It all started for me in 1999. The band I was in needed to prepare the recordings for a demo. Somehow the job appealed to me and I started working on getting it sound brutal. And to be honest the other band member didn't think that much of it but I thought it sound fairly OK. And it taught us how you could use the technical aspect of mixing and mastering to create a more professional sound. Unfortunately the band broke up and we went separate ways. But still to this very day we're still friends.

Somehow the work of mastering other mixes was becoming a great way to learn a lot aspects of what mastering really was. Thanks to the rise of new breed of tools called software plugins I managed to quickly pick up the extra technical skills. Not unlike many other mastering engineers I also a engineer in the field of electronics and digital techniques.

But Mastering is more than knowing lots about technical details. But also experience and training your ears combined with specialized tools and a acoustically optimized room.
For 5 years I was practicing as much as possible with my own music and others. Even grabbing every mix from the Internet to try the impossible. Fixing up a badly mixed and mastered song. And I ended getting up more and more compliments from the people I helped with their mixes.

Next step was to start mastering demo's for friends who even got noticed by the A&R people from labels. And ending up doing sessions for commercial releases. From singles, 12" to EP and later on whole albums. I even managed to get a deal for becoming the preferred mastering engineers for several people.

As long as I can remember I always liked music. Playing organ and piano as a kid and later on getting into keyboards, synthesizers. Hooking it up to the Atari ST and explore the world of sampling.

It's the biggest challenge to try and get the best out of the mixes for clients. Constantly raising the bar and stay in touch with the newest technical developments. Not being about loudness or technical perfection but making a song work as it was intended by the people who created it. Music is art and emotion.