Mixing | Mastering

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Creating music and constantly improving my craft.

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

A: My promise to clients is that you will feel confident releasing your music!

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

A: "Up In The Air." You can find it on this page! This song was written, produced, recorded, edited, mixed, and mastered in a 24 hour time window, as a 24 hour challenge with my closest friends. My role mixing and mastering.

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

A: Yes! Harris Owens (Producer) and Andrew Tullos (Songwriter).

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I love the process. Getting a song I'm working on stuck in my head when I step away, and forcing down a meal to get back to it. I get addicted to my work.

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

A: Many people are under the impression that expensive gear and software will give you the best sound. This is not true unless you truly have an actual understanding of signal processing. Someone with knowledge can easily acquire a more professional sound with even just a couple of stock plugins than someone who is inexperienced and uses the most expensive gear and software on the market.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: There are no shortcuts. Do anything to learn as much as you can about every aspect of the production process. Surround yourself and collaborate with as many other talented and experienced people as you can with an open mind.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Paying attention to details as well as fixing problems.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: The first thing I always do is LISTEN intently to what has been given to me and detailed take notes, no matter what my role is on the production. I need to become emotionally attached before I can do anything to a song and I always do my best to understand the artist's vision. If I am doing a mix, I organize the tracks and get them into my mixing template. The rest honestly varies depending on what it is I am working on, but I tend to like a "top-down" approach meaning that I like to approach the more big picture things first and tackle the more specific and detailed aspects of the project after.

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

A: Tame Impala, Frank Ocean, Ellie Goulding, Foo Fighters, Anderson .Paak, Kendrick Lamar, Paramore, Tycho, John Mayer, Kings of Leon, Justin Timberlake, The Revivalists, Bahamas. In terms of music producers/engineers, Dave Pensado, Chris Lord Alge (of course), Jimmy Douglas, Tony Maserati, Rick Rubin

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Digital. Although I love analog and still incorporate analog gear into my workflow, you cant beat the convenience of working in a digital domain.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: "What kind of emotions are you trying to convey with this song?" or "can you think of any other artists or songs that you want to sound like?"

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

A: MacBook Pro, Universal Audio interface, Beyerdyamic DT 770 Pro headphones, a Neumann U87, and a generator.

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

A: I started producing music 10 years ago, but I began to take it very seriously about 5 years ago. At this time I moved to Nashville to get a degree in audio engineering at Belmont University.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: "Clean." Thats what people tend to say.

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

A: There is no "one size fits all" in this line of work, and it will be well worth your time doing research and asking as many questions as you can to ensure that someone is the right person for you to be working with.

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

A: Mixing and mastering records.

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

A: I usually work in Pop genres.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I feel that what I bring to a song is many many subtle and precise moves that eventually yield a cleaner and more polished product.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: My current studio setup consists of a couple of different monitoring systems including a pair of JBL 308P MKII's, a pair of Behringer Truth B1030A's, and a handful of different headphones by Beyerdynamic, Sony, and Audio-Technica. I use a Universal Audio Apollo audio interface. For most of my work I run Pro Tools along with many amazing sounding plugins by Universal Audio, Waves, Slate, Fabfilter, Softube, and many more.