Award winning mixing/mastering engineer and music producer (for Red Bull, Apple, Disney...) who started out as a classical trained musician using this craft to bring musicality to his productions and mixes. Offering mixes and production now in spatial audio (Dolby Atmos and Auro3D)
René is a Hamburg based producer and mixer. After studying philosophy and music he started to work as a recording producer, mixing engineer and composer in his own studio in the south of Hamburg. His work can be heard on several records, advertisements, films and musicals all over the world.
Offering Mixings and full blown Productions in Stereo as well as Dolby Atmos in his
His list of clients includes among others Disney, ARD, Apple, Stage Entertainment, Unilever, Sony Music, Universal, BMG. He has worked with Martin Grubinger, Helene Fischer, NDR Bigband, Michael Bolton, Hamburger Sinfoniker, Augsburger Philharmoniker, Minsk Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Höfs, German Brass, Jean-Jacques Kravetz, Carl Carlton, Steffi Stephan, Roberto Blanco, Ben Becker, Daniela Ziegler, Pia Douwes, Esther Ofarim…
He holds a teaching position for Musicproduction and Immersive Audio at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg.
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Credits
- Helene Fischer
- Minsk Symphony Orchestra
- The Lion King Musical
- Sister Act
- Beauty and the Beast - Stage Production
- The Little Mermaid
- Augsburger Philharmoniker
- Trilok Gurtu
- NDR Bigband
- Matthias Höfs
- Cuico
- Michael Bolton
- Panikorchester
- Roberto Blanco
- Hamburger Sinfoniker
- Martin Grubinger
- Apple
- Warner Chappell
- Sony/BMG
- Universal Records
- Adoro
- Til Brönner
- Alan Menken
- Roger Cicero
- Eurovision Songcontest
Interview with KILTA Mastering
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: After studying music and philosophy I started working as a recording engineer for german pop artists. During that time I also started to write songs and arrangements and got into producing some independent bands. I started working with bigger companies like Disney, Apple, Universal and Warner and soon it made sense to build a professional studio with decent acoustical design to deliver highest quality productions. For some years now I have been producing as well as mixing and mastering in my own studio a lot of clients from all over the world.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: I have a custom build Mix/Mastering room with an ATC based 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos setup (3x ATCSCM100ASL Pro, 4x ATCSCM20A Pro, 4x ATC12i Pro, SCS70 Pro) and Dutch&Dutch 8c loudspeakers.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: Tennyson, C2C, Greg Curstin, Earthtones
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: both since each realm offers sonic possibilities
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: Music Production, Mixing and Mastering using cutting edge technology to deliver pristine sounding audio.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: Pop, Singer/Songwriter, Classical, HipHop, RnB
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: I am a very analytical listener and have a strong musical background which gives me the ability to work on many different styles of music.
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: My musical experience as musician and composer enables me to do much more than just the technical side of a production process
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: Producing, Mixing and Mastering in Stereo and Dolby Atmos
- Mastering EngineerAverage price - $150 per song
- Mixing EngineerAverage price - $1500 per song
- ProducerAverage price - $3000 per song
- Composer OrchestralContact for pricing
- Full instrumental productionContact for pricing
- String ArrangerContact for pricing
- Game AudioContact for pricing
2-7 days turn-around time. Up to 2 revisions on masters before charging low extra costs.
- Daft Punk
- Earthtones
- Fred again..
- Rupert Neve Masterbus Processor
- GML 8900
- GML 8200
- The Phoenix
- API2500
- Neve 1073
- Neve 8816
- Manley VariMu
- Bricasti M1
- Lexicon PCM 96
- Merging Horus
- Hapi
- Anubis
- Pultec EQP-1S3
- Loudspeaker: ATC SCM100ASL Pro
- ATC SCM20ASL Pro