You had worked with Neil Kernon on the "Zero Order Phase" album but on "Plains Of Oblivion" you brought in Aaron Smith to produce. Were you looking to approach the music with a new set of ears?
Neil Kernon is obviously a much more seasoned producer. He's been around for a very long time and his roster of bands is incredible with people and bands he's worked with. He's worked with Judas Priest, Queen, Dokken and all these bands that have had a huge impact on guitar and stuff like that. I was just kinda looking for somebody new and I became friends with Aaron because he literally lives right down the street from me. He was coming over and helping me a lot with ProTools sessions because I was kind of new to ProTools and I'm more of an old school guy too sometimes. I was just using a little Tascam 8-track digital recorder and he was like, "Dude, you gotta move up in the world." I ended up purchasing all this studio stuff and he was coming over and helping me with sessions and I'm like listening back to some of the stuff he helped me with and it sounded fantastic. So I'm like, "Would you like to produce my record?" and it was as simple as that. He just said yes and did a great job. He's just a young kid you know what I'm saying? He's done probably five or six projects or something like that but he’s very talented and has a great ear and just a great guy to work with. Very patient and had a lot of great input and ideas as well for the record so I would definitely work with the guy again.
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