It was an honor to use my skills to be a part of support for the victims of the senseless attack in Paris, sending a message of love in response to one of hatred.

If you're an artist or band, to make sure your songs sound the best they can, be sure to work with someone who is approved as an engineer by Apple in order to create MFiT albums. After a year of hard work, I was approved based on my previous work, understanding of how the process works, and knowledge of Apple’s standards.

I'm grateful for the opportunity to help master this mixture of cool synthpop and vibey alternative rock, which ended up in the top 50 of billboard and top 10 as a heat-seeker album for billboard.

I think the success of Kari Jobe's Majestic: Revisited has something to teach us. Don’t allow your sound to be confined by the established limits of creativity within a genre. If you feel an urge to do something different, do it. Artistry consists in more than a reiteration of the same.

This year, the past members of Haste the Day came together and put out what is undeniably some of the best hard rock and metal-core of the year. The LP, which I had the honor of mastering, reached number one in iTunes in Metal and made it into the top 50 of billboard.

This year I was blessed to master The Groove, an EP by Monster Florence, which climbed to number five in Hip-Hop on iTunes and made waves with other large artists (Gold Panda and Foreign Beggars).