Samuel Borst on SoundBetter

Tinariwen, Fontaines DC, Parcels, Arctic Monkeys, The Murder Capital.

I worked 5 years as an engineer in a residential studio called La Frette. I had the chance to work for artists like Tinariwen, Fontaines DC, Parcels, Arctic Monkeys, The Murder Capital.

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Credits

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Tinariwen
The Murder Capital
Dominique A*
Fontaines D.C.
Olivier Rocabois
Fontaines D.C.

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by Frau N.
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absolutely amazing. really personable, really good at implementing our feedback, always on time, and more than anything, ended up giving us an amazing end product!! Would definitely work with him again, all round just a lovely guy.

Interview with Samuel Borst

Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: both, it doesn't matter that much.
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: I will do my best to understand the project and bring it the further I can.
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: helping ideas see the light, in the hope that someone gets touched by it.
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: 8 years, I started out when I was 17.
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: make choices quickly
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: I usually work with bands. I'm not closed to any genre, I can be moved by a big variety of Music.
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: My background and experience in recordings as I learned to hear and understand how instruments sound in natural spaces, (different rooms, mic placements etc. ). It also gave me the chance to use and deeply understant the fonction of most hardware pieces that are emulated in plugins today.
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: At first I'm generally trying to get a good sens of what my client wants, because not every mix, is the same. Although the technical side of the work is very important, the psychological is as much if not more important. My technical knowledge is only to use of ideas, making them exiting and helping finishing them.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: I generally work in the box in pro tools, with a pair of trusted PMC db1s, it seems to be the more convenient to me. Im a big fan of analog gear though, while recording it makes the creative process more fun and intuitive.
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: I generally work with bands and acoustic instruments as I come from this world of recoding studios.