Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?Ī: Alan Parson's audio engineering and production. Every type of microphone necessary to record a band. Use the East West Sound cloud for samples in addition to the collection I already have. Years of experience using Cakewalk Sonar. Computer with lots of rams and solid state harddrives. I like to experiment with new sounds and effects.Ī: Client hands me a raw demo, I create an arrangement, tracking, mixing, mastered song.Ī: State of the art digital recording. Currently working on a album of Latin International style songs.Ī: Years of experience and a well trained ear. Recorded everything from rap to classical. Q: What type of music do you usually work on?Ī: There is no typical. Take care of the basics when tracking and the end result will be satisfying. Q: Can you share one music production tip?Ī: We can fix it in the mix is a myth. One of the greatest guitar players in the world.

Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?Ī: Al Di Meola. I also write progressive folk similar to Paul Simon. Later transitioned to total computer recording.Ī: My personal music leans toward progressive rock. Started in 1994 back then recorded on Alesis Adats. Was in advertising sales so I decided to create jingles. That convinced my I could write music professionally. Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?Ī: Entered a International song competition, my song made to the finals. Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?Ī: My mixer, strat with a Fishman midi pickup and my studio computer loaded with audio software. Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?Ī: Find one with a well trained ear that's more important than the equipment used. Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?Ī: What is the concept for your song? Do have a popular song in mind that is an example of the style you are looking for? What's your budget? Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?Ī: That a bad performance can be fixed in the studio. Is this for demo a ready for production master? How well is the band rehearsed ? Do you know what you want your song to sound like. Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?Ī: Q: How much will it cost? A: It depends on a number of factors. But remember the harder you work on your part the better the outcome.Ī: All of the steps but I especially like mixing and mastering. Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?Ī: I'll do my best to bring your song to life.

My board is analog then converted to digital. I record digitally but there are analog steps involved. Q: What are you working on at the moment?Ī: Album of original songs for a client. The client has a major label in Mexico interested in his music and is impressed with the quality of the masters. It's been great because I'm engineer and producer. What was your role?Ī: The current project.

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. Will recommend later on as I work with people.

Just recently had the time to start marketing on SoundBetter. Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?Ī: Not at this time.

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