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: My friends and I made a short film called "belikeakid" for YouTube and we created an original soundtrack for it to premiere in our hometown.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: I am working on remixing my original songs for a live setting.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Analog, and I'm excited to learn use more analog gear someday

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

A: I will do my best and will be honest with you

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I love sculpting sound

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

A: can

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

A: I love analog gear and believe its the best way to mix but there's nothing wrong with doing on a laptop. It's not worst, it just gives a different feel to a song.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: When do you need it done, what how do you want the song to feel, and what are your reference track?

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

A: Getting everything to the best of your abilities is the most important part of a song.

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

A: MacBook Pro 15", ATH-M50x, ilok, Maschine MK3, and Traktor S4

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

A: I am currently a DJ in Bali while producing my own music on the side to release. My goal is to become a touring artist and perform at festivals. I've learning how to dj in Bali in 2011 but started taking music production serious in 2016. If I could write a song to touch the world the way my favorite songs touched my heart, that'd be the greatest gift.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: My style adapts and changes as I move and live life. I do have a specific feel and when a song hit my ears right, it'll show me a new version of myself that I'm inspired to explore.

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

A: Skrillex because he's so versatile

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: "Let the music write itself" - Micheal Jackson

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

A: When it comes to hip hop, I love working on tracks that have the 90's boom bap flavor. House music, UK Garage, and Afro House are always beyond fun. I am always down for an RnB song or a silky downtempo track.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Vocal processing and effects

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: My goal for every song is to bring it to life with energy while making sure it is safe for the listeners to hear.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: When I sit down to mix and master a track, my first point of focus is to organize all the stems in their summing stacks so I know where to find everything. After, I tidy up the drums to get the feel, move down to the instrumentation, bass. Then spend as much time as I need on the vocals. When the song is all set, I'll route some through a sidechain bus, glue it all together in a premaster chain, and top it off with a master chain. On my master chain I have settings set up to see what works in mono, how loud everything is metered, and what the frequency spectrum looks like.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: even though I work inside the box, I have invested in a wide variety of plugins to achieve studio qualities mixes.

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

A: I am a huge of a lot of the electronic producers from the early 2010s like Skrillex, Porter Robinson, Madeon, Galimatias, and Disclosure.

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

A: Most Clients hire me to mix and master their tracks, along with vocal processing.