Since Kyle was a young child, music has been an inspiration and passion to him. Introduced to music by his parents, his mother had a piano in their home and his father played the banjo and guitar. When he got a guitar for his eighth birthday, he knew then and there that he was going to dedicate his life to music. Growing up in the late 80′s and early 90′s as part of the MTV generation, he fell in love with playing the guitar, listening to music, and imitating his heroes. Playing the guitar opened his interest into the technology of it all and he set his mind to learn the finer points of “fiddling with the knobs.”
As a teenager, Kyle started acquiring recording gear and building a small home studio. He started off with mostly guitar and bass amplifiers along with some effects pedals and an old Tascam cassette 4 track. He started experimenting and overdubbing guitar and bass parts, recording his own vocals using guitar pedals for effects and began programming and sequencing drums. This was his first step into producing music and making beats. He started his first band at the age of 17 in the suburbs of Detroit and has played in many bands through the years. At the age of 23, he entered the world of club and mobile DJing and MCing and performed 6 or 7 nights a week.
Through his work as a DJ, he found himself immersed in all different kinds of music and became very familiar with popular music and arrangement. He was quickly promoted to an equipment manager and technician and was now responsible for many club sound and lightning installations and maintenance of all the P.A and DJ equipment for the company.
It was around this time that Kyle decided to get further into music production and audio engineering. He began a program at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan and graduated with a certificate in Music Production and Sound Engineering. In July 2007, he moved to the Arizona to attend The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences in Tempe, AZ. There he was dedicated to learning all he could about the recording business. In his second week at CRAS, he started his internship at The Saltmine. Between school, his Saltmine internship and DJing, he soon understood more than ever that music is his life. Kyle graduated at the top of his class in June of 2008.
Kyle essentially did 2 full internships at The Saltmine, working all through school and then continuing as an intern after he finished school to earn his required hours for graduation. After more than a year of internship, he engineered his first session at The Saltmine in the Fall of 2008 with remarkable success for someone so “green” and since then has engineered sessions for many local artists, while continuing his DJ and tech support gigs around the Phoenix area.