These posts are written from experience. Read them in any order, or if you’re not sure where to start, here’s a good entry point.
What’s a Link?
As I sit here typing this, reflecting over the past 30 years, it's still hard to wrap my head around how I got here. Nearly three decades later and I'm still wondering how a [...]
The Biggest Distraction Is You
There's a version of this article that's just about turning your phone off. This isn't that article. As producers, we skate a fine line between obligations and distractions. We're creatives, so there's a constant [...]
Doubt Will Kill Your Music Before You Do
I recently saw a video of a man who spoke about doing Ayahuasca over 100 times. I've never done Ayahuasca but I've always been curious about it. It speaks to me as someone who [...]
Two Things Can Be True At Once
My wife and I have a saying that gets repeated often at home... "Two things can be true at once." It's usually mentioned when referring to something that has no absolute answer, or can't [...]
The Weight of Self-Doubt as a Producer
I've been active for most of my adult life. I started hitting the gym in my teens as a way to get stronger and keep from getting my ass kicked by bullies. I went [...]
The Missing Key to Finishing Tracks
By now, if you've made it through the previous articles, you've probably noticed a pattern. Finishing tracks has less to do with gear or plugins and more to do with the abstract stuff... the [...]
A Short History of My Production Journey
Growing up in Puerto Rico, music wasn't something I thought about... it was just there. Salsa, merengue, cumbia, latin jazz... I never thought of it in terms of genres or styles. It was just [...]
The Psychology of Being a Producer
Before I dove head first into music production in the late 90s, I had been working as a professional illustrator for close to 7 years. I was hired out of high school to work [...]
Why Most Producers Never Finish Tracks
After more than two decades of making music, I still remember the familiar sting of watching another track fade away unfinished. What started as a promising idea ended up buried in a folder, left [...]
