I'm a professional musician and studio owner with a B.A. from Berklee College of Music in production and engineering and credits on some multi-platinum and Grammy winning albums... as well as some good ones too.
I own Shine Studios in Austin, Texas, and play guitar, pedal steel and mandolin professionally.
Bands I currently play with include experimental pop band Loxsly and Austin based americana aritst Matthew Ballard .
My current guitar rig: customized '57 RI Strat with hand-wound Chubtone pickups, 1-piece Callaham bridge, DR Z Mazarati head and custom 4x10 cab, a custom built Lone Star Steel Guitars S-10 pedal steel, a franken-dobro, a Tacoma mandolin and a Mandobird and numerous hand-made, vintage and noisy effects.