MsM Engineer

Michalis Michael, more commonly known as MsM Engineer, is a studio engineer that has worked with a large variety of artists, ranging from Drake and J Sutta to CASisDEAD and Jme.

He has engineered several UK Top Twenty singles and assisted the chief engineer of the Grammy-Award winning J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League.

He was born into a family of professional guitar and bouzouki players. When speaking to Metric Halo, he said:

My dad taught me to play guitar, but I was always more fascinated with the amp and the guitar effects than with the instrument itself. That led to early experiments with DJ’ing (bedroom DJ’ing as I was only 14!) that got me deeper into technology. Then a friend of a friend told me he was selling a Soundcraft 32-channel mixer, and I was so impressed by how it looked that I gave him my bike for it. I didn’t really know what I was going to do with it, but curiosity eventually led to me recording. […] Once I started mixing, I just never really stopped. […] Once I started working for Edward Nixon, the chief engineer of the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, I was assisting rather than running a studio and slowly I saw a more efficient way of mixing and found I simply didn’t need most of my hardware. That stuff was more about indulgence. So I literally sold it all and mix mainly ITB [in the box] now.

Here are a few notable albums that he’s been responsible for engineering:

Godfather II – Wiley

More Life – Drake

Vicious – Skepta

Live + Direct – P Money

Famous? – Jme

League Of My Own – Chip

Back 2 Da Lab Vol.5 – Frisco

His website also has an impressive collage showcasing more albums that he’s been involved with, whether it’s assistant engineer, executive production or mixing and mastering.

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