Audio Engineering + Mixing

History

I started working on audio recordings when I was a teenager in my parent’s garage. The 16-input studio I built in Vacaville, CA was called TWS Recordings and I worked with a wide range of clients, ranging from local talent to touring bands. The space was small, but mighty - we built a room, inside of a room, in my parent’s garage with tie-line snakes to the outside, where I recorded everything on a firepod + digimax into Cubase. 

I attended American River College in Sacramento, CA where I completed an associate’s degree for Commercial Audio: Recording. In the school itself, I completed coursework in studio operations utilizing a pretty sick SSL board that they slid into the budget somehow, tracking jazz and orchestral arrangements, understanding dynamics, and more. I am certified in Pro Tools via the program, though I choose to use Logic in 2025.

While living in Sacramento, I owned and operated The Lion’s Den - a studio project in the basement of our punk house on the corner of 27th and V street - I had the opportunity to work with many folks who I still consider creative counterparts and friends to this day. During that time period, I also interned and worked at The Hanger, a once world-class studio. It was after operating The Lion’s Den and working at The Hangar full time that I chose to step away from the mechanics of making audio and into understanding the deep well of creative labor that it takes to make music. I purposefully stopped engineering and mixing other folk’s records to focus on making my own songs and helping others make them, as much as I possibly could roughly 14 years ago. 

When I moved to Oakland, I spent time melding my audio skills to work in live sound. I worked at many pivotal spaces in Oakland’s underground music scene on a nightly basis (The Night Light, Geoffrey’s Inner Circle), again meeting some of the people who I still consider to be staples of my social and creative diet today. I also worked in ghostwriting, composition, and sync from my home studio, honing those skills. Most of this took place while I was actively touring domestically and internationally in a few projects. Since living in the Bay Area, I’ve frequented many studios in the area (Sharkbite, NuTone, Santo, Survivor Sound, Secret Bathroom, etc) and worked in a few for my projects. I’ve also worked out of some studio spaces in Los Angeles. I became a parent about a decade ago and scaled things back in audio professionally to take on a career in hospitality operations, where I now proudly co-own Edith’s Pie - an Oakland Pie Shop and Cafe.

In 2025 I aim to combine my lived-creative experience to make wonderful things and help others take what is inside of their brain and turn it into reality.