“Tim FaceTimed me, saying, ‘I’m doing this cover and there’s a part I can’t get right. I think you would do great with it’”: Polyphia’s Tim Henson called him his favorite new guitar player. But RJ Pasin considers himself a producer more than a guitarist

RJ Pasin has 2.3 million TikTok followers and over 3 million Spotify monthly listeners. He’s heard on from Bring Me The Horizon’s latest album .

His recent single/loop, , earned a Top 20 debut on the Billboard TikTok chart, with over 43 million video views, 20 million streams, and featured everywhere from Sony PlayStation to sports website Bleacher Report. It was followed by a 2.0 remix featuring WesGhost.

The breaking news about Pasin – an accomplished guitarist, producer, songwriter, loop maker and arranger, with equal parts talent, business savvy and drive – is that . In fact, Henson went as far as to call Pasin his favorite new guitar player. “The dude is so cracked, it’s insane,” he said.

“At sound design, he just comes up with the most insane sounds you’ve ever heard.” The pair first worked together in late 2023. “I’ve admired Tim’s guitar playing for a long time, and working on something together was surreal,” Pasin says.

“He pushed me to step outside of my own creative process and focus on creating full pieces rather than the loop-based stuff I’ve been doing. It helped me set higher standards for how deep I can go musically in creating something that people can feel, rather than just quickly react to.” Pasin grew up in West Nyack, New York, with music in his DNA – his jazz trumpeter father Chris worked with Buddy Rich, Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles.

From ages five to 12, before taking up guitar, Pasin studied piano. “I was able to.