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ANDREW SEIDEL Pro Tools Producer and Mix Engineer

About Me

I'm a Pro Tools Certified, producer and mix engineer.••• I've worked with: MC Hammer, Nate Dogg, E40, Turf Talk, Afro Man, Dj Quick, Mac Dre, Goapele, Baby Bash, David Banner, the Clipse, Keak Da Sneak, the Mossie, San Quinn, Amp Fiddler, Cherine, Luciano, Jah Cure, Gentleman, Prezident Brown, The Itals, Tony Rebel, Richie Spice, Junior Reid, Ky-mani Marley and Yami Bolo. And with the following companies: Warner Bros., TVT, Sony Japan, Jive Records, Roc-a-fella Records, Elektra Records, Shanachie Records, Sik Wid It Records, Palm Pilot, B Mobile Telephone, and The Jamaican Tourist Board.••• I'll be using this site to help people MAKE GOOD TRACKS. With the explosion of computer audio applications over the past few years it had become easier for people to get their hands on all of the tools that they need to record their own music. However, as a mix engineer I've seen an increasing decline in the quality of the tracks that are submitted to me to mix. I'll be posting to a blog with recording tips, and Pro Tools suggestions that will hopefully help people MAKE GOOD TRACKS. If you need someone to mix the good tracks that you make, let me know if I can help.••• Thanks, Andrew

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/30/2006
Sounds Like: CLIENTS HAVE SAID- "He's giving me mixes that make my job easier". - Chris Bellman - Mastering Engineer, Bernie Grundman Mastering •••"He makes very good quality recordings with lots of energy that pop out of the speakers". - Ken Lee, Ken Lee Mastering. •••"I like working with Andrew 'cause he makes my mixes pretty but he keeps them gritty". - Benji - Artist, Oracabessa, Jamaica •••"He makes it sound big, he makes my music sound important". - Alex Soresini - Artist, Milan, Italy •••Andrew makes the recording process transparent by quickly completing complicated edits, seamlessly executing my creative vision on the fly! - Bosko Platinum Producer, Bombay Entertainment, Los Angeles •••Andrew's the man! He has a great sense of what the music needs and how to bring it where it needs to go and he's easy to work with. The mix-master makes it crisp and clean and nice 'n mean. Top notch work! - Jethro Jeremiah The Jethro Jeremiah Band, San Francisco •••"Drew, I like you, you're never slackin' in your mackin'". - Mac Rob, Vallejo
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

A very cool article on tape loops and re-amping from super audio educator Keith Hatschek

Go here to check it out:http://www.discmakers.com/community/resources/pse/2008/A nalogEffects.asp
Posted by Make Good Tracks on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:11:00 PST

I make it bigger

I was at a party the other day and someone asked what I did. I said that I was a mix engineer. She said oh, so what do you do? I said well, I take music that people have recorded and make it bigger...
Posted by Make Good Tracks on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:42:00 PST

Work fast

The average life span in the US is 75.37 years. If you start recording seriously when youre 20 and retire when youre 60 thats 40 years worth of work. If you release an album every two years thats 20...
Posted by Make Good Tracks on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:57:00 PST

Heres my essay on: The Benefits of Pro Tools Certification

Pro Tools Certification has made me more efficient, allowed me to be more creative and has made my mixes sound better.I am Pro Tools Certified at the Music Operator Level. That means that I've had ov...
Posted by Make Good Tracks on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:51:00 PST

Why I love Digidesigns Lo-Fi plug-in.

Why I love Digidesign's Lo-Fi plug-in:Because you can really f**k sounds up with it.Here's Digidesign's official press release:Instead of offering pristine audio quality, Lo-Fi intentionally degrades ...
Posted by Make Good Tracks on Mon, 22 May 2006 08:54:00 PST

Recording/mixing reggae guitar and piano Q & A

Here is another Q & A from Andrew of the band the Midtones (www.myspace.com/midtones)Question:I was wondering what frequencies you like to cut and boost on the skanks for the piano's and guitar. And a...
Posted by Make Good Tracks on Thu, 18 May 2006 11:36:00 PST

A Low End/Bass recording Q and A.

Question:From: the midtones Date: May 5, 2006 10:15 AM What's up Andrew? My name is Andrew Nack, I play guitar in a couple projects with musician's you know here in the Monterey bay. Nate from DC and ...
Posted by Make Good Tracks on Thu, 11 May 2006 08:34:00 PST

Always have everything backed up!

Don't buy one hard drive at a time; always buy two. I use one drive to work on and one drive to back up my work! Drives are cheap! It amazes me when people hand an entire album over to me on a ...
Posted by Make Good Tracks on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:51:00 PST

Always label tracks!

Always label tracks!! Do this before recording. By doing this your audio file will automatically be named accordingly. If you have to search for something later, you won't spend hours auditioning c...
Posted by Make Good Tracks on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:30:00 PST