My adventure started when I was 10. My parents got me a guitar from a garage sale for my birthday. I was super excited and I played the heck out of that poor little thing. Shortly thereafter I started accumulating more quality instruments. About that time I found an old cassette recorder in our closet. Determined to get multiple tracks, I would record one part and then swap out the cassette for a ...
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My adventure started when I was 10. My parents got me a guitar from a garage sale for my birthday. I was super excited and I played the heck out of that poor little thing. Shortly thereafter I started accumulating more quality instruments. About that time I found an old cassette recorder in our closet. Determined to get multiple tracks, I would record one part and then swap out the cassette for a new one, I would put the cassette with the previously recorded part in a second cassette player next to me and strategically placed the little plastic microphone with the new cassette in-between the playback cassette and my guitar to achieve a layered effect. It honestly makes me chuckle when I think of those countless hours sitting on my bedroom floor late at night recording who knows what.

A couple years later after I had maxed out a reel-to-reel recorder (That's right, one of those super old-fashioned ones that actually had tape.) and a 4-track cassette recorder from the late 80s, I bought a laptop, an interface, and some limited software. I was a goner. I spent so many days and nights recording and mixing music. By this time my bedroom was beginning to be overrun by musical instruments and gear, and my super easy going little brother finally decided he wanted to have more than a dresser in the room. Thanks for going along with my passion bro!

Over the course of the last decade I have been blessed to have co-founded the PNW rock band from the Northwest now called Ergo Rex, engineered and co-produced albums with Ergo Rex and several other artists, spent six years on tour traveling both sides of the US, getting to meet many awesome musicians and artists, assist in the start of the music program at a private school, and most of all, learn many lessons through blood, sweat, and tears, and come out on the other side with the greatest friends.

All through the years the desire to record and mix kept growing. I would find myself desiring to write music simply for the pleasure of being able to record and mix something. Engineering is my first musical love, and second is guitar. Music comes alive for me in the mixing process! That's where it goes from black-and-white to color, for me. I now have a full mixing studio with the gear to make it rock.

I cannot describe how much pleasure it brings me to mix and engineer. I absolutely love it and love to come alongside other artists to help them achieve what they desire their art to say.

Thanks for reading!
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