Harsh Mehta

Most engineers in Mumbai take the Bollywood path. Steady work, big budgets, industry connections. I studied Sound Engineering at ZIMA in 2017, took an Advanced Degree in Sound Recording from the University of Mumbai in 2018, and walked in the opposite direction.

I skipped the Bollywood circuit and went the other way, toward the genres that had no commercial value and no safety net: metal, rock, blues, jazz, classical, folk, regional acts that were too strange or too honest to break through the noise. The underground was where the musicians cared more about the sound than the size of the room, and that's where I wanted to be. That's where I learned on my own, developed my own ear, and found my own sound.

In 2023 I moved to Madison for a Master's degree and kept mixing. 120+ shows across UW's venues, 99 artists, rooms from 300 seats to Camp Randall at 80,000. Live mixing, studio sessions, production, mastering. The format keeps changing. The taste and the standard don't.

This collection is the work so far. Not everything makes the page. I'm a music connoisseur before I'm anything else, and that means being selective about what carries my name. If you want to know what I actually listen to and recommend, the Musicology section is where that lives.