I believe high quality mastering should be affordable to everybody because it is a very important and often misunderstood step in producing an album. Luckily, mastering is all I do.
A great mastering engineer must have a good set of ears plus plenty of experience listening to a wide variety of music. I listen for and correct the slightest deviation in tone, balance, or wavelength before exporting your finished product. My carefully curated set of tools also ensures I get the exact sound I want reliably and efficiently.
I am a musician too. I have been playing, making, sampling, mixing and synthesizing music all my life. I've released music as effacer on Asthmatic Kitty Records, audiobulb, Kikapu, and panicRecordings, and as fell on en:peg digital, Neo Ouija, and Papergoose records.
I received my BFA from the University of Washington in Digital Signal Processing and Music Composition in 1997. After becoming increasingly interested in Audio Mastering, PanicStudios began in 2001.
I was born and raised in Seattle Washington and after forty years in the Northwest, left to travel the country for a few years, and then relocated to the Blue Ridge Mountains, just outside of Asheville, NC. In addition to the beauty and quietness of the mountains, I enjoy riding my bicycle and helping my wife with her farm. I also still buy and sell gear on a regular basis.