Mix & Mastering Music

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: This really depends on the person or company in front of me - what nedse, what deadlines... It is important to have good communication in order for me to give the best result.

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

A: I mainly focus on mixing and mastering, with recordings coming in when needed for bigger groups.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both, because each has its advantage. I love the creativity and workflow when working on analog gear. But I also love the fact that I can recall sessions using the computer and plug-ins. So, best of both worlds I say.

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

A: I'll do my best and give my attention to detail until everything is how it should sound.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What do they want people to feel and/or understand?

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

A: Try to sense if it's someone you can trust with your vision, because you need to be relaxed and feel you're in good hands.

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

A: My monitors and an acoustic guitar. As long as I can playback music and actually hear all the production done, I'm good.

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

A: I have been an active sound engineer for over 8 years now. Working while I was studying and growing by doing and making good connections.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: From the gut. I let instinct set me in the right direction as a starting point in a project. I love analysing, but there is a fine line where it could become too "cold" and intellectual. At the end of the day the sound should emote.

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

A: I guess I would go for Opeth. An amazing song writer with such diverse music. It would be exciting to start every session knowing that it is gonna be a completely different song. Amazing musicians.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Get it right at the recording, because fixing in the mix shouldn't be the moto and can not get the results you want. And, especially for mixing - use you ears and not your eyes. Obvious, I know, but I see many who judge things based on their eyes when working in the box.

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

A: Honestly, hard to define as nowadays everything is mixed and mashed, which I love. I feel like the greatest bands are always hard to define. Which is what I'm looking to work on. Having said that, I love people who play their instruments and the real creativity coming from that and collaborating with other musicians.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Listening. At the end of the day without hearing in context and for pleasure the song wont be as good as it should. Just knowing a lot of tech info will never make the sound or song punch and be memorable.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I try to approach every song with a clean slate. Meaning I want the song to dictate what kind of sound it wants. Songs need to breath and feel organic as opposed to a forced puzzle, even if the song is full of sides and is complicated. It needs to feel like it wasn't worked on for ages.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I usually work from my home studio where I can work on multiple projects with different needs. Mostly in the box with some great plug-ins. Nowadays the tools we have on the computer are strong adn sound amazing, giving so much flexibility.

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

A: From a producers point of view I am inspired by works of engineers Joe Barresi, David Bottrill, Josh Wilbur and Kurt Ballou. As far as sounds of bands I love these include Opeth, Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age, Snarky Puppy, Tigran Hamsyan, Faith No More, Tool, Outkast and of course many, many more.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I get to listen to music all day!

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

A: That I'm a DJ.