Tell us where your sound is at now, and what you are trying to achieve with your music.

My music has changed quite a bit during the last 6 years. When I first started my journey in electronic music, I was writing vocals for other producers. I am a classically trained singer, so my goal was to become a successful vocalist, but my voice was too niche to fit every genre. 

Afterward, I decided to branch out into production, which at first was very synth-pop driven. After experimenting with different styles, I became very passionate about future house and the more commercial side of deep house, which I am still doing today. My goal is to create meaningful music that makes people feel good.

How has the sound of your music shifted as you have gotten better at production? Was there a definitive turning point along the way?

My earlier productions were very pop-driven; I had my vocals recorded professionally and hired engineers to do vocal production since I focused mostly on singing. My tracks, however, were lacking energy and depth; they were extremely simple. When I started to take music production seriously, I figured I'd give the progressive house a try and realized how incredibly complicated it was.

I experimented with piano house and deep house and soon discovered it came to me very naturally. I tend to overthink, so I seem to do better with genres that don't require an excessive amount of layers and are more straight to the point. I hit a turning point when, after three years, my music started to sound more professional. I started getting support from big music blogs and was recognized in international competitions

Talk about a few aspects of production that you have always struggled with, both while starting out and still to this day.

I still occasionally struggle with sound engineering. I've learned that, honestly, it is not for everyone. This is likely because I am really impatient and want to dive into creating music right away.

If you are someone who overthinks, you want to be able to move through the production process as quickly and as efficiently as possible without having to spend too much time on one particular sound. I do this all the time, and constantly have to remind myself to take a step back and slow down.

This really hinders my creative process. Therefore, I focus my energy on what I am good at, and I've learned that there are countless ways to manipulate a sound to make it unique without driving myself crazy.

How much did the Hyperbits Masterclass help you overcome these issues?

It helped tons – I learned that you don’t have to be a full-blown sound engineer to make fantastic music!

There are so many techniques that can help you take an existing sound and alter it to make it more unique. Saturation, layering, automation, and panning are things that I use every day in my productions that can make a sound more exciting and diverse.

Did you see the most significant improvements in your productions while taking the Masterclass, or in the following months and years after applying the Masterclass methodologies?

I saw immediate results after the first week. I realized that I was missing so much knowledge, and I wasn’t implementing many techniques in the correct ways

I could create melodies and chords since I had experience on that front, but I had no clue how to engineer music properly. I saw significant improvements after I completed the class, and it really changed my entire approach to producing dance music.

What do you love most about producing music at the level that you do? Has this shifted over time as your skills have improved?

Ideas come easier to me than they did before. I have gotten increasingly better at writing melodies and making exciting chord progressions. Even though I still get writer's block every now and then, I apply methods that I learned in the Masterclass, and I get inspiration to start something new and different.

I can also do more genres than before, which is really important to grow as an artist. I have more liberty to work on what inspires me the most in any particular moment.

Share what you think is the single most effective trick or tool a producer can use to convey more emotion in their tracks.

A producer must be able to write amazing songs. You need to be able to create a memorable melody or chord progression, you can genuinely make the listener feel your story's emotions. Unfortunately, many producers focus too much on sound design and forget the importance of great songwriting.

That is why you hear so many tracks with a really "cool" drop, but you really don't feel connected to them. So learning to implement music composition techniques is equally as crucial as making cool sounds.