A Room with a VU (Music Production)

Greetings…
Welcome to my page on my journey of music production. What about me? Well, I’m a software systems engineer who’s been composing/recording/arranging and performing music since I was 14. It was that age that I first picked up the guitar, and basically haven’t put it down since. 🙂 Shortly after learning guitar, bass guitar came naturally, and later on in life, keyboards.

As of August 2014, released my first solo EP entitled Halcyon Sky. My business partner and long time friend from college and I have formed AfterSix Productions and have released our debut project entitled “What Love Is”.

That being said, this page will be about everything and anything that’s on my mind about music production. I hope you find some interest in what my creative muse does to me, as well as my thoughts on the subject as a whole.

::: oceans of rhythm :::

Fresh!

• Electronic music composition – the lesser options, the better?
• Welcome 2024
• Forward Motion – The WIP Rescore of a Dune 2021 Battle Scene
• Overcoming Writer’s Block – An Effectual Approach to Writing Music for Film, Television, and Related Media
• Quick Portrait (2022 Update) – Studio A
• Quick Portrait: The Lab – Studio A.
• Music Monday – 30 Nov 20 – The Journey Continues
• Music Monday – 12 Oct 20 – Back To The Roots
• POTD – 13/365
• Simply Chilled – a new track by AfterSix Productions
• Gone… A Loss of Fond Technology
• New EP in progress ::: Day 3 ::: 19 Jun 17
• New EP in progress ::: Day 1 ::: 16 Jun 17
• film scoring – the journey – day 10: the final episode
• Summer, summer, summer time…music on my mind.
• film scoring – the journey – day 9 – Good vibes, next moves…
• film scoring – the journey – day 8 – First submission & feedback
• film scoring – the journey – day 7 – At the scene/in the cloud of sound.
• film scoring – the journey – day 6 – It’s Official (generally speaking)
• Film Scoring – The Journey – Day 5 – The Break/The Block
• Film Scoring – The Journey – Day 4 – Official Biz
• Film Scoring – The Journey – Day 3 – On and on….
• Film Scoring – The Journey – Day 2 – Forward Motion
• Film Scoring – The Journey – Day 1 – The Background
• Chronicles of A Remix – For A Time (Fresh’s Continuum Edit) – Part 1
• Halcyon Sky: The Regrooves EP – Day 25
• Halcyon Sky – The Regrooves EP – Day 24
• Halcyon Sky – The Regrooves EP – Day 23
• Halcyon Sky – The Regrooves EP – Day 22
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – The Bonus Track, Social Media (Pt 2) – Day 21
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – The Bonus Track, Social Media, etc – Day 20
• The Making of Soulosophy – Day 3
• The Making of Soulosophy – Day 2
• The Making of Soulosophy – Day 1
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – An Interview with Felicia Hodges
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) –The Fans Speak (Day 19)
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) –The Release/The Thanks – Day 18
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – Available Aug 9, 2014 – day 17
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – Day 16
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – Day 15
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – Day 14
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – Day 13
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – Day 12
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – Day 11
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – Day 10
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – Day 9
• Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – Day 8
• Halcyon Sky (debut EP) – Day 7
• Halcyon Sky (debut EP) – Day 6
• Halcyon Sky (debut EP) – Day 5
• Halcyon Sky (debut EP) – Day 4
• Halcyon Sky (debut EP) – Day 3
• Halcyon Sky (debut EP) – Day 2
• Halcyon Sky (debut EP) – Day 1
• Halcyon Sky (debut EP)
• Pathways to music composition (tech and otherwise) in 2013
• Smooth Sunday – Last night’s work
• Chronicles of a Mix – M&Ms (10 Oct 12)
• Working on a new arrangement – Smooth Sunday
• Chronicles of Mix – 06 Oct 12 ::: Drums anyone?
• Sample library elements – A creative approach in production
• Chronicles of A Remix – Vol.2: Stop It Now/Karlina Veras – Pt.1
• Future Music – In Studio With | Dennis Ferrer
• Chronicles of a Remix: I’m Walkin’/Mary Mary – Day 8 (The Sendoff)
• Mint Condition – “7”: A review and sample flip
• Chronicles of a Remix: I’m Walkin’/Mary Mary – Day 1
• Chronicles of a Remix: The Intro.
• Early morning in The Lab: MPC 1000 Chilled Flow #1
• Product Review – Roland Super JV-1080
• “Left Coast Flow” (Thai-Roc Instrumental Mix) Pt. 1
• After Six [Quiktraks – 24 Feb 2011]
• Hardware vs Software: Tools of musical composition
• “You Love Me”
• The Chamorrita Sessions – AfterSix Productions
• Proofing Tracks: “Marry Me”
• Sample Library Organization – Making Workflow Efficient
• Apple’s Logic Studio 8 Tutorials
• Your music production studio. Does limitation equal greater creativity?
• From The Vault – “Reach 4 It”
• Workin’ (well semi-workin’) in studio tonite
• A Day In The Life #1 – The Lab – 23 Oct 10: Yamaha TG77 Synth Strings
• Sampling and Music Composition- A “Fresh” Perspective. Pt. 3: Presently Speaking
• Sampling and Music Composition – A “Fresh” Perspective. Pt 2 – Sampling/Interpolation/Legalities
• Sampling and Music Composition- A “Fresh” Perspective. Pt. 1: In The Beginning
• Sampling Tips From The Pros
• What’s Happening – Current Music Projects
• The Most Impossible Plan (groove7 outerbanks edit rmx)/The Basic Condition of Life – Skatterbrain
• Cross Country Collective (C3) – This is How We Do It (leveraging the ‘net/making music)
• “Give It To Ya” goes international!
• Organization: A path way to creativity (I need my muse!)
• MixTips #2 – Transferring projects between DAWs: Logic to Pro Tools
• Welcome to MixTips – MixTips #1: Making your mix better.
• All about the tone….
• In The Lab – Dec 2009
• Fusion: An Interview with The Big La (Todd Kelley)
• The Musical Journey – The Current Flow
• Workin’ it Out In The Lab (AfterSix Productions)
• The Session…Jazzy vibes in The ‘Lab
• Music Production on the MPC
• Call me a neo-Luddite (old tech wins this round….)