You want Christian Heilman

“If you’re looking for a high caliber audio dude to mix your music, you want Christian Heilman.  He did a beautiful job mixing and mastering my album.  He’s extremely skilled, extremely reliable, and when I asked him for creative input he had excellent ideas that greatly enhanced the sound of my project.  He’s very patient, never rushed me through any decisions, and managed to figure out how to get me exactly the sound I wanted, even when my ways of communicating were….less than crystal clear.  He responded to my emails, returned my phone calls, made my album sound awesome, all with the utmost professionalism.  Guess what?  he’s also reasonably priced.”

Christian mixed our recent album Elbow Coulee and we couldn’t be much happier with the process and the result. Christian has everything we were lacking; experience, patience, organization, and follow-through. The experience was evident in his proficiency and ease on his equipment. Anything we asked or wanted was granted when it came to manipulating and mixing the tracks. Not once did we have a problem that he couldn’t work out. We were most thankful for his ability to keep to a schedule. We were really floundering trying to finish the album and Christian came in and saved the day by laying out a plan and making sure we followed it. Christian was always available on the phone and internet and always helpful. He really saved the day on our whole project. – Andrew Tuller from Elbow Coulee

“I’ve worked with Christian as a fellow sound tech and as a musician for about ten years. In that time he has always been solidly reliable, tasteful, and motivated. I’ve been a sound guy for 30 years, and I’ve learned more from working with Christian over the last ten years than I have from anyone else in my career. He’s a master at finding the key elements of the music and getting them to the front, and doing it despite all the emotional, technical, and political challenges of a live show. In the studio, I’ve seen him take raw rehearsal tracks recorded with crap microphones in a living room and magically turn them into radio-ready mixes. As a musician, the mixes he’s done for my bands, both live and studio, have always hit the sweet spot of what the band was trying to sound like, sometimes when we didn’t know ourselves what we were aiming for. I am looking forward to working with him again soon.” – Walter Harley, fellow sound engineer, bassist of “Purty Mouth” (local Alt-Country combo)

“Christian Heilman is a wonderful sound guy.  He has run the sound on a couple of live concerts for my jazz group, Jazz Coalescence.  In both cases, the performance spaces presented unique challenges, but Christian was the ultimate professional and worked to assure that the best sounds were conveyed to the audience.  Christian also recorded our band live in performance using his mobile recording equipment. His attention to detail and microphone choices were greatly appreciated, and Christian was both cordial and constructively critical on the subsequent mixing sessions at his studio.  Our finished product, “In the Rain Shadow” for the Origin label, received extensive airplay across the country. Many listeners, critics included, commented specifically on the clarity and quality of sound on the recording. Christian has a love for music in all its varied forms and is organized and professional.  I look forward to working with him again.”