Working with Hans Zimmer: an Australian audio grad tells all

Aldo Arechar has been working as an audio engineer alongside Zimmer's team for four years.

Audio engineer Aldo Arechar has been working with Oscar and Grammy award-winning composer Hans Zimmer for almost four years.

Later on, I started to play the drums, and I didn’t have the best kit, but I said to myself I’m going to try to make it sound as good as I can. There are a lot of tricks that you can do, but at a certain point I hit a limit in what I could do with the technology I could afford, which is when I went to SAE.

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