In my early teen years, during the 1980's, music became a large part of my life after my father purchased a guitar for me. In addition to just playing guitar, I loved to record my own music. My first recordings were made on a cheap multi-track recorder that my father owned, they were horrible. As I started playing in bands and developing my guitar playing skills, I continued to do my own recordings. I was always interrupting practice to set up or check cassette recorders.

In the early 1990's I purchased my first multi-track recorder, it was a Fostex X-26. In early 1998 I purchased a computer and within a month or two I owned my first Digital Audio Workstation (D.A.W.), Samplitude Studio version 4.04a. Over the next few years I faithfully upgraded the software, keeping current with new digital recording technology.

Starting in late 1998 I began recording small projects for friends and their bands. The work mostly consisted of taking their cassette recordings and loading them into Samplitude, cleaning them up, and burning them to CD. Shortly thereafter I did my first multi-track recording project for a friend's band. Although it didn't come out as planned, I felt good about taking on larger multi-track recording projects.

I have mastered projects for several bands and my work received positive feedback on a local radio station that featured one band who's CD I mastered. When it came to my own band, I always recorded my rehearsals and jam sessions.