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First of all, if you haven’t heard this, please go and take a listen here. DEVU is a great composer with a focus on creating a narrative with his music. It’s a refreshing take on ambient electronic music, with vast expanses of atmospheres and powerful choruses to take you through a range of emotions. 

I had the pleasure of mastering this EP for him, and what a fun process it was! DEVU made contact early on in the composition process about the project and I was more than happy to commit to helping him with some of the mix decisions to get the best results from the mastering process. The idea of providing a couple of test masters along the way was a mutual agreement that aided us both; experience for me and an idea of how to go about getting the best results for us both.

A lot of my processing was an attempt to not ruin the mix, they sounded great when the finals arrived from him so my job was to preserve that, and enhance in the places where it made sense. There was a fair amount of consistency in the style of mixes and general frequency content so that made my job a little easier, being able to apply a similar chain across each mix. One of the points we touched on during our discussions was about loudness, and more to the point not crushing the living daylights out of it. The aim was to create a dynamic EP that ebbed and flowed to enhance the sense of being taken on a journey.

It was a thoroughly enjoyable process and one I would be delighted to go through again! Here are some extra links to whichever platform you may choose!