Ken Janz, listening in on a Mastering Session
Philip has been “riding” faders on mixing consoles for over 25 years. Thanks to Philip’s Dad, Ken Janz, he had an early start, being mentored in the art of mixing - learning how to rider faders, build a mix via frequency sculpting, apply compression & FX to provide the necessary “glue” to bring a mix together. In the earlier days of his mentorship, he learned how to “red line” recording levels to tape, in order to reap the benefits of tape saturation/compression - a natural by-product of introducing analogue distortion when applying audio levels that were essentially too hot - this sound was desired in the world of modern music, but not so much in classical recordings!
This picture is of my Dad, many years later, listening in on a mastering session I was working on.
Below are excerpts of songs Philip has recorded, mixed and mastered
Pictured here is Philip mixing an album called “The Janz Project” (1997), using a Yamaha Promix 01 with internal FX, an analogue 24 channel mixer (right front corner), and an additional outboard Lexicon LXP-1 FX Unit - a humble setup, but with respectable results! Philip is using an Atari Stacey Laptop with C-Lab’s Notator Sequencing software (what would much later become “Logic Pro”) and several Tascam DA-88’s
