Producer, Mix Engineer

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

A: Every album for Rundek Cargo Orkestar, Letu Stuke, Trovachi was the challenge of producing, tracking and mixing.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Mixing a Rock - Pop band's full album

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

A: Dedication to the work towards the common goal.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What is the emotion and the ambition behind that record? Where it is imagined to be played, like radio station, clubs, TV etc.

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

A: Always better to use reference tracks to explain the sound you have in mind than try to describe it by words.

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

A: Shure SM57, JLM 1290 preamp, Apogee Duet, Shure SRH1840 headphones and MacBook Pro. Hope there's electricity there. If not then I swap the preamp for power generator.

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

A: So many... Radiohead comes to mind among the first - for that musical voyage they always seem to take the listener,.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Invest time to experiment and work to full potential no matter if you're payed extra for it or not or if the artist is well known or unknown.

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

A: Indie pop, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Electronic and Acoustic

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Devotion to quality and emotional impact of the record,

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: Sensibility to discover the true potential of the song and to develop it further. Along with musical ideas and instrumentation of my own if needed.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Get the tracks get into Pro Tools session, set the tempo if its fixed and organize the session. Then let the music guide me while moving the faders to get a nice balance and then print that first rough mix if the artist haven't provided rough already. Once i get the idea where the music is heading I won't stop till its there and artist is happy about it.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: ProAc Studio 115 and Yamaha NS10 speakers, SSL XLogic X-Desk summing Mixer, Rupert Neve Portico 5042 and 5043 Series analogue processors, SSL XLogic Alpha-Link AX 24 ChannelAD/DA converter, RME Digiface, Pro Tools Ultimate DAW with tons of plugins... Nice sounding small control room, long hall and marble staircase in the house used as great sounding echo chambers.

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

A: Ofter the price is one of main questions. Answer: "It depends..."

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

A: Al Schmitt, Bob Clearmountain, Rick Rubin, Nigel Godrich to name a few

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

A: Producing and mixing mostly

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

A: Still didn't check if there is anyone I know on here.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both, each for its strengths of course.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: The feeling of joy when you manage to get it to sound right. Whatever it is, troublesome single track or entire song.

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

A: How detailed this job really is and how much of the brain power it demands.

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

A: Over 23 years now.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Grew up on vinyl and tape records and since I have my own Pro Tools rig i always strived to be able to create those huge sounding mixes. It took so many years of perfecting to get such a big sound out of a small home studio. So it is sorta hybrid palette of sounds where one is constantly trying to expand its reach for different new and old colours.