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About your Engineers 

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Realistic
Producer/Engineer 

Located in Atlanta, GA specializing in Hip-Hop, R&B & Pop music. 

​Realistic has a proficient skill set in Pro Tools. He’s very fluid while tracking & recording artists without any delays between takes.
Real builds a great rapport with artists, but specializes in working with women artists & musicians.

Realistic has been involved in the music industry for over 15 years. He has worked on projects for Pharaoh, Offset, Rick Ross, Future, Wale, Nicki Minaj, Tory Lanez, The Game, Don Toliver, Method Man, Talib Kweli, Just Blaze, Musiq Soulchild, Pharoahe Monch, NBA 2k, DC Films, CBS, CW, Fox Sports, CBS Sports, MLB, NCAA Football, March Madness, Skyzoo, BJ The Chicago Kid, Madlib, Hamburger Helper, & more.

​Amond "AJ" Jackson
(AJ on the buttons)
Mixing/Recording Engineer

Mixing Engineer, Educator, Public Speaker, Studio Designer, Producer, Executive Producer.

Credits: Aaliyah, Future, Young Thug, Rick Ross, 2 Chainz, Quavo, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Westside Gunn, Conway the Machine, Musiq Soulchild. 

#AJontheButtons is the founder of Salem Psalms, and is most well known for his excellence in recording, mixing, and mastering audio for music and film, as well as his professional studio designs and acoustic solutions. Salem Psalms has hosted many noteworthy and Grammy Award-winning artists and producers through the years.

AJ is an accomplished educator, offering his flagship class, Sound Essentials, as well as other audio related classes both virtually and in person.

​AJ is well-known for his ability to comprehend the technical complexities of sound and his ability to distill these complexities into easily understood information for his students and clients. This ability is what draws producers, artists, songwriters, filmmakers and engineers across multiple disciplines and genres to trust him with their ideas. It has also led to multiple awards for sound design in independent films, attracted chart-topping artists to his studio, and created a space for students of all levels to learn about much more than just music.

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Pharaoh
​Songwriter/ Vocal Producer/ Artist/ Engineer

From the ground up, Pharaoh has cultivated his world around him. 26 year old Minneapolis raised Pharaoh, a founder of the creative collective Sota Gang, continues to use pain & joy to paint pictures in his music.

In 2009, when he was just 13, he started crafting songs to combat the bullying he went through and from there it became electric. At 14, Pharaoh enrolled at an arts high school in Hopkins, MN and eventually went on to pursue his BA In Music Production at McNally Smith in 2014 where he met his producer Realistic Productions. Despite the significant pressure from the life around him, he cultivated Sota Gang (Going After New Goals) and began a journey that continues to only bring him & his team further.

​In 2018, Pharaoh released four EP’s produced entirely by Realistic Productions and himself. On November 22nd 2019 Pharaoh released his album "Free Anxiety", an artistic take on the life of an artist and socialite dealing with clinical anxiety. Since then, Pharaoh has taken his fans on the ride of a lifetime by moving to Oahu, Hawai'i, and then Atlanta (residing with Realistic) to unlock the universe and put it into song. His latest album "Headliner, Vol. 2 was released in March of 2022. The sky isn't the limit, it's just the beginning.

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Studio Gear
Microphones
  • WA-8000 (Sony c800g Clone)
  • WA-47 (Neumann U47 Clone)
  • WA-87 (Neumann U87 Clone)
  • WA-47jr
  • Slate Digital VMS ML-1 Modeling Mic
  • (2) Shure SM7b
  • Shure SM58
  • Beyerdynamic MC 834
​Preamps
  • UA LA610
  • (2) Focusrite ISA One
  • WA273 (Neve 1073 Clone)
  • UA Apollo Unison
Studio Monitors
  • (2) Focal Twins
  • Avantone Mixcubes
  • Mackie HR624
  • Event Opals
  • PreSonus Eris E8
Compressors
  • UA 1176
  • DBX 166
  • WA VCA Bus Comp (SSL Comp Clone)
  • (2) DBX 266XL
EQ
  • WA273 (Neve 1073 Clone)
  • Focusrite ISA 220
  • DOD R-430
Mix Bus
  • Neve 5057 Orbit
  • Burl B32 Vancouver
Special Processing
  • Lexicon MPX 550 Reverb
  • Yamaha SPX 90 Delay
Samplers
  • Akai SO 1
Special Processing
  • Lexicon MPX 550 Reverb
  • Yamaha SPX 90 Delay
Midi Devices
  • Maschine MKII
  • Maschine Micro MK1
  • Maschine MKIII
  • ​Komplete Kontrol
  • Nectar Panorama P6 (77 Keys)
  • Nectar Impact LX25 (25 Keys)
  • Akai MPK Mini (25 Keys)
  • Alesis V49 (49 Keys)
DAW’s
  • Pro Tools 2022
  • Ableton 10 Standard
  • Logic Pro X 10.7
  • FL 20
  • Reason 11
  • UA Luna
  • Maschine 2
Turntables
  • (2) Technics 1200MK2a
Converters
  • UA Apollo x6
  • UA Apollo x4
  • UA Apollo Twin
Video Software
  • Final Cut Pro 10.6
  • Motion
Virtual Instruments
  • Omnisphere
  • Arcade
  • Kontakt
  • Maschine
  • Replika
  • Massive
  • Battery 4
  • FM8
  • iZotope Iris
  • Output Signal
  • Output Rev
  • Output Strings
  • Output Exhale
  • 40's Very Own
  • Alicia’s Keys
  • Studio Link OVO
  • Studio Link Radio
  • Creepy Piano
  • Octave
  • Scorch
  • ​Heat Up
  • Xpand! 2
Plugins
  • Sound Toys Full Bundle
  • FabFilter Full Bundle
  • Auto-Tune Pro
  • Auto-Tune Unlimited
  • ​Auto-Tune Realtime Advanced
  • UAD Full Bundle
  • iZotope Neutron 3 & 4 Advanced
  • iZotope Ozone 9 Advanced
  • iZotope RX 9
  • iZotope Neoverb
  • iZotope Nectar 3
  • iZotope Neoverb
  • iZotope Vocal Synth 2
  • Soothe 2
  • Waves Mercury
  • Revoice Pro 4 (Advanced version of Auto-Align)
  • Melodyne 5
  • DJ Swivel Full Bundle
  • Valhalla DSP
  • OTT
  • Drip
  • TR5 Classic Clipper
  • Reason Rack
  • Output Movement
  • Output Portal
  • Auto-Align
  • The God Particle
  • Slate Trigger
  • Avid Stock Plugins
  • Air Music Bundle