If you're not going to mix, master, or produce your music yourself, don't hire someone who doesn't get what you're going for! I get it because I'm going for the same weird shit.
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Imagine being understood by your engineer, producer, co-producer, guest guitarist or noise maker! Sounds wacky, right? Well it's not too common in experimental, progressive, & forward-thinking music communities that a "professional" is going to get your niche let alone know how to work within its boundaries (or lack thereof).
I can help you get your weird ass music feeling better than ever, whether you make vaporwave, minimal techno, noise pop, electro-industrial, blackened screamo, IDM, psych rock, new age digital fusion, or sound collage made from field recordings of vacuums and smashed dinner plates run through guitar pedals into a broken VHS player.
Mixing is an emotional process with an emotional result. With that in mind, I will rescue, revive, and refine your production until it's captivating, communicating, and complete.
Mastering is an utterly essential process. I approach it with intuition, but my skills and experience facilitate that. With mastering I add the final touches, refine the energy flow, and essentially prepare your work for its intended media formats.
I compose, produce, & remix because I love to and have to—I will die if I don't. For you I can produce original music, or add elements and dimension to your songs so that they're exciting & rife with spirit.
All reviews were requested of the client after their project was completed, with no special offer in return. I never encourage good reviews, just honest ones.
Whether she's producing your new album or remastering a decades-old classic, Angel can always be counted on to deliver jaw-dropping results. She's our go-to engineer for virtually everything we release.
Dustin Wong
Ponytail, Ecstatic Sunshine
Angel fully understands what the music needs and made [my] album shine from within itself. Despite various delays on my end, Angel was nothing but helpful & supportive throughout the whole process. Most importantly: the album sounds the best it ever has and feels reborn in engineered enchantment!
Geometric Lullaby
These vinyl masters sound so good on the test pressings. Damn! I don't think I've been this impressed with a vinyl sound yet.
John Kadian
Glass Garden
Angel is incredibly skilled and efficient at what she does. The project she mastered seriously came to life listening through all different mediums. An excellent communicator, she was able to take me through the process in a very patient and kind way. If you're looking for someone for QUALITY masters, look no further.
Alana Schachtel
Lipsticism, Forever Forever
I was shocked by how accurate Angel’s assessment of my mixes was, and how precisely she understood my vision. I was satisfied far beyond my expectations and simply ecstatic. I believe Angel is a rare talent in the fields of mixing and mastering; it is not common that an engineer can understand and adapt to what their clients want so proficiently. Additionally, Angel’s kind, thorough, and professional communication made the experience easy and seamless. Working with Angel was the best decision I could have made for my music. I want to share my experience so others who are also stuck or dissatisfied with their music can feel the relief and excitement that I am now feeling from having the full potential of my songs realized.
Garry Brents
Gonemage, Memorrhage, Cara Neir, Homeskin, Sallow Moth
I've worked with Angel multiple times on different albums, which are all stylistically different from each other (from weird black metal / chiptune to nu-metal) and I leave fully satisfied with the final result every time! The attention to detail and overall integrity of your music's sound is in great hands.
Right out of the womb I was obsessed with the world of idiosyncratic music.
Hey! I'm Angel and I'm a full-service remote mixing and mastering engineer, producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist who specializes in the weird, experimental, progressive, challenging, outside-of-the-box brands of original music. I live with my wife in the Chicagoland limits and run a studio with my cats. I also make music as Fire-Toolz, Nonlocal Forecast, MindSpring Memories, and a few other aliases.
Over the years I’ve helped hundreds of aspiring and accomplished boundary-pushing artists achieve what they are striving for—good fucking productions.
Under my belt I have credentials in many corners of unconventional and eccentric music, from free jazz to harsh noise to chillwave to grindcore to experimental rap to drone to blah blah blah. All the stuff Billboard magazine tends to believe is garbage.
And that’s my niche. Rather than working in a particular genre, I work in a particular approach to many genres.
If your project is suffering, or even pretty damn good, there is still potential for pushing it into a brighter light.
If you're absorbed in making music, it's likely you don’t have time to (learn how to) mix and master it. Or perhaps you’re just not interested in that stuff, as it isn’t where your passion lies.
Or it could be that your music is missing something, and either you don’t know what it is, or you don’t have the gear, skills, or experience to pin-point it let alone resolve it.
It could be that you had a friend helping you, but they always flake, lose interest, or hit walls neither of you can break down. I hear this kind of thing all the time from clients. They come to me to save what was left hanging off a cliff.
You might’ve even hired a pro before, but they didn’t get what you were going for, and so they tried to mold you into something you weren't.
If we work together, I’ll help you resolve and avoid all this. All you need to do is get your production as far as you want to take it (with or without my help), and I’ll get it the rest of the way.
I understand your marginalized niche, and I can enhance and elevate your production to be the caliber it deserves to be. Honing in on where your projects are weak or not functioning well, I'll execute solutions so that your recordings are as potent and tasty as they can get.
Use the contact form or book a call so we can talk about what you're looking for. We’ll discuss reference tracks, intended media formats, scheduling and deadlines, budget, special requests, and of course—your music!
2. COMMENCE WIZARDRY
The second step is the ball in my court. I will get busy producing, mixing, and/or mastering your project, and you’ll be on retainer to ask or answer questions, and to approve or critique what I come up with.
3. SHINE BRIGHT LIKE A 💎
Upon your approval, I'll send you your files, properly named and organized by media format. Commence the spellbinding high of your completed masterpiece. Time to inject it into the world.
Why would you want to work with me?
I started out as a DIY musician in the late 80s, in my single digits, and ever since then I’ve insisted on making music my parents would often tell me wasn't quite “radio-friendly.” They recommended I not seriously pursue music like this until I got my "big break." Whatever that means!
At that age I would plug my guitar into my stereo and crank the input until it distorted. I would run my Alesis HR-16 drum machine into guitar pedals my uncle gave me before I even knew you could make music like that.
At 23 years old, I found myself sending that HR-16 off to a circuit-bender to turn into a synthesizer. Meanwhile I’m drumming non-stop blast beats in a powerviolence band, and then writing 30-minute long songs in a 7 piece post-rock outfit using a pedal board I could not lift without help.
Now pair that lifetime full of atypical styles of music with a decade and a half of experience in producing and engineering those very styles, and you've got a compelling argument for working with me.
Your days of cloudy demo quality recordings have come to an end. No more (unwanted) clipping artifacts, out-of-whack compression, out-of-phase drums, badly EQ'd vocals, cut corners, unsightly compromises, or all around weak production.
After completing 600+ projects for 400+ clients, I've learned how to keep you from getting caught in that rut.
We all know how it feels when your works of art reflect back at you a magnified version of how you feel and where you’re coming from. If you get that feeling from your final product, chances are listeners will as well.
And remember... ‘Listeners’ includes labels, music journalists, playlist makers, booking agents, promoters, managers, and other professionals you may need support from.
That is- if you're into that sort of thing! There's nothing wrong with playing basements and selling home-dubbed tapes for the rest of your life. That's just as sacred of a path. I can still help you.
Your work of art will end up a strong, lucid, well-engineered production after it makes its way through my process.
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