Audio Sonic Creator

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

A: Tyler Royale is a dope Singer/songwriters she got the vocal chops as well as writing ability to collaborate with the best of them.

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

A: To get the best possible sound for your records and help make your vision come to life.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I love being able to take a raw idea of what someone art once sounded like an make it a finished complete thought. I enjoy painting my interpretation of what picture the artist had in mind.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What is your Vision for your music? What artist would you best compare your music sound too? What would you like me to bring out in your music to best help your songs come to life?

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

A: UAD APOLLO TWIN MACBOOK PRO ADAM TV7 NEUMANN TLM103 AUDIO TECHNICA M40x HEADPHONES

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Various independent artist project and ep’s

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Digital with Analong Saturation. Everything is in the box these days and because of that it gives engineers an advantage to be able to recall any session any where at anytime. Back in the day you had to patch all this outboard gear cascade it down on a console and write down all these settings. Now we have plugins that immolate all that gear and get the same result.

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

A: People think you can poorly record vocals and not invest in a great engineer with great equipment who knows how to get the best performance out of you that’s how you get a good record and even better mix but it’s starts from the recording process the mix just enhances what’s already there which could be good or bad.

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

A: If you are looking for a engineer who will take the great song you wrote and paint it into a finishing product I am your guy.

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

A: I have been a engineer for 10 years. I ve been a musician since I was a kid playing keys and saxophone in school as well as church. I was always curious to know how the behind the scenes so I took a music technology class in High school and started to buy my own gear and recording my friends and friends from church and school. I then went to college and studio audio production where I learned how the concepts of being a audio engineer and took those skills to got my Bachelor of Arts degree in audio production. I interned at studios in Atlanta I have worked with award wining songwriters and producers such as Rock City, Tha Bizness, DJ mustard, Co Captains, Sean Garrett. Also got the opportunity to work with some dope artist such as Elle Varner, Sammie, Tinnie Tempah, Jayla Darden just to name a few.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Hard hitting drums and present vocals

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

A: I would love to work with Bruno Mars one day. His approach to how he writes songs is simplistic but meaningful and his production style is so full with few elements involved

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Listen with your ears and not your eyes. Trust what your hearing and not what your seeing.

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

A: I work on mostly. r&b, hip hop, rap, soul, pop, acoustic, live instrumentation as well as anything really I’m open to tackling all genres

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: My strongest skill would be being able to make a lot of elements be heard. I enjoy having a wide stereo image so you can hear all the instruments, subtle moments in the record to make fun a enjoyable listening experience

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I try to bring the best elements out in a record I like a present vocals but hard hitting drums to make a sonic wave of sound hit you as you enjoy the record

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: I always ask for a reference mix to we have a clear vision of where the client would like the mix to go. I bring in the files clean up the session and organize it the way I like to work do my gain staging and get to painting.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I have a mixing suite l have sonically treated with panels to get the best sound in my room my gear list is a follows iMac 21” 2.75 GHZ 1TB HDD 8GB Ram UAD Apollo MKII Heritage Audio RAM System 2000 Adam Audio TV7 Studio Monitors

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

A: I have been a musician since as I was kid so I am inspired by so many different genres from jazz greats as John Coltrane , Kirk Whalum, Charlie Parker, Nina Simmone to R&B artist like Raphael Saddiq, Usher, Tank, John Legend, Alicia Keys to Pop artist like Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendez, Justin Beiber to more alternative artist like Tank And the Bangaz, thunder cat, Alabama Shakes. the black keys the list goes on I have a wide range of musical taste.

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

A: I am recording/mixing engineer who mainly works on r&b, pop, acoustic, live instruments and soul music. I enjoy being able to take someone’s idea and make it into a finish song as well as help create a sonic quality for clients music.