Remote Mixing & Producer

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both have they're pros and cons, as far as ease of use and lower cost of entry, digital is a lot more accessible to most.

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

A: From start to finish I always promise my clients that they have my all. I give my everything to making sure it's right.

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

A: I can't magically change your tracks. So often people thing a mix engineer can transform a song from meh to WOW. More realistically what I do is take your tracks and present it in its best light, rather than "change" the sound.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: I like to get a feel for the background/context of a particular song/album/production. Which can be a band bio or a short blurb about the "why" of a song. Usually I will ask for links to previous work/youtube channel/etc to do my own digging to try and enter the headspace of the band or artist

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

A: Communicate, communicate, communicate. Be up front about expectations, and be receptive to feedback. Generally the sellers on this site have some experience, let them use it to make your project better!

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

A: I got a drum set when I was 11, a couple years later I was playing in bands, couple years later I was gigging regularly, couple years later I was recording albums and touring, then got married and had kids, now running my own studio out of my home in the country.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Parallel Processing and creative use of routing will completely change the way you handle music production, both at the tracking and mixing stages.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: When I receive a song to mix, I import to the DAW and loop it while setting up the session getting a feel for the song parts and overall feel. Then I will listen to the artist rough mix (if one is provided) then dig in starting with drums/perc up through bass, keys, guitars, vox as the song dictates.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I mostly use Reaper as my DAW. with a suite of Waves, Plugin Alliance, Slate, Softube, etc plug-ins and some of own crafted techniques to make songs pop.

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

A: Andrew Scheps is a big influence to me

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

A: I do a lot of tracking in the in-person realm, but online/remotely most I do is mix work and some minor arranging.