Composer and music producer

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Mixing and mastering several albums and working in collaboration with visual artist, we are making commissioned art project.

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

A: Song writing team is doing great work, you should check them up

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: I like both.Depends on the vibe and sound of the production and how artist want to work. Usually digital makes the most sense because tight schedule and total recall ability. Analog tools has different sound compared to digital. You can choose to use analog synths or tape machines for their sound in just some stages of production. I think variety makes music more interesting and thats the reason many are using sampled drums with acoustic drums or digital and analog synths mixed together. Same way you can use digital recording and mixing with for example analog tape mastering. They are just tools. People who use them are more important.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I love my job. I can be creative and learn new things every day and work in collaboration with inspiring and talented people.

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

A: I try to explain what I do and what is production process to client before we start to do collaboration that there is no misconceptions.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: I need to know what goals and expectations you have. What is schedule and deadline for production. I will ask you about your musical background and your influences and if you have some records that you think are a good reference for me to listen. I will also ask you about the emotion, concept and vision that you have for the production. It will be important for me to also know your personal preferences for the process and how you would like to work.

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

A: Please contact me and lets talk about your goals and expectations. I am easygoing and down to earth person. I have very long experience working with artists and bands and I can usually very fast know if there is something I can help you with in your production.

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

A: Started playing guitar and recording with 4 track cassette recorder at age of 10. First paid composition work 1989 for theatre production. I have worked since full time composer and music producer. I have recorded, mixed and mastered a lot of bands and artists locally and via internet. I have composed music for Symphony orchestra,theatre productions,TV and film and art projects.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: It depends if I am writing music myself or doing artists record. I always try to remember that its artists/bands record and I am only helping them as producer to make their production.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I have very good sounding control room and 150m2 recording room. Monitoring is custom soffit mounted Aura-audio speakers and small Auratone 5c monitors. Protools 11 and Cubase 8.5 daw with a lot of plugins and virtual instruments. Avid HD native sound card with 40 inputs, Lavry DA converters.Toft audio 24 track mixing desk and 2" Otari 24 track reel recorder. 2 Studer A80 master tape recorders ,Eurorack modular, Mac pro with 12 cores and 96 GB ram

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

A: It varies a lot depending what production needs. It can be composing original music or help artist/band to make interesting and competitive sounding music. I do a lot of mixing and mastering work and sound design, orchestration and synth arrangements.I have good sounding 150m2 room for recording and I am currently recording full bands too. I also re-amp guitar and bass tracks.

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

A: My goal is to get them a finished product that they love and was in line with their expectations. I am willing to work hard to make my clients satisfied and happy.

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

A: Computer, microphone, modular synth, mixing desk and Aura-audio speakers. I hope its not too small island that I can fit all those :)

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

A: Trent Reznor, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, Brian Eno and many many more.I like to work with all my clients and we usually have good time while making music.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Never stop learning, it keeps work interesting and fresh sounding. Listen many different genres of music and music from different eras.

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

A: I listen a lot of different genres and I like all music that has its own sound and is original and inspiring with real emotions.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: Creativity, original sounding ideas and long experience working with different genres.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: It starts with conversation with client in order to understand what is artists end goal and expectations and learn more about project. I can usually quite fast get an idea what production needs and give simple step by step guide of process. All of the terms will be discussed in the beginning so there are no surprises and we both can concentrate on making music.