Recording Engineer

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both, digital is super convenient and fast and analog has a sound you cannot recreate.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: Hearing everybody's songs.

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

A: Q: Can you make me sound better? A: Yeah.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What music are you listening to at the moment? Goals for this project?

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

A: Ask as many questions as you need to.

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

A: CL-1B, Avalon 747, u47, mini moog, prophet 5

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

A: I used to be in pre-med for school, but decided to transition to music while I am still young. I have been doing this for over 10 years.

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

A: I would love to work with Leon Thomas, his project new project is amazing and right up my alley production wise.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Stop looking for new plugins, master the ones you already have.

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

A: I normally work on hip-hop, house, and pop music.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: My strongest skill is being able to work in most types of music. I study, learn and collaborate often so I am always learning new things and can bring inspirations to artists.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I bring the ability to finish a song. I can polish it so it sounds complete. From arrangement to production, if you think something is missing I am there to make it complete.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Just starting, it could go many ways, it is more of a free flow process now a days.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: For my mixes I am running a 5060 centerpiece, I also run mixes through tape as well. I use augspurger monitors and barefoots as secondary monitors. Two apollo x 8 daisy chained and a zen go as a portable interface.

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

A: Right now a major inspiration, production and engineering wise , is Mike Dean. He is killing it right now and his mixes something I like to take inspiration from. A musician that inspires me right now is Leon Thomas, Mutt is a fantastic project.

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

A: I track, produce, and mix songs often in the same session.