Based in my studio in East London, I’m an audio professional specialising in mixing, production, sound design and audio technology. I’ve been lucky enough to collaborate with some exceptional artists including Sia, Giggs, Pet Shop Boys, Goldfrapp, Moby, Air, Morcheeba, Girls Aloud, The Dandy Warhols, Bryan Adams, Duran Duran, Sugababes, Sophie Ellis Bextor, KT Tunstall among others. And, as an audio technologist, I’ve worked on the development of over one hundred audio tools for Waves for which we were awarded a Technical Grammy in 2011 and a Technology Emmy in 2023.
I first picked up a guitar when I was ten and, a few years later, I tried my hand at recording. Back then I used a Revox reel-to-reel tape machine, three microphones and an old drum kit. By 18, I was working as an engineer in professional studios in Tel Aviv where I cut my teeth engineering and mixing over 40 albums and hundreds of songs. I had the chance to work across multiple genres from big rock sessions to pop, electronic, jazz, film scores and live TV broadcasts. I learned to run tight sessions - when you’re recording seven or eight musicians live with multiple microphones there’s no room for error.
I was always looking for ways to improve my artists’ sound and streamline the efficiency of the recording process, so I developed my approach to mixing ‘in the box’. Computers weren’t powerful enough to handle all the data from a large session, so I had seven machines working in parallel. Today this approach is the norm, but at the time, it was a solution borne from the necessity to keep up the pace and quality of my musical output. Back then, I was often disappointed with the sound I got back from the mastering houses. So, I started mastering myself and worked on my own techniques for both digital and analogue.
When Meir Shaashua, Co-founder and CTO of Waves, approached me to join his team it felt like a natural step. It was clear that the industry was moving towards mixing in the box and Waves were then, and remain, pioneers in audio technology. I led the studio product team developing technical solutions to unlock the creative potential of audio production.
I moved to London in 1998 and had the chance to work with some incredible production talents including Brian Higgins and the Xenomania team, Youth, Arthur Baker, Stephen Street, Hugh Padgham, and Jeremy Wheatley.