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

A: 20 years in different roles. Over the last 5 years I've done numerous trips to LA and Nashville. I have even been mentored by a Nashville legend which lifted my game to higher level. Hopefully more international travel coming soon.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: My style... musical. In that I take the best of the last 50-60 years of music and apply those rules and lessons to today. Its about music that is good on the ears.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Do the hard work of preparation. Get the performance of the parts right. Its the 5 Ps -Prior Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Putting stuff together. I can understand how the sonic sandwich needs to stacked for the best results. From my previous experiences I work well in teams and pride myself on my professionalism.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: The music business is all about relationships, so that first contact point with the client is critical. In developing a working relationship you can begin to understand the client desires, directions and vision. After that its about going to work for the client and getting a result for them.

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

A: My whole passion for music was born out of listening to the 60's and 70's records of my parents as a child and later as an teenager. I remember the most mind blowing event for me was when I could start to pick out the parts of the records, for example hearing the shakers in a chorus of song. I realised I might have been listening to the music, but not really LISTENING to the music. Then my quest began to create "real music" like what I heard.

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

A: Most of my external client work is mixing. Besides my own projects and TV/Sync tracks I also do guitar parts, arrangements, co-writers, and production services to other local artists. My goal is that my participation must always elevate the clients project.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: My approach was always to build a modern hybrid studio. A mixture of valve and analogue gear that might have been present in a studio in the 1970's for the front end with a high quality digital capture at the back end. I use a mixutre of UA plugins and Slate plug-ins that emulate the classic gear. I also do hybrid mixing outputting to an external mixing summing box that can extra harmonics and punch.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: I'm currently working on my next album release for 2021.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both digital and analog. Get the front end sounding sweet and capture that into a computer. Much easier than having dramas with tape machines.

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

A: Try to establish they understand your goals and concerns for the project.

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

A: A mixture of blues, rock, acoustic and country.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: The ears of somebody that really has listened deeply to a lot of tracks, and knows how to take that experience and replicate those sounds for other people.