Team
The people behind the sound
Main Operator
Philipp Erdin
Founder of Sonar Sound Studios and its operator since 1997. Qualified sound engineer and qualified teacher – someone who would rather listen closely than talk loudly. On stage himself as a bassist and keyboard player until the age of 21, then thirty years behind the mixing desk: around 2,000 events and countless studio sessions.
Owner · Musician, producer, coach
Andreas Müller
Musician, producer, coach and lecturer. Andreas has played with and produced greats such as Vinnie Colaiuta, Abraham Laboriel, Steve Lukather, Simon Phillips and Mike Porcaro – and has a discography going back to 1987.
Discography – personal milestones
- 1987 Clinch Funk Taxi Liverpool Records
- 1991 Clinch Feelings versus Logic Liverpool Records
- 1996 Not By Accident Another Day With You FP Productions
- 1996 Lydia Roos Not For Sale Whatever Records
- 1997 Not By Accident Live in Zurich JFL Management
- 1998 Janine B. Augenblick Adonia Music
- 1999 Janine B. Mehr als Worte c|works music
- 2000 Marco Avesani Upstairs c|works music
- 2001 Scott Walters Dream c|works music
- 2002 Not By Accident The Two Trees c|works music
- 2003 InspirationNow Vol. 1 Unveiled c|works music
- 2003 Matthias Heimlicher Coming Back To You c|works music
- 2004 ACM Radival Devotion c|works music
- 2005 InspirationNow Vol. 2 Touch Of Your Love c|works music
- 2007 InspirationNow Vol. 3 Welcome To Your World c|works music
- 2008 Kristina Kao Ruza Bono Records
- 2008 InspirationNow Vol. 4 TwentyFourSeven c|works music
- 2011 Stephan Pestalozzi Coming Home c|works music
- 2017 InspirationNow Vol. 5 Father c|works music
- 2018 Not By Accident Best of 1996 – 2016 JFL Management
- 2020 InspirationNow Vol. 6 A Thousand Years c|works music
Has played with and produced, among others: Vinnie Colaiuta, Abraham Laboriel, Justo Almario, Steve Lukather, Mike Landau, Simon Phillips, Gary Willis, Lothar Kosse, Klaus Bittner, Ricky Encarnacion, The Menudo Horns (Ricky Martin), Mick Kaluzny, Thomas G. Sekinger, Norbert Stachel (Tower of Power), Jean-Marc Lerigab and GSF (Gospel Choir Paris), Matthias Heimlicher, Marc Ebermann, Christian Muzik, Steve Tavaglione, Daniel Küffer, Tom Lane, Enzo Todesco, Matthias Meusel, Ralf Gustke, Anja Lehmann, Mike Porcaro (Toto), Mario Caspar, Steffen Arpagaus, Urs Nüssli, Vladi Tajsic, Schoel, Markus Hofstetter and many more.
Audio Engineer SAE
Michael Mäder
Audio engineer for live and studio recordings (SAE Institute Zurich). From a big concert at the Kongresshaus Zurich to a transparent recording in the studio: Michael makes sure artists can focus entirely on their work. On the side, he enjoys mentoring young sound engineers and advising them on the calling of being a sound person.
Studio drummer & musician
Levi Müller
Studio drummer and musician. When a song needs real drums, Levi sits behind the Giannini kit.
Quotes
What our clients say
“At Sonar Studio you feel at home – with the beautiful daylight and the good vibes. I’ve been able to write many songs there.”
Noah Veraguth / Pegasus
“Philipp is an attentive listener, brings our musical and lyrical ideas right to the point and takes our productions to another level with his ideas. On top of that, he’s a very easy-going person – you simply enjoy working with him.”
Jonas Schneider / Koenix
“Competence, experience, quality: working with Phil Erdin at Sonar Sound Studios is inspiring and motivating. The sound is right in every respect here. And the end product is of the highest quality. Thank you!”
Roger de Win
“Stranded in Zurich because of Covid, I was very lucky to find a workplace at Sonarsound Studio that was not only very generously equipped (grand piano etc.) but also impressed with lots of daylight. I felt very much at home.”
Sophie Hunger
“Sonar Sound Studios offers plenty of room for experiments, melodies & creativity. A beautiful studio where you feel at home straight away and can work in a relaxed way.”
Nemo
“Philipp optimised the acoustics of my home studio. I’m very happy with the result!”
Stress
“Working with Phil is inspiring and effective. He works professionally without losing the human touch. I can recommend him wholeheartedly.”
Katrin Corazza
“Working with Andi and Phil opens up musical horizons for me on so many different levels – horizons I couldn’t even have dreamed of.”
Lydia Nensen
“Philipp is not only a great guy, his enormous expertise has got us out of a tight spot several times! Extremely fast, helpful and highly professional! We’ll gladly work with him again any time!”
Nicole Béky, anderline GmbH
“Musical diversity, creativity, know-how and years of experience come together in a sound that is contemporary, always searching for something new and letting your personal musical language flourish. And with Philipp’s humour, the whole thing is also great fun!”
Leila Elmer
“Philipp Erdin knows his craft and makes a tremendous contribution as recording mixer at Afro-Pfingsten.”
Karin Gubler
“Very good collaboration with the pleasant team at Sonar Sound Studios!”
Andreas Brave
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