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Mixing & mastering engineer

Ivan Taiga

Ivan Shmalii, known in the credits as Serial Unit — mixing and mastering engineer and sound producer at Major Mixing since 2019. Fifteen years in audio, working from Berlin.

  • 193 credits on Muso.ai
  • Award nominee, 2019
  • 15+ years in audio
  • Vocal production
Ivan Taiga (Ivan Shmalii, Serial Unit), mixing and mastering engineer at Major Mixing
About

Who he is

Ivan is the second engineer at Major Mixing. He has mixed and mastered for the studio since 2019, and most of his week goes to the same kind of record you are about to send: a vocal, a beat or a band, and a release date. His Muso.ai profile lists 193 credits — 172 of them mastering, 162 mixing — for artists including TVORCHI, Alina Pash, Sasha Chemerov, Chekson and GIO DARA.

He was also lead sound producer at M1, Ukraine’s music TV channel: recording, arranging, mixing and mastering for the artists it played, and the sound for two M1 Music Awards shows. In 2019 he was nominated Sound Producer of the Year. Earlier he co-owned the production company Sinegull Productions, and he started out as an assistant, session singer and ghostwriter. He studied studio sound direction at the National Academy of Culture and Arts Management in Kyiv.

He also produces songs from scratch — music, lyrics, vocal recording — and writes sound for games and film: audio direction for two titles at DogHowl Games, and a short-film score shortlisted for the Young Director Award at Cannes in 2024. At Major Mixing that range shows up in the details clients rarely see: vocal editing, timing and pitch correction, and checking every master against what the streaming platforms will do to it.

If your record comes to Major Mixing, it is mixed by him or by Max Rayden — not by a marketplace and not by a rotating pool.

The record so far

What is behind the name

193 credits on Muso.ai — 172 as mastering engineer, 162 as mixing engineer, 79 as producer
Sound Producer of the Year nominee, M1 Music Awards 2019
Two award shows produced as lead sound producer at M1, Ukraine’s music TV channel
Since 2019 mixing and mastering at Major Mixing

Every line above is checkable. His full credit list is public on Muso.ai, his CV and portfolio at serialunit.com, and the studio’s discography at majormixing.com/credits.

Send him a record

Or send a demo for nothing first — a song still in progress is fine. A named engineer will listen and write back what is holding it back, usually within one working day.