Let's do some (immersive) mixing and mastering

I'm doing music production for more than 30 years: started recording track on a Tascam 4-track in the late eighties and sequencing with Cubase 2 or 3 in the early nineties, up to a 9.1.6 immersive home studio at present times. Being able to produce and release my own music on a professional level has always been the driving force. But all this study, practice and investment I also want to use to help other musicians getting the final result they want and need.

Mastering

Mastering is the new found love: I just feel very comfortable with it (it's something for control freaks like myself...).

So I started to explore the art of mastering since 2020 and liked it so much that I've turned this into a side-business.

After reading all the important books on the subjects and followed a dozen of online video courses, I studied with the acclaimed mastering engineers Ian Shepherd (did his mastering course, including personal masterclasses) and Friedemann Tischmeyer (I graduated at the Mastering Academy in Hamburg). With a lot of practice and investing in the necessary gear, I'm able to take things a step further.
I'm delivering a master that is loud enough for being competitive, but open and dynamic at the same time. With both digital detail and analogue warmth I want to give our music that little extra punch and shine. So if you need some masters for streaming, a vinyl master or cd-ddp, just contact me!

Mixing

While mastering can be done for every possible musical genre, mixing is more personal and creative. Mixing decisions can change the character of the music. For music that I feel comfortable with and for artists who like my way of producing and mixing music, I'm always open for collaboration. I'd like to help them and together make the music they want to make. With a lot of fancy software plugins I can bring your music to a next level, and being quite handy in virtual instruments I always can suggest new sounds or extra layers. Working together on something beautiful.

Immersive mixing and mastering

Since last year I'm completely overwhelmed by immersive audio. For me this is the future of how to experience music. Stereo just doesn't exist in nature; immersive sound is the most natural way of experiencing sound. With the emergence of Dolby Atmos this 3D music founds it way into streaming, headphone listening, laptops and soundbars. So time for reshaping music production and start working in immersive.

SOME GEAR

I work in a hybrid set-up, combining lots of digital plugins and some analogue hardware, the best of two worlds, in a multi-functional home studio, which is build for creating, mixing and mastering music, both in stereo and immersive.

DAW

Wavelab Pro 12 (mastering), Nuendo 13 (producing and mixing), iZotope RX10 Advanced and Spectralayers Pro 10 (audio repair), Pro Tools Studio & Logic Pro (when needed)

Analogue hardware

SPL Tube Vitalizer (program tube-EQ), IGS Tubecore (vari mu compressor), Elysia Xpressor Neo (VCA-compressor), SSL Fusion (EQ/HF comp/analogue colour)

Digital plugins

Lot's of high quality plugins from Newfangled Audio/Eventide, MAAT, Tone Projects, Fabfilter, Plugin Alliance, Softube (Weiss/Chandler), Universal Audio, iZotope, Flux, Tokyo Dawn Labs, Leapwing, Sonnox Oxford, Native Instruments, TC Electronic, SSL, Waves (Abbey Road/Mercury), Soundtheory, DMG Audio, Oeksound

Monitoring

PMC TwoTwo6 (main stereo monitors), 2 x DynAudio 9S (subs for both stereo and immersive), 15 x IK Multimedia iLoud MTM (9.1.6 immersive monitoring), JBL 4311WX (vintage control monitors build in the 70s), Audeze LCD-5/ Sennheizer HD580/ Beyer Dynamic DT100 (headphones), SPL MTC MkII (monitor controller), TC Electronic Clarity X (metering), GIK Acoustics/ Hofa-Akustik/ Sonarworks (room treatment)

Controllers

Softube Console 1 Channel Mk3 & Fader Mk3, Avid Dock, TC Electronic hardware plugin-controllers

Audio Interface - AD/DA convertor

Prism Sound Titán

Audient Evo