Experience and Philosophy
I’ve been producing and recording music for the past 16 years. I have had the fortune of working with and learning from some of the greatest engineer/producers in the music industry including the legendary Bob Power who has been an inspiration to me and a great source of production knowledge. In my 24 years in New York City and through my extensive travels throughout Europe and Latin America, I have had the pleasure of working and presenting in some of the most beautiful recording and synth studios in the world.
I primarily produce and sound design music that incorporates electronic sound design and acoustic instruments. Although much of my music is disco/house or synth wave, I have produced a wide array of styles from almost purely acoustic to experimental electronic. I have also done music for film. I am an Ableton Certified Trainer and extremely proficient on all of Ableton’s Synthesizers. I am also an expert on the synths of the Arturia V Collection 8 and have pretty extensive experience programming Moog synths, so synth programming is really one of my first loves.
I am also a multi-instrumentalist, so I have contributed both bass and keyboard to a wide array of the records that I have produced.
Here is a Spotify Playlist of some of the music that I have produced, sound designed, recorded and played either bass or keyboard on. Below are several newer releases where I did all of the instrumentals, sound design and production.
Please go here to read more about the process of making a record that I use.
Gear List:
Synthesizers
(Virtual and Physical)
- Moog Lil Phatty Analog Synthesizer
- Moog MiniTaur Analog Synthesizer
- Moog Mother-32
- Analog Synthesizer
- Moog DFAM Analog Drum Machine
- Arturia MicroBrute Analog Synthesizer
- Yamaha DX7 FM Synthesizer
- microKorg Synthesizer/Vocoder
- Ableton Live 11 Suite. These are my faves)
- Operator
- Wavetable
- Sampler
- Simpler
- Arturia V Collection 8. These are my faves:
- Prophet V3
- Solina V2
- Jun-6 V
- Jup-8 V4
- DX7 V
- OB-Xa V
- CS-80 V3
- Other Virtual Synth Favorites
- U-He Diva
- U-He Repro-5
- U-He Repro-1
- Xfer Record’s Serum
- D16 Phoscyon
- VPS Avenger
- Too many plug-ins and Ableton Packs to mention. I am a big fan of the UA, SoundToys, Valhalla, Audio Ease, Fab Filter and Slate Digital Stuff
Recording Equipment and Instruments
- Acoustic Instruments
- Sadowsky 5 String NYC Bass
- Fender Telecaster Guitar
- Steinway and Sons Upright Piano
- Microphones
- AKG 414 Condensor Microphone
- SM58 and SM57 Dynamic microphones
- Audio Interfaces
- Universal Audio Apollo 8
- Universal Audio Apollo Twin
- Universal Audio UAD-2 Satellite
- Compressor/Preamps
- Rupery Neve Designs Shelford Channel
- FMR Audio RNC 1773
- Dangerous Audio D-Box
- Listening Systems
- Mackie HR824 Studio Monitors
- SPL 2Control
- Avantone Mix Cube
- JBL 305P MKII Monitors
- Sonarworks Reference 4 Systemwide