About

Maor Appelbaum is a mastering engineer and musician.

After working as staff engineer (mixing, recording and mastering) for famed record producer Sylvia Massy Shivy at Radiostar Studios in Weed, California, Maor moved to Los Angeles where he opened a private mastering suite.

Maor has had the pleasure of mastering recordings for major international acts such as: Sepultura, Yngwie Malmsteen, Halford, Fight, Armored Saint, Lita ford, Seven The Hardway , Marco Mendoza, Angra, Treponem Pal, Wayne Hussey, Therion, Cynic, Nekromantix, The Top Chops and more...
He has mastered the works of well-known music producers such as: Toby Wright , Justin Gray, Roy Z, Ryan Green, Sylvia Massy, Ulrich Wild, Greg Hampton, Fabrizio Grossi, Tue Madsen, Mark Lewis, Warren Ricker, and more. Also, he does mastering for unsigned artists of all genres from all over the world. (For discography and credits please go to the projects page).

Maor has extensive background with the international music industry which has brought him to be a mastering engineer. Being a studio manager and a broadcasting engineer at the University of Tel-Aviv as well as a live sound engineer, lighting engineer and technical director for productions and performances that toured Israel.
He has worked with many international artists, including: Alphaville (Germany), Marc Almond (England), Ozric Tentacles (England), Regina Spector (U.S.A), The Mission (England) , The Legendary Pink Dots (England - Netherlands), Edguy (Germany), Apoptigma-Berzerk (Norway), Hocico (Mexico), Melechesh (Netherlands/Israel), Oren Ambarchi (Australia), Stephen O'malley (U.S.A), Twilight Singers (U.S.A).

To Maor, being a mastering engineer is the best way possible to combine his love and passion for music, with his various skills- objectivity, subjectivity, technical & artistic. He takes pleasure in his job, more than anything, thanks to the variety of music and sounds he gets to master from all over the world.
It is a job he takes pride in, and masters.