Music Producer & Composer

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

A: Once I worked with all the artists that were part of a well known record company in Venezuela. The song was the one that will be use to encourage the Venezuelan Olympic Team that was traveling to the US in that year. I was in charge of making the composition of that song, words and music, then I produced, arranged and directed all the singers in a huge analog studio in Caracas. That I believe was my great challenge.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: I am workin with a client from California and also working with a composer and singer here in Kansas City. All the time working with my wife and her songs and also recording my own compositions, specially my instrumental songs.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: I love both, the combination of analog and digital makes any song gain double. Although it is very difficult to work in an analog studio in these days, I believe the sound that came from recording in tape (2 inch tape) was amazing, huge sound compared with digital, but today they are a lot of very good plugins that simulates those warm sounds we had in the past. Talking about musicians and virtual instruments, I will say the same, both are important and I will love to have real musicians and at the same time those virtual instruments, digital instruments.

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

A: I promise they will end with a profesional work, that they will be able to release it to the market and it will sound as good as all the music out there.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: The freedom to create new songs from zero to a well done music production, small instrumentation or huge orchestration, and anything in between, in any style, Is an art of creation.

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

A: I can advice all the years of experience that i have worked, all kind of genres and styles. The years of experience inside the commercial music industry, I believe this means a lot and helps a lot.

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

A: My Macbook, my keyboard, my TLM 103 Mic, my Sony MDR-7506 earphones and my Apogee Audio Interface.

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

A: I have been working music productions since the mids 90s, As a musician, pianist and keyboard player my experience is even longer.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Personally I am more a RnB and Reggae lover, but also Ballads, Pop and Latin music I love to work. Anyway I believe I have proof that I can arrange and produce many genres and styles, I just analyze any style and make my work a combination between those styles and my own taste.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: I believe a good tip can be, before you start working a song, try to get all the information needed to create a music production that will end good. Meaning, ask the client to send you all the music reference he or she has, that they will love me to follow. Not only ask for those examples but ask for all the music taste they have. What they hear commonly, how they wanted to sound as, etc

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

A: I use to work RnB, Reggae, Latin music, Pop, Ballads, Electronica, Academic music, Children music, Smooth Jazz and many other styles and genres.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: Well, I work in my own home studio with top of the line gears. Using the best digital plugins in the market, all inside the last version of Pro Tools and using an amazing audio interface, Apogee Duet 3. Working in a Mac Studio MAX M2 Silicon Technology. Working with the best Virtual instruments in the market. And If I need to record some drums or orchestra, I just go to another huge studio close to me, where I can do any kind of recording and then send all the data to my studio to be finished.

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

A: There are so many that I can not mention all of them, but I can tell that Israel Houghton or Martha Munizzi (Gospel music) are amazing, Also some R&B singers like Jordan Marcotte and some reggae singers like Wallace Faagutu are also super good.

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

A: I take a song from scratch and decided which instrumentation it will have, the style off arrange and mood that I believe will go better with the song, completely arrange and produce it from zero to the end, advising the clients on what else should that song have to be pro and catchy, if it needs more people to be envolt, like singers, musicians, etc. After finishing the arrangement and record all the parts in my studio, I send the song to the client with all the information and suggestions, so it can be sang by the client, and after that, I can mix the song and make a pre master of it. Or we can agree to send the song to be mixed and mastered by a different person.