Reggae Session Guitarist

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: My new album. For release in 2020. It's a guitar instrumental project dedicated to my mom who passed recently. It will feature colabs from a few artist. It will be a reggae instrumental album like you've never heard before.

Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?

A: No, I'm not familiar with anyone on the platform.

Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A: Can I get a better price. No.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Always try to see the client's vision.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Digital. It's what I use lol.

Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?

A: My 'promise' is to do the best recording to my abilities and to make our correspondence be smooth and professional.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: The feeling I get during the recording process and the sense of accomplishment after the client approves the job.

Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?

A: It's easy.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What style guitars are you hearing (in your head) on this song? How soon do you need it done? What's your budget?

Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A: Please make sure you know exactly what style and/sound you are looking for so that we don't waste time trying to figure it out.

Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?

A: My Epiphone DOT 335, Fender Deville 4x10 amp, Line 6 M9, Cry Baby Wha, And a mac book.

Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?

A: I've been doing music since I was about 9 years old. Started working professionally at 19 touring and doing sessions - almost 20 years now.

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?

A: I recently completed my album "Groovy Love Thing" I'm especially proud of it because I think it's my best work to date as a producer. I played most of the tracks as well as mixed half the album.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: I wouldn't. :-)

Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?

A: As a session guitarist I can't think of any, but as a featured Artist (Colab), I'd love to work with John Mayer. He's a great guitar player and song writer and we'd learn a lot from the experience working together.

Q: What type of music do you usually work on?

A: I mostly work on Reggae.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: I'd say my strongest skills are guitars & production.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I try to bring an identity to each song. Something that will stand out (in regard to guitars). As for drum programming, it's gotta have a groove.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: I don't have a "typical" work process. Each project requires a different approach. But, I'd probably listen to the song first then start playing around with ideas until I hear something I like.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I have a very simple set up - Mac, Event 20/20 speakers Mbox interface.

Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?

A: I'm inspired by a lot of different people. In respect to production, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis comes to mind first for their work with Janet Jackson. In more recent times I like Stargate productions. I'm a Hendrix kinda guitarist and I dig jazz cats too like Chuck Loeb, Benson, Lee Ritenour.

Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.

A: I mostly do guitar tracks. And since I'm known in the reggae industry that's what I'm commonly asked to do.