Ghost Sugar Electronics – 
Professional Audio Gear

Studio Engineering & Analog Electronics

Background – Music & Audio

For the past 17 years, I’ve worked professionally as a composer, producer, mixing and mastering engineer for a wide range of clients and platforms, including Volvo, Netflix, Ferrari, Minecraft, and over a hundred major YouTube channels. Throughout those years, I’ve developed a broad and detailed understanding of sound, music production, and sonic aesthetics across many different genres and subgenres.

Today, I’ve combined that experience with my earlier background in electrical engineering and electronics under the name Ghost Sugar Electronics.

Background – Electronics

Before pursuing music full-time, I studied electrical installation and power systems through Fortum’s vocational program, which included roughly 70% hands-on field work. Over the course of three years, we worked on larger electrical infrastructures, handling everything from installations and maintenance to troubleshooting across low-voltage systems, control systems, and high-voltage environments.

Because the education covered such a wide technical range, it also included studies in digital control systems, electronics, electrical safety, electrical mathematics, and certified hot work procedures.

Awesome Sauce — Passive Mastering Unit

Together with mastering engineer Casper Bjerkehagen, I developed a 1U passive mastering unit built around harmonic coloration through two separate circuits: AS1 and AS2. The unit is designed as a signature device carrying his approval and artistic direction, as he has been involved throughout the entire development process with continuous feedback and critical evaluation.

I created multiple circuit concepts and panel designs with one core objective: achieving authentic analog tone and coloration without the need for DC-powered amplification stages. Every stage of the project — from circuit behavior and functionality to sonic character and physical design — was carefully reviewed and refined together with Casper. Thanks to his exceptionally detailed listening approach, the unit was ultimately approved as “mastering-grade” in both tonal coloration and analog character.

The primary purpose of the unit is to provide genuine mastering-grade analog coloration after working with software plugins, while remaining relatively accessible and minimalistic in design. Many engineers still prefer adding analog character during the mastering stage, and despite major advancements in software emulation, truly authentic analog depth and unpredictability remains difficult to replicate entirely in-the-box.

Some modern high-end plugins come impressively close, but analog circuitry often introduces a more organic, nonlinear, and naturally dynamic response that many engineers still find difficult to replace digitally. That philosophy became the foundation for AS — Awesome Sauce.

Further information, audio demonstrations, and A/B tests will be revealed during Summer 2026.

For inquiries: info@mansbillner.com