Producer, Pianist, Mixing

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

A: The demo audio uploaded on my profile is for recently delivered projects. I proud for the simple reason of my professional growth and for the satisfied customers. I was transcribing and producing full instrumentals from the references of worse quality and mixed and fully delighted with the progress I've made. Continuing to improve my skills to bring the best quality service for my clients.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Transcribing a backing track of Tori Kelly - Language

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

A: I'm new here, so no, don't know anybody. Hope to join this great community and take a worthy place among them.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both. Analog to know the origins, digital to be up-to-date.

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

A: To do my best for reaching our goal.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: Creation, being involved, inspiration and the result.

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

A: Can I produce this or that track? Sure I can, always do.

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

A: The biggest misconception is that it works as easy as push the button on, while it doesn't. Music requires respect and special condition, it's for fun or relax, dance or listen, but always touches your soul, hence it can't be as simple as to push the button on.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: The best case is when the client have a reference track, melody guideline, set of basic parameters like tempo, key, musical form. But we are still able to set this up together if some of these things are missing.

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

A: Feel free to express your requirements, I love challenging projects and feel delight when customer is satisfied with my work.

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

A: Piano, knife, raincoat, flashlight, frying pan.

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

A: I've started to study music since I was 5. From that time I've passed classical music school, then college, then university and different jazz schools self study. Simultaneously I've acted as a performance and accompanying artist, then cover band, more than 10 years of on-stage activities, music production since 2018 to the present.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Jazzy-classical-pop-own.

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

A: Yanni, Earth, Wind and Fire. First for their frantic world music energy, second is simply the best. But also there are a bunch of my native Ukrainian artists I would be honored to play with to develop our culture and ethnic music.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Feel the vibe.

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

A: Instrumental, piano, synthwave, songs mostly.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: I have almost surgical musical ear and can hear any smallest details of music Materia. Therefore analyzing references brings better results for our resulting track.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: The main goal is to reveal an idea you carrying in your mind. If reached - then we can call it success.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: First is setting up an aim of project, painting a detailed image of outcome, careful picking of instruments set for every particular song, production itself and mixing with some mastering processing.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I work in my own home based studio, my DAW is FL Studio, I use Roland piano and Korg performance synthesizer combining with high quality sample libraries and VST instruments.

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

A: Since I have passed different schools from classics to jazz and more, I have a variety of inspiration so can easily adopt to any genre.

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

A: I'm best in producing piano and full instrumental backing tracks for existing songs, but also I'm strong producing from the scratch.