Drey Andersson, Music Producer & Sound Designer in Berlin Records, and the sounds they're made of.

I produce records, including a #1 in South Africa, and design the synth sounds behind them.

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ProducesUrban Pop

Streams14M+

AwardSAMA-winning #1

Co-writer & co-producerShekhinah, “Different”: #1 South Africa, RiSA Gold, SAMA

Beat League Beat BattleWinner, Berlin 2023

Community100K+ followers

Out nowMellotape for Serum

A producer who builds
his own sounds.

Most producers pick their sounds from a library. I build mine from scratch on hardware synths, samplers and tape, and then I use them to make records.

Music Production

Select artist projects each year: from the first idea to the finished record, with sounds built for your song.

Sound Design

Custom sound libraries, synth patches built for your track, and audio for film and games.

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Serum Banks

Presets built from scratch on real synths and tape. Mellotape is out now with 261 of them.

Coaching

1-on-1 sessions on synthesis, sound design and production. Video course in the works.

Every sound, built from scratch.

Most sounds you hear started as someone else’s preset. Mine start on hardware synths, samplers and tape, with a producer’s question in mind: will this still work under a vocal, in a mix, at 3am in a club?

Custom Sound Libraries

A bespoke collection of sounds: synths, drums, textures and effects, built around your artistic identity.

Sound Design for Tracks

From atmospheric pads to punchy leads. Nothing pulled from a pack, no recycled loops.

Film, Games & Media

Cinematic textures, UI sounds, ambient worlds: any medium where audio matters.

Patch & Factory Sound Design

Factory presets, wavetables and demo sounds for synth makers and plugin developers.

Mellotape.
Vintage soul for Serum.

Presets I built for my own tracks, sampled from real synths, mellotrons and tape machines. The warmth, flutter and hiss of old gear, macro-mapped and ready for modern records.

261presets

Serumby Xfer Records

Tapesaturated, macro-mapped

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Releases.

Records I’ve produced and co-produced, across pop, R&B, techno and house.

It started with a guitar.

I’m going to tell you the truth that most producer bios skip.

At 15

I picked up a guitar and never stopped chasing sound.

At 19, in 2006

I had a remix channel pulling half a million YouTube plays until Sony BMG shut it down. (One Justin Timberlake remix is still live on a newer account with 3 million plays. The acapella was so rough the algorithm never caught it. I’ll take the win.)

At 28

I co-wrote and co-produced Shekhinah’s “Different”, a #1 record in South Africa: RiSA Gold, a SAMA award, 14 million streams. I never got paid for it. More on that below.

2020

I did something most producers don’t: I stepped away. Built a marketing agency. Spent three years not opening my DAW.

2023

I walked into the Beat League Beat Battle in Berlin after 24 months without making music, and took first place.

Today

Coming back, I noticed what had pulled me in all along: the sound itself. How a Juno-60 sub layer sits under a vocal. Why one synth patch makes you feel something and the next one doesn’t. So I do both: I produce records, and I design the sounds they’re built on.

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The track that taught me everything.

The chord progression and melody that became “Different” started as a guitar idea in my Berlin studio. Shekhinah and Mariechan turned it into a #1 record in South Africa.

My name is on the credits, but I never got paid for it. The paperwork wasn’t handled properly, and I was 28. It’s why every project I take on now starts with clear agreements before the first sound. Talent without protection is a losing hand.

See the credits on Discogs

#1South Africa

GoldRiSA certified

SAMASouth African Music Award

14M+streams

The best records don't belong to a single genre.

They borrow from all of them. A pop hook over a techno sub. An R&B vocal sitting in a hip-hop pocket. These aren’t separate skills for me. They’re tools in the same kit.

What all those years give you is an ear. You stop guessing whether something works. You can feel it. I can tell from a single synth patch whether it’ll move a listener or fall flat. That ear is what goes into every sound I design.

Urban pop
Melodic techno
R&B
Hip-hop
Deep house
Alternative

Learn what took me twenty years.

When I started, I learned the hard way: from forums, takedowns, bad deals, and one good track that taught me everything that mattered. I’d have paid almost anything for someone who’d already been through it to just tell me the truth about how this all works.

That’s what I do now. 1-on-1 sessions for producers who want to skip the years of trial and error: a sound you can hear in your head but can’t build, a synth you don’t really understand yet, a mix that won’t translate, a track you can’t finish.

Sound Design & Synth Masterclasses

Deep dives into synthesis, sampling and audio manipulation. Build sounds from scratch instead of relying on someone else’s presets.

1-on-1 Production Coaching

Personalised sessions tailored to where you are right now. We work on your actual projects together.

Mixing & Arrangement Workshops

Learn why some tracks sound like demos and others sound like releases. Video course in the works, and much more affordable than 1:1.

Synth makers, plugin devs, audio companies: I speak your users' language.

I’ve spent 20 years in the gear-hungry producer community as a creator, educator and builder of a 100K+ audience. I design sounds for instruments directly, and through Signal Flow, my agency for audio brands, I help synth and plugin makers reach producers with content that sells.

Synth manufacturers
Plugin developers
Hardware companies
Music tech educators
Gear retailers

Currently working with a select roster. Limited availability.

Your music deserves to be heard.

I’m not chasing volume. I take on a handful of projects at a time: sound design, presets, production and coaching. And I commit to them properly.

If you’re an artist, a producer, a brand, or a fellow synth obsessive who’s read this far and thought “this guy might actually get it,” then we should probably talk. The first conversation is free. The second one is where the real work starts.

About Drey Andersson

I’m Drey Andersson, a Berlin-based music producer and sound designer with 20 years in the music industry. I co-wrote and co-produced Shekhinah’s “Different” (featuring Mariechan), a #1 record in South Africa with RiSA Gold certification, a SAMA award and more than 14 million streams. I produce select artist projects each year, design custom sound libraries, synth patches and Serum preset banks (including Mellotape), and create sound design for tracks, film and games. I offer 1-on-1 coaching, publish free production tutorials, gear reviews and a glossary of 60+ music production terms, and won the 2023 Beat League Beat Battle in Berlin. I also founded Signal Flow, an agency for audio brands and synth manufacturers.

Drey Andersson, Music Producer & Sound Designer in Berlin Records, and the sounds they're made of.