STRING PRODUCTIOn
services
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Professional string recording and production for violin, viola, cello, bass, and harp. I collaborate with a trusted team of performers to deliver expressive, high-quality remote string recording and string tracking for film, commercial music, and independent artists. From solo violin lines to simulating full orchestral string sections and arrangements, each part is recorded with clarity, musical sensitivity, and a deep focus on emotional impact.
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Custom string arrangements and transcriptions for recordings, live performance, and film scoring. Whether developing original string parts or adapting existing music for solo violin, string quartet, and symphonic strings, I create arrangements that are both technically precise and musically alive.
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Original custom music commissions created for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, and meaningful milestones. These pieces are designed in close collaboration with the client and can incorporate musical cryptology, thematic storytelling, or creative mashups of meaningful songs. The result is a personal composition crafted to mark a singular moment.
Do you want your audience to feel something the first moment they hear your work?
Whether you’re creating a film, song, podcast, or live event, emotional truth is what lingers. Too often, digital or MIDI strings sound polished but feel lifeless—technically correct, yet disconnected from the people and stories they’re meant to represent.
What if your strings carried the same emotional weight as your narrative?
My work—both as an artist and a producer—is rooted in using strings to translate human stories into music that feels raw, present, and emotionally true. Strings have the power to amplify vulnerability, tension, intimacy, and release—but only when shaped by a human hand. Every expressive performance and arrangement depends on thousands of subtle decisions: phrasing, articulation, bow speed, vibrato, dynamics. These are the choices that turn sound into story and deepen its emotional impact.
Do you need a musician with classical training and virtuosity, but who understands vulnerability, not rigidity?
As a classically trained violinist gone rogue, I’m flexible, improvisational, and deeply artist-centered. I work across genres, adapt to your creative process, and don’t require traditional notation if that’s not how you create. Trust and connection are central to how I work, because creative work is personal.
What sets these string recordings apart?
To capture the depth of a real ensemble, I layer multiple takes using several different instruments and bows, intentionally varying articulation, bow speed, and vibrato. This approach recreates the organic complexity of multiple players shaping the same musical line—resulting in a sound that feels dimensional, alive, and human.
How much flexibility do you have in the mix?
Each project includes multiple microphone perspectives, giving you tonal options at the mixing stage. I regularly record with an AEA R84 ribbon mic, Telefunken FT-11 condenser, and AKG 451 condenser to balance warmth, clarity, and presence.
Listen to work samples below.
HOw IT WORKS
1. Connection & Creative Discovery
We start with a conversation - your artistic vision, inspirational references, musical or event goals, and the project’s deliverables. This is where I get to understand you as an artist and the story you want the music to tell.
2. Proposal & Project Blueprint
I send a clear proposal outlining the project scope, timeline, deliverables and budget. A 50% initial payment secures the project and ensures we’re aligned from the start.
3. Draft & Revision Phase (for Production Clients)
You receive a MIDI demo that maps out the arrangement. Most projects include 2–3 revisions, and I typically respond within 1–2 business days. This phase is collaborative, flexible, and ideally allows for dialogue and exploration of new ideas.
4. Delivery of Final Assets (for Production Clients)
When the draft feels right, I record and prepare polished audio files that reflect the agreed scope of work, from raw mix-ready multi-tracks to fully mixed and ready to release projects.
solo tracks
BRENDA LANE - “When I Follow You”
Credits:
Samantha Bounkeua (Violin/Engineer)
Brenda Lane (Composer)
Tom W - “Vampire” (olivia Rodrigo)
Credits:
Samantha Bounkeua (Violin/Engineer)
Tom W (Arranger)
Olivia Rodrigo (Original Artist)
string quartet
JAY D'AMICO - "Nocturne"
Credits:
Samantha Bounkeua (Violin/Engineer)
Leah Asher (Viola)
Kristin Garbeff (Cello)
Jay D'Amico (Composer)
the REVEREND’S ALL STARS - “DANCING INTO CHRISTMAS”
Credits:
Samantha Bounkeua (Arranger, Violin/Viola/Engineer)
Kristin Garbeff (Cello)
Rev Joe (Artist)
string sectionS
omar Alejandro - “Lo QUE NO PUEDE EL AMOR”
Credits:
Samantha Bounkeua (Arranger/Violin/Engineer)
Omar Nare (Songwriter)
Omar Alejandro (Artist)
Kevin P - “Trench Run”
Credits:
Samantha Bounkeua (Violin/Engineer)
Kevin P. (Composer)