What gave you the recording bug?
I was a freshman when I dropped out and we started touring. We started doing showcases at the Viper Room when I was 12 or 13. I always loved being in the studio; this intriguing other side of being a musician. I was mainly a live musician and had started at my worship team on the drums. But I got Logic for Christmas when I was 18. I'd been dabbling in GarageBand and found it fun to mess with synths. I loved sampling, so I'd sample a snare and a kick in order to create and build beats. I was into more of the electronic side. My first thing wasn't to set up a drum kit and record it. I wanted to program one. Logic was user-friendly, whereas Pro Tools felt so daunting and "pro studio" at that point. I never planned on being a producer or getting into recording. Then, from Paramore and HalfNoise, my other project, not touring a lot, I realized I loved to stay busy and working with people. I'm such an extrovert, so producing was a cool thing for me. The only thing that was getting in the way was that I was not super-confident in it. "I don't know how to record well. I'm not good at this." I learned that the knowledge that I had, which was working on my own and self-discovery, was a lot cooler than YouTubing or going to college.
Yeah, of course.
I went my own way. It took me years to learn, like it was all out of phase the entire time. That's what got me into it. I'm into my fourth record this year that I've produced. That's what takes up most of my time now, which is crazy.
Your productions have a unique approach and sound. It's very different than Paramore's big guitars and drum sounds.
