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.
Two Things Can Be True With Music Production Habits
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 be [...]
The Weight of Self-Doubt as a Music 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 from [...]
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 [...]
