FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
My pricing system is not complicated at all. I need to see or hear the project in question to determine first if I can make a real difference; how long and detailed the actual work is and if I can estimate that correctly. If I think I can I usually give a block fee. I don't usually work by the hour unless its with a client who is present when I'm working.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I teach audio production privately after teaching at Seminole State College since 2005. Being around young students who want to lean teaches the teacher as well. I teach them what I have deemed as essential in my own work. I can only share what I do personally know but teach them to self-educate. Subscribe and read the industry trades to keep abreast of the changing and developing technology in your field or fields of art.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
I started out my recording artist career at the age of 16 signing with Artie Ripp during the days when groups like Jay & the Americans, The Shangrillas, and writers like Ellis Greenwich, Jeff Bary and Carole King reined. The vocal group I was first tenor in was signed by Clive Davis to Columbia Records when I was 18. I was fortunate to be around so many incredible singers, musicians, writers and arrangers. I was also luck to be in some of the most famous recording studios of that era. Namely, A & R, Columbia, Bell Sound and more. By the time I was 25 I knew I needed to become an engineer if I was to survive as a recording artist. Besides being around and in some cases close to many engineers I began to study people like John Woram and in 1980 opened my first commercial recording studio in Hicksville NY called "Fallen Angel Studios"