As a producer, Stevo Bruno plays many roles including coordinating the entire music process from preproduction, writing music, vocal melodies, harmonies, lyrics, co-writing, selecting and arranging songs to hiring session musicians, overseeing recoding budgets, working with managers and record labels, handling interviews, etc. The most important role of a producer is making sure everyone is happy and keeping control of everything at all times! Musically a producer adds his own perspective, experience and decision making to the songs, which makes him unique and different from other producers! Whenever Stevo finishes a project and completes the final mixes, he has to say goodbye to the band he just spent 3 months with. "That's the hardest part of my job!

When it comes to engineering Stevo Bruno has a vast amount of knowledge and experience, having owned and worked in most major studios. He is well versed with most consoles including his favorites... SSL, API and Neve. Stevo is a producer/engineer meaning he insists on engineering his own sessions that he produces. He can walk into any studio, have everything mic-ed and ready to roll in less than an hour. He believes pre-production is one of the most important stages of engineering a good record! His usage and choices of mics and microphone placement, compression shaping, EQ settings, sound separation, panning, impeccable editing, vocal comping and tuning, and his individual technique he has shaped over the years is what gives Stevo his own sound as an engineer.

Stevo Bruno can mix any genre of music while still giving it an original sound. "Mixing is like surgery". This is where all the drum tracks, bass, keyboards, layers of guitars, solo guitars, vocals, back-up vocals, etc. that have been recorded to multiple tracks are mixed down to stereo tracks, 5.1 or 7.1. This is where volume levels, panoramic positioning, effects like reverb or delay and all final adjustments are made. Large format consoles and most consoles today have automation. This is the process when a mixer makes an adjustment to one track or more, and those moves are recorded so they can always be recalled exactly the way they were originally moved.