Silver Moon Sound
Announcing My New Studio, Silver Moon Sound!
Silver Moon Sound, located in Central California's Santa Cruz Mountains, is a destination recording studio that provides a scenic and welcoming environment. I specialize in recording and mixing acoustic-based genres including singer-songwriter, folk, indie, jazz, and classical. However, artists of all styles are invited here. Silver Moon Sound features a 7.5-foot Yamaha C7 grand piano and top-of-the-line mics/equipment from manufacturers such as Neumann, AKG, AEA, BLUE, RME, and Genelec.
As an advocate for accessibility in the music industry and beyond, my goal was also to create the most accessibile recording studio on the west coast. This not only means being fully accessible to wheelchair users, but being accessible to those with immune system disabilities. As such, the studio features MERV-16 filters with ~5 air changes per hour and excellent ventilation (CO2 readings in 500s-600s ppm) that exceeds CDC guidelines for preventing respiratory virus transmission.
Listen to examples of my mixing work below...
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More About Me & My Approach
As a Nashville-bred engineer and producer, I specialize in creating authentic, acoustic recordings. As a classical pianist and composer myself, I can approach projects with both an artist's and an engineer's ear.
Having the ear of a classical musician allows me to pick up on musical nuances and subtleties beyond the typical technicalities involved with being an engineer. As an award-winning composer, I have extensive knowledge of a variety of instruments and know how good music is supposed to sound—and with my years of engineering experience, I know how to achieve that sound in a recording. As a producer, I love to combine my musical and technical expertise to bring all aspects of an artist’s vision to life through my company Silver Moon Sound (formerly River Rock Records).
With over a hundred credits to my name, my mixing and mastering services are in-demand for artists from multiple states and countries. Since 2019, I've also been a frequent collaborater with Chicago-based classical recording companies Atlas Arts Media and Peckham Media Productions. I am a Voting Member of the GRAMMYs® / Recording Academy, and I've been working and learning in studios since I was thirteen years old. I hold a B.S. in Audio Engineering Technology and a B.M. in Music Composition with Highest Honors from Belmont University in Nashville, TN—one of the world's leading audio engineering programs.
Selected Discography
Singles I Mixed
Learn Audio from Me
In addition to being a working audio engineer, I also enjoy teaching musicians both private lessons and group workshops in audio engineering and production. Whether you've never mixed a song in your life or have already self-produced your own album, you can save yourself years of trial and error by learning engineering skills directly from a pro. Lesson and workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
- Best practices and time-saving hacks for home recording projects
- How, when, and why to use EQ, compression, panning, and plugins
- Streamlining your workflow in Logic X, Pro Tools, or other DAWs
- How to make edits without them being obvious
- Audio processing, sampling, and editing as creative tools
- The what, why, and how of automation in mixing and production
- Advanced signal flow concepts to take your productions to the next level
