Tailored Productions/Engineer

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Telecaster or strat? Red or blue? Sweet or savory? Everything has a flavor and a place.

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

A: I promise to handle your art with the utmost care, respect, and understanding.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: Helping artists go deeper into themselves and seeing that impact their life. Music and creativity are powerful.

Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A: What does it cost lol! A piano/vocal cover song doesn't require what a meticulously composed, programmed, sound-designed, layered, recorded on high-end gear, edited, mixed and mastered track does. So cost reflects that, and a conversation needs to take place first. If someone has a limited budget, we scale back the deliverable to find a balance. I try to get business figured out and out of the way first so there's no stress during the creative process.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What does success look like for you and for this project?

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

A: Try to develop a good working relationship. The more you understand each other the better. A professional who doesn't take time to do this is a red flag.

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

A: Computer, RME, Monitors, Class-A mic, Roli Seaboard

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

A: Started playing piano when I was a kid, then recording friends when I got out of high-school. After I moved to Nashville in 2010 I started working with YouTube artists and indi labels. My current personal goals are to become more known, I don't enjoy marketing and promotion - it's always been word-of-mouth.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: A song will tell you what it needs, develop and listen to that voice. Current trends are already old, don't get stuck chasing what once was - get inspired but create your own thing. Only you have your DNA, if your music is authentic and true to you, it will be unique and cool.

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

A: Something that excites me and sounds unique, whether electronic sound design is needed, or an artist wants to record an entire acoustic album in one take with one stereo mic, some interesting new arrangement or something...

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Intuition and empathy.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: My taste and experience, technical proficiency, deep understanding of the artist and what they want, as well as pushing them into a fresh space beyond what they thought was possible.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Understanding what the artist wants and what the song needs. Maintaining a safe creative space around the song is important too - like its ok to make mistakes. Let's try some stuff and see what works. Can't do that in an uptight, judgmental space.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: Streamlined, hybrid, minimal, quality. I'll patch in to high-end analog when needed. I'll bring in a $20k mic when needed. Sometimes a cheap SM57 and plug-ins are needed.

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

A: Disclosure, James Blake, Aphex Twin, Burial, Flume, Tony Anderson, Gesaffelstein, Rick Rubin, Max Martin, Quincy Jones, Kuk Harrell, Bruce Swedien, Jack Joseph Puig, Serban, Tom Coyne, +more

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

A: Interpreting my client's needs through creative and technical decision making, as well as maintaining a nurturing environment that is critical for art to thrive.