Audio Engineer (Mix & Post)

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

A: I worked on the editing and cleaning of a project of 200 audiobooks for kids, that one pushed me hard until we get the quality and consistency we needed. It was hard, but we did it!

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Digital editing is 100% more practical and fast than analog editing, about cleaning and restoration process doing this is only possible thanks to the digital era

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

A: I promise to do my best during the editing and cleaning process working on his recordings in order to help them to express and enhance the emotion or message of his content for their listeners.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: Every time is a different challenge to bring to light the best quality of each recording

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

A: What do you think about the recording quality? and how do you suggest we can improve it? I usually say that when a recording comes to my studio to be edited and cleaned, I focus my ears on the clarity and intelligibility of the recording, the emotional and technical aspects for distribution, After reviewing each file I always give honest feedback about the quality of the recording and as long as I can I'll suggest techniques to improve the quality of the recordings.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What message does he want to tell his listener through his voice recordings and what I can do in my editing and cleaning work to help him to achieve this goal?

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

A: Focal Twin6 Monitors, Maselec MEA-1 EQ, Maselec MLA-1 Comp, Maselec MTC-1, and Manley Varimu Compressor.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: My default style is accuracy to ensure the final goal of improvement of the recordings is achieved.

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

A: I'll love to work for documentaries, TV and films

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

A: If it has a human voice I'm in!

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I bring to light the highest quality possible of the recording, my goal is always to enhance the clarity, intelligibility, and quality of the recording.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: I start each project by defining my client expectations and getting as much information as possible for each project with an introductory video call with the artist or producer, after the talk I prepare a timeline with the files that we'll need to complete this way client is also fully informed on progress and when to expect the deliverables. VO cleaning is such an amazing challenge every time is different, usually, everything starts by listening to the audio file and identifying the issues and noise types, then the cleaning start solving each issue manually to ensure the highest quality possible, after removing hum noises, background noises, etc, I finalized with a natural EQ pass and Compression. My main 3 steps are: Step 1: Identify what's getting in the way of the dialogue. Step 2 Create a hierarchy of the problems in order of severity. Step 3: Consider the best software process to tackle the problems.

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

A: I have worked on +300 projects and I love to collaborate with artists and producers. I believe the audio engineer needs to bring the most out of a project, and that is best achieved through understanding the scope and expectations of each project.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Consistency through all the Voice Over/Dialogue cleaning, editing process

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: My studio setup is currently in progress of upgrade and I hope I can share details pretty soon!

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

A: I usually work editing Voice Over and Dialogue, cleaning, removing noise, and getting the best quality possible for Voice recordings, I also do this cleaning and editing for any other kind of recordings as well as mixing, mastering, and format conversion.

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

A: I started in 2014 as a young hip hop producer, through the years I have focused my attention and passion on audio post-production, Since 2017 I have specialized in Voice Over and dialogue post-production

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Always double-check everything

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

A: Dave Pensado, Skywalker Sound