Session Drummer, Audio Editing

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

A: I've always wanted to work with music professionally as a career. I started with jamming in garage bands and recording bad demos in my basement. Fast forward to touring around the country, and building my fascination for recording. After stints of touring, I started to be more involved in the recording, session drummer world and haven't looked back. I've been doing this for a little over a decade now.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Drumming and audio editing.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Don’t be afraid to try new things, don’t always follow the rules, and be yourself!

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

A: When people think producers have a “magic button” that instantly make a track sound like it was played well and edited instantly. I believe songs sound good from the players and the engineers/editors who put it together. If there was a “button” like that, people like me would unfortunately never have work. Although it would be kind of interesting to try if it really did exist!

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: Overall, I’ll ask what expectations of the project are, what my guidelines are as far as contributiong creatively or strictly following a reference, or how a project should be edited according to the clients tatse.

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

A: Be honest, have an open mind, be prepared, communication is key.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I like that my job revolves around music, doing what I love, and helping/collaborating with others that are passionate about music too. It almost doesn’t feel like a job!

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: I’m currently working on a new record for Veil of Maya that will most likely be released in 2020.

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

A: I promise my clients that I will take a part of the workload off their shoulders. They can trust that their project is in good hands and will get a final product that they can be satisfied with.

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

A: I commonly do drum session work, drum editing, vocal editing, vocal production, tracking, and co-writing.

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

A: I’m new to this site so I unfortunately don’t know anyone who uses this yet. But once I do, I will definitely update this with a recommendation!

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both! Analog brings a timeless sound where newer products lack. However, digital makes things way easier and more streamlined. I mean, if I were tracking or editing in analog, my turn around times would be a whole lot longer! ;)

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

A: I typically work on Rock, Metal, Pop, Rap, Singer/Songwiter types of music.