Producer and Mixer

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

A: I was the recording engineer for ME.3P.OH's album Passion of the Thrice. We recorded the whole thing four stories underground in Beijing in the space of five hours and pulled it off. I also mixed and mastered it.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I absolutely love using a wide array of high-quality plugins and honing in on great sounds.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What is your timeframe? What platforms are the deliverables going to? How much creative freedom can you give me? Do you have any references?

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Absolutely. Ozone EQs can automate their band bypass toggles, Neutron EQs can't (when you close the plug-in, they'll reset). This means you can do super-cool automated bandpass filters with Ozone EQs, but not with Neutrons.

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

A: I usually do mixing and mastering services for clients, but I also have ongoing music production, beatmaking and other projects too.

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

A: Try to leave ample headroom for me to be creative, I'm not a session musician here to play sheet music, I'm a producer who is enticed to listen to your ideas and react to them with musical alchemy.

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

A: I've always straddled the humanities and technology and music production has been the perfect realm to bring it all together. I've been doing music production since the early 2000s and its been a crescendo of activity in terms of frequency, devotion and depth. Now I am completing a master's degree in music production at Berklee and its been the most amazing experience ever. I will graduate in early 2023 and hit the ground flying. I love every aspect of it from listening to demos and analyzing, songwriting, recording, comping, mixing, mastering and any other post-production.

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

A: I'd love to work with Dua Lipa and take her in some new directions. She has so much talent and is not averse to highly creative processing on the production side. I'd just love to work with her caliber of vocals from the recording process through the mix to the master.

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

A: DeadMau5 for his technological prowess mixed with incredible aesthetic taste, both visually and sonically. Guy Stevens for keeping the spirit of rock alive in the studio and making recording AN EVENT. Sylvia Massey for truly thinking out of the box in the recording phase.