111/113 shows this year so far. not including rehearsals, off days, flights around the world, waiting in airport lounges and time spent at home working or time spending advancing shows this year. Plus a few cancelled tours. 2 shows and 3 flights left this year and I cannot be more grateful to the amazing bands that I get to work with and grow with. <3. TM/FOH - Make Them Suffer
FOH - Like Moths to Flames
FOH - Kingdom Of Giants
FOH - Acres
FOH - TWIABP
TM/FOH - Blessthefall
FOH - Aurorawave
FOH - @lolo
TM - Silent Planet
TM/FOH - Invent Animate <3
In the hundreds of photos I have collected over the last 11 weeks on this tour Instagram forces me to pick between 20. I hope these are the worst ones. From nights of monopoly and the beating the record for the hardest escape room in Texas to fighting through snow and ice pushing cases and making shows happen for thousands of people everyday. I could not have chosen a better(or worse) group of boys to make it happen with. From some old friends to some new life long ones. Thank you to @nick_with_the_hair@darkides and @xnotjessex for pushing me everyday trying to compete with your incredible mixes and for also being the dopest audio team ever. and of course to our crew in CYB and NoMo for giving us these opportunities. TM - @beatsbyblake LD - @its_kevinquinn Content - @icmvisuals Merch - @thorninflesh Driving - @austinpbots FOH - me <3
First leg of tour is over and it’s been an incredible and strange time. Played more monopoly in the last 3 weeks than in the last 3 years. Won a bunch of money in Vegas and then lost it all. Made a lot of friends and learned a lot. Leg 2 will certainly not be boring. thanks for letting me make stuff loud @catchyourbreathband@archersus@doobie
Absolutely stoked to see some bands I’ve gotten the opportunity to work with this year get recognition for their insane work. Anyone who works in this industry knows how absolutely fucked it is to be in a “successful” band is maybe one of the hardest most all encompassing things you can do and without them we wouldn’t have jobs. So congratulations to everyone nominated. Happy to have played a small part in your lives.
A little boost for the algorithm today cause apparently I’m a mixfluencer now. You either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself do more metalcore. Stoked to be heading out on this insane run in a couple weeks. Stoked to put more trash on @jackawatson and drink all his tweas while we argue over limited FOH space.
Thank you thank you thank you to @blessthefall@lolo and @magnoliaparkfl for round 2 of fulfilling my inner emo childhood dreams of getting to get paid to be at warped tour. This one was a little rougher than DC and there were tons of technical issues but we pulled it all off without a hitch and without anyone ever knowing. Thank you for you patience and for being awesome to work for. Let’s rip Orlando next!!!!!
@cfmayorca appreciation post. For spending the entire set holding the tarp over me so my gear wouldn’t crash from the heat(again) and for literally always being there when I’m having a bad show ready to throw down and help me out however he can even when it’s not his show. Truly a wonderful human being and you’d be lucky to have him on your tour!
Been playing around at home with my @blessthefall multitracks before @vanswarpedtour Long Beach and wanted to share some A/B’s of the @rupert_neve designs Master Bus Transformer. It’s actually insane what it does to the mix here. Let me know what you wanna see next
I cannot speak enough about what this @rupert_neve Master Bus Transformer does. It is literally magic in a box. It takes my mixes from flat 2 dimensional digital sounding to massive 3D record ready mixes. It truly makes it sound like I almost know what I’m doing. #FOH #Analog #masterbus #audioengineer
@aurorawavemusic - Kindness live at @pointbreakfestival wanted to show the difference between what goes into the speakers and what comes out of it and then the album sound as reference. Let me know how I did
Growing up as an emo kid going to every warped tour my mom would let me go to, to being an adult getting the opportunity to work with bands I love at the first warped tour back and the 30th anniversary of warped tour has been a literal childhood dream come true. Thank you so much to @blessthefall and @jackioalltrades for trusting me and giving me this opportunity. and thank you to my amazing team @marcussalcido and @jake625clark for fighting through the heat and the rain and the 30,000 steps we took yesterday. Let’s do it again in 6 weeks! <3
obligatory @xandyedgex mixing BLG clip at the end cause that snare drum sound needs to be studied and the man is incredible.
Photo cred: @leighloue 😻
