About
A Mixing Engineer with an Artistic Mind
I work best with artists who care about tone, space, and emotional specificity as much as they care about punch and clarity.
Since
2016
Home base
Atmospheric records
Workflow
Remote & collaborative
Story
I approach mixing like arrangement after the songwriting is already done.
I’m Derrick, a mixing engineer with an artistic mind. My own projects — Voyage In Solitude and The Mists — pushed me to learn how to build mixes that feel expansive, immersive, and emotionally specific.
Since 2016, I’ve been working closely with artists who care about atmosphere as much as impact. That usually means shoegaze, post-rock, post-metal, ambient, darkwave, and other music where texture matters as much as punch.
The goal is not to force every track into the same polished template. It’s to help the record become more itself.
Artist projects
Voyage In Solitude
Post-black metal
The Mists
Shoegaze
Working style
Communication is direct, revision-friendly, and grounded in references, intent, and arrangement choices — not vague buzzwords or agency language.
What matters
The mix should make the vision clearer, not more generic.
That means balancing translation and personality — enough detail to survive the real world, enough restraint to keep the atmosphere intact.
01
Artistic understanding first
A good mix should not flatten the personality out of the song. I work from intention, tone, and feeling before I reach for polish.
02
Genre fluency without tunnel vision
Shoegaze, post-rock, post-metal, ambient, and adjacent styles are the natural home base, but the process stays open to what the song actually needs.
03
Musician-to-musician collaboration
Because I write and release music myself, communication stays practical, specific, and frictionless from references to final revisions.
Next step
If the references are hazy but the feeling is clear, that’s enough to start.
Send over the music, a few reference points, and what you want the record to feel like when it lands.