Engineer and mixer Voytek Kochanek's has worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry. His credits include Usher, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Ice Cube to name a few. After getting his music education and working extensively as a musician and engineer in Munich, Germany, Voytek Kochanek moved to Los Angeles and got a job in 1989 as a staff engineer at the famed Paramount Recording Studios in Hollywood. Voytek worked with and learned from a number of great producers and engineers. While there, he worked with Ice Cube, Ice-T, Pharcyde, Club Nouveau, Mick Fleetwood, L.A. Guns and many others.
Voytek's experience at Paramount was the spring board for him to start engineering and mixing independently. He has worked with a diverse range of artists, from Steve Vai, Ozzy Osbourne and Peter Frampton, to Earth, Wind and Fire and Patti Austin.
In 1996 Voytek moved to Nashville, TN for a much needed change of pace and family lifestyle. He has built his own recording facility: Atlantis Studio. Voytek was making his name known in his new surrounding as a quality-oriented engineer. Also he was focusing more on finding and producing young Nashville talents, bringing his own distinctive studio style to Music City, USA.
"My philosophy in the studio or mixing comes from many years of being around producers, engineers and mixers whom I have respected. It's always different from artist to artist and session to session. I'm usually full of options when I'm engineering and try not to get locked into anything. Also having a positive attitude helps and being able to work around things, when technical situations come up and they often do. It helps to have the ability to build trust when you're working with an artist for the first time. For me, I must feel the mixes before presenting it. You are creating your version of what the artist had in mind when they wrote their song. Songs are sometimes personal and to be able to capture it is an art and a thrill."