Hi, my name is Drody.
I’ve been producing music for over 15 years, and I’ve had the privilege of working with a number of amazing people in the industry. My approach to production, mixing, and mastering is all about finding the unique voice of an artist and helping them bring their vision to life.
I’ve been a part of hundreds of songs, accumulating 300 million streams on Spotify alone. I started working at recording studios in California around 10 years ago, and have since worked with grammy-winning and platinum-selling artists, as well as a handful of major music labels such as Sony and Atlantic Records.
I believe that great music comes from a place of authenticity and honesty, and I strive to create a collaborative, open-minded environment in the studio that encourages artists to take risks and explore their full potential.
If you’re looking for a producer who will challenge you to be your best and help you create music that stands the test of time, I’d love to work with you.
I always love helping artists achieve something they can be proud of - and am free for a quick chat if you are looking for a quick consultation around your music.
If you’d like to learn more about me, it should be easy to Google me, or learn more about me here. Here are some highlights:
Created, mixed, and mastered cinematic HipHop tracks for music libraries, with placements in dozens of TV shows, ads, and streaming series, including sports-related media.
Edited and refined dialogue audio for guided meditations and affirmations on the Superhuman app, serving over 11,000 monthly subscribers.
Configured and optimized 7 home-to-medium recording studios, setting up signal flow, routing monitors, and building patch bays.
Single-handedly set up and tracked multi-platinum and grammy-winning songwriters and artists from labels Sony, Universal, Roc Nation, Atlantic, Rostrum, and HitCo, with sometimes with little to no notice.
Recorded and mixed vocals in high-pressure, 10–12 hour songwriting sessions for major-label projects.
Trained interns proper use of studio hardware and software such as the Neve Genesys console, Pro Tools HDX, Melodyne, iZotope RX, Ableton 10, and Logic X.
Produced and finalized 2 HipHop albums in collaboration with a team of producers and vocalists, which became APM Music’s (a sync company) top-featured albums for two months.
Mentored six audio engineering and music production students, guiding them through to successful completion.
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I’ve recognized that a lot of the newer artist questions on Reddit don’t understand how to improve their songs. And the one-off freelance projects sound okay, but can sometimes sound generic.
More importantly, artists, which are now-a-days making music on laptop and are on budgets, are releasing music that isn’t that impressive, and are not as impressive-sounding with songs within their genre.
Here’s a work-in-progress of how to better improve your songs.
Free eBook. I wrote this personally and have been thinking about writing about it for the past 5 years. Only been working on it for the past year. I’m cross-referencing a lot of resources and YouTube videos, so I can’t stamp my name on this and call it my own work. Because it’s not. It’s more of a free guide so you can understand my process before hiring me.
Around 8 years ago, a couple of producers and I helped Aaryan Shah bring his album to life.
For around a year, I audio engineered, Melodyned, co-produced, mixed, and mastered 5 of the 10 songs off of his ‘Arrival’ album, including his most played song “Renegade” sitting at 276 million plays on Spotify.
He initially released “Renegade” as a single 7 years ago, but has since made a new compilation album called ‘Arrival’ 5 years ago, which includes newer songs that I did not closely work on. Maybe there is some audio engineering and Melodyne work with 2 of the newer songs.
Around 5 years ago I had the honor of audio engineering for Dreamville, Bas, and Girltalk sessions.
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I almost was Grammy-nominated after working on this song. This was a song from Revenge of the Dreamers III Extended Album. The non-extended album received 3 Grammy nominations in 2020.
From Wikipedia about the original album, "Revenge of the Dreamers III received positive reviews from critics and debuted atop the US Billboard 200, selling 115,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, earning Dreamville its first US number-one album. The album also debuted at number one on Billboard’s Canadian Albums Chart. Revenge of the Dreamers III was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2020 Grammy Awards, while “Middle Child” and “Down Bad” were nominated for Best Rap Performance. "
In the same writing session, Bas and Girltalk worked on “Fallin’”
Together, they have almost a million YouTube plays.
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