Los Angeles-based engineer, producer, and writer who has worked with top companies such as Atlantic Records, Sony Music, Interscope, and Spotify, as well as household names such as John Mayer and Gwen Stefani. She has done everything from play drums as she approached her teen years to, more recently, giveaways, raffles, seminars/workshops, and live stream reviews, and even sold her sound kits, and offer her services to help set up home studios, and she even offers remote video consultations.
“If I'm in the mood to record vocals or just want to get an idea out, maybe I'll ask some of my collaborators if they have anything they've made recently that they think is cool and are looking for vocals on, but in a lot of cases, I'm a producer first… if you're also an engineer like I am, I can just start recording myself.”
“I did grow up playing drums so, I'm definitely a more drums-forward and arrangement type of producer.”
“I've worked a lot with !llmind for a long time and through him I got to meet so many incredible people.”
“I did a year-long recording arts program and really got to learn more about the engineering side of things. And then, fast forward a year or two after that, I was working for Atlantic Records and really got to cut my teeth as a recording engineer.”
“I would say in my early 20s, mid 20s, I really kind of found my love for it again, got back into producing. And then that kind of just naturally evolved into me writing and then eventually recording my own vocals because I recorded so many people with auto tune that I realized a lot of them are not great singers, but they know how to use it very well with their voice. So, I learned just by recording people. And so, then I kind of learned how to use it with my voice.”
“In my writing I start with the top line where I do the melody first, which is very common. I feel like a lot of people write that way. But even when I'm listening to music as a consumer, … what they're saying is
important, but if they're not saying it in a cool way, I probably won't even get to the point where I'm really breaking down what they're saying and being like, wow, that's amazing.”
“I was in an all-girl rock band and that was a fun experience.”
“We were standing outside one time just kind of chilling taking a break… and he's like… John Mayer might come by on Thursday… more recently I also got to work with Gwen Stefani.”
“Some of these really top-level people I would say that there are a couple consistent qualities that I've observed with all of them. One of them is just persistence. They just keep going. And second is that they are extremely nice and respectful people.”
“Audio engineering is 100% customer service … whether you like it or not it is a customer service gig. So, I think it's really important to just be a good person.”
“Who you know and who you are gets you invited into those rooms. What you know keeps you in there, for sure.”
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