Ricky Chisica
Hello my name is chisiKa beats, I have been making productions for more than 3 years, of trap, rap, and Latin genres such as reggaeton, afrobeats and dancehall, I do beatmaking, I mix and master songs if you are interested in my services you can contact me and we will take your next level music.
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Interview with Ricky Chisica
Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: I really liked a project you work on called, bonsai - jeanse in which you have the opportunity to do the work of beatmaking, mixing and mastering, I invite you to listen to it
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: Right now I'm mixing a personal afrobeat project that's coming out in the next few months.
Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?
A: No nothing, I'm new to the page
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: In my case I prefer digital because it offers you many facilities when working, such as portability, with current plugins it is possible to do a completely professional job, but it is also important to add that the analog world has its advantages and it is that music sounds much more natural and alive to the digital world
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: I can promise you that I will take your ideas to another level and deliver a completely professional and competitive job with the current industry.
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: What I like most about my work is expressing myself through music because I am a somewhat shy person when it comes to sharing with people and because my art helps me break down those barriers created by me, I like to transmit sensations through of my art
Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A: The most frequent question is the prices that I manage and everything I do, another frequent question is about technical things like what do you do first to equalize or compress, what plugins do you use for a situation x
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: to believe that there is an absolute truth in music, to believe that there are rules in music, to inhibit an artist in his art
Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?
A: What services do you need? What prices have my services? What genres have I worked?
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: That he trusts me first of all, I do not see him as a client but as a friend, I try that first there is a bond of friendship and then a professional bond, and secondly that he trusts my sound criteria, I know he does not I'm going to disappoint
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: Laptop, audio interface, microphone, headphones, MIDI controller, a backpack to carry everything
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: It starts from the age of 13 empirically and for 3 years professionally
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: My style consists of combining electronic music like edm with latin genres like reggaeton or dancehall.
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: I would really like and it would be a dream to work with artists like bad bunny, jahy cortez, mora, travis, kanye west, post malone
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: The best advice I can give is to be free when you're making music, that's what this is all about, enjoy the process and that's how people connect with your art.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: House, EDM, Trap, Hip hop, Reggaeton, Afrobeats, Dancehall
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: the creation of beats, because I capture all the music that I like and summarize it in that composition
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: I tried to give it my personal touch both in composition and in post production, I like that the songs transmit a message and have a soul, if a song does not have that, then I will try to take it there
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: It depends a lot on what the objective is where you want to take the production, if it is creating a beat I really like creating a chord progression that carries the vibe of the whole song, for me the chords are the main axis of the song along with the drums, when I'm mixing I work with the top down mixing technique because I have more control over the dynamics of the mix and it helps me reach my goal quickly, for mastering I like not to take the songs to absurd volumes because that takes away the life to the songs maximum 7lufs
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: I don't have a million-dollar studio, I have a home studio where I have only UAD Apollo Solo, for voice capture I have an AKG C214, some Rokit 5 monitors, but I do the mixes through headphones, which are the Audiotechnica M40x
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: I really like the type of music that kanye west makes which is hip hop but he takes it to the next level doing experimental things with the genre, I also really like the new generations like travis, post, drake
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: I usually do mixing and mastering works of Latin urban genres, but I have also mixed genres such as trap, rnb and soul.
