Producer / Songwriter

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Among other things, I'm working on my own project where I'll be featuring different singers on my productions.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both, Best of both worlds.

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

A: To deliver a high end professional product, And work hard to make sure they're happy with it and feel like they got what they wanted.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I love working with people and helping them realize their vision. I also enjoy being creative, Meeting new people and just making music that moves people :)

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What their goals are with their music, Who would they tour with (To understand which artists they would fit with musically), Their influences.

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

A: Maschine, SM7, Electric guitar, Universal Audio 6176 and a computer.

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

A: I've been producing for about 5 years now. Playing guitar for 20 years. I moved to LA in 2004 to go to Musicians Institute in the guitar program. After graduating I toured internationally with a Trance Dj for a while Playing live guitar. In 2007 I started a rock band in LA, I played guitar and co-wrote the music. We toured the US and had a couple songs on Active Rock radio and after that I started producing.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Beat driven edgy pop

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Just try to be yourself and be original.

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

A: I do a lot of alternative pop, Some of it RnB influenced. At the same time I love working on rock music, Sometimes heavier stuff as well.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Making killer tracks :)

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I'm very good at taking raw song ideas, creating a vision and help shaping those ideas into a final product.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Clients usually come to me with a basic song idea. We talk about their vision for the song and their goals for it. It helps me determine where to take the production as far as genre, Tempo, instrumentation etc. We'll get together and work on the melodies and lyric and once we feel we got something we like, I'll usually put a basic track together We'll cut some scratch vocals and then I'll work on the track and finalize it, After which we'll get together and cut the final vocal. From there it goes to mix/Master.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I mostly work in Ableton Live. I use Pro Tools to cut vocals. I love using Maschine and I have a bunch of different guitars I use.

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

A: Anything from the Beatles to Pantera. Miles Davis to Kendrick Lamar... I also love folk and beat driven Electronic music (Flying Lotus etc.).

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

A: I mostly do track production and arrangements, Vocal production, Melody topline and I play guitar.