Sure! I think the 5 of us in general have a pretty wide range of influences, but even personally I know my tastes are all over the place. Is it the case? Could you tell us some of your favorite artists and why are you drawn to them? When hearing Arch Echo music, one can't help to assume that your musical taste is super wide. That was just one of many misadventures from that tour. (Shady black van in a small neighborhood in the middle of the night, what can go wrong?) As we finally freed ourselves and were driving away, we saw a cop pass us, presumably on the way to where we just were. We could see some neighbors turning their lights on as well, trying to figure out what was happening. I honestly don’t remember how we got out of it, but it took about 30 minutes of trying, I think we had to unload the whole van. It’s about 2:30 in the morning at this time and now I’m sad and sleepy, so I tried to pull a K turn on this street and got our van stuck on a rock on the side of the road! These rocks were massive. It turns out I was taken to the same street address in a different town, 40 minutes in the opposite direction! One was called Mansfield, the other Marlborough, I can’t remember which was the correct one. When we arrived I found it odd that I couldn’t find the house number, so some of the other dudes in the band look it up. It was about 40 minutes away, so I typed the street address into google maps and clicked the first address that came up. The family of one of the bands we were touring with offered their place to stay for the night, which was amazing. Not exactly bass related, but on the very first tour with Arch Echo, we had just finished playing a show in Boston. Since there is hardly any touring these days (sad face) - any funny bass related stories from back when touring was a thing? Something to cheer us, bass players, up! :) I’ve also spent a good amount of time writing music for Television shows, and hanging with the dudes in Arch Echo. After college, I produced and released a solo EP, called “Isometry”. ![]() That’s where Berklee comes in! Being in that environment with so many insane players made it much easier to level up my own playing, and through the Film Scoring program I learned a lot of other things I was interested in, like orchestration, composition techniques, and how to utilize tech like DAWs to get my message across. ![]() I just kept playing from there and eventually found it hard to feel challenged in music. Started with simple stuff like AC/DC before finding out how fun some tracks from Led Zeppelin and Rush were. I started playing when I was 12, and for the first few years I was in middle/high school and just really bored, so I sat at home a lot and just played along with albums that I enjoyed. Originally I wanted to learn guitar but when my next-door neighbor wanted to make a band he said, “Hey, if you get a bass you can be in the band!” And so it was. Before that, I started out like most bass players did. Yes! I graduated from Berklee back in 2015 with a degree in Film Scoring. Would you tell us a condensed version of your musical backstory? You are a Berklee College of Music graduate, right? :) ![]() I’ve been using that bundle for years and I really enjoy all the analog flavors it provides. I’ve always loved their analog emulations and thought that it must’ve been a big deal if they found a plugin so cool that they really wanted to license it for their bundle. I first heard of Audified a few years ago when Slate Digital added the u73b to their Everything Bundle. How did you hear about Audified for the first time? Have you had any experience with Audified before trying our current series of bass plug-ins? We just wrapped tracking bass and mixing on the debut album for a band called The Elephant in the Room, and I was able to simplify my usual signal flow by using Peridot and Sphene in place of the other amp sims I had been using. I’ve had a few opportunities to flex Peridot and Sphene on some remote tracking sessions I’ve done recently. Thank you! We’re really happy about ‘Story I’, it’s still kinda amazing to think that we pulled it all off during the pandemic as well. Have you had a chance to use any Audified plug-ins in your composition and production work yet? At the moment, I am enjoying listening to Story I.
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