Dakei EntertainmentMusic production
Recording, tracking, programming, mixing and mastering built around the song, the performer and the final delivery requirement.
About
Music education and production, made for the Pacific.
Before the arrivals, there was already music.
Dakei Entertainment is built around one idea: musicians and music professionals across Fiji and the Pacific deserve the same calibre of industry training and production support available anywhere else in the world.
What we're building
Dakei Entertainment runs professional music industry training and production work, starting with our flagship programme, From Roots to Record — The Dakei Masterclass. It covers the full arc of a music career: songwriting and composition, rights and royalties, recording, mixing and mastering, each taught as a full six-hour training day with a Certificate of Completion.
The work now spans music production and training, film location sound and audio post-production, human-led AI music integration, and the restoration and preservation of recorded material.
Training
Structured, practical courses across the full music production and business pipeline.
Certification
Every completed course earns a Certificate of Completion from Dakei Entertainment.
Production
Hands-on work in recording, mixing and mastering, taught by people who do it professionally.
Film Sound & Post-Production
Location sound for shoot days and audio post-production for picture-based projects.
AI Music Integration
Human-led use of intelligent tools for practical studio, restoration, arrangement and training workflows.
Restoration & Cultural Preservation
Careful restoration and preservation work for recordings, archives and culturally important audio.
Tools I use
The gear behind the tracking, mixing and mastering work — more detail on how each is used is coming soon.
Fender Studio Pro 8
Used for tutorials.
Cubase 15 Pro
Recording and production.
UAD Plugins
Mixing and mastering.
Waves
Mixing and mastering.
Film sound
Production sound recording, boom-operation planning, dialogue support, ADR and sound-design work for screen projects.
Training
From Roots to Record brings songwriting, composition, rights, recording, mixing and mastering into practical one-day courses.
Music rights
Public education around composition, publishing, master and phonographic rights, metadata, royalties and distribution.
AI integration
Human-led use of intelligent tools inside production, restoration, arrangement and training workflows — never as a substitute for authorship.
ESTS
The Eight-Stem Tape System is Filimone Dakei’s original routing, processing and printing workflow using Cubase Pro 15, Loopback and TAPE16.
Restoration
Careful cleanup and preservation of recorded material, with respect for the source, the performer and culturally important audio.
Pacific focus
The work is based in Suva and designed for artists, organisations and productions across Fiji, the Pacific and international projects.