Hi. I’m Nick.

I’m an audio engineer and composer currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Since moving to New York City in 2010, I’ve been lucky enough to find a home in the city’s rich DIY music community, both as a live engineer at venues like Shea Stadium and as a musician with Continental Shelf, For Everest, and way too many other bands. Currently, I work at The New York Times, where I maintain our recording studio infrastructure in addition to other engineering duties.

In addition to my work in music, I have a deep passion for audio as a storytelling medium, bringing my skillset to podcast projects as an engineer, producer, and sound designer. I mixed, scored, and provided sound design for the storytelling miniseries hail mary digital! and and have previously collaborated with Condé Nast Traveler, The New Yorker, Digiday Media, Queens District Representative Derek Evers, and The Adventures of Wonder on narrative audio projects.

In my relatively short time working in the arts, I’m continually awe-inspired by the fearlessness and vulnerability that goes into the creative process. As an engineer, I see my role as making sure that fearlessness can be captured comfortably, unobtrusively, and always with the artist’s intent in mind.

I received my BM and MM in Music Technology from NYU in 2015, with a focus on studio engineering and thesis based on the development of AnchorAlign, a Max for Live plugin using phase analysis to determine ideal microphone placement in less-than-ideal environments. In my spare time, I like photography and my cat, Wednesday.

 Engineering Portfolio

Recording/Mixing:

Mastering:

Podcasting

From 2019 through early 2020, I produced, edited, and mixed the podcast Nothing Urgent, hosted by Ridgewood/Long Island City assembly district leader Derek Evers with Edwina Hay and featuring guests such as Open Mike Eagle (Comedy Central, Mello Music Group), Jeff Rosenstock (Polyvinyl Records), Downtown Boys (Sub Pop), David J. Roth (Defector, Deadspin), and more.

Previously, I mixed and provided sound design for The Adventures of Wonder!, an audio drama miniseries featured as an iTunes ‘New and Noteworthy’ podcast upon release. Before that, I produced and assembled episodes of Digiday’s Co-Produced podcast and edited tape for the programs HVAC School, Dialed In, and Career Cafe, produced and hosted by Bryan Orr.

Composition & Production

As a composer and sound designer, I love opportunities to help bring projects to life with unique original themes, tones, and other sounds. From 2016 through 2019 I served as the lead composer on Lucera Lab’s Wake alarm clock and sleep timer and continue to provide original scoring and production to podcast and multimedia projects under the name Chronofile.
At the end of 2020, I produced some over-the-top They Might Be Giants covers under the name ‘200 Johns’ as a fundraiser for the Okra Project.

Let’s work together.

I firmly believe that there’s no such thing as a project too big or small to take on. If you have an album, track, or podcast that you’re working to get off the ground, please contact me through the form below with a few words about what you’re working on and we can figure out a plan to make your project come to life.

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