Toto Waak

I’m a re-recording mixer and sound designer based in Berlin. I run Liquid Lady Studios, and I take freelance mixing, sound design, and audio post work alongside it.

Most of what I do is film and commercial. I was lead sound designer and re-recording mixer on OIZYS by Rares Matei, which premiered at the Luxembourg City Film Festival and screened at FEST: New Directors in Portugal. I did full post on his Apartamentul 06. I’ve mixed a Samsung AI spec ad and brand work for Zalando, and I handled the audio restoration on a documentary where a lot of the production sound was close to unusable. I also did the sound for Hip Therapy, a live exhibition piece at Funkhaus Berlin.

What I actually deliver: dialogue editing and restoration, sound design, final mix in stereo and 5.1, music mixing, mastering. Pro Tools for post, Ableton for music and design, iZotope RX for repair. My room is calibrated, so what I hear is what you get. I deliver to EBU R128 and ATSC A/85 with stems, M&E, and versioning when you need them.

I work in English and Spanish, with directors and producers in a few different countries. I answer messages, I hit deadlines, and if there’s a problem buried in the production sound I’ll tell you at the start instead of at the end.

I treat sound as authorship, not finishing. If you just need something cleaned up and handed back, I can do that. But the work gets better when the audio decisions are part of the edit conversation, so tell me what the piece is supposed to feel like and I’ll work from there.