Producer/Mixing/Publishing

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

A: I’m especially proud of building Love & Soul: Home for the Holidays and the wider Neural Music Group creative system. My role involved production direction, sound design, arrangement, artist concept development, and shaping a soulful catalog identity. It showed me how music can become more than songs — it can become a full creative universe.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: I’m building new Acedawgbeatz production, expanding Neural Music Group, developing soulful R&B and trap soul records, creating sync-friendly instrumentals, and organizing more one-stop-ready music for artists, labels, and licensing opportunities.

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

A: I only recommend providers after I have direct experience with their work. My priority is making sure clients are connected with the right person for their specific project, not just giving random names.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Digital, because it gives speed, flexibility, and clean revisions without sacrificing creativity. I love analog warmth, but today’s digital tools can create beautiful, soulful, polished records when used with taste.

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

A: My promise is to take your vision seriously, communicate clearly, protect the feeling of the record, and deliver professional production that gives you something real to build on. I will not treat your song like a random file. I treat it like part of your story.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I love that one sound can unlock an entire song. A chord progression, drum bounce, or melody can open a door for an artist and suddenly the record appears. That moment feels like catching lightning.

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

A: Clients often ask, “Can you make something like this reference?” My answer is yes — I can capture the mood, tempo, bounce, and feeling, but I will not copy another artist’s song. The goal is to create something inspired, original, and custom to your voice.

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

A: The biggest misconception is that production is just making a beat. Real production is emotional architecture. It is choosing the right sounds, space, transitions, drums, bass, arrangement, and energy so the artist can deliver the best performance.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What genre are we working in? What artists or songs inspire the direction? Do you need a beat, full production, mixing, stems, or alternate versions? What is the deadline? Is this for streaming, sync, performance, or demo use? Do you need non-exclusive, exclusive, or one-stop rights?

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

A: Know the feeling you want before you order. References help, but the emotion matters more than copying a sound. Tell me the mood, artist direction, tempo if you know it, and what the song is supposed to make people feel. That gives me the map.

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

A: A laptop, audio interface, studio headphones, MIDI keyboard, and a microphone. With those five things, I can produce, write, record, arrange, and mix ideas anywhere.

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

A: I built my path as an independent producer, songwriter, and creator under Acedawgbeatz. Over time, I developed my sound through beat production, artist collaboration, catalog building, publishing awareness, and music business strategy. Now I also build through Neural Music Group, connecting production, artist development, publishing, and sync-ready music.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Soulful, cinematic, warm, emotional, and modern. My sound lives between R&B, trap soul, hip-hop, and film-like atmosphere. It has bounce, but it also has feeling. I like records that move the body and speak to the spirit.

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

A: I would love to work with H.E.R. because her music carries musicianship, emotion, and honesty. She can sit inside a soulful track and make every chord mean something. That kind of artist brings the best out of a producer.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Leave space for the vocal. A lot of producers overfill the beat, but the voice is usually the star. The right silence, pocket, and movement can make a record feel expensive. Sometimes the part you remove makes the song stronger.

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

A: I usually work on R&B, trap soul, hip-hop, soul, cinematic instrumentals, open-verse records, sync-friendly cues, and emotional artist tracks. My main lane is modern R&B with warmth, bounce, and story.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: My strongest skill is creating soulful, cinematic musical emotion. I know how to build tracks that feel warm, late-night, reflective, romantic, spiritual, or powerful while still leaving enough pocket for the artist to own the record.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I bring feeling, structure, and direction. A beat should not just sound good — it should tell the artist where to go. I focus on emotional chords, clean drum movement, strong bass, space for vocals, and arrangements that help the song breathe. My job is to make the artist sound inspired.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: First, I listen to the client’s vision, references, voice, genre, mood, and deadline. Then I build the track around the emotion of the record. I usually start with chords, melody, or drums, then arrange around the artist’s vocal space. After that, I send a draft, receive notes, make revisions, and deliver final files once approved.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: My setup is built around a professional digital production workflow with high-quality virtual instruments, drums, 808s, keys, Rhodes-style sounds, strings, vocal textures, effects, and mixing tools. I work in-the-box so I can move fast, revise cleanly, and deliver polished WAV/MP3 files, stems, alternate versions, and sync-friendly edits when needed.

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

A: I’m inspired by producers and artists who know how to make records feel alive: Timbaland, Pharrell, Bryan-Michael Cox, Rodney Jerkins, D’Angelo, The-Dream, Metro Boomin, 40, Mike Dean, H.E.R., Bryson Tiller, 6LACK, and Summer Walker. I love music that has both polish and soul.

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

A: I create soulful R&B, trap soul, hip-hop, and cinematic production for artists who need emotion, bounce, space, and story. Most clients come to me for custom beats, full production, open-verse tracks, hooks, arrangements, mixing support, and one-stop/publishing-friendly music options when rights are clear.