FAQs
- What types of customers have you worked with?
Producing a Recording: As a producer, my role is to find and hire musicians as needed to fill out arrangements of songs or to perform these parts myself. I often will help to arrange the songs and make suggestions for improving the performances. I also engineer the recording, placing microphones and recording the material. This type of job also includes mixing the recorded tracks. Engineering a Recording: This type of job is when the artist or band is fully formed (or they have already hired a producer) and are completely ready to go in the studio. In this case I focus on capturing the song as it is and highlighting the best aspects of the music and the musicians in the actual recording itself. This type of role also includes the mixing of the recorded tracks. Mixing: In a job like this the artist provides the recorded tracks either from another studio or from a home recording. I mix and balance the different tracks and often edit the recording to obtain the best representation of the material possible.
- What advice would you give a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?
-Find an engineer/producer that you like and are comfortable with. Make sure they have the degrees that demonstrate their ability, examples of music they have produced and communicate with you well. The person is the most important part of this equation. -Make sure that you are comfortable in the recording space. Are you relaxed and feeling creative? Is the space too sterile or too bright or uncomfortable is any way? How do the rooms sound to you? -Equipment is also important, but less important than the space and the people. A good producer can make good equipment sound amazing, but a bad engineer won't be able to capture your performance well with the best of equipment. If you require instruments, percussion, a piano, samples, etc make sure they are available or can be rented for your sessions.