Professional session recording musician, music producer, harmonica player, singer (taught by a gold record owner Phillip Ingram), participant of international festivals (open-air festival “Nashestvie” with 205000 people), California College of Music graduate. Widely known as a harmonica player.
Vocal:
Studied in California College of Music (Vocal Major), taught by a grammy-award winning artist Phillip Ingram. Passed courses by Seth Riggs, Brett Manning, Darya Manakova, constantly developing my sound. Flexible tone, from a velvet baritone to a raspy Freddie-Mercury-like voice. Fits well in pop, rock, blues, funk, jazz, world, ballads and even broadway styles. I am very good at doing melismas and varying voice qualities to make the sound more interesting.
Harmonica:
I have a smooth tone and great technique, can record harmonica with a clean sound or using an amazing Fender Deluxe '55 amp to get an overdriven and edgy one. I have a soulful vibrato, advanced bending technique and a wide dynamic range. I work meticulously on every song that's provided to me, finding the best possible phrasing and sound. Honed my skills by visiting masterclasses at harmonica conferences and events and performed with big blues figures such as Bob Margolin.
Music Production:
I’m an experienced music producer, work predominantly in pop, indie, rock, blues and alternative genres. I’m proficient in music theory and do great productions with a variety of instruments. I also do sound design to some extent and work meticulously to find fitting sounds for the song and match the elements. I have great sample libraries with a vast diversity of sounds, but we can also hire real musicians.
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Credits
Languages
- English
- Russian
Interview with Alex Paclin
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.
I was the Producer in this production
- Singer - MaleAverage price - $150 per song
- HarmonicaAverage price - $150 per song
- ProducerAverage price - $800 per song
2 revision included, 7 days max to complete the order for harmonica and vocals, 20-30 days for music production.
If you wanna add the backing vocals to the vocal gig – it's plus $100.
- Freddie Mercury
- Michael Bublé
- Matt Bellamy
- Neumann U87ai
- Neumann TLM-103
- Apollo twin
- Mac Mini M1
