Alexander Lausch

I'm an audio engineer, producer and musician. I've run my own studio since 2007, and since 2010 it has been in its current space in Vienna's 17th district. I hear a production both as an engineer and as a musician.

since 2003audio engineer
since 2007own studio
five bandsas guitarist and bassist

Background

2003: graduated in audio engineering from SAE Institute Vienna, thesis on audio networks
2003 to 2007: freelance studio and live work, including at Szene Wien, B72 and Metropol, plus technical support for the label LiMuPic
2007: founded my own studio, listencareful AUDIOproduction
2010: opened the studio rooms in Vienna's 17th district
2010 to today: most of the 944 productions in the catalog, plus many years of live work
2022: "Teilzeitromantik" by Josh., which I co-mixed, was nominated at the Amadeus Austrian Music Awards for the Tonstudio Preis Best Sound and for Album of the Year
2025: "Teilzeitromantik" went platinum

Those years gave me most of my studio experience and brought me many of the musicians I still work with today. Along the way I gained reliable partners: producers in Switzerland and Germany who regularly send productions here for mixing or mastering. My work is split fairly evenly between recording, mixing and mastering. Now and then I take on live recordings, and once or twice a year I do live sound for bands I'm friends with.

How I work

I work calmly and meet deadlines. That's why I often get called in when a production has gone off track and needs rescuing, or when the requirements are unusual.

What matters most is open communication. I say early on what's possible and what isn't, so things don't go wrong in the first place. And if something does, there's a plan B that's been on the table from the start.

Self-portrait in a gold-framed mirror, in front of a brick wall, camera in hand. — Self-portraits in the mirror. Photos: Alex Lausch

Self-portrait in a shop mirror, holding a guitar, between magazine racks and plants. — Self-portraits in the mirror. Photos: Alex Lausch

As a musician

since 2005: LAUSCH, my own band, as frontman, guitarist, lead singer, songwriter and producer. The first album came out in 2007
since 2018: guitarist in Tini Trampler & Playbackdolls
since 2021: co-founder of Bad Ida, where I'm producer, songwriter and bassist
since 2024: bassist in Operation Silberfisch
since 2025: guitarist in Celestial Guard

Awards and credits

Amadeus Austrian Music Awards 2022: "Teilzeitromantik" by Josh. was nominated for Album of the Year and for the Tonstudio Preis Best Sound. The sound nomination lists me for the mix. I mixed several songs on the album, including "Kein Eis." The album went platinum in June 2025.
Mother's Cake, "Creation's Finest": I mastered all three vinyl editions, in 2013, 2016 and 2023. The same album, pressed three times over ten years.
Siamese Elephants, "About Astronauts": I recorded, produced, mixed and mastered it. "Dancing in the City (Radio Edit)" from this album has more than 8 million streams on Spotify.
Cari Cari, "FM4 Radio Session (mit RSO Wien)": a radio session with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, which I mixed, released in 2023 as a limited vinyl edition. Plus the live recording of "Ecstasy" by Mother's Cake at the ORF RadioKulturhaus, which I mixed and mastered.
Everything else is in the catalog, with roles and links.