Music Producer, Engineer

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: My style of writing is different from track to track. I use lots of different ambient samples as instruments and many live samples that I create by my own. My style is a bit dark, but with an element of hope in the long way off.

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

A: I would really like to work with Tyler The Creator because his perception of music is unusual for me. Moreover, his sound of drums and voice is so special, that I would really like to know more of his secrets.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: My tip is that people can use almost every sound to do music, even such things as walking sounds or any rutin and typical sounds we hear every day. You can make everything from them, from drums to interesting melody, cause nature and people nature are the best sources of ideas and sounds.

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

A: I usually work on diffrent styles and genres of music such as - RnB, Hip-Hop, Trip-hop, Electronic, Alternative Pop.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Personally, i think that my strongest skill is music production 'cause my head is always full of ideas. Im inspired by things around me and I know how to transmit it through music.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: It depends on the type of work, but most common situation is that I bring something interesting, something that people call piece of my sound.

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

A: Im really proud of the project 'Marphin'. Im still working on it. This project is a place where almost all creative spheres meet each other and work together. I do music(everything from lyrics to mixing and distribution) soundesign to videos, videos distribution... This project is a startup and will bring people new story, feelings, worries and new way of percieving creativity especially music. It brings people to new Universe.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Now im working on a project that I will describe in next paragraph.

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

A: -

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: This is a very difficult question, but I think that it depends on a situation, genre and lots of different factors. Each his own, but I prefer to mix both of them.

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

A: I promise that ill put all my time and forces to provide the best result in a minimum period.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I like alomost everything. I enjoy both creative and technical sides of my profession. I did both of them a lot and almost always got pleasure from it.

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

A: I dont have the rank of questions, because all people are different.

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

A: The biggest misconception is that producers just click two bottoms, then put several plug-ins and everything is ready , but this statement is totally false.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: Im trying to get all information about work. I ask about all details, vibe and all techniqual information, that I think should be required. If the client is not certain we will try to determine the direction and intended result together.

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

A: I would advise to be a bit more bold and identify the work more clearly to get the best result.

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

A: Laptop, Headphones, mic, soundcard, guitar.

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

A: I started my path from playing guitar, piano and drums in blues-rock bands. After several years, I understood that I want to write electronic music and started with producing Hip-Hop beats and rappers. Then I started producing more difficult and interesting music that requires more music theory and audio recording knowledge such as Trip-Hop, Alternative Pop, Experimental Electronic Music and mixture of these genres. I started to work with interesting and experienced people and started to increase my skills in audio recording, music production and studio knowledge. I started to work with violinist and great female singer and started my project Marphin.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Thats really difficult to describe my work process, because on the one hand it's very chaotic but from the other hand its always accurate, high-quality and always in time.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: My studio setup is quite domestic but it works for big projects. So, I have Antelope Oreon HD 3rd gen as main soundcard, Audient EVO 8, Beyerdynamics DT 770 250ohm.

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

A: Im really inspired by such people as Ludwig Göransson, Tyler The Creator, Son Lux Production team.

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

A: The most common work is music production, vocal recording/tuning or mixing. However, usually I have soundesign work with multiplication videos. Also I do beatmaking and sometimes help other producers with ideas. I record live instruments(Drums, Violin, Guitar, Piano). I work with a female vocalist, so I do vocal recordings quite often.