25 Years Behind the Monitors, and I Still Love This
I’m the guy who teaches producers how to get masters that hold up anywhere: car stereo, club system, cheap earbuds, all of it. Releases on Armada Music. Features in DJ Mag. More mixes fixed than I can count.
My Signal Chain
Every master I make runs through a chain, in a specific order, for a reason. My career ran through more or less the same stages.
Self-taught, early 2000s
No YouTube tutorials. No mentor down the hall. Just a pair of headphones, a stack of gear I didn’t fully understand yet, and a stubborn refusal to accept that my mixes only sounded good in my own room.
Learning it the hard way
I bought plugins. Hundreds of them, most still unopened. I followed advice from people who sounded confident and were wrong. My masters were muddy, thin, or both, and for years I assumed the problem was me. It wasn’t. It was the tools, and nobody had ever taught me how signal actually behaves.
What actually changed
The shift happened when I stopped chasing new plugins and started listening the way a mastering engineer listens: to the whole mix, not the individual pieces. That’s the mindset behind the work that ended up on Armada Music and in DJ Mag, and it’s the same mindset I hand every student now.
Building something to hand down
Once the results were consistent, the real question became: how do I teach this without ten years of trial and error attached? That question turned into Pro Audio Mastering, and everything I’ve built since.
Where I’m at now
These days I split my time between mastering client tracks, running Adoriany Music, and teaching producers the exact system I use myself. No hype, no sponsorship deals. Just what actually works.
Three Ways to Get Better Masters
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Your mix doesn’t need more plugins. It needs someone to tell you the truth about what’s actually wrong with it.
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