Alessandro Marcantoni

Alessandro Marcantoni (born August 19th, 1982, Fermo, Italy) is a sound engineer, a music producer and a musician.
He worked on many gold and platinum projects and streams in the billions, with recording, mixing and mastering sessions. He worked also in live tours as FoH mixer engineer and in audio post-production for TV shows.

Alessandro started playing several instruments since the childhood: piano, keyboards, guitar and bass, mostly by himself. He joined various indie rock bands, first in Fermo, then in Bologna and in Milan where he had moved in the next years.

He studied at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna in the DAMS (Drama, Arts and Music Studies) course.
In the meanwhile here he began his career as a sound engineer for live concert, demo recording and theatre plays with the Mixer Music, a small local audio service.
In 2002 Alessandro moved in Milan, where he lives today, and graduated at the SAE Institute in the Sound Engineer course.

Since 2003 he joined the Metropolis Studio in Milan, at first as the Studio Assistant, and after 6 months as Chief Sound Engineer. In the studio he worked for important projects in the Italian and International discography (i.e. Måneskin, Mika, Marco Mengoni, Roberto Vecchioni, Dolcenera), commercial ads (i.e. Ferrero, Barilla), movies and TV shows (i.e. X Factor Italy, Italia’s Got Talent).

In 2005 Marcantoni became a freelance engineer, while keeping his role at the Metropolis Studios. He started following his studio projects in live tours with Italian and European venues as a front of house engineer.

Since 2012 Alessandro is credited as a mastering engineer, introducing himself also in this part of production.

Since 2015 he started occasional collaborations with the IULM University, Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado and SAE Institute in Milan with masterclasses focussed in the audio production.

Since 2020 he works also as post-production engineer for TV shows.