Jkeys on SoundBetter

Hi, I'm a producer from london with recording studio with access to a multitude of instruments mics and outboard gear with over 8 years experiencing mixing composing and writing music.

I will have the tools to finish any task you give from recording a new part to mixing to arrangement. I am always open to improvements and will work till your happy with the product, to understand you as an artist I do always enjoy to listen to music you have made previously released or unreleased and music you listen to as a reference for style and direction.
IF you have any questions please message me I am always happy to help.

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Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: One project I worked on is a jungle DJ Mix providing my own drum breaks and mixing it once done, it was really complicated and varied as I had to use so many of my skills and fitting together dense samples into a cohesive mix for him to dj with was a real challenge, reminding me of why i love music and music making
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: I am currently working on a collective hiphop and soul group in london recording them and mixing them for their collaborative tape coming out later this year.
Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?
A: I currently have no contacts on sound better
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: combination as it allows for versatility however if I was to choose one it would be digital due to the age we are in and the sonic textures commercial records have are now entirely in the box, there is also way less of a problem with noise floor gain staging and it can be more complex as well.
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: my promise is that i treat every mix like its my last and will carry out your vision to the best of my ability every time.
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: the ability to problem solve creatively with new challenges scenarios always coming up.
Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A: Can you make my voice sound better and my answer is yes but i can only make it so much better as i am limited by the audio I have in front of me that you recorded.
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: That you need access to perfect studios with every piece of gear, some of my favourite mixes have been when ive been on my laptop with headphones away from my gear as Limitations breeds creativity.
Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?
A: What havent you liked about mixes in the past? What are you taking inspiration from? Explain to me the making of the track? Explain where you want the track to end up?
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: My advice would, to be as descriptive as you want for your vision and to also speak up when your not happy about a mixing or production decision.
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: SSl six Wa47 Apollo 8x machine my epiphone guitar and my gretsch catalina drum kit
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: I have been making music for 8 years but professionally mixing for 5. I have played instruments my whole life and have also ran a blog reviewing music for many years
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: Vintage but clean.
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: I would love to work with Black thought i think his production choices are always super interesting and the way in which he approaches writing and deliverying would be incredibly interesting to mix and Produce.
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: my biggest tip would order of the signal chain is incredibly important and getting creative and thinking Ive never ran my vocals through an amp into my room and stereo tracked it back and parallel compressed it after.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: mostly soul jazz and hiphop however I have also mixed indie rock Rnb as well as electronic and jungle.
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: My strongest skill is my attention to detail regarding every sample point of a tune.
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: My ears are my biggest asset i spend the whole days listening to all types of music and thus have developed an instinct for the subjective and objective good and bad of mixes music and composition. Overall I bring my own style but also bring out the character in the art put in front of.
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: First I listen through the track along side a reference provided by the artist as well as their previous work and work out the Aim and vision for it making notes on points of problems. I next move on to leveling and gain staging as well as compression to get everything together cohesive and have no poking out part next is eqing cleaning up troublesome frequencies as well as enhancing and drawing attention to the right parts at the right points. Finally are the creative effects to bring space and impact such as reverbs delays flanges and distortions which I uses a combination of out board gear as well as my uad plugin collection for.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: I have an acoustically studio with custom built panels with an apollo interface a selection of mics including WA 47 R20 ribbon mic and the Oktava 012, I record everything through an ssl SIX and for outboard gear I have the syntakt for analog distortion and reverb as well as BOSS guitar pedals and fender twin amp
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: mixed by ali alex tumay and andre 3000
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: Mixing and sound engineering