Sound Design & Synthesis

Craft unique sounds using synthesis, sampling, and FX to build a personal sonic identity.

Tony Virga

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Tony Virga is a Los Angeles-based music producer/DJ, originally from New York. After a decade of exploring music on his own, he moved to LA to attend Icon Collective and launch his artist project Haven Theory—a high-energy blend of bass music shaped by rock, funk, and early dubstep/brostep influences.Tony’s creative process is rooted in experimentation and constant refinement. Whether he’s riffing on guitar ideas, tracking vocals, or building entire worlds inside Serum 2, he’s always learning and pushing his sound forward. His music ranges from cinematic and epic to unapologetically danceable—designed to hit hard, move crowds, and tell a story.If you’re looking to level up your sound design, get unstuck on unfinished ideas, or find your voice in electronic music, Tony brings a mix of technical insight, warmth, and real-world experience to every mentoring session.

Matt Nauss

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Matt Nauss is an LA-based music producer originally from the Midwest, with over 17 years of production experience and a BA in Music Composition from Columbia College Chicago. He specializes in sound design, synthesis, ear training, mixing, and composition, and has worked across a wide range of genres – from dubstep, house, and techno to metal, classical, and pop. His music has been played at major festivals including EDC, Forbidden Kingdom, and Lost Lands.Matt spent seven years teaching at Icon Collective College of Music in Burbank, CA, where he led classes in Synthesis, Ear Training, and Ableton, as well as music business courses like Sync & Licensing and Music for Visual Media. Since relocating to LA in 2015, he has produced music for television and commercials for clients like Pepsi, Samsung, and Miller Lite, and contributed sound design and audio engineering to video games, short films, and feature films.Matt’s primary artistic focus is dubstep and other bass music genres. Whether you’re looking for guidance in sound design, finishing songs, songwriting, mixing, or developing a distinct sound in bass music, Matt brings deep expertise and a practical, creative approach to every session.

Jasper Reeder

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Mixing engineer and sound designer Jasper Reeder offers mentorship tailored to your needs. Specializing in out of the box approaches, he’s got a bag of tricks to take your songs from commonplace to extraordinary as well as get you out of writer’s blockage.

Paul Laski

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Blending sounds from house, minimal, techno, garage, jungle, drum & bass, and beyond, Paul’s music takes on a style of its own. With releases on such labels as Moody Recordings, Deeplife Records, Krafted Underground, DTLA, Groovebirds Records, Crowd Records, Interscope Records, Mise en Place, 303AD Records, Abe Duque Records, as well as his own imprint, Electric Dangerous Records, P-LASK shows no sign of slowing down.His sound design work can be heard in the factory preset bank of XFER Records Serum and Serum 2 software synthesizer, as well as various sample and preset packs for Sample Magic, Splice, Arturia, and Sonic Academy.When he’s not busy in the studio, P-LASK offers instructional sessions and workshops on computer music production, sound design, and mixing.

Michael Diasio

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Michael “Gigantor” Diasio is a producer, engineer, DJ, and sound-designer based in the United States. He is one-third of the drum and bass group Evol Intent, and releases music solo under the name Gigantor (and previously Computer Club). Alongside Le Castle Vania he co-owns Sonic Armory, a company that publishes sample packs and preset libraries, and he also takes on mixing and mastering work for various artists. Gigantor’s sound-design credits also include creating wavetables and factory presets for software instruments such as Xfer Records’ Serum and Universal Audio’s Opal—both recipients of TEC Awards.

John Kammerer

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John is a LA-based producer, sound designer, and audio engineer. Working under the moniker Hello Ego, he produces textural and bouncy bass and house music. John started his musical journey on the French horn at 8 years old, and began exploring electronic music by making beats at 20. He started working professionally as a sound designer and audio engineer in 2014, leading him to two national tours in 2015 and 2016 with the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps. In 2015 John founded Marching Soundscapes, and has since been in high demand nationwide as a sound designer for the marching arts. In 2018 John co-founded Bleeps+Loops, a music production house based in Seattle, WA which focuses on online and in-person producer education, sound design services, and event planning.

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