Producer, Mixer, Synth & Keys

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

A: Producing Cinematic Music for Victory Choir, because the really filled the gap in the music industry with their music. The songs they recorded were old songs that never had a chance to be performed with the cinematic music they needed but this choir recorded these songs with my cinematic music and audience really loved it, it was what the audience were waiting for many many year

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Mixing a song for a client. Producing a Christmas song for local worship band. Producing Christian Rock song for local solo artist. Recording Synth and Piano parts and producing sound design and programed drums elements for a singing group that recently came from Ukraine.

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

A: All the musicians that I worked with previously

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both. I prefer Digital because it gets job done quicker, there are many excellent software emulations of analog gear. But if the client wants any analog gear involved, I would absolutely do it.

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

A: Make sure you love my involvement in you song's music production, mix and all the instrument parts in it 120%

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: Improving songs, Making songs sound really good with my involvement in them, and seeing artist loving the music production in the song and artists totally blown away by the song and production.

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

A: How much would you charge for this ? I charge this much but I'm flexible, I'll charge according to you budget and amount so we both are happy, as long as we get music done, music is the most important.

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

A: "just use some loops and samples, you don't create your own custom sounds and loops"

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What other artists, type of music, type of sounds inspire you ? What do you want to express thru your music ? Which sounds, instruments or playing techniques you want to avoid and which you really like ?

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

A: don't hiring musicians with little experience or bad skills, always hire the best of the best.

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

A: Spectrasonics Omnisphere, Stylus RMX, Native Instruments Kontakt, Genelec 8030 monitors, Yamaha FG800 Acoustic Guitar,

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

A: I started in 1997 playing synth, keyboard and piano by try to recreate all the popular songs and the songs I liked to learn the structure and elements of harmony, bass lines, rhythm , melody and arrangement. Also studied how fans of different musical genres react to different music in their genre and what they expect from their artists.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: I'm very flexible, I can work in different genres because thru out my journey I studied all possible music genres, not just popular music but also world music.

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

A: Carrie Underwood, because I can bring more modern excitement to her song productions

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: My best tip is choosing the correct sounds and instruments and parts at the earliest stages of production to fill up the entire spectrum of the sound at the "big" parts without having sounds and frequencies masking other sounds, but at the same time have the arrangement dynamic so listener is always hooked.

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

A: anything Pop, County, Rock and HipHop, Christian and Worship related,

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: giving the song what it needs which is done by me playing my parts in the song

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I always do anything to bring a song to life so the songs will grad the listener and make them want to listen to the songs on repeat.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: I start off by listening to the demo song and references to understand exactly what the artist / producer wants, including reading all the notes provided by he client. Then whenever I feel the inspiration I record the tracks for the song, then re-listen , chose what works best and repeat. Then edit the parts so they fit perfectly to the song and send them off to the artist / producer. Repeat if needed.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I have 1 10x18 feet properly treated room with absorption and diffusion. 2 sets of monitors: Adam P11A, Genelec 8030A, Yamaha NS10M studio. Few pairs of headphones: Steven Slate VSX, AKG K240, SONY MDR7506, Airpods and many more devices on which I test my mixes and masters. 2 computers: Apple M1 Max Macbook and Windows 10 Desktop.

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

A: Way too many. Dr.Luke, Max Martin, David Foster, Manny Marroquin, Chris Lord-Alge, Tony Maserati, Serban Ghenea, Jaycen Joshua, Dave Pensado, Chris Tomlin, Toby Mac, Jeremy Camp, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, Cece Winans, Jeff Pardo, Jonatha Smith, Tedd T, AJ Pruis, Colby Wedgeworth, Jeff Sojka, Ben Glover, Dwan Hill, Sean Moffitt, Eric Persing, Dave Smith, Bob Moog, Bob Boyd.

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

A: Recording Synth, Keyboard, Piano, Organ parts and Producing Sound Design and Programmed Drums tracks for Songs. Producing full instrumental tracks. Mixing and Mastering. Editing. Tuning Vocals.