About/Credits
The Man behind the Machine
Our founder and principal engineer, JL “Pepe” Espada, has been a musician for over 45 years and has played on touring bands and bar bands, has been a studio hand, and ultimately a studio owner, operator, and music producer. Pepe cut his teeth as part of the Dischord punk rock record label in the Wahington DC area, where he learned to value of the DIY approach and the importance of a collaborative process to music making. He went on to study Songwriting and Music Production at Berklee School of Music, completed the Mastering Accelerator mastering program, making him a bonafide Mastering Engineer, and is a member of the MixHaus audio engineer's workshop community. As founder of the independent label Boneyard Records, Pepe is also the in-house producer for most of the label acts. His method as a music producer follows the model of project management. The service includes pre-production (planning, scheduling, and budgeting), production (tracking), and post-production (mixing and mastering), but at the artist’s discretion, he can also provide creative input. As an accomplished songwriter, Pepe can not only contribute instrumentally to his client’s recordings (guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals), but he can also assist in the song’s concept development, arrangement, and lyrics writing. At Boneyard Sound we believe in being more than your service provider, we are your partner!
To hear samples of Pepe’s work as a producer you can visit the Boneyard Records music page.
To see feedback on Pepe’s production services please visit Soundbetter.
