I produce, record, and mix for the indie pop group Branches (65M streams on Spotify since 2015) as well as perform guitars, bass, banjo, and mandolin with the band live.
In addition to Branches and film composition, I write electronic music under the alias Tsutro, compose ambient music as Dream Cassettes, wrtied cinematic folk as Jacob Montague, and produce for and mix for many artists across the indie / folk and pop genres.
I love helping artists achieve their vision while also bringing something uniquely me to the project when needed.
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39 Reviews - 9 Repeat Clients
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Wonderful working with Jacob! Massively helpful and responsive to all our mixing notes and has brought a beautiful balance/dynamic presence to the three songs we gave him. Thank you thank you!!!
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Excellent, flexible, and highly responsive mixing engineer to work with! This was the last of 3 songs Jacob mixed for me for a short horror film soundtrack. He made the track sound even more haunting and atmospheric than the demo, which makes me and the singer very happy! The balance is perfect, the music and violin have a great big layer, the vocals very clear as well as the background ones have perfect distance. Also, the spacious transition he added to track is very cool! Highly recommended!
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The balance, clarity, and ambience Jacob has delivered on this song mix is amazing and sounds great! Not only that, he has done a masterful job keeping four different songwriters happy with the mix on this song too! That's never easy. I truly appreciate Jacob's patience in working on this second of three songs for a film project. The workflow with him is uncomplicated and turnaround times for revisions quick. One more song to go!
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Jacob was a treat to work with! This was my first ever time getting a song produced and he was so great about hearing out my thoughts and making changes as I needed, even when I was being indecisive and unsure! Highly recommend working with him!
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Jacob has done a beautiful job mixing a song for me! I'm very happy with the final mix and love how everything sounds! I requested additional instrumentation in this mix too and he delivered some amazing sounding sub bass to the track! I also truly appreciate his flexibility in revising mixes on this song based on 3 other songwriters feedback as well as mine. He's done that smoothly and efficiently and everyone is very happy with the results.
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Jacob is great. I believe this is the fourth song of mine that he's mixed..
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perfect and stunning production! an amazing producer and exceptionally easy to work with! highly recommended
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We've been collaborating with Jacob for about 1.5 years and it's really wonderful to have him working with us. His art in crafting beautiful sounds in every project is always a delight and if you are looking for a professional with excellent time management, definitely recommended!
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Jacob has done it again! He worked on our second original single and did a great job with the production. All the instruments and elements are crafted well to create the sound that we wanted for our song. Not only is he talented but he is also great to work with. We would highly recommend his services and look forward to working with him again in the near future!
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Great to work with Jacob again, he has what we call the fingerspitzgefulen, which means he understand intuitively what a track needs.
Great work!
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Again, Jacob is an excellent producer! It's our 2nd time working together. The song came out great and beautiful. We will definitely consider his help in producing our upcoming projects.
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Awesome job by Jacob , really happy with the work he did on my song.
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Jacob took the time to really hear out all of my ideas for my song. I literally sent him a voice memo of me stomping, and he understood the vision I wanted for the beat. He kept fine-tuning little areas of the song until it was exactly what I wanted. Even after I marked the job as complete, he was willing to work with me and my every random whim for the song. Sometimes I had ideas that actually weren't good ones, but he still humored me by trying them out. He's also a SUPER nice guy!
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Jacob is a super talented guy. Great communication and really honest and helpful. I would recommend using Jacob to anyone! Thanks Jacob for being a great collaborator.
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Jacob is amazing and talented! He helped us with our very first single. At first, we were worried about working with someone else as this is our first experience collaborating with a producer, but Jacob was very helpful and professional. He’s able to elevate and polish our song to the next level with his arrangement. He is also very detail-oriented with a fast turnaround. We will definitely be working with him again in the future!
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Jacob delivered amazing guitar and string tracks, I‘m thrilled with the outcome! He was highly professional, thoughtful and in time, I will definitely be reaching out to him again for future projects.
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This is my second time working with Jacob through Soundbetter and I'm so glad I did. He's easy to work with, fast with revisions, and intuitive. Looking forward to working together again.
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Jacob was incredible to work with! He has an incredible ear, strong attention to detail, and took this project further than I could have imagined. Extremely happy with the end result!
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Jacob took my first ever home studio demo and turned into an EP worthy track. His revisions were light speed quick and really listened to the vision I had in mind for the song. Couldnt recommend any higher!
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Jacob was great to work with! Insanely talented. Totally exceeded what I even thought was possible with the song idea I sent him.
I was the Arranger, Producer and Mixer in this production
- ProducerAverage price - $800 per song
- Mixing EngineerAverage price - $300 per song
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