Andrew P. Aspidov (ORL)
Sound Producer / Engineer
Software Developer / Technical Specialist

Summary:

• Over 12 years of professional experience in creative stereo and surround recording and mixing, accurate digital mastering of modern electronic, dance, pop and pop-rock music, TV and movie soundtracks.
• Expert in Digidesign ICON and Pro Tools HD systems including designing, hardware and software planning, installation and support for Pro Tools HD based music studios.
• More than 8 years of experience in music production and co-production, including engineering and co-producing together with Vlad Tyurin the world known Russian pop band REFLEX, top charts leader and 18 national music awards holder.
• Very strong experience in professional analog and digital studio equipment, different PC and MAC audio software and hardware.
• Have expertise in several programming languages, developing tools and software technologies.
• Several years of IT, software/hardware consulting, support and system/network administration.
• English skills: intermediate spoken level and good written level.

Experience:

• Recording, mixing, mastering and co-producing all Irene Nelson, REFLEX and NONSTOP songs, albums and singles since 2001 together with Vlad Tyurin.
• Recording, mixing, mastering and co-producing some songs and albums for Russian artists and bands: Kristina Orbakaite, Vladimir Presnyakov, Alena Apina, Alena Sviridova, Alisa Mon, Irina Saltykova, Mirage (Natalia Gulkina & Margarita Sukhankina), Litsey, 4elsea, Sasha Project, Slava ("Paragraf 78" motion picture soundtrack), Ekaterina Guseva, Konstantin Krymsky, Mark Vinokurov, Tatyana Ivanova, Elena Maximova, Anna Pletneva, Revolvers, Kontantin Legostaev, Sveta, Balagan Ltd., S17, Silver & Mesmer, Leona, Podium, DJ Bobo, Systems In Blue, Super Maniacs, S.O.S. Project, etc.

Hardware/Software/OS:

• Digidesign ICON (D-Control) and Digidesign Pro Tools HD, Solid State Logic and TC Electronic DSPs, Avalon Design, TL Audio, DBX, Focusrite, Manley, Mackie, Universal Audio, Waves and other analog and digital studio equipment, Neumann, AKG, DPA, Shure, Sennheiser and Rhode microphones, Apogee and Digital Audio Denmark ADDA converters, A.D.A.M. studio monitors, etc.
• Digidesign Pro Tools HD, Apple Logic Studio, Apple Logic Pro, Magix Samplitude, Adobe Audition (CoolEdit Pro), Celemony Melodyne Studio, Steinberg Cubase/Nuendo, Steinberg WaveLab, etc. Plugins: Digidesign, Waves, URS, DUY, McDSP, SSL, Sonnox, TL Labs, TC Electronic, SoundToys, IK Multimedia, Antares, Bomb-Factory, etc.
• Apple Mac OSX, Microsoft Windows Vista/Server2003/XP/2000/9х
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Adobe (Photoshop, Premiere, Encore, After Effects, Illustrator), Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, a lot of small system, audio, video and office tools and utilities.

Education:

• Master of Mathematics, Major: The applied mathematics and information technologies, 2000
  Specialization: "Mathematic and IT support for computers and systems"
  Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia

• Bachelor of Mathematics, Major: The applied mathematics and information technologies, 1998
  Specialization: "Mathematic and IT support for computers and systems"
  Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia

• Business Information Systems Distance Learning Course, 1998
  Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

• English Language Courses, 1994
  Hazell School, Hastings, UK

I'm the author of OrlSoft Music Manager - the high-quality, multi-purpose, multifunctional audio files manager, the perfect music manager for your personal audio files collection. OrlSoft Music Manager can handle lots of audio files, encode, decode and re-encode them, copy audio CDs to a compressed format, update information tags, rename files by tags data, determine tags from filenames and more. It supports eight compression formats, works with portable audio players like folders, has customizable interface with themes support, lots of more useful music management tools.

File formats supported: MPEG-1 Layer III (MP3), MPEG-4 AAC (MP4/M4A), Musepack (MPC), Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis (OGG), Monkey's Audio (APE), FLAC, WavPack (WV), PCM WAV (WAV, PCM), m3u playlists and cue sheets.