Rafa Sardina

Rafa’s love for music began early, playing guitar and sitting in on recording sessions in his native Spain. After four years of medical school he chose his life-long passion instead, and a live-sound run with folk, jazz and world artists across Northern Spain and the South of France led him to the United States and to Full Sail.

He soon landed engineering positions at the legendary Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood and Record One in Los Angeles, working with world-renowned artists on a daily basis — from Natalie Cole and The Black Crowes to Celine Dion, Green Day, Madonna, The Rolling Stones, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Frank Sinatra, plus the pre-records for The Academy Awards.

Best known for pop, rock and R&B, Rafa has recorded and mixed nearly every genre imaginable — orchestral, big band, dance, gospel, soul, rap, choral and film scores from Any Given Sunday to Johnny Depp’s The Rum Diary.

In 2001 he founded Fishbone Productions and built Afterhours Studios from the ground up. Retrofitted in 2017 with Hanson Hsu’s Quantum Acoustics, it earned a place on Mix Magazine’s Class of 2017 — a safe place for artists to work without watching the clock.