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INDEX O and it is made up of Dirt- ed in collaboration with Ta- ar that these guys had a songs of their own, ready tion and a label where we and they asked me to be r album Toumastin, which n interesting viola sample nt anything to do with the ences from your work with ever feel the need to bring Western music into your certain sounds as either one’s hand all sounds and tever reasons a pallete of nother. unds, sounds that are not Violas are wonderful instruments that combine a nice range of tonality, they have more warmth than a violin but can also reach some of those notes. They really cover an interesting tonal range. Albums you have produced are all very natural sounding. Do you ever feel that processing the mix a tad too much can give a “fake” feel to natural sound? What are your thoughts regarding over pro- cessed mixes? I am a fan of so-called organic sounds but if one is to be truthful, a lot of what I do is in a sense “fake” organic. That is because there is a lot more processing going on than one might think. There is constantly some sort of delay somewhere, there are reverbs and I use a lot of compression especially on vocals and to some degree drums. I tend to try to process very discretely but also very democratically. I process a lot and almost every in- strument has some sort of processing in the mix, so it would be wrong to think of it as strictly organic. We are in an era of dangerously over processed mixes, especially in the terms of compression and limiting. I think if you listen to rock records from 25 years ago or great jazz recordings, one thing that really attracts us to them, without even knowing the technical side of things, is the sense of air and space in them. We are now creating claustrophobic sounds and everything is at the same level, everything is equal to everything else and it takes away a lot of our sound dimension. It takes away a lot of potential magic. hat in anyone’s and all tonalities equal. ve for whatever ete of sounds we er another.