Remote Music Producer/Composer

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?

A: Was worked as a music producer and the premix engineer for South indian movies.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Indie tracks, cinematic sound tracks, Hofi hip hop tracks.

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

A: Alan Joy Mathew.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Firstly, Depends on the song. I prefer Hybrid which is like a mix of analog and Digital. Then Again most clients prefer analog. and the easiest one is digital.

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

A: My promise will be that i will deliver the product with the best options they can get which is absolutly do justice to the genre and track.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: My job never make me tiring. Most importantly when a work of mine is being released, its proud to say that i worked on that or I made that thing. I mean its an awsome moment.

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

A: Most clients ask how long it will take. I try to give them an honest window of the amount of time it will take based on my workload and the speed at which I can create tracks at the time. It is highly possible that the window could moved on, depending on the work, corrctions and update from the cliend and my side. By any how willl updatethe client about the work

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

A: I would say most people would be surprised the amount of time and work it takes to reach a competitive sound as a producer or mixer. The truth is that you have to be willing to sacrifice a lot and usually work 7 days a week if you want to succeed.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: I usually ask clients what inspired them, or what kind of music inspired this particular track. Do they have any idea of what they'd like the project to resemble? Is there an artist (other than him/herself) that they could envision performing this song? What kind of feeling you need to convey through this track?

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

A: A customer who look for a provider like me should be able to give as much as details about how the track should be in the aspects of sounding, vibe, soundscapes, feeliong to be conveyed and as much as references if possible. The more number of input and specificity can make an amazing output.

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

A: System(Mac). UAD Apollo Twin. Beyerdynamic 770 pro, Nektar Impulse G61

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

A: I had my music education from my childhood on eastern classical music for 8 years, especially on vocals.Lessons on keyboard for 5 years. Started learning and exploring DAWs and music production from 2007. Started to produce independent tracks by 2013. Released first album by 2015 (Wasnt that sucess). Started the Music production sound engineering course from 2017. Started career as an assistant Music Producer/Programmer by 2019 in the industry, Started working as an assistant to a Music Composer by 2020 till present.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: My earlier stages were rooted from EDM, techno. Progressive house styles of music. Then i Started learning and practicing Indie, Pop, Atlternatives and Cinematic

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

A: Any artist who are not trying to limit themselves, experiment new things and most importantly, learn new things. Any art can't be learnt completely. May be after a long time of practice and huge efforts, it could be master it to an extend.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Always manin tain gain staging, which will help a lot in Mastering, by leavinga lot of head room (for most of the genres).

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

A: Cinematic, indie, progressive house, LOfi

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Im in to composing and songwriting as well but producing for a song, whether its own composition or not, seems to be more to explore, learn on the genre. May be its because that is what i have been concentrating more lately.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: It takes a great deal to know what a song really needs. So after pleanty of researches, refering to a lot of songs, My ultimate aim will be to bring the needed sounding, soundscape and thus the vibe.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: I start with understanding the genre of the music, sounding for the music, deciding the soundscape, any specific elements in a music (if any). Then to determine how the structure of the track should be or how long should it be. The next step will be mostly to rhythm or bass line or the chord structure, depending on the style im producing or the idea to work. The comes the sound designing and orchestrating. A partial mixing will be maintained from this stage, like Gain staging, parallel compressing, splitting or allocating frequencies for respective sounds. If melody is needed, it could be looked into by now. By now, an initial draft could be sent to the client to get the idea and the progress of the work. If there is a Next step is to add additional electronics like FX, fillers, etc. Upon confirming from the client that whether the track meet all its requirements, can be forwaded to mixing if needed then mastering from there

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: Its a home studio, But keeps on upgrading it by means of plugins, vsts, or harware

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

A: Ed sheeran, Jeremy Zucker, Charlie Puth,Billie Eilish, FINNEAS, Adele Justin Bieber, Shawn mendes, One Direction, Marshmello, The Weeknd,

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

A: Lofi tracks, Atl indie, Sound tracks