Audio Engineer / Producer
I have well over a decade of experience in audio engineering and recording in a studio and live environment.• Owner/Operator of Crispy Audio. Provides recording, mixing, and mastering services as well as instrument session work and MIDI programming for national and international artists/projects. Utilizes Steinberg Cubase, a wide-variety of VST and VSTi plugins, microphones, audio and recording hardware/interfaces, etc. Worked with clients across multiple music genres to include:-Friend For A Foe (DC-based progressive metal band) - 80+ individual songs, ‘Source of Isolation’ EP and subsequent remaster-Sessions (VA-based groove metal band) – ‘Metacognition’ EP-Vice or Virtue (VA-based ambient metal band) – ‘Enlightenment’ EP-Travis Montgomery (guitarist for Threat Signal, Jeff Loomis, and Nociceptor) – Demo for Seymour Duncan Pickups -Lebowski (New Zealand-based hardcore band) – ‘Population Control’ Single, 'Round One' LP-Encircle (FL-based instrumental metal project) – ‘Into the Dreamstate’ LP-Nociceptor (TX-based metal band) – ‘Among Insects’ LP, ‘Pornoholocaust’ downloadable track for Rock Band videogame -Minerva (MD-based experimental house/pop artist) – ‘Sticks and Stones and Sociopaths’ single-Greg Pope (UK-based solo artist) – ‘Wrong Tonight’ single-Playground Etiquette (MD-based alternative pop rock band) – ‘Inheritance’ single, drum programming • Guitarist, composer, and producer of Friend For A Foe (2002-present)•Front-of-House Audio Engineer, Monitor Audio Engineer, Audio System Technician, and Light Director for Empire Nightclub (2014, Springfield, VA). Operated and maintained all venue audio and light equipment through load-in, sound check, performance, and load-out. Designed the placement of speakers, amps, and microphones. Used audio mixing console to adjust the gain, timbre, and dynamics of incoming audio signals of each vocalist and instrument to the audience speaker arrays.