I offer consultation and training
in Digital Performer software and project studio design. I have an
extensive background in music, composition, recording, production, and
acoustics. I have been teaching others for over six years how to
bring their musical and technical lives into focus, and bring their art
to fruition in the process. I can also help with many Mac-audio problems
and integration with other software packages. If I can't help you
I probably know someone who can. Even if you have a non-computer
based studio I can help in the above areas. This is more than a hobby
to me, it's a passion.
Make the jump from "music room" to "recording studio"
Five to ten years ago it cost many times what it costs today for a home project studio. It just didn't make sense to spend $20,000-$30,000 on a home studio when you could put that toward a commercial studio and get better results. Now, less money gets more home studio and better quality so you can budget to split your time between home and commercial studios.
There are four major processes to making a recording: Composition, tracking, overdubbing, and mixing. Some of these overlap but for the most part that is how it goes. One of the great things about setting up you own studio is you can work on some stages of the recording process yourself and leave the rest to someone else. This means that you can compose a song and bring it to me to track the basic tracks in the studio. I'll send you home with a file you can put on the computer so you can spend time overdubbing and furthering the composition. If you already own a stand alone recorder the mix can be exported to that machine too, most anything can be synched up later. Once you get close, I can step back in and bring it back to mix. It sounds difficult but it's not. Much of the cost of a studio is in tracking complex things and maintaining a good mix environment. Leave those parts to the studio and do what you can at home. That is the beauty of modern recording...flexibillty. Nothing stinks quite as much as an eight hour day of vocal takes, burning studio time, and you're not performing at your best. It works much better to come home from work, relax, and spend a couple hours working on vocals, on your time. It doesn't just save buckets of money, you end up with a better performance and a system too. I can make this happen, just ask.
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area music
scene. I've been behind the faders in one way or another for 15 years.
It started out as a way to further my music but then became a profession
as I mixed my way through college. Since I also love to teach, software
and studio training was natural. As the project studio world was
evolving I found my nitch helping people make the transition to computer
based recording. Having lived in California for over 30 years it
was time to get out of dodge. Boise has a vibrant, almost hidden
music scene that is just eking to surface. I moved here mid 2003
and I am loving every minute of it. Even the snow...
San Francisco State University, San Francisco
CA.
B.A. Interdisciplinary Creative Arts. Emphasis
in multimedia performance arts, May 1997.
Los Medanos College, Antioch CA.
A.A. Liberal Studies, May 1991.
A.A. Music - Recording Arts emphasis, May 1993.
Certificate of Achievement - Recording Arts,
May 1993