Mixing and Mastering Engineer

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

A: "12 Canciones casi alegres" from El Hombre Viento is my favourite album. Mixing and mastering.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Two diferents projects: Flamenco and Hip Hop experiemtal

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

A: Maybe¡¡

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Digital because I come from analog

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

A: to be honest

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: To listen diferent music and To meet all kind of people

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

A: - Can I sound like Beyonce? - Nope (real)

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

A: "that can be fixed in the mastering process"

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: do you priorize the volume or the quality?

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

A: No limiters in the master bus, be sure this is your final version, and let´s talk about your project.

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

A: 1- Macbook Pro 10.000 Tb hard disk with Logic, Protools and all kind of plugins and libraries. 2- Mergin Anubis/Neumann MT48 3- OLLO Audio S5x 4- Tascam Portacapture X8 5- NI Komplete Kontrol 61

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

A: As a musician and dj i began to mixed and mastered my own tracks, 20 years ago. The results was optimus and then i started to work with other artists.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Natural and compensated

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

A: Fred Again is the most talented artist of the century

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: volume is not everything

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

A: Urban, instrumental and electronic music

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: listen to the client

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: Naturalness, space, punch and glue.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: First of all i listen the project so many times. After this i begin to eliminate noises and frequencies with sustractive eq, then psicoacoustic eq, dynamic, colour and limiting, but all depends of the project.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I work whith Logic Pro and Protools, actually total in the box with pluggins from Izotope, Fabfilter, Acustica, Brainworx, Sonox, DMG.. And Neumann monitors, Mergin Anubis, SPL Phonitor, OLLO S5x Headphones

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

A: Bob Katz, Jaycen Joshua, Andres Mayo, King Tubby, Norman Cook, Kendrick Lamar, Fred Again...

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

A: Mixing and stereo Mastering, Spatial Audio Mixing and Mastering, Stems Mastering, Audio Restoration, Postproduction, Sound design.