Kaskade – Heaven Knows
Studio Services
MIXING
MIXING
When you hire me to mix you’re not hiring balance and polish, You’re hiring transformation.
I treat every session like a forensic reconstruction and a creative reimagining at the same time. Every note is considered individually and collectively; tuning, timing, tone, texture. Programmed material must feel human and the humans must perform with robotic precision. Precision doesn’t mean sterility; it’s structure and simultaneously subversion of that structure to create the space for raw emotion to soar.
My clients often say they want their first mix to feel like a remix. I don’t just translate what you’ve made, I build the sonic world it deserves. I help extend those raw ideas into a fully realized emotion.
Art sometimes gets ugly before it gets beautiful. I can be the calm for you in that space. Hand me the messy production session. I’ll take it from there and deliver you pristine mixes.
PRODUCTION
Production with me is a structured, intentional process designed to take your vision and make it undeniable.
My role is to take what you’ve built, your identity, your story, the emotional core; and construct the sonic world around it so it can compete at the highest level. I provide full-scale production support: developing arrangements, refining toplines, tightening harmonic structure, designing hybrid electronic and live environments, building custom instrumentation, and elevating rough ideas into finished records that feel dimensional and competitive. If something isn’t translating, I diagnose it. If something feels flat, I rebuild it. If something feels safe, we push it further.
Many of the artists I work with come to me because their music feels static, like it isn’t matching the ambition of their vision. My job is to break that ceiling. Sometimes that means subtle structural shifts. Sometimes it means completely rethinking the sonic environment. Either way, every decision serves the artist’s long-term trajectory, not just the song in front of us.
The goal is simple: when we’re done, the record doesn’t just sound good. It sounds inevitable.
PRODUCTION
ENGINEERING
ENGINEERING
Engineering, for me, is about control, translation, and invention.
I operate in a true hybrid environment; a collection of vintage analog hardware alongside a modern digital ecosystem that includes virtually every plug-in available. I don’t choose between old tools and new ones. I use both, intentionally, and often in ways they weren’t originally designed for.
Analog gear gives me harmonic density, nonlinear movement, and depth that can’t be faked. Digital tools give me surgical precision and scalability. And if the existing tools can’t achieve what the project demands, I build new ones to make it possible. I treat limitations as engineering problems with solutions.
Engineering is an art to me. Timing is structural, tuning is contextual, every note is moved subjectively by me for feel not objectively to a grid for correctness. When combining live players with programmed elements, the seams disappear; cohesion isn’t mathematical; it’s aesthetic.
What I do is not nostalgia for analog. It’s not blind faith in digital. It’s a laboratory built for results.
Dolby Atmos and Apple Spatial Audio
Dolby Atmos is redefining how we experience music. Immersive mixing is not an add-on; it’s the frontier. With Apple leading the charge through Spatial Audio, and platforms like TIDAL, Amazon Music, and SoundCloud continuing to expand immersive delivery, this format is no longer speculative. It’s the new standard.
I’ve been invested in spatial audio since before its public launch, working in surround and immersive formats since 2007 and building a brand new certified Dolby Enabled Atmos Studio to explore what happens when a song starts breathing in three dimensions.
Immersive done right feels inevitable, not experimental. I don’t approach Atmos as a spectacle. I approach it as an architecture, transforming songs into fully dimensional soundscapes with clarity, depth, and movement. I don’t just throw elements around the room. I pull the listener inside the song, fully enveloped in the feeling.
Depth becomes emotional leverage. Height becomes tension. Space becomes narrative. When working in spatial formats, I’m inside the mix, mentally wandering that in-between space, discovering the paradigm of what the piece could be if the walls disappeared.
I can create an Atmos mix directly from stereo stems, or fully reimagine a track, taking advantage of object-based mixing at its highest creative potential.
My goal is not to create immersive mixes that merely live up to the stereo version, I want to create immersive mixes that exceed it. If you’re ready to elevate your music and future-proof your catalog, I can help bring your songs into the immersive era.
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