Yan Montoya on SoundBetter

Berlin based. Loud and punchy mixdown and mastering service for streaming and club environment. I also offer production or editing to take your songs from a demo to club or radio ready track. I provide everything needed Samples selection pitch/tuning/mixing/mastering/recording

Production for EDM ,Houses and Techhouse/Deephouse
Engineer Mixdown and Mastering Pop,Trap,EDM,

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English
German

2 Reviews

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by Berfin Kilic
Yan is very pleasant to work with. He goes through everything with you and revises everything you don't like. He also gives you tips on how to improve the production. He is a very good producer and mixing engineer. I am very happy with all my work and always come back to work with him.
by Berfin Kilic
Jan is very pleasant to work with. He goes through everything with you and reworks everything you don't like. He also gives you tips on how to improve the production. He is a very good producer and mixing engineer. I am very happy with all my work and always come back to work with him.

Interview with Yan Montoya

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: Mixing, Editing an Album for BÈRFIN.
Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?
A: Niko Stoessl
Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A: If I can teach them how to mix in a few minutes and if they can have my plugins and settings. Won't help every song will require new solutions for different problems.
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: That I have one button to fix the mix and that there is the whole GRALE of mixing Its 100000 small moves and decisions that are made out of experience.
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: power, punch, emotion and energy!
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: Possible use of analogue hardware like SSL Fusion ect. Most of the time i mix in the box and the final touches will be analogue
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: Tech and Deep House Producers like the old Maceo Plex stuff, Hot Since 82, Simon Doty, Defected ,
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: producing music for Social Media Ads for Companies
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: Both
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: I give you 5 Revisions for free, and my goal is you to be happy with the product. If not we will find a way that works in your interest.
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: Creating something that wasn't there before, energy.
Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?
A: what's your vision, and what do you think will you need me to do with the song that you feel absolutely fantastic about it?
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: SPL IRON , Blackbox, API2500, SPL Vitalzier,SSL FUSION,
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: Audio engineering school and now working for like 7 years with clients,also doing music production for ads and social media
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: maceo plex, love the funky bass lines and that sexy groove
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: Saturation is our friend
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: eletronic music for clubs and pop music aswell as trap
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: turning the worst production into a very good mastered song that hits very hard
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: cleaning the production and working on the right sounds than editing than mixing than mastering
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: I am confident in putting a smile on your face! Ghost production, mixing, editing, mastering, coaching. I have my "golden" to drumbus that never disappoints. Editing, adding elements and giving suggestions to improve the production, mixing mastering is a common thing.