Producer,Co-Writer,Mix&Master

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?

A: Moonface with Siinai (JagJagwar) - recording, producing and mixing Handsome Furs (Sub Pop) - Mixing LIIMA (4AD) - Producer Karina (self released) Producer . mixing

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: with Colin Stetson on his new album and score work. plu my own producer project called The Last Year.

Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?

A: my friend Benedic MacIsaac is awesome

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Analog for the harmonics it doans to make the quality more exiting , and digital for exiting new crazy sounds.

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

A: You won get this type of sound anywhere else.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: Just the fun of being creative with audio, and being exited of a new fresh song that i can start to work on.

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

A: What plug-ins do you use? answer.- thats done with outboard gear How quickly can you get this back to me? - answer: as soon as its ready, 1-3 days.

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

A: Mmaking a "clean" mix , im really more about distorting and making exciting new sounds.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What do they expect of a final product and references of msuci they have 

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

A: Evalutaion and honest feedback, swift delivery and few revisits. Mix, Stems, instrumental versions

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

A: A NEVE Console, Fairchild Compressor, Lexicon 420, Mac Pro, RME UFX +

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

A: for about 15 years. I started as a engineering assistant in Sea Wolf Studios (Helsinki) and the moved to Berlin in 2008 and founded Kaiku Studios Berlin where i was heas producer and engineer for 13 years. I did lots of greta records there like: LCMDF, Moonface, Moon Duo, Follakziod, Handsome Furrs, Whitest Boy Alive... etc.. Now i have my own studio at home in south of France.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Kinda like, musical electronics with lots of RnB

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

A: Big Thief band,. and because they are so amazing on the songwriting they do. Also an amazing band how they play together .

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: To make a cool stereo image form a mono signal: Dublicate the channel to a new channels and add a super small rever (0.01s) and pan that to the left the other one to the right.

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

A: Indie Pop, Hip Hop, Indie Rock, Alt RnB... good music!

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Making 3D sound with revebrsm and harmonising the audio quality to more exciting form.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: Sonic excitement, i really think msuc ishoudl be captivating from the first second yu listen to it, the listener shoudl not want to press stop.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: First i listen and evaluate whats the music like and what i think is needed to be done. The i report this to the client. The i usually set it up to Logic X (i Prefer to use that DAW for creative work) and start to Eq and process channels etc...

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: 2 x RME UFX+ Macbook Pro, Pro Tools, Logic X and Ableton. Waves, Soundtoys and Fabfilter bundles and Output subscribtion. Small Studio room with Genelec monitors, and some outboard grear like Distressors, UAD 1176, API lunch box with 550b and Emperical Labs DocDerr. Memoryman, Digital Delay, different sort of distortions....

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

A: Damian Taylor, My friend Mikko Gordon are great producers, and i love Jungle (the band) and all XL records and Young Turks music.

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

A: I do mainly creative mixing, co-writing and producing.