As I already announced, this year will see the premiere of harpist Amelia Tokarska’s debut album, of which I am the producer, arranger and art director. After completing all the recording sessions – several at the The Cavatina Hall in Bielsko-Biała and a few in Studio S2 of the Polish Radio, it was time for the mixing sessions. Together with the amazing Tadeusz Mieczkowski, we are working intensively on the sound quality in his Mastersound studio – stereo and Dolby Atmos™ mixes. Setup made for recording harps, including few pairs of top-quality microphones (DPA, Neumann, Shoeps, Royer, Coles) gave incredible possibilites to make harps, percussion and whistles sound natural, wide and without cutting any important details. The fantastic experience of one of Europe’s top sound engineers gives me confidence that the album will be of the highest audio quality.
P.S: We already know under which label the album will be published, but you’ll have to be patient for a while yet! It’s going to be a truly amazing adventure.
Stay tuned, we’re getting closer in this project but it’s not the only one I’m working on.
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Tadeusz Mieczkowski – is a graduate of the Faculty of Sound Direction at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw – diploma in 1989 with the specialisation in phonographic recordings. During his studies he took up a job at the Directorate of Music Recordings of the Polish Radio in Warsaw. He realizes radio and television broadcasts of concerts of great world stars, e.g. Natalie Cole, Tori Amos, and others. Natalie Cole, Tori Amos, Genesis or Gordon Haskel. He records film music, pop, folk and folk music. Most of his recordings have been made in the recording studios of the Polish Radio. In 2007, he set up his own company, Master Sound, making excellent recordings and mastering while continuing to work with Polish Radio.
He works with the biggest stars of the Polish music market, both in the field of classical and pop music, including Edyta Górniak, Anna Maria Jopek, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Krzesimir Dębski, Ewa Małas-Godlewska, Zbigniew Preisner, Leszek Możdżer, Sławomir Jaskułke, Tomasz Stańko, Adam Makowicz, Michał Lorenc, Piotr Damasiewicz, Robert Balzar and many others.
He also collaborates with leading film music composers and film directors. He has to his credit many recordings of music for outstanding Polish films and hundreds of albums. His recordings are released in many countries and have very good reviews. He has been nominated for the Fryderyk award in the Sound Director category several times, and in 2003 he received this award for co-producing Anna Maria Jopek’s album with Pat Metheny.