Hans-Martin Buff

Country: Germany

Hans-Martin Buff is an internationally acclaimed recording engineer and producer, whose track record includes a wide range of high profile clients, ranging from international stars such as Prince to European favorites Mousse T. and Zucchero.

Hans-Martin has been in the business since 1993, when he graduated from Music Tech vocational college in Minneapolis, MN, USA. He began his career at Pachyderm Studios, where he made excellent coffee and then proceeded to hone his studio chops by assisting on projects such as Live's million seller "Throwing Copper".

Hans-Martin worked his way through various Minnesota rock'n'roll factories, before he found a more permanent home at Prince's Paisley Park Studios, whose personal engineer he became and remained for four funky years, during which he wasn't only responsible for His Purple Majesty's recordings, but also for the studio affairs of world renowned artists including No Doubt, Chaka Khan and Larry Graham.

Being a native of Germany, Hans-Martin Buff relocated to his home country in 2001 where he continued his career as an independent recording engineer, and where he has since mixed and recorded a host of national and international talent such as Mousse T., Yvonne Catterfeld, Zucchero, Eric Burdon, Roachford, Maxi Priest, the Scorpions....

Hans-Martin Buff has been proud to share his industry knowledge with the next generation of industry professionals; apart from presentations and workshops on various platforms he has been teaching SAE bachelor students since 2007 and has had the privilege to teach an SAE mixing master class alongside Alan Parsons in 2008.

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