Aberdeen based mixing engineer specialising in impactful rock & metal mixes that instantly stand out
Hi I'm Sonny, a young mix and master engineer from Scotland. I specialise in clean, impactful mixes designed to maximise energy & excitement.
I began producing music in 2020, starting out with electronic and moving to rock and metal. Having honed my skills for 6 years (and getting an HND in sound production) I'm now ready to branch out and work with artists!
While metal is my main "discipline" of mixing, I've found that techniques I've developed for the genre translate extremely well over to rock and almost anything else. My background in producing electronic music has also given me a unique approach to mixing music with real instruments. Whatever your genre is, I'll likely be able to mix it!
As a musician myself I know how important it is to have the work you spent so much time with coming out the way you imagined it. I'd love to help get your material to where you want it!
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Interview with Sonny Ewart
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: Clean, impactful, exciting and slammed
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: Doesn't matter to me! I don't really care about what medium things are recorded with, just as long as it's recorded well. You can always process digital to sound analogue, or vice versa.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: I'm usually practicing with metal multitracks, but I'm open to literally anything with a drumkit, bass and guitar!
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: My studio setup is extremely minimalistic, I'm working with just a laptop and my Sennheiser HD560s. The Sennheiser's are an extremely flat headphone, and I feel very confident making decisions on them. I barely have to reference other systems with those headphones; I'll finish a mix, try it on a bluetooth speaker and it'll just be perfect.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: Buster Odeholm's style of mixing and his complete disregard for the rules really inspires me. He doesn't care that you're not supposed to use 6 EQs on a sound, he doesn't care that you're not meant to make the bass stereo; if it sounds good it sounds good! I try to stick to that philosophy when I'm mixing. Owen Morris as well is an insane mix engineer, he's what basically saved Oasis. If you listen to the original mix of Definitely Maybe it's insane just how crap it sounds! Using the exact same stems and some wild processing techniques he managed to turn it into a classic.
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: Mainly mixing/mastering, but I would love to get more into recording & producing
I was the producer, mix engineer and mastering engineer in this production
- Mixing EngineerAverage price - $150 per song
- Mastering EngineerAverage price - $30 per song
Mix turnaround - 2 days (per song)
Master turnaround - under 1 day (per song)
Up to 2 revisions allowed
- Humanity's Last Breath
- Oasis
- Converge
