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Interview with Kcooke
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: few albums
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: digital, I prefer the shine it gives
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: a professional quality mix
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: the creative freedom
Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A: how long have you been doing this? 8 years how do you learn all this stuff? overtime I guess haha..
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: that im a machine and can get things done overnight..
Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?
A: whats the end vibe? whats your timeline? autotune? no autotune?
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: lets both understand making music can be taunting and frustrating. let just make this happen.
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: Mac, uad, speakers, powerbar, mouse.
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: I worked through word of mouth for several years and now just finishing up my education on music production. total ive been doing this 8 years.
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: new school, wavy
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: everyone has something to bring to the table, really depends
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: never stop learning
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: usually like 99% of the time usually I'm working on hiphop new school
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: I have the patience needed to take the time and get the song sounding great!
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: I bring a professional feel to a song. a strong mix is a big mix and I like my mix to be really big, atmospheric and never dull.
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: typically I like to place the files into a project level it while I listen to it over, then I would get to taking outs breaths or laying down some compression. really depends on how I feel that day.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: I have worked in a few studios but currently I am mixing songs from my home studio. I am running bad plugins into a 2017 iMac. with Yamaha hs5 speakers and Mackie cr3 speakers.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: I am inspired by people like Scott storch, Alex tumay. I get inspired when I hear new styles that emerge.
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: tracking, producing, mixing and mastering are what I typically do for a client in a session
- Mixing EngineerAverage price - $200 per song
- Mastering EngineerAverage price - $70 per song
- Post EditingAverage price - $100 per track
- Post MixingAverage price - $200 per minute
- Surround 5.1 MixingAverage price - $200 per minute
- Beat MakerAverage price - $300 per song
- YouTube Cover RecordingAverage price - $150 per song
3-4 revisions depending, typical turn around 2-4 weeks.
- 2017 IMac
- uad plugins
- logic
- pro tools
- Yamaha hs5 speakers
