Audio engineer with a love for unconventional music
Portfolio.
Teddy’s Hit - Painters
The Avonden - Catch / Never Understand
Steve French - Lighting Tiger Running
The Industry - The Industry
Deveron - Lairs
Pete Polito - Name & Face
Awün - When Cyber Sapiens Close Their Doors to the Outside
Zea - Moarn gean ik dea (Assistant engineer)
Bonne Aparte - Scalps (Assistant engineer)
The Lumes - Envy (Assistant engineer)
To be released / Currently working on:
Port Of Call - Album
Personal Trainer - Album
The Avonden - Glasscherven EP
Wasted Youth Club - EP
Teddy's Hit - Painters (Recorded & Mixed track 5, 6, 9, 10)
The Avonden - Cath/Never Understand (recorded & mixed)
The Industry - The Industry (recorded & mixed)
Steve French - Lightning Tiger Running (recorded & mixed)
Deveron - Lairs (Recorded & Mixed)
Awün - When Cyber Sapiens Close Their Doors to the Outside EP (mixed)
Pete Polito - Name & Face EP (recorded & mixed)
Zea - Moarn gean ik dea (assistent engineer)
The Lumes - Envy (assistent engineer)
Bonne Aparte - Scalps (assistent engineer)
Live Sessions.
Under the name Polygänger I record and mix live sessions. I do this together with Moreno Hovervorst, Dylan Greene and Alek Riquelme
Vision / Working method.
To me unconventional music means to play with conventions and expectations. This attitude towards music is something I recognize by artists in different genres.
I would like to help these artists to faithfully realize their vision and ideas. I do this by listening closely to the artist’s wishes and thus trying to understand their vision and ideas.
With this knowledge I choose or propose production-techniques that I think will represent or enhance the artist’s vision. This way I hope to produce diverse and authentic music.
Experimentation is essential to me, because it is a way to break with habits and conventions. I try to make room for experimentation in every project that I work on. This way I hope both the artist and I can continually innovate. I try to have no fixed work routine, so every project stays fresh to me. This way I try to create circumstances where happy accidents can happen.
Studios & Gear
Most projects I record in the Katzwijm Studio, a charming studio between the tulip fields and alpaca’s in the lively Voorhout. Katzwijm has a nice collection of microphone’s (Neumann U87, KM84, KM86, Josephson C700s, E22s, AEA R92) Outboard gear (Distressors, Manley Massive Passive, Tube Tech CL 2A, Orban 418, AKG BX20) Instruments (60’s Fender Telecaster, Jaguar and Gibson ES330, Silvertone amps in case) and amps (Musicman 210, vintage Danelectro amp, ‘60 Vox AC30, Fender Brownface Vibroverb & Deluxe amp)
The studio also has sleeping accommodation. It’s a perfect place to work isolated on your music for a couple of days.
I also share a small studio together with Moreno Hogervorst in former TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht. Here I do most of my mixing work, combining outboard gear (Great British Spring, Klemt Echolette, Copicat, Warm Audio Pultec) and effects (Death By Audio, Chase Bliss, Earthquaker Devices, EHX, MRFX) with plugins (Fabfilter, Soundtoys, Plugin Alliance). The studio can also be used for small overdubs. (Prophet Rev 2, MS-20, Arp Oddesy, Crucianelli bas & guitar, Fender Jazzmaster & Esquire) and microphones (Sennheiser MD21, 421, 441, Electro Voice RE-20 and Bang and Olufsen Bm 6’s)
I am always open for recording at other studio’s and I enjoy recording on location as well.
When it comes to gear, I try not to be too puristic. The most important thing is that what comes out of the speakers excites or inspires the artist and me. One day that is recording with a vintage Neumann U87 going through a Telefunken V67 and a Tubetech CL2A. The other day that is running the whole drumbus trough a pair of Proco Rats distortion pedals.
