Mixing, mastering, producing

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

A: I tracked guitars for a numetal project working with Eric Jensen of escape the fate that was fun! I'm proud of that because of the people I was working with where some bigger names

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: An ep for my band, and an album for a metalcore project

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

A: No

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Digital because that's just how I've done things

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

A: You will leave with the best product I can give you!

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: Interacting with bands, and hearing all the different music they all have

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

A: Its mostly about rates, and my answer is that it depends on the project

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

A: That I can make garbage sound good

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What is the end goal for the material

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

A: Hiring a producer is like getting another band member, you have to make sure they are a right fit

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

A: My computer and all my guitars

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

A: I've been doing this of over a year now, and I'm starting to take this all very serious now

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Ummm I'm not sure, I like to get a good source sound and not to fix it in the mix

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

A: That's a hard one, I cant decided between nolly get good and joey sturgis they both are amazing producers, I love the sounds they get

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Trust your ears and not the screen

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

A: Metal mainly, but I love doing the rest

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Song writing

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: A powerful mix

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: I start mixing the drums first then guitar and bass then synths then vocals then just tweaking

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I run a pair of mackie studio monitors with a focusrite interface and I have an eleven rack for outboard compression when vocal tracking

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

A: Periphery, joey sturgis

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

A: Mixing mostly but also tracking guitars