More about me
As a child, I always yearned for a creative outlet (and attention). Coming from a musical family, I have been playing instruments for as long as I can remember. My first instrument was the drums, and quickly led to the guitar, bass, and eventually piano.
I started writing songs in high school and herding together anyone I knew that owned instruments in hopes of forming a band. That eventually led me to playing bass and taking on a bigger role with writing and arranging in the Long Island band Love, Robot. It was during that time that I was introduced to my first session in a real recording studio.
After those studio sessions, I realized that’s where I found myself. Something about working out the finer details of a record, like choosing the right snare drum, dialing in the best guitar fx, coming up with great lyrics and getting the right vocal performances was far more attractive to me than touring for 18 months at a time.
After Love, Robot broke up, I was brought to VuDu Studios to session play drums on an EP for Heirsound (ex Love, Robot Alexa San Roman and Dane Christopher) which quickly led to an internship opportunity and eventually a subsequent engineering job under producer Mike Watts.
During my time at VuDu, I assisted and engineered numerous sessions, often of higher caliber bands like Glassjaw (century media), Hail the Sun (equal vision), The Dillinger Escape Plan (party smasher), and O’Brother (triple crown). I was also given the chance to engineer Stolas’ self-titled record (equal vision).
These days, I spend all my time at my home studio on Long Island, affectionately named Deadend Studio, producing bands like Dear Maryanne or Summerbruise (SideOneDummy Records) and remote mixing for bands who do their own recording like The Republic of Wolves, using a hybrid setup with analog hardware and plugins, to give a final polish and occassionally add any needed instrumentation.
I want every song to feel alive, real, and exciting as hell and I’m always chasing the last percent in difference to get there. Whether it’s a band in the studio or tracking at home, I bring the same dedication to tone, detail and emotional impact, trying to make records as imporant as the ones that made me fall in love with music.