Experimental Mix Engineer

Rock, folk, and experimental mix and mastering engineer with 20 years of experience including work with Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Iron & Wine, Owen, Owls, Joan of Arc, Jeff Parker and Slow Mass, amongst others. Working across genres, I take a collaborative approach with artists to making sure a mix elevates a song to its maximum impact.

Hello! My name is Neil Strauch and I am a mixing and mastering engineer with 20 years of experience in the studio. I am currently offering remote mixing and mastering services from my private mix studio. My focus is, and has always been, on expanding an artist's ideas, vision, and sounds through the mix process to both reach the highest level of fidelity of the sound as well as creatively embellish the recordings collaboratively to see how far we can take them. My job is to take a recording and make it transcend what it is and elevate it to its ultimate possibilities. My specialty is working with artists who sit just a little outside of their genre, whatever it may be, and are looking for unique takes rather than stock sounds. After many years of mixing on large format consoles, I took that knowledge and created a simpler and more nimble mix setup - I mostly mix in-the-box in ProTools with (pretty much all of the) UAD, Waves, and SoundToys plug-ins. The mix runs out Avid HD convertors, through an SSL 4k buss compressor, to a Rupert Neve Designs summing mixer, finally using Black Lion Audio monitor control. I prefer the simpler set-up, since it allows for more time spent thinking about the mix and not recalling and focussing on the gear settings, as well as quicker turn-around times and faster revisions - more time spent on the song itself and exploration.

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