Cadu Souza on SoundBetter

I'm an audio engineer, specialized on audio mixing and mastering, and being musical producer in the last three years being the mixer of the brazilian recording label 'Gravadora Experimental', I'm graduated at the Phonographic Production university FATEC in Brazil, the biggest in the country.

I love making music on every level, so whether you want me to produce, mix or master for you, I can't wait to dive into your next project together.
I know how important every detail of a song needs to be in order to make it a hit. This is why I offer services from just vocal editing to full on music productions with mixing and mastering.

I've been working on rock, R&B, Brazilian music, Afro music, classical music, jazz and pop with very distinct artists in Brazil, being trained in the faculty of phonographic production FATEC.

If your track’s 90% there but still feels off, I’m not here to clean it up. I’m here to mix it with weight, depth, and clarity. Without flattening what makes it yours.

If you’re sitting on a song that deserves more than “good enough,” send it over. Let’s finish it right.

I'd love to hear about your project. Click the 'Contact' button above to get in touch.

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Interview with Cadu Souza

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: It was a project as mixer of a jazz combo, being the mixer, because it's a fulfilling song, emotional content with deep meaning, where I feel that I extracted the soul of the meaning of the music in the mix.
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: A big band jazz album, a hardcore rock album, a jazz EP and an early music duo EP
Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?
A: Yoad Nevo, he it's a reference to me too
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: The both, we can't do anything without analog speakers and microphones, good preamps and color; and we need the digital world to make it more recallable, trusty and clean when it's needed.
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: To get as close as possible, or even beyond, the artist's vision of their music, bringing it vividly to the world.
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: Always being work with new musics that it's coming to the world for the first time, I love the music creation
Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A: How many recalls I provide, my answer it's commonly 5
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: That's just a mechanical thing or simple, not a thing as deep as the composition and interpretation of the music.
Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?
A: What's the sound and the feelings that you want to achieve with your song? What's your references? What do you want with your music?
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: See if our vision of music it's the same to make the best work together
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: A great pair of 3 way monitors, acoustic treatment, a good converter, a powerful MAC and an automated fader controler.
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: I've been doing this for 12 years, I'm graduated in the biggest conservatory of the Latin America in classical guitar and viola da gamba, after it, I've graduated at phonographic production in FATEC, the biggest university in this area in Brazil, doing very much recordings at the university, in the music production side of the songs and in the sound engineering and mixing side of the songs, focusing my career and path in this 3 areas of the musical market production.
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: My style it's comprehend and make the music alive with human taste and sauce.
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: Bruno Mars, because its sound, mainly the R&B, it's such deep and groovie in its sound, and he is an incredible artist with very much to add.
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: In music production, always try to see the entire image of the music, what's the message behind the music and its soul, this is where the music really lives. In mixing, always starts by the levels of the tracks, with automation and gain clip, most of the problems in the musics it's just leveling questions.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: Mainly MPB(Brazilian Music), Rock, Jazz, Afromusic and Classical music, but I also have experience with R&B, Soul and Pop.
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: My personal relationship with another people and my capacity to understand and comprehend the intention of the artists.
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: The emotion that the artist wants to achieve and that it wants the listener to feel it, I try every time to find the soul of the music that the artist wants to the music with good balance, dynamics and movement to the tracks.
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: My typical work process is to identify what's the sound color that the artist or the music producer wants in the mix and then achieve the soul of that sound, searching for the characteristics of timber, equalization and dynamics of the required references. As a producer, I try to achieve and understand the message that the artist want to transmit and touch in their fans and listeners, going as much as possible to the extraction of the musical proposition that the art wants to be alive and breathing.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: My studio setup owns a pair of Kali LP-6, SSL 2 Interface, acoustic treatment and a bunch of microphones.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: Manny Marroquin, Andrew Scheps and Dennis Ward in mixing. In music production Dennis Ward too, Andrew Watt and Rick Rubin.
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: I'm experienced with music production and mixing engineering working for my clients, extracting the best result in sound quality and artistic feeling.