Recording, Mixing & Production

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

A: A lot of unreleased stuff we'd love to talk about, but Riff Raff's album Tangerine Tiger was a lot of fun. One of his best preforming recent albums, charting on the hip hop billboards & accumulating well over 10M streams total. We executive produced this album and was one of our first projects as Studio77.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Working on production for a few major label artists on RGF Productions, Island Records, RCA Records & more.

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

A: Sorry, no. New here.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: A little bit of both. They compliment each other well.

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

A: We promise to do our best, and give you a product you love.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I love the opportunity to meet and work with artists of all kinds, discover new talent and collaborate with some of my favorite producers and artists in the industry!

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

A: "How much do you charge for recording" $70 an hour, with mixing & mastering included. We get this call at least 10 times a day.

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

A: We do a lot more than record one take over a single track mp3! Most of the time.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: Are you ready to upgrade your sound?

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

A: Make sure to compare prices and thoroughly check out your provider to make sure you are getting the best possible product/deal available.

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

A: Neumann, Apollo, Mac Pro, Avalon, and one KRK! Plenty to make a hit.

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

A: Some of our engineers and producers have been at this for more than 10 years, with the owner clocking in over 30 years in the industry. We were born for this!

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: New-age with clean tuned vocals and bouncy 808s.

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

A: Drake, his longevity in the game is impressive.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Make sure the baseline hits.

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

A: Hip-Hop/Rap, EDM and Rock.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Our strongest skills are vocal recording and beat making, because we do so much of it!

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: We bring an enhanced sound and a new level of creativity to your track whether we record, mix, write or produce it.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Our producers will create the instrumental and our engineers will record artists over that. We can mix outside projects and make custom productions based off of a reference you send us. Bring it on!

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: 3 control rooms, 1 vocal booth, and a live room. Neve & Avalon preamps, UAD 1176ln, La-610, Distressor and Neumann U-87 mic for recording. Focal monitoring. We record a lot of vocals and make a lot of beats!

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

A: Mike Dean, Noah 40, Alexander Tumay

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

A: Vocal recording, mixing/mastering and custom productions.