Max Paparella, born in 1975, is a Hammond organist and pianist, arranger and composer (SIAE registered from 1998) with a special passion for vintage instruments. He has twenty years' experience in the music field, both as a live and studio musician. He began playing progressive rock (1993 - 1995), before focusing his studies on jazz and blues (1995 - 2001) with the piano teacher Lamberto Lipparini...
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Max Paparella, born in 1975, is a Hammond organist and pianist, arranger and composer (SIAE registered from 1998) with a special passion for vintage instruments. He has twenty years' experience in the music field, both as a live and studio musician. He began playing progressive rock (1993 - 1995), before focusing his studies on jazz and blues (1995 - 2001) with the piano teacher Lamberto Lipparini and playing in different groups. Between 1999 and 2004 he ran a recording studio in Bologna, Italy (MJA Recording Studio) with two associates, working mainly as a composer, arranger and later as sound engineer. During the same period he worked with DJs from the national and local radio stations "Latte&Miele" and "Tam Tam Network" on various dance and house music productions. Following his experience with Studio MJA, he continued working as an arranger and freelance sound engineer, as well as furthering his studies in jazz piano.

Since 2007 he has been working with the American record labels Selekta Recordings and Cabana Recordings on deep house and afro house music productions as producer and remixer.

In 2010 he founded the studio Groove Sound Design, starting a solid partnership with the guitarist and producer Valerio Fuiano, working for singers, artists and record labels on pop/rock/r'n'b/soul productions as mixing & mastering engineer.
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He has been working with IRMA Records in Bologna as mastering engineer and musician since 2011. He has also mastered over 700 tracks of the past IRMA's catalogue from the years 1990 to 2000.

Since 2011 he became a resident member of AES (Audio Engineering Society) n°90129.

Since 2012 he has been working with the group Halftones (Alan Iotti and Giulio Vetrone), producing for many record labels, including Goodlooking Records (LTJ Bukem - UK), BMG Production Music (UK), Si.Fa.Re Publishing (IT).

In 2014, as part of his professional training, he has taken two courses for mastering engineering at the SAE Institute in the UK, passing both with full marks (100/100):

- Audio Mastering 101 - EN 0214
- Audio Mastering 201 - EN 0314
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