Audio Engineer

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: get a feel for the track before I do anything, then set levels and find room for the elements in the mix.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: Some outboard gear, mostly inside the box mixing.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: making myself known

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Digital, great quality analog emulation plugins can be hard to tell from the actual gear. So you actually have the choice to make things sound analog or digital.

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

A: I'll do my best to bring out the most of the music I work on.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I don't know if I like what i do more, or if I just hate everything else.

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

A: I've read things on youtube comments like: mix engineers just make things louder, a good test: put a limiter (maximizer) on your unmixed track, bring the level up or down to mirror the mixed version. Be the judge.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: what message do they want to send with their music, how they want it to "feel"

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

A: One, Laptop. Everything you need. Island... then two some sort of solar energy generator so you can run it. Ideally, if I had to pick 5 it would be Ableton run through a laptop, a good analog interface, transparent monitors, a good mic, and a Neve 1073 Preamp.

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

A: came across people who really saved me a lot of time that I would have been spending in trial and error.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Enigmatic

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

A: No comment, just here to work.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Learn a balance, don't do too much and complicate everything when you can make something sound as good with less. You don't want to do too little either, just a balance.

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

A: Hip Hop & EDM

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: taste.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: If I'm mixing and mastering I want to bring out the character of the song and the feeling behind it.

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

A: There are many, Young Guru is a class act and great role model.

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

A: Mixing is what I have the most experience with, most people I know like to send out their final mixes to an established studio.