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Ben Schwarzwalder

Mix Engineer & Vocal Specialist

Ben was a vocalist for twenty years before he ever mixed anyone else's record, and it shows up in the way he approaches every song. He's not making choices based on whether your vocal is "clean" because he's more focused on how it feels. Your phrasing, the breaths between lines, the take that's "technically" sloppy but obviously still the right choice.

And he's freakishly good at finding that "thing" that makes your vocals (and the song as a whole) feel unique and human - just like you.

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Three things you’ll love
about Ben:

He was the singer for twenty years before he was the engineer.Singing since childhood, studied voice in college, fronted a touring rock band, and THEN sat down behind a console. So when he works your vocal, he's not just checking levels. He's hearing the phrasing, the delivery, the little emotional decisions inside the take, because he's had to make all of those himself with a room watching.

He walked away from a VP job at 40 to do this.Most engineers drift into the career in their twenties. Ben built an entire corporate life, looked at it, and traded it in for a studio. You don't make that move casually, and you can feel it in how he treats your project... like the thing he gave everything up for. Because it is.

He can translate the look on your face.You don't need technical language with him. There's a story where a client didn't like the piano sound and couldn't say why, and Ben figured out the emotional mismatch, found the right instrument, and fixed it in minutes. You bring the vague feeling, he turns it into an actual decision.