Producer, Mix

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: I'm working on a smash sample pack for Splice and producing and mastering couple of songs for an upcoming artist.

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

A: Riley Knapp is definitely one of the best mixer engineers here on this platform.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: We are definitely on the digital age where you can do everything from there and none can tell it's digital or not but I love the analog gear, It's more didactic.

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

A: Work with your project as it is mine.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I'm obsessed with my job, there's nothing else that fill me more than the music and the sound.

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

A: This is a journey to find your own sound and I'm gonna show you exactly how to do it.

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

A: I'm currently working on my project "Ritch", It's my very first project as a single artist and producer.

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

A: I've been mixing & producing about 8 years now, I had a lot of projects in the past with a lot of different genres from metal to ballad, helping a lot of artist to build their own sound and 2 years ago I started my own music project "Ritch" and my studio project, we're building the studio in los Angeles.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Spatial

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

A: Hayden James, because he's amazing.

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

A: Uad apollo twin, my laptop, dt 880 and a lewitt 441 and I won't need nothing else.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Focus on the bass, vocal melodies and arrangements always first.

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

A: I think every song disserves a chance, but my favorite genres are the ones I choose on my bio.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: I'm a perfectionist, and I love the music that sound clear, tight and well produce.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: That depends on what the client want me to apport to the song but If i could say it in couple words it would say "competitive on the market".

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Listen what the client got so far, asking him for references like genre and art influences, I’m the builder and the client is the architect so I go deep about what’s the personality of the project making the right decisions, choosing the right key, instruments, and pulling the melodies and arrangements that it needs, always going along with of all these aspects. Once we have this clear I move forward to chose bpm, and fix the lyrics focusing on transmitting a clear message or concept so we can connect with more listeners, bringing all the attention to the chorus, to have a great hook and great punch on the instruments wither is a ballad or a dance song, giving the feeling that it needs. Then we mix the song which is a very important part of the personality, the mix depends on the vibe we want the listener to get when they first listen so we make sure that it goes perfect that makes the mixing process very easy to choose maybe a more analog sound maybe a darker mix with a thigh low end or maybe it's a funky song and it needs a good high end. The master is always important because it's the "wrapper and label" part of the job, a perfect master always keep the soul that we gave it on the mix, we use compressors and limiters and a bunch of techniques to give us that "professional sound" everyone is going for, getting the right volume, to keep it on a very few words the right treatment, not less, not more, just the right.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I have a very complete and high quality home studio. -Adam Ax8 -Fender jazz bass -Fender telecaster -Fender acoustic guitar -Djambe Meinl -Bongoes Meinl -Roland V drum set -Rhodes Mark I (stage 73) -UAD Apollo x16 -Alienware M17 -Alesis V61 -Lewitt LCT 940 -API vision channel strip Daw -Studio one 5 Vsts and plug-ins. -Vocal synth 2 -Arturia V collection -Pigments -Auto tune pro -Neoverb -Neutron -Ozone 9 -Serum -T-Racks 5 -API collection -Waves diamond -Soothe 2 -Analog lab studio -Trackspacer

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

A: Illangelo, Brian Eno, Quincy Jones, Colin Thurston.

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

A: Full Production and Songwriting.