I’ve always been an avid fan of all kinds of music. As a kid growing up I listened to everything I could get my hands on from Pop, Rock, R&B, and Soul to the Classical Indian records in my father’s music collection.
I started my journey producing and mixing as a musician; practicing many, many hours every day, trying to be the very best that I could possibly be. I found my way to Berklee College of Music where I was a Jazz Performance major and a few years later gravitated back to my rock and pop roots as a guitar player, singer and songwriter. During these years I was recording, producing and mixing for bands and solo artists. Eventually it became my full-time focus and these days I spend about 70-80 hours a week in the studio.
In my opinion the song is the most important thing above all else – closely followed by the performance and groove and then the production and mixing.
As a producer I strive for the song to be as compelling as it can be and for the performance and groove to move me.
Being a producer in the trenches so to speak with a band or an artist is so exciting and its also a huge responsibility. You have so many different personalities and ideas bouncing off of each other creating something that never existed before and you have to know when to help guide the way and when to stand back and just let the magic happen.
For me mixing is about creating a sonic landscape for every last detail and emotion, giving the fans all of the blood sweat and tears that the artist and producer worked so hard to capture.
