Let’s Make it together!

Inside your head is a uniquely “you” sound. Maybe right now, it’s little more than a feeling, a couple of phrases sitting in your voice notes. Maybe it’s already a big ol’ glowed-up song, trying to get decked out in just the right suit of sonic clothes. Whether your music needs a cozy, oversized Sunday afternoon coffee-sipping sweater or a chic, Mugler x Rick Owens red carpet statement piece, you’ve come to the right place! My passion: delivering a bespoke production you love and cannot wait to share with the world. Together, we’ll take the time to explore and tailor just the right piece for you and your songs. You can spend a lot of money on some assembly-line, cookie-cutter production from SoundBetter… or you can spend a little more to get a boutique, custom work that perfectly communicates your unique musical vision and voice, and sounds like a record!

Music can be hard to talk about - in fact, that’s why we make it to begin with! To express things difficult to put into words. My specialty is listening to you and translating your ideas into sound - homing in on what exactly we need to elevate your song into its best self. Maybe you don’t know your Phyrigian from your Locrian, your Roland from your Rhodes, or your vari-mu compressor from your minimum phase EQ. Great! That’s my job! Music is a language, and I’ve spent nearly two decades obsessively building an expansive musical vocabulary. I’m fluent in Disco and Debussy, obsessed with pop music from Chopin to Nirvana and Tin Pan to Nirvana, equally at home parsing the syntax of synth pop or New Music chamber suites faster than you can say “A-ha.”

But enough about you…

Let’s talk about ME! (sheesh, finally, I thought you’d never ask)

Ok, THIS IS THAT CRINGEY PART where I have to come up with autobiographical bullet-points that make me sound cool and great and fun and honestly, I do not enjoy that and personally would probably not enjoy working with someone who DID but my business coach said it’s (a) necessary (evil) so let’s go!

  • Nerd par excellence (triple majored for no reason other than sheer curiosity and a good scholarship, so you know I’m prolly also good at tuning a snare)

  • Scored perfect GRE verbal and am known to casually drop “mellifluous” into a lyric without flinching.

  • Extroverted-intravert, ENTJ, Cancer, Illinois-native (Rockford, home of Cheap Trick), LA-NYC transplant, Maine-woods frequenter, SciFi lit late bloomer. Best described as some combo of Huberman Lab, Eternal Sunshine, and Parks & Rec.

  • My strengths:
    ~Building a FULL production around whatever you provide (iPhone, Garageband, anything!)
    ~Vocal production & editing (Melodyne Jedi)
    ~Enhancing an existing demo
    ~Mixing
    ~Orchestration

Counterpoint

Having said ALL THAT… I firmly believe that neither music nor music makers can be tidily reduced to bullet points, streaming stats, notable collaborators, or achievements unlocked. I am more than the sum of my sub-mixes & aux tracks! (eyeroll) Whether it’s your first release or your 100th, your next work is your most exciting and most important and I’d love to hear more about it!

Testimonials

EVAN GREGORY

I've been making music professionally for over a decade, worked with tons of producers and engineers, and Aaron is my #1 pick to produce my tracks. Aaron can bring the thunder. Of all the things I could say about his skills, the most important thing is....Aaron GETS it. He has serious breadth of genre and will understand your song, your style, your passion, and bring it to life. He's a generous collaborator and has absolutely stacked knowledge of the latest sounds, producing tricks, plug-ins, gear...or ancient period instruments if that's your thing. 10/10, highest recommendation.

JASON MANNS

Aaron is a next level musician. Life long player with all the knowledge and skills to truly understand what the project needs and how to get it there. As a player, producer, writer, or anything else you need, Aaron’s talent and work ethic are amazing. Hire him. You won’t be disappointed!

STEPHANIE THOM

Aaron's musicality is unparalleled. As a fan he listens to EVERYTHING and he is a consummate producer in literally every style. Wherever your ears are taking you, he can help you get there! He is a professional. Always timely with communication, always organized with files & documents, a time management master - you and your project are in safe hands with him. He is kind & supportive. As an artist, he understands exactly the vulnerability required to create. When Aaron is in the producer seat, he is the best at helping artists feel at ease and cultivating an open, safe work space.

MICHELLE ODINMA

Seriously. Aaron. 👏🏾Is. 👏🏾The. 👏🏾GOAT. 👏🏾
I’m an acoustic soul vibed, Christian Contemporary, singer songwriter. Because I’ve got so many influences that bleed through in my music, it was a bit difficult to nail down a sound I wanted when recording my homemade tracks. But boy did Aaron come through! He is extremely creative and I was impressed at how well he was able to understand my very non musical descriptions of the vibe and sound I was seeking to capture. Great guy and pleasant to work with, easily a 10/10. Maybe even 11 with the types of beats he laid on the tracks. Highly recommend.

NICHOLAS ZORK

Aaron Beaumont is an incredible producer, mix engineer, writer, and multi-instrumentalist. I've worked with him on numerous projects over many years; and he's made every one much better than it would have been without him. He's dedicated, creative, and personable. And, perhaps best of all, he brings out the best in his collaborators. There's nobody I'd rather go into the studio with than Aaron.

SO MANY QUESTIONS!

  • I'll summarize my process in one word: conversation. Music is communication. You and I will build a common artistic language, batting ideas back and forth, trading favorite songs, movies, books, art, designers, & influences, and through our exploration, something new will emerge: your sound. Your song. Fully realized.

    As a pop producer, writer, & mix engineer, I’m committed to one thing: delivering a production you love. Bring me a minimal song sketch and I’ll elevate it into the best version of itself. As a full-time professional for 15 years in NYC & L.A. I've been fortunate to play many different positions (including signed artist & award-winning composer). Versatility and endless curiosity are my biggest assets.

    We’ll outline clear deadlines, deliverables, & pricing. I won’t work on a project if I don’t believe I’m a great fit. As such, I’ll be clear with you about what I can & can't do.

  • I started off signing to a label in LA in 2008 as an artist, after touring the world in a pop rock band during college - signing a record deal kept me out of grad school for Economics. From there I was approached to start a retro pop/soul band, write a barrelhouse blues musical, score various short films / theatre productions. I won a few awards as a composer / lyricist and landed in NYC to produce a musical I wrote, collaborated on a few other musicals and an experimental opera, then veered back toward my first love: pop. I've worked as the Gregory Brothers / Schmoyoho's in-house composer / producer / mix engineer since 2016, and continue with freelance production, songwriting, and film composition. I'm also resuming a solo artist project in 2021, after a decade working exclusively on collaborations.

  • My promise to my clients is to bring my best work every day, follow through to completion, and never "mail it in" on a project. We have a finite number of creative opportunities in life - I believe in making the most of each one of them.

  • As an endlessly curious creator, I love the variety in my workday - I might be mixing a trap record in the morning, orchestrating a string arrangement in the afternoon, revising a lyric in the evening, and tracking a full band the next day. There's never a dull moment - my goal is to get better every day at whatever I'm doing, and I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to wear so many musical hats during my career!

  • This varies widely, but one big one is: what's the process and how long does it take?! My answer is: it's different every time, there's only so much we can control, and the most important thing we can commit to is being honest and open to trying ideas. Some songs take an hour, some take a year (don't worry, that's a figure of speech - it won't take a year!). I like to keep our focus narrow, because music making is really just a series of a million tiny questions and solutions. To finish an album, you have to finish a song, to finish a song, you have to finish a chorus, and so on. As we move through this process, it's important to know that we're never truly "stuck" with that decision we made two days ago - paradoxically keeping this in mind allows us to move more freely and be less "precious" with every step. Creativity is fluid, and we're chasing a feeling together. Often that takes us outside our comfort zone, and sometimes we'll move toward things that seem scary... but that's where magic happens!

  • So many questions! I want the most complete picture of who they are, as artists and people. I love hearing what they're listening to and what they love about it. I love hearing their favorite shows, museums, cities, foods. I love hearing what they've made in the past, and what they like or don't like about it now. I love hearing what their sense of purpose is, and what they value most in life. Much of this informs our creative process, but also, I simply love hearing how differently different creators see the world.

  • I would say that the clearer they are about their own vision and goals for a project, the more seamlessly we'll be able to move forward together. Creativity is always exploration, and collaboration is always a conversation, so you never really see the end from the beginning. Having said that, thinking through your intentions at the outset goes a long way toward easing creative decisions and providing an anchor or beacon to guide a project to outcomes that can be as surprising as they are satisfying.

  • AI love big, kitchen-sink pop bangers. I love groove and feel. I love harmonic richness and inventiveness a la Beatles, Beach Boys, BeeGees. I love contrast and juxtaposition - shimmering / warm, organic / electronic, digital / orchestral, pristine / heavily distorted.

  • A: That simplicity is easy. A lot of hard work goes into making something sound simple. Or as Sondheim said, “Great art hides its effort.”

  • Feel is everything! Whether it's your vocals, hats, or kick, pocketing everything rhythmically is the key to a pop hit. And don't confuse "pocketing" with "quantizing" - pinning things 100% to the grid is the best way to take the life out of a production. Like everything else in music, your ears are required! (as is your heart, as cheesy as it sounds)

  • A keen sense for drama or story, whether that's lyrical or instrumental. I'm always thinking, "what's the story we're telling, what's the journey of this song" and how can we best express and support that via every single part. All art is storytelling, and through it, humans discover something that can't be expressed any other way.

  • It's new every time, BUT recently, I've enjoyed working out a killer melody and lyric over a sparse but vibey keys / bass track, BEFORE drums are added. If it stands alone in the sketch, it'll hit next level when the production is fully formed. If I'm just mixing, I start with drums and bass, then vocals, then everything else. If your low end and your vocals sit right, the rest is easy.

  • My work falls into two "types": 1) I receive a session with a bare-bones song idea, that I then flesh out into a fully realized production in collaboration with an artist (arranging, performing, recording, nailing a "sound" or vibe, tracking vocals, and generally mixing and/or mastering) 2) An artist and I start a song from scratch, maybe using one of my instrumentals as a song starter, and from there go through the same path listed above.