As far as I remember, my entire childhood was filled with 60s and 70s pop/rock music (The Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who ...) but also by Gershwin and Bernstein. I started classic guitar about 6, four years later I discovered the electric guitar and that is when I realized I identified more in heavier music   
(Led Zepelin, Deep Purple, Aerosmith ...).

In 1992, at the age of 13, I started playing in bands and discovering new ones, ones that made me let my hair grow long....:
Metallica and the black album (especially the video of them in studio) was a major turning point in my life, I finally saw what it was like to be a band in studio with a producer and soundman, and from that day on I knew I would be in music....

After highschool I entered ISTS where I started using recording material but I soon understood I would have to be in a real studio to learn the job so I spent most of my time in one of my teacher's (Hervé Baudier) studio which is where I met the band Deportivo for demos, and ended up recording, mixing and producing their first album at the Black Box studio.

In 2000, I was hired as an assistant at the Studio de la Seine and assited Marcus Bell (Opposition, Saez..), a british producer, for almost two years. Then I started working (and still am) for Freddy Lamotte (manager of FLAM, a sound engineer agency) and Philippe Eidel (Khaled....) at the studio CALM. It is in this studio that I experimented acoustics with many world music projects that need warmth (Gerad Toto, Fania, Toto Lokua Bona, Akim El Sikamaya..).

But my field of preference goes from rock (Rhesus, Deportivo, No One Is Innocent...) to more extreme styles such as neo-punk (80 Blast), hardcore or metal (Destruction Inc...).

As a finishing note, I just want to share with you a list of albums and producers that gave made me want to do what I do :

"Metallica" de Metallica (le black album) par Bob Rock
"In Utero" de Nirvana par Steve Albini
"Abbey Road" des Beatles Par George Martin
"Led Zeppelin 3" de Led Zeppelin par Jimmy Page
"Burn My Eyes" de Machine Head par Colin Richardson
"Vitalogy" de Pearl Jam par Brendan O'Brian

Arnaud.