A: Any artist open to new ideas, experiments, with interesting unique music.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Don't overcook

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

A: Electronic Music: not mainstream genres (like EDM or Dubstep), but something more underground (Deep/Progressive/Techno House, Electronica, Melodic, Synthy, Ambient, Downtempo, etc). Pop, Pop Rock, Songs, Funk/Soul/Jazz

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Responsibility

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: Emotions, drive, power. I like heavy sound, unless a tune can't sound in this way according to the original idea.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Usually a mix takes a week. First day/day of deal - communication with client, finding out what he or she expects from the tune, making sure that the downloaded material is correct (sample rate/bit depth, file names, starting points etc ), preparing everything before the big work. Day 2 - creating a session, naming and coloring tracks, cutting the clips, making routings, editing if needed. In general, preparation a multitrack to be strictly organized in a session for a comfortable work. Next 3 days are for mixing. I never send a mix right in the day I finished it. I need at least a day for rest, to hear it with fresh perception after the rest. Then I send the first version of mix and get feedback. And of course a revision stage. In my practice 3 is an average number of revisions.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: Monitors: KRK V6, Event TR8XL Headphones: Sennheiser HD600 Audiointerface: Motu UltraLite mk3 Hybrid All mixing tools are in the box

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

A: Most of the times it's mixing and mastering. I'm quite confident about the result in these types of work.