I've worked with industry legends like Michael James (Sammy Hagar) and Jan Seedman (Stone Temple Pilots). With a 5 octave range, I deliver emotional, powerful vocals for rock, blues, and soul.
I’m a passionate, engaging, easy going songwriter and vocalist with a 5 octave range (E1 - E6), ready to breathe life into your music and make your listeners feel every word. My lead, harmony, and gang vocals go above and beyond, providing amazing results and unbeatable value.
Got a song without a melody or lyrics? Let’s create a catchy top-line together or turn your ideas into a vocal masterpiece. I also play rhythm guitar to give your music more emotion, impact, and drive. Collaborating with me means getting the most bang for your buck.
My pricing covers songs up to 3:30, but we can chat about longer pieces. While free revisions depend on the project, you can typically expect at least 2 revisions to be included and I’ll work tirelessly to ensure you’re thrilled with the end result—if more are needed, additional revisions are just $50. I deliver both wet and dry stems and vocal reference tracks, with a standard 1 business week turnaround that can adjust to your timeline.
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18 Reviews - 1 Repeat Client
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Jeremy's a great vocalist, who's easy to work with and pays great attention to detail.
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Great working with Jeremy again with another pro vocal result and really helped bring out the vision I had in mind for the song concept.
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Jeremy is not only a great talent, but a pleasure to work with !
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Jeremy helped me realize a special gem. His results have always been top level for all of the songs he has supported me on and really puts the time in to produce a body of work that you would be proud of.
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Great working with Jeremy again on another stellar performance! Looking forward to working with him again as always...
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Jeremy is amazing! Awesome voice, very versatile stylistically. He knows how to make vocals work for a song. He communicates very well and he delivers. Great singer!
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Always enjoy working with Jeremy, he is great with collaboration on suggestions and has always delivered a great result.
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Great working with Jeremy again, he is very open minded and very talented at his craft for providing great results!
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Another great vocal from Jeremy. He is solid, pro, and someone you can count on to provide a great result.
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Two words, Great result! The effort Jeremy puts into his work is top notch.
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Great experience with Jeremy again! His creative lyrics and vocal harmonies were a perfect fit!
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2nd time work with Jeremy, with great results again! The lyric, passion and energy he put into his vocal performance is top class...
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Jeremy was terrific to work with and provided super clean vocals in a short period of time. I got exactly what I was looking for and was very impressed with the high standard. Recommend!
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First time working with Jeremy, and had a great experience. He was very thorough, kept me well informed of his progress, was easy to work with on the result I was looking for, and delivered a great set of vocal tracks with very creative harmonies.
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Very timely, very professional, excellent quality delivered. Will definitely hire again in the future.
I have worked with Jeremy over a decade on many song/co-writing/arrangement projects, each one yielding results that have exceeded my expectations. He is laser-focused spending far less time on hypotheticals while allocating energy on creating unique compositions/arrangements that are compelling and different - in the best way possible. He is highly mindful of what gives birth to a song while being able to convert the intent of an idea to a living, breathing production. Jeremy's pro vocals exceed industry standards. He delivers beyond expectation and has the track record to prove it.
In addition to being an amazingly talented vocalist, guitarist and songwriter, Jeremy is thoughtful and fun to work with. He’s one of my first-call “go-to” guys for both major label and indie work. Power like Chris Cornell, melodies like Scott Weiland, and believe it or not, ballads with the best of them! Noteworthy is Jeremy‘s ability to light up a lead vocals with personality, and then five minutes later blend seamlessly with background vocals that don’t compete with lead vocal. That’s harder to do than you would think. Highly recommended!
I worked with Jeremy IRL before I knew he was on Soundbetter...and I told him: "Have you ever heard of Soundbetter? You should be on there!" He was super easy to work with and delivered me a warm passionate vocal that really brought the song home. And his vocal track had lots of dynamics -- softer in the verses, strong in the chorus, then soaring in the bridge. Very solid, very professional vocalist with the chops to do the job.
Interview with Jeremy Sutherland
Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A: Can you try and sing it like this instead? Yes, yes I can.
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: The biggest misconception is that being creative is something that comes natural to singers and songwriters which means it doesn't take much time. People definitely do not realize the amount of hours, blood, sweat, and tears that go into making great music. It takes a lot more than just having an idea to make a great song or to put in a great vocal performance. It takes experience and the knowledge of how to correctly approach these things, in order to maximize the quality of the end results.
Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?
A: What is the story you are trying to tell? What is the mood you want to put your listeners in? For vocals, I need to hear the song to know if my range will work or not. If the range isn't compatible, is changing the key possible?
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: Give as many details as possible to ensure you get the results you are looking for. Don't be afraid to ask for something you want even if it seems unrealistic. The worst thing they can say is no but it could also result in something fantastic.
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: My career path was graphic design but I have always lived and breathed music ever since picking up my first acoustic guitar and clumsily strumming the long dead strings at the age of 16. I always loved singing along to my favorite bands and started to take it seriously and realize my vocal talents around 2007. I have been writing, recording, and performing music since 2009. My newest project is as a co-founder and frontman for a prog/hard rock band called Stone Prophet which I started in 2016. All of the music in the rock mix sampler is from that project.
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: I promise to do everything within my power to not only give you what you are asking for, but to exceed your expectations and to build a rewarding, professional experience with you. If you trust in my process and your expectations are clear and attainable, I promise you will not be disappointed with my work.
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: Whatever would allow me to continue to write and record music. Assuming the island had electricity I'd take my iMac, Focusrite to record vocals and guitar, Shure SM7B microphone, Variax Shuriken, and a 50 year supply of guitar strings.
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: Vocally I suppose I am a mix of all of my main influences and inspirations. Chris Cornell, James Hetfield, Layne Staley, Maynard James Keenan, Brent Smith. Honestly I don't really know how to describe my style. I am quiet, reflective, and fragile when the song is mellow or somber and I am aggressive, tormented, and full of fire when the song is loud and energetic.
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: Again, there are too many to name but if I had to pick just one it would have to be James Hetfield. It would be absolutely incredible to write a song with James Hetfield. He has been my biggest influence ever since I discovered Metallica in the 90's and the reason I took learning the guitar seriously. I admire everything he has done for rock and metal music. Besides his signature growl I don't think he has gotten enough respect for his powerful vocals and no one can play a chunky, speedy riff quite like Hetfield.
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: Don't get stuck on the details. Find and capture the idea and then move on to the next part. Once most, if not all of the foundation is established, then go in and start working on the flavors to make the ear candy as sweet as possible. I used to spend far too long on one section of a song until I thought it was perfect and then I would feel too mentally drained to finish the song without taking a break for a few days before I came back to it. This is obviously a huge waste of time and the potential of what the song could have been may become lost.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: My bread and butter is rock music but I love a lot of different genres. Anything that can create a mood or alter an emotion is in my wheelhouse. Vocally I can sing rock, country, pop, folk, blues. I love to sing all kinds of music and am always up for new challenges.
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: My strongest skill is my ability to convey the emotions of a song through my vocals and my lyrics. If I am singing someone else's words, I place myself into the story of their lyrics in order to feel whatever is necessary to give the best, most meaningful performance. To explain further, I have hyperphantasia, which is the ability to see extremely detailed and clear images in my mind and to manipulate them to do whatever I want them to. Because of this, words are more than just joined characters on a page to me. I create scenes with them that feel real and this reality allows me to tap into the emotions of that scenery to create really compelling lyrics that carry true emotion when I perform them.
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: I understand what makes a song compelling to listen to. I hear melodies in my head to work over a song track. I create lyrics that develop a story in my mind and allow the story to show me where the song wants to go. This is the foundation of my songwriting. Once I have the basic sections in place, I work to create more excitement and more contrast in order to keep the listener engaged throughout the song. There's nothing more deflating than having a listener get bored a quarter of the way through a song and I understand how to avoid that.
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: When songwriting, I typically pick up the guitar and create a new project template within Logic Pro X. If I have an idea in my head I will play the idea on guitar using the guitar plug-in Helix Native while I flesh the idea out. Once I have a solid idea I use Superior Drummer 3 to quickly throw in some drum grooves to lay down the guitar riff and begin building a song in that way. If a particular lyric or melody hits me, I will begin to write the lyrics out and then throw down some vocals to get a better feel for what I am hearing in my head. Once I begin to layer vocals and harmonies and the song begins to take shape, I continue building it from there.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: I record my vocals into a 27 inch 2020 iMac running Logic Pro X. I use a Shure SM7B microphone connected through a Cloudlifter and a TPSII Preamp to capture clean, pure vocals. I use a Line6 Variax Shuriken guitar with amp modeling and alternate tuning changes to avoid any barriers to creativity when working on music. The goal is to have the ability to immediately lay down vocals or guitar as soon as an idea hits. Everything in my studio is streamlined to aid me in this and I pump my music out through a pair of Fostex studio monitors.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: I am inspired by many different vocalists and many different performers. Vocally I find inspiration from Chris Cornell who had the seemingly effortless ability to take his voice from soft and serene one moment to aggressive and powerful, and full of soul in the next. Maynard James Keenan has the same effortless control over his voice and is a huge influence due to this as well. I'm inspired by vocalists who add something different and unexpected to their performance. Layne Staley, Eddie Vedder, James Hetfield. All powerhouse vocalists with the ability to surprise in their soulfulness and vulnerability. I'm inspired by the masterful guitar work of rock gods like Marty Friedman, Kirk Hammett, Dave Mustaine, James Hetfield, Dimebag Darrell, Steve Vai, Tony Iommi, Santana, Clapton, Zakk Wylde, B. B. King, and just too many more to name. If they have groove, soul, and grit, or they can light fire to their guitar neck with some tasty shredding then I'm inspired.
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: I've been told I have a unique voice and a different approach to how I write and perform vocal melodies which is definitely the most common type of work I do for clients. I'm able to pick out the moments in a song where my vocal helps to further elevate a particular lyric or even the instrumentation going on behind the vocal to pair the two together and make the song really pop.
Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: I was given the task of taking a song that was written in a sort of pop rock style and putting a completely hard rock driven style to it while maintaining the somber emotions of the song. The end result completely reinvented the song while keeping faithful to the heart of it.
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: At the moment I'm working on music with my progressive/hard rock band Stone Prophet as well as some side-projects with a couple of really talented guys one of which is local and one who is in California.
Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?
A: Unfortunately not yet but I have seen some really talented people on here.
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: Both. Each have their place and their conveniences. Digital just makes things go quicker and that's important when time = money.
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: I love creativity and I love taking something that never existed before and willing it into existence. I love the surprises of songwriting, the happy accidents that become a staple in the song, I love the feeling of accomplishing something that felt almost impossible. I love music with my entire heart and soul. Nothing makes me feel more like myself than writing and recording music and I love that I can share that with other artists and musicians.
I was the Vocalist/Songwriter/Topline/Guitarist in this production
- Singer - MaleAverage price - $200 per song
- Top line writer (vocal melody)Average price - $125 per song
- Songwriter - LyricAverage price - $125 per song
- Songwriter - MusicContact for pricing
- Electric GuitarAverage price - $125 per song
Typically 1 week turnaround- # of free revisions based on project/flexible/$50 each addl revision - Songwriting typically work for hire (you keep rights) unless agreed at start
- Chris Cornell
- Layne Staley
- James Hetfield
- Shure SM7B
- Heritage Audio Britstrip Mic Pre
- Gibson Les Paul
- Variax Shuriken
- Helix
- iMac
- Logic Pro X
I offer custom jobs if your project requires more than a single service. Let's talk!