Mixer, Producer, Pro Tools

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

A: Transit-Listen and Forgive. I produced and engineered it and it set my career off.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Southpaw mixes

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

A: Yes, Tom Iannello.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: I don't care, I'll get the job done either way. You need to know how to push them both.

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

A: To make sure your mix is rocking and your happy and coming back for another one.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: Sending off the first pass to see what type of reaction I get.

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

A: Do you master? or Can you master? Sure, but if you have the budget you should really hire a mastering engineer that will take my mix to another level. Always a professional that mastered his craft and if your paying me, you should be paying a mastering engineer to master you track or tracks

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

A: Rome wasn't build on a day.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: Top 5 favorite songs sonically I can reference on how you invision your mix or what your ears like.

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

A: Make sure your music is important to you and you are satisfied with the tracks and song. Once you can get some great songs recorded well, there is a lot of great mixers that can take the song to another level.

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

A: Computer, u87, 1176, monitors, convertor

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

A: I've been in bands and recording for 20 years and opened an amazing studio with amazing friends and now since covid it's closed and just mixing at home and currently looking to open another studio up.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Unique and experienced over years of grinding making records with all types of people. My style is energenic and polished with vibe and I go the extra mile I do not cut any corners.

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

A: I love gear and I've always wanted to record and mix a John Mayer song. I think it be easy to get amazing sounds with amazing talent.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Less is more, and don't neglect the bridge.

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

A: rock, pop, punk, country, rap, trap, emo, folk

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Listening to the artist. Making the song jump out, bring excitement and I love to get everyone involved super pumped and excited on the process and take there music to another level.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I like to bring my ears and my interpretation of how I think the song should be heard for the world. I might mute something to open up the verse, or I might add a tambourine to a chorus to add energy to make it pop. I can't give you all my secrets :)

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: For mixing, send me the tracks/session. I'll go through it. I'll have to see what enhancement it's going to need to reach my standards. This usually involves any auto tune, drum samples is a big part of it and alignment and phase and room samples for optimal leverage. I have years of collecting samples and have a great system. I can convert poorly recorded drums to midi and implement samples over them and the will sound natural with a modern punch and presentation.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: My studio setup is WILD. I have 64 channels of analog gear. A summing mixer with 20 Channels of transformers. I've been collecting for 20 Plus years and your going to head the gear on your mix. Adds depth, weight and punch compared to ITB mixing.

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

A: I'm inspired my hard working producers. Timberland, Jayson Joshua, Chris Lorde Alge and Eric Valentine are some of my favorites. I love and get inspired by any musician that has a vision and writing skill and has sense of direction in the music industry.

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

A: I do mostly mixing and production. I like to record bands and write with people who put the extra work in. When I mix I treat everyone song like it's my own. I usually obsess over it and try to make the song blow you away.