After years of learning to produce music on my own, I enrolled in Trebas Institute’s Production and Recording Techniques program. I graduated at the top of my class and landed an internship at one of Canada’s longest running commercial recording studios, Phase One. I met and learned from the best in the industry during my time there. After a 9-month internship, I heard that another premier recording studio, Mushroom Studios, had moved from Vancouver to Toronto. I contacted Mushroom to inquire about job opportunities and, as luck would have it, they had just had a staff engineer leave and had a booking for an upcoming Toronto act to record a full album. I spent a few days with Mushroom’s owner and, right before the session started, I was offered a job as a staff engineer. That album, “Warring” by The Dacrys, went on to be nominated for Alternative Album of the Year at the Junos, but ultimately lost to The Arcade Fire.