Gianluca Massimo

Clients & Collaborators: Yungblud, Coldplay, Sam Smith, Hollie Buhagiar, Mark Summer, David Arnold, Moldanazar, Adam Saunders, Arthur Sharpe, Matthew Slater, and Nathan Stornetta

Gian is a skilled recording and mixing engineer with a versatile body of work spanning film, TV, and music genres and formats — from mixing David Arnold’s score for the ITV series Douglas is Cancelled to recording Sam Smith’s single Little Sailor, recording strings for Coldplay’s Moon Music, and recording and mixing for songs featured on Another Simple Favor. Most notably, Gian worked with Yungblud recording the orchestral elements of his Grammy nominated album IDOLS, as well as recording live sessions with the rising star at both AIR Studios and Berlin’s iconic Hansa Studios.

His recordist credits include Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department and Red (Taylor’s Version), as well as the orchestral version of Paolo Nutini’s Take Me Take Mine for Amazon Music. As a score editor, Gian has worked on iconic film and TV titles including Stranger Things (Season 4), Good Omens (Season 2), and Elvis.

Understanding the emotional intent of each song and cue, combined with a willingness to experiment and push musical boundaries, has been core to Gian’s approach from the beginning of his career. After completing his engineering and musical studies between Italy and UK, he gained extensive experience as a Front of House and Monitor Engineer, Broadcast Mixing Engineer, and Crew Chief roles for artists including Robert Plant, Justin Timberlake, Thom Yorke, Gwen Stefani, Boy George, George Clinton and Bryan Ferry.

Gian joined AIR as an assistant in 2019, where he built a strong foundation in recordist and assistant roles on award-winning scores including Hans Zimmer’s No Time to Die, Alexandre Desplat’s Pinocchio, and Rob Simonsen’s The Whale.

To watch Gian’s recording and mixing of Yungblud’s version of Movin’ On Up click here.