Mix & Master, Pop, Lofi +more

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

A: Try to explain your goal as detailed as possible.

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

A: Well without electricity i would be lost anyway haha

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

A: I have been doing producing/mixing/mastering for over 10 years now.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: My style is simplistic and straight forward.

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

A: I would love to work with Post Malone because he just seems like a chill dude to hang out and to work with.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Give it time and try to spread out your sessions over multiple days or weeks. Sometimes you just like an idea because you heard it too often in a row.

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

A: I am working on lofi, indie pop, pop and chillout music. But i am really open to every kind of genre.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Understanding the clients idea.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I bring a lot of experiences from mixing and mastering hundreds of songs. Sometimes my own, sometimes working with other singers and sometimes for complete strangers. I think i can understand the ideas of other people pretty well and i can translate them into the song.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: There is no typical work process for me, its different everytime and thats the reason why its never getting boring.

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

A: I'm proud of my work with "dontask" and of my own work "dontaskalex". These are my first projects and i really like the sound of these

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: I'm working on an album with a singer and i am also producing my own songs.

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

A: There is another mixing and mastering engineer called Fred who does really good work.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Digital, because a lot of digital plugins have algorithms implemented designed to reimagine analog tools, for example reverbs and delays.

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

A: If you dont like it you dont have to pay for it

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: Its possible from everywhere and with everyone

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

A: How should you prepare your pre-master: make sure it has some headroom about -6dB

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

A: Even though mastering and mixing is pretty technical it has a creative component to it.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: Where do you want to publish your track and what sound should be accomplished.

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

A: I am focusing on mastering single tracks, or tracks within a bigger project, for example an EP or LP. I am also doing mixing services, so there is the possibility to combine both services into one order.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I am working on a Desktop PC with two KRK 8 ROKIT G3 Speakers and DT770 Pro Headphones. The DAW i use is FL Studio 20. I invested in a few Plugins from Izotope, Youlean and Soundtoys for mastering and mixing purposes.

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

A: I am a big fan of the producer Rick Rubin. I just love his positive energy and the calmness in his approach of making music with different styles.