When I’m not working on my own material, I do a lot of production and engineering work for friends and clients. I’m always interested in projects where I can explore new techniques, or help bring new concepts to life. It’s rewarding for me to hear others sound the best that they possibly can and I pursue these projects with passion.
If there’s anything you’d like to collaborate on, or could use some help with, please contact me. I’m very excited to find new people to collaborate with on projects and happy to help where I can.
REFERENCE WORK
Here’s a playlist of tracks I have produced and engineered here in the Chop Shop studio. They span a variety of genres and styles, so hopefully you’ll find something in there that suits your taste so you can get a feel for my production and mixing work. Thanks for listening.
STUDIO AND EQUIPMENT

I work out of my own personal studio in Port Coquitlam. I’m fortunate to have a small, sound treated room suitable for mixing and basic recording of vocals, guitars, and small instruments.
Tools I Use:
- Ableton Live 12.2 / Ableton Push 3
- Logic Pro
- Roland FP-10 Piano
- UA Apollo X4
- UA Volt
- KRK Monitors / Sub
- Various Acoustic/Electric Guitars – Fender, Takamine
- Various Dynamic (SM7DB, SM58) and Condenser Mics
I’m also very fortunate to be down the street from Long and McQuade in Port Coquitlam, so any additional gear is easily rented there on a daily or monthly basis.
The studio is not fancy, but it’s really well suited for modern digital workflow, and is comfortable and hosted in a climate controlled office in a commercial warehouse space, so easily accessible with lots of nearby amenities.
If this might be helpful for your project, don’t hesitate to contact me.
PRODUCTION TIPS AND TRICKS
I’ve been making a point of starting archive the useful production tips and tricks I find on the internet here on my site as well. Hopefully some of these links might be useful to your music production journey. There’s no specific methodology here – if something is useful to me, I grab it and post a link back to it. If there’s something interesting here or you’d like to chat, hit me up here!
- UAD Distressor Overview
I often reach for the Distressor when I’m looking for kind of an over-the-top blown out compressor kinda vibe on things I’m working on, but I have to admit I didn’t really understand the nuances of how the original hardware units worked. I recently ran into this video from Universal Audio that was super helpful … - 10 Minute Guide to Audio Compressors and Dynamics Processing
What Are Compressors (and Dynamics Processing) First of all, if you’re here looking for information about audio compression algorithms like MP3 encoding, this is not the right place! This guide is about audio compression in the “dynamics processing” sense, and not in the reducing data sense. Sorry if you landed in the wrong spot. As …Read more “10 Minute Guide to Audio Compressors and Dynamics Processing”
- UAD Feature – Louis Bell (Post Malone)
Once again, some promo content but there were a bunch of production gems in this one from Louis Bell, producer for Post Malone and many others. Saving this one for my own reference but you may find it useful too. https://www.uaudio.com/blogs/ua/louis-bell-nailing-tone-for-post-malone - UAD Vocal Chains
This is obviously a UAD promo post, but there were actually some pretty interesting vocal chains referenced on the page. I grabbed the link to keep it here to make it easy to access in the future. I subscribe to UA Spark, so I have most of the plug ins in my sub, and it’s … - Writing Progressions Using 7th Chords
Super helpful video I ran into that dumbs down how to use 7th Chords in progressions and how to stay in key while doing it. - Ableton Vocoder Tutorial
Was trying to figure out the Vocoder today in Ableton. Found this tutorial extremely helpful for getting a basic vocoder setup. - 7th Chords – Easy Bar Chords for Guitar
Production Tips – Easy fingerings for 7th Chords on Guitar




