Vocal, Harmonica, Production

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I like that it's music related.

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

A: If I can do this job. The answer depends :)

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

A: Sometimes is that I read customers mind, so all the expectations have to spoken.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What vibe do you want to bring to a song, the rest depends on the project.

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

A: Describe what vibe do you want to bring to a song, tell where do you want parts to be if it's harmonica, give feedback in the process and send reference of the sound you're aiming for if you want.

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

A: Mac, interface, monitor, headphones and midi keyboard.

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

A: Recording vocals for pop and rock songs, same for harmonica + blues and produce songs in these genres with acoustic and electric instruments and analog synths as well.

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

A: The one who has a similar taste, vision and style in music as mine.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Produce boldly, fast and try to produce a song as a whole. Creativity dies if you start slowly and micromanage the one thing.

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

A: Pop, rock, blues.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Perseverance. I can work for a long time on a task.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: Life :) Trying to make it lively by performing with relation to it or producing to make the elements sound cohesive, complementing each other while keeping the main instruments in focus.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: Home studio with an acoustic shield for recording vocals, Yamaha HS5 studio Monitors, Apollo Twin, Mac M1. Mics: Neumann TLM103, Sennheiser MD441-U.

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

A: Hozier, John Mayer, Billie Eilish, Aerosmith, Queen, Stevie Wonder.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Listening to the track several times, for harmonica jamming first and searching for ideas, outlining the best ones and including them in the solo/riff, for vocals I learn the song, practice singing it and record. For music production it's laying down the ideas and usually they are created in chain – one inspires another and later we have a natural production.

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

A: Since 2007. I studied at CCM as a vocalist, participated in some big festivals as a harmonica player and singer, have been regularly gigging with my own projects. Also produce music and offer services on this and other platform.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Cocky, playful, challenging, extravagant.

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

A: I'm proud of the album that I'm working on now, everything comes in order and production, songwriting and performance seem great. Gonna be a bomb :)

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: On my album.

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

A: No.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Analog, because it matches with the real sounds and so far real sound match my style better.

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

A: If they don't like the result I can do a refund, considering that the reason is not something unavoidable.