Music Production, Film Scoring

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

A: The record "Back to the Country" stands out to me as I was the engineer, producer, guitar player and backup vocalist. It was an excellent experience where we brought all of our gear out to a cabin and spent two weeks crafting the songs as a team.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: There's always room for both.

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

A: That I will deliver to you what you asked from me.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: The ability to tune out the world and dive into complete creativity.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What artists have inspired this specific piece of art and why?

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

A: The clearer you can be on what you're looking for sonically the better.

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

A: Electro Dynamic Re-20 Dynamic Microphone x2 MacBook Pro Arturia Interface Hologram Effects Chroma Console

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

A: I started as a session/touring guitar player for over 10 years - all the while recording my own songs. I made the transition to full time production in 2019 and have worked on an released several full lengthy albums since then while still touring and working on my own music.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Don't be afraid to try new things - many of the most important albums were made by "breaking the rules".

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

A: Most often singer-songwriter, alternative rock and pop music. Typically with solo artists who want a full track production to suit their lyrics and vocals.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Making artists feel heard, bringing their vision for their art to life and pushing the music into new and exciting sonic territory.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I bring lively, organic and experimental energy to any project. I like to start with a direction thats based on a song or tone of a specific artist and then let the song - as well as the artist - dictate what the song will sound like in the end. I firmly believe that the artist themselves are producing the songs alongside me.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: After receiving a recorded scratch vocal track thats been recorded to a click, I like to experiment in my studio with all my instruments and build up what I call a "sketch track". After that the client can make tweaks to the general tone and arrangement. Once we've got a general direction that is feeling good for the artist I then start making production revisions. I would like to note the difference between production revisions and mix revisions. If the artists would like me to mix the track as well - that is a separate service from production and should be discussed as so.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I am to record sources very cleanly, so that it lends alot of room to mess around with in post. I use Arturia Discrete Pro Preamps which are to my money have the best dynamic range and clean gain of any preamp I've used. I have tube, dynamic, condenser and ribbon microphones for any source and like to experiment to get unique tones that satisfy the curious listener. I like using outboard compressors - mainly to keep dynamic range within a reasonable range and I prefer to work in the box for post production processing.

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

A: Blake Mills, Shawn Everett, Kenneth Blume, Ariel Rechtshaid, Dan Nigro, Nigel Godrich,

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

A: Composing, engineering , recording and producing songs and albums.