David Paredes

Mixing and Mastering Engineer

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Mixing and Mastering Engineer with more than 15 years in the industry.

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Languages

  • English
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

Interview with David Paredes

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

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

  3. Q: What are you working on at the moment?

  4. A: Two diferents projects: Flamenco and Hip Hop experiemtal

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

  6. A: Maybe¡¡

  7. Q: Analog or digital and why?

  8. A: Digital because I come from analog

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

  10. A: to be honest

  11. Q: What do you like most about your job?

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

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

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

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

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

  17. Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

  18. A: do you priorize the volume or the quality?

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

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

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

  22. 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

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

  24. 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.

  25. Q: How would you describe your style?

  26. A: Natural and compensated

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

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

  29. Q: Can you share one music production tip?

  30. A: volume is not everything

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

  32. A: Urban, instrumental and electronic music

  33. Q: What's your strongest skill?

  34. A: listen to the client

  35. Q: What do you bring to a song?

  36. A: Naturalness, space, punch and glue.

  37. Q: What's your typical work process?

  38. 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.

  39. Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

  40. 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

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

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

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

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

GenresSounds Like
  • El Hombre Viento
  • Juancho Marqués
  • Ricky Hombre Libre
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