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Experienced Audio Engineer, Producer and Composer
Ian M.

236 hours tutoring

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Hourly Rate: $50
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About Ian


Bio

I’m an audio engineer, producer, and composer with 15+ years of professional experience and a passion for helping people make better music. My credits include RIAA Platinum and Gold awards and a #1 Billboard album for production on Kodak Black’s Dying to Live. I’ve produced and engineered across Hip-Hop, R&B, Pop, Soul, Funk, Reggae, Folk, and more, and I enjoy working with students at every level, from first session to final release.

I graduated valedictorian from Ex’pression College with...

I’m an audio engineer, producer, and composer with 15+ years of professional experience and a passion for helping people make better music. My credits include RIAA Platinum and Gold awards and a #1 Billboard album for production on Kodak Black’s Dying to Live. I’ve produced and engineered across Hip-Hop, R&B, Pop, Soul, Funk, Reggae, Folk, and more, and I enjoy working with students at every level, from first session to final release.

I graduated valedictorian from Ex’pression College with a BAS in Sound Arts, and I’ve taught private lessons and nonprofit workshops. I run my own studio in the Bay Area and also handle commercial sessions, podcast production, and corporate post work as a composer and sound designer.

My lessons are hands-on, project-based, and personalized to your goals—recording, mixing, vocal tuning, beat production, sound design, podcast editing, and release prep. We’ll keep it fun, focused, and efficient, and you’ll leave each session with clear next steps, checklists, and templates where helpful. I respond quickly to questions and tailor the plan so you make real progress every week.

Tools: Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Melodyne, Ableton Live, Native Instruments / Maschine (and more).


Education

Expression College
B.A.S. in Sound Arts

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Composition (Music)

Composition (Music)

I have 6+ years of guitar study, 5+ years of piano study, and 10+ years of composition experience. I am proficient in music theory fundamentals. I own and operate my own music production business and have professionally produced and composed music for major music labels and for commercial corporate use with companies such as Velodyne Lidar (composition, sound design and engineering work), Medtronic Medical (composed music for a commercial) and more.
Music Production

Music Production

I have a Bachelor of Applied Science from Sound Arts Ex’pression College in Emeryville, CA. I have been a recording/Mix Engineer, Producer and writer at a personal studio since 2010. I have a certified RIAA Platinum award for my production on Kodak Black’s album “Dying to Live” which sold over 1,000,000 copies and reached #1 on the Billboard Charts. Over the years I have produced and engineered many genres of music including: Hip-Hop, R&B, Pop, Soul, Funk, Reggae, Folk and more.
Songwriting

Songwriting

I have a Bachelor of Applied Science from Sound Arts Ex’pression College in Emeryville, CA. I have been a recording/Mix Engineer, Producer and writer at a personal studio since 2010. I have a certified RIAA Platinum award for my production. MY music has sold over 1,000,000 copies and reached #1 on the Billboard Charts. Over the years I have worked with many artists in all genres of music including but not limited to: Hip-Hop, R&B, Pop, Soul, Funk, Reggae, and Folk. I have worked in collaboration with many artists to write, compose and craft their songs. I have a wealth of knowledge on the process of writing, arranging and building songs from conception to completion.
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Excellent Tutor

Ian is the man! I learned a couple of new things today in protools! Can’t wait to watch the video to review it all again!

Peter, 3 lessons with Ian

professional competent and with much courtesy!

we reviewed how to use the different functions of melodyne. We went over overall strategies as per work flow. We reviewed tracks list function, how to navigate the main tool bar and how to use the note assignment mode.

Jason, 20 lessons with Ian

Great Resource. Super Helpful

Ian delivered. He knew what to do and really helped me over my hurdle. I had been trying to fix this problem for days and he helped fix it in under 2 hours. Highly recommend.

Chip, 2 lessons with Ian

Excellent Tutor!

Ian helped me out immensely! Prior to our call I was extremely frustrated with getting all of my synths properly connected to my DAW. Through careful troubleshooting, by the time our session was done Ian had me set up for success! He also shared some other helpful information and pointers. I highly recommend Ian without hesitation

Joel, 1 lesson with Ian

Great teacher, extremely knowledgeable!

Would highly recommend! Was able to give excellent and thorough explanations and helped me learn to use Logic Pro much more easily and efficiently. Looking forward to my next lesson with him!

Chris, 1 lesson with Ian

Knowledge and insightful

Not only did he teach me how to correctly fix my bus issues he also explained it’s purposes and showed me different ways to improve my mix and bounce down techniques!

Derrick, 4 lessons with Ian

bro is a legend

Nothing else to say. He’s the goat. 🐐 def fun to work with and got so much more out of building this lesson off of the last highly recommended

Raymond, 2 lessons with Ian

Ian the great

Ian did an excellent job answering many of my Pro Tools questions. The only problem: only the first 38 min. was recorded which mainly included set-up time, while the final hour that included the pertinent instruction was blank. Bummer. Anyway, after voicing my complaint, Wyzant comped me with an additional 30 min. of instruction. Yay.

Marc, 2 lessons with Ian

Very helpful!

Ian was great with my son. He helped him by first telling him the “good” things my son had done in his music composition, and then give him some suggestions for improvement. I would recommend Ian!

Erin, 2 lessons with Ian

Awesome teacher !! packed with loads of info

This lesson was extremely powerful! I have so much to go back and review but it was super cool bc Ian answered specific questions for me and also showed me a lot of easy tips and tricks for work flow. I also learned about things I had no idea existed !!!

Raymond, 2 lessons with Ian
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