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Music producer specializing in pop, EDM, and trap. 17 million streams on Spotify.

Wyred is a music production alias created by Matt Dwyer, a twenty-seven year old musician, music producer, composer, and audio engineer from New Jersey.

In 2016, Wyred attended the Icon Collective School of Music in Los Angeles. In the Summer of 2017 he graduated with a degree in Digital Music Production.

While in school, Wyred began collaborating with artists such as Sammy Adams, Matthew Koma, Fitness, ScarLit, Hvdes, J Clark, Tonoso, OSOTYT, and Kaivon. During the 2020 pandemic Wyred began working with composer Timothy Williams on scores for Dreamworks & Disney.

Wyred continued to work in the music industry in Los Angeles for 6 years, before recently relocating to the Philadelphia area.

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Interview with Wyred

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: I wrote a song as a joke in 45 minutes, and sent it to a singer I used to go see in high school. He wrote lyrics to it & recorded within 2 hours. It became the biggest song of my career thus far.
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: Covering Eden songs.
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: Digital. Emulations of analog gear sound great. If I bought every piece of analog gear I wanted I’d need well over a million dollars.
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: Your song will sound good.
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: People discredit electronic music. There’s a reason the mix engineers & producers of today have a background in electronic music. I was a metal guitarist, and I kept hearing that the best producers in the world came from Drum & Bass. I started listening & learning about mixing through DnB artists. At first, I thought it was “hack” and the computer did all the work. I play 8 instruments, but learning the instrument of production was the longest, hardest, most rewarding journey I’ve been on.
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: I’ve been playing guitar & piano for 20 years. I went to school for electrical engineering at Drexel and dropped out after two years to pursue music full-time. I moved to LA and went to the Icon Collective School of Music
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: Punk. In the literal sense. I like subversive artists.
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: Grandson. I like his politically charged songwriting & distorted vocals. It’s a genre I’ve always wanted to get into, but my one huge weakness is lyric writing.
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: You can create anything with any software. But if you want your vocals to sound good, you need an 1176 compressor 😂
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: I’ve worked mostly in Pop & Electronic & Hip Hop professionally. The reason I got into production originally is because the drummer of my metal band moved away. So I learned to produce drums for my band. I have a background in classical guitar, and jazz guitar. I went to school for electronic music production.
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: Sound design, production, creative direction. I’m pretty good on the guitar as well.
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: I’m good at producing songs that are wholly unique to the artist. If it’s a new genre & style I’ve never heard of, I adapt my production style to give the client what they want.
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: I like to ask questions about what inspires them first. The first hour is usually a “hangout” vibe. They play music they like and we talk about their life. I produce very quickly when I understand the person and sound they’re looking for.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: KRK sub, KRK monitors, Mixcubes, Apollo Twin quad, 10 guitars, drum kit, Marshall amp
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: Pretty Lights, Purity Ring, K Flay, grandson, Flume, SOPHIE, Bill Withers, Griz, Blink-182, Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoades, Lynyrd Skynyrd
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: I am an audio engineer, but I prefer working with clients as a producer. I believe creative songwriting and mixing are both key to giving an artist their own unique sound.