Analog - Online Mastering

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: It is always a mix of single tracks from different clients and a LP or two.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both. Digital to correct things - Analog to make the sound.

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

A: You will be satisfied with the result.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: Listen to the results before/after Mastering and read the nice feedback from my customer. It is also important for my job to listen frequently to music in genreral but also to really high-quality recordings.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: When should the work finished? For what do you want to have masters (Online, Vinyl, CD, ..) Did you listen to reference-tracks in the production process?

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Whatever the song needs or the artist wants to have. My style is to make the client happy. I don´t want to put "my style" on a mix.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: A lot of people can´t listen in their environment over some hours without getting tired. The key to make it easier is to get rid of acoustic reflections like: your desk and your side-walls. Make a so called "mirror-test" to see where you should put some absorptive material. For testing even a pillow on the desk between you and your speaker can help.

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

A: Pop, Rock, Jazz, Synth-Pop, Singer-Songwriter, Metal, Electronic, Stoner-Rock I like to work on different genres.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Hear what the song needs. Listen to finest things and never lose the overall view. I work also in the fields of acoustics and electronics. So lclients also often ask me things about these two topics.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: Better sound. Make it better hearable on all listening systems. Make it sound "professional".

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Mix/files gets uploaded, then I take my time listen to it. In that time, I hear what it needs to push the song forward to the next level in a way the song/mix benefits from the mastering.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: Hybrid Analog/Digital setup for Mastering. Stem-Mastering via Analog Summing and a siderack full of equipment. Only highest quality analog equipment but a lot of different flavours.

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

A: Giving Mix-Tipps and review their Mixes. Then do the Mastering.

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

A: Can you give me a Mix advice? Answer: Sure, it is part of my job and free!

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

A: "Louder is better" Some styles definitely need a loud master, but today it is not important anymore to squash music too loud which destroys the musicality.

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

A: My room and loudspeaker system, Forssell converter, Hendyamps Michelangelo, Culture Vulture

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

A: Mastering since 12years, in the audio business since 2001

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

A: I listen to a lot of high-quality records nearly every day so it changes. But I would definitely like to work with Goldfrapp or Björk.

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

A: Whatever sounds really good inspire me. And there are always releases who stands out in quality.