Music Production

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

A: My latest release, "Oráculo" (available on all the streaming platform) is a record doing during the pandemic. And I put a lot of hard work and effort on create all that music. So I hope you're enjoy it!

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: On a couple of albums, as a producer.

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

A: Not yet.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both. Depends on the music that need to work. But much more often, I go for analog.

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

A: To try my best to envolved myself on their creative process.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: To be able to doing music for living. And to meet new people. It's always energizing for me!

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

A: When can you finish? My answer: It depends on the project. But mostly, within 5 days or a week.

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

A: To think that is a work that is not requires all those human and psychological aspects of doing a creative process in a collective way. That misconception between knowing that different people for sure are going to have not only differences regarding to music taste, audio, instrumentation, but also, there are going to be differences between communicational skills, manners, etc. And for me, it's much more better to trying to be gentle as well as assertive, than to work under pressure or with hostile communication.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: Whats do you listen in this piece of music? how can it sound better? What records do you suggest me to listen?etc

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

A: To deep in into the music that the person makes, and do the effort to connect with honesty in been involved in a collaborative way of doing things, and not just into the productivity way like "you do this and I'll do that".

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

A: A piano, a songbook, a writing journal, my Mac and my headphones

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

A: As a musician, more than 25 years. As a producer, more than 15 years.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Eclectic

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

A: Joni Mitchell I think, because is a musical force that do (for me) a perfect crossover between a singer songwriter, a gifted musician, a deeper composer and lyricist, and a person that is thinking the music in a more visual way than just by the sound of it.t

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Be able to recognize when you need to work as a team, and when you need to trust in others for making the best possible outcome

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

A: songs, instrumental, jazz, latin music, tango, folclore, classical, etc

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: As an arranger, to be creative within a basic structure. As a musician, to try to play in favor of the musicality of the song. As an audio editor, mixer and mastering, to try to develop a material that brings back to life to the raw recordings.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I think that my work is mainly reflected by trying to conserve the "soul" of the song, but with adding as well elements that makes an embellishment of the total process.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Generally I start by listen the music that I will working on. I usually require by my clients a sort of questions, like musical influences, genres, artists or recordings, so I can improve myself during the process, as well as trying to be the more accurate as possible can.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I have a great studio in my house, that includes on the gear AKG mics and headphones, Yamaha H8 studio monitors, a MacBook Pro provided with Waves, Alliance, FabFilters, Analog, Addictive Keys & Addictive Drums, Spectrasonics and Native Instruments plugins. And also, a Focusrite audio interface. In my studio i could record in a profesional audio quality instruments such as drums, percussion, guitars, basses, piano & electric piano, synths, winds, brasses, strings and voice. And also, programing VST to give to the music all the timbral qualities that you need.

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

A: Brad Meldhau, Aca Seca trío, Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Cassandra Wilson, Claus Ogerman, Metrophole Orchestra

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

A: I often do pre-production works like arrangements and full scores for my clients. I also do productions like arrangements and recordings as a multi-instrumentalist. And I do as well audio edit, mix and mastering process.