Hunter Rath on SoundBetter

I'm obsessed with getting your next project sounding the way you want it to sound. My goal is to bring out the excitement in recordings and add creativity that will get people to listen.

I have mixed, recorded, and mastered multiple full length albums for local bands in Seattle in addition to being a part of almost a hundred other projects including recording a song that was featured in the show "Yellowstone" in 2022. I also recorded and mixed the music to a short film that is nominated for the 2021 Cannes indie short film contest. I love to mix and am infatuated with sound and the creative ways that I can make a song the best it can be.

I aim to get tracks to sound exciting and at a place where it can compete on a worldwide stage. I maintain very high standards for my work, always striving to get what sound the project dictates to come out of the speakers.

I love the process of learning and find engineering a very creative process; where things are tried and sometimes rejected, but all ideas are welcome.

Would love to hear from you. Click the contact button above to get in touch.

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by Mike
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Great working with Hunter! I used his mixing and mastering services for a full album. He was very professional, and enhanced the sound quality greatly. Had nice additions to the songs during the mixing process without changing the vision of the songs. Highly recommend.
by Victoria V.
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Super professional; responds well to feedback. The tracks came out great too. Couldn't have asked for more!

Interview with Hunter Rath

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: I have a home studio with tons of plugins including Native instruments Komplete 13 and the Arturia V collection. I use outboard Rupert Neve eq and an outboard tube compressor that sounds incredible on vocals. I monitor out of Yamaha Ns-10s and Avantone MixCubes.
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: Don't settle, we are here to materialize your vision.
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: I don't like really brittle sounds, I like music that has some weight to it and I add that many times through clever compression techniques and harmonic distortion. I like doing weird things to the music ( if the song dictates of course ) and have lots of tricks up my sleeves to add things that make a track stand out.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: I gain the most inspiration primarily from three people. The first is Tchad Blake, who is a mix engineer. He is the epitome of creativity in mixing and mixed records by the Black Keys, the Arctic Monkeys, and Tom Waits. I also gain a lot of inspiration from Dave Cobb who is Nashville's hottest producer who always aims to keep things simple and grooving. The last engineer I gravitate to is of course Al Schmitt who is arguably the best recording engineer on earth and perfects records as they go into protools and not in the mix.