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RSR508 - Ben Sabin - Rick Rubin's Shangri-La Studio & Trace Audio

30 maj 2025 | 129 min

In this episode, Lij Shaw chats with Ben Sabin, founder of Trace Audio, about his journey from Shangri-La Studio with Rick Rubin to wiring up some of the best studios in the biz. They dive deep into the mystical world of cables, the magic of patch bays, and why good studio wiring is like rock ‘n’ roll feng shui — get it right, and everything just flows! Ben shares cool stories from his intern days, working with legends like Neil Young, and the hard-earned lessons of studio troubleshooting. They break down balanced vs. unbalanced audio, why your patch bay might be sabotaging your creativity, and how to future-proof your studio setup. Plus, if you’ve ever wondered how to avoid a spaghetti mess of cables, this episode is for you!

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My guest today is Ben Sabin. He got his start at Shangri-La with Rick Rubin, where he saw top artists and engineers work at the highest level. He then split time between Shangri-La and Groove Masters, helping rewire tie lines, patchbays, and converters—sparking his passion for cabling and studio workflow. He also worked alongside legendary studio tech Pat Schneider on servicing and repairs.

In 2018, he helped LA producer Colin Cunningham set up patchbays and streamline his growing outboard gear collection. He then worked in live sound, gaining hands-on troubleshooting experience. In 2019, he founded Trace Audio, focusing on CAPI gear and custom cabling, relocating to Nashville, where it’s now a full-time business serving top industry clients.

Ben also rewired my studio, The Toy Box Studio, and I quickly saw how much we could learn from him—so I had to invite him on the podcast to talk about creatin the best setup for your studio. In fact, you’re hearing our voices right now through Trace Audio cables!

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RSR507 - Adam Krinsky - Balancing Studio and FOH at Bellows Studio in St Paul MN

23 maj 2025 | 133 min

RSR506 - Tim Lauer - Synth Pop, Rock Strings, and AI (Cheap Trick, Smashing Pumpkins, Nashville)

16 maj 2025 | 142 min

"AI will never touch live musicians." Tim Lauer shares his journey working on a variety of albums and TV shows, highlighting how feedback from music supervisors shapes the final sound. He talks about his innovative use of reverb, effects, guitar pedals, and real-time processing to enhance recordings, emphasizing the collaborative nature of music creation. Tim also dives into how sampling and synthesizers are essential tools in modern music production, and discusses the intricate art of arrangement and orchestration, especially the roles musicians play in the studio. He explores the evolving landscape of music with AI and the future of live performances, all while stressing the importance of personal fulfillment and joy in making music.

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My guest today is Tim Lauer, a versatile musician, producer, and arranger. He has played on albums by Taylor Swift, The Civil Wars, Cheap Trick, Joan Baez, and more, and arranged strings for Dolly Parton, Smashing Pumpkins, and Shawn Mendes. Tim has produced cast recordings for shows like Nashville, Greenleaf, Big Sky, and Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. Recently, he worked on Amazon’s The Bondsman, Sony’s Patsy and Loretta, and Netflix’s Country Comfort.

He’s also part of the dream pop band Bien, with millions of streams and 1.5 million monthly listeners, and serves as musical director for NPR’s No Small Endeavor. Tim first joined us on RSR172.

Thank you to Glenn Rosenstein and Loren Francis for the introduction!

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RSR505 - Chuck Zwicky - AI and Philosophy of Recording Music

9 maj 2025 | 112 min

RSR504 - Bill Podolak - Q&A with iZotope

2 maj 2025 | 155 min

RSR503 - Alan Douches - Mastering Atmos and Blockchain for Indie Artists

25 april 2025 | 130 min

"Artists should be in control of their destiny." Renowned mastering engineer Alan Douches discussed his extensive experience at West Westside Music, offering insights into the significance of immersive audio formats like Atmos and their creative potential for artists. He addressed challenges in archiving both analog and digital formats, the transformative potential of blockchain technology, and how Web3 can help indie musicians monetize their work. Additionally, he explored the role of NFTs, AI, and the importance of community in supporting artists' journeys.

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My guest today is Alan Douches, a mastering engineer, CEO, and founder of West West Side Music with over 15,000 mastering credits. Alan has worked with a stunning roster of artists, including Sufjan Stevens, Converge, Mastodon, Chelsea Wolfe, Lucy Dacus, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, The Dillinger Escape Plan, LCD Soundsystem, and many more.

He’s been instrumental in defining the sound of independent music, always championing DIY artists, and is now leading the way in bringing ATMOS production and mastering to indie music. Alan is also exploring the cutting edge of blockchain technology with his Web3 startup.

This is Alan’s second appearance on the podcast—he was previously on episode RSR092. Thanks to Jesse Cannon for our original introduction!

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RSR502 - Craig Alvin - Recording in Muscle Shoals

18 april 2025 | 110 min

"I've never once used MIDI." Craig talked about the evolution of audio engineering, the transition to video podcasting, and the rich musical history of Muscle Shoals. Craig shares insights about his Grammy-winning work and the unique characteristics of his studio, Noble Steed, the unique UA console he acquired, and his current projects, including mixing for country artist Anna Voss. He touches on the evolving sound of country music, highlighting a shift towards more pop and psychedelic influences, and the technical challenges faced in audio engineering.

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My guest today is Craig Alvin, an award-winning audio engineer based in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Over 30 years, Craig has worked with many artists, including Hanson, Little Big Town, Amy Grant, Vanessa Carlton, Will Hoge, Andrew Belle, Brittany Howard, and many others. He won two Grammys for his engineering on Kacey Musgraves‘ Golden Hour album in 2019 and has contributed to Musgraves’ follow-up albums Star-Crossed and nominated for a Grammy this year for best engineered non-classical for Deeper Well.

Craig's work has earned him a stellar reputation for his ability to capture compelling sounds live in the studio and his sonic aptitude as a mix engineer. He has also been a guest on the show on episodes RSR029 and RSR232.

We also created a free video to show you his ultimate snare-mixing trick, which you can find in the show notes at UltimateMixingMasterclass.com. This helped my mixes tremendously, and we hope it can help yours, too! So please check it out.

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RSR501 - Colt Capperrune - Redesigning a Studio: The Atmos Experience

11 april 2025 | 132 min

"Atmos mixes are crushing my stereo mixes!" Colt talked about upgrading his mixing studio to Atmos, DIY construction, studio ergonomics, mixing on headphones, huge snare sounds, growing a Youtube channel, and why the new Mac Mini is right for you.

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My guest today is Colt Capperrune, a producer, mix engineer, and mastering engineer with 21 years of experience in the music industry. Colt is also a talented session guitarist, and passionate advocate for artist development. In recent years, he’s gained recognition as a social media influencer, sharing invaluable insights and tutorials through his popular YouTube channel.

Colt produced his first record at 19 and has since achieved Top 40 on Billboard, multiple #1s on iTunes and Amazon charts, and has worked with countless artists to turn raw ideas into polished, professional productions. His expertise extends to Dolby Atmos mixing, and he’s recently built a state-of-the-art Atmos-equipped studio to deliver immersive audio experiences, taking his productions to the next level.

Beyond the studio, Colt is committed to empowering artists, often showcasing his process of transforming simple worktapes into chart-worthy productions on his website and YouTube.

You can hear Colt’s previous interview and backstory at RSR209.

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RSR500 - David Glasser - Mastering Grateful Dead at Airshow Mastering in Boulder CO

4 april 2025 | 125 min

Join host Lij Shaw as he dives into the sonic journey of audio engineering with Dave Glasser, founder of Airshow Mastering, revealing the secrets behind mastering timeless records like those of the Grateful Dead. In this episode of Recording Studio Rockstars, Dave shares his rich 35-year experience—from tape transfers using the Plangent Process to his days at NPR—while exploring the delicate balance of preserving the essence of live music and adapting to modern audio standards. Tune in for insights on the intricacies of mastering jazz records, the evolution of sound quality, and the magic of Phil Lesh's iconic bass. Whether you’re a seasoned engineer or just starting out, Dave's passion and curiosity will inspire you to elevate your own audio projects.

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My guest today is David Glasser, founder and chief engineer at Airshow Mastering.

David has over 35 years of experience in audio engineering and has mastered thousands of records, including more than 80 GRAMMY nominees. He’s a three-time nominee himself, earning two Grammys for mastering and restoration work on the Anthology of American Folk Music and Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton.

David’s career began with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, followed by eight years of recording and production for NPR. He founded Airshow in 1983 and transitioned to full-time mastering in 1990. In 1997, he expanded to Boulder, Colorado, and later built a new state-of-the-art facility in 2016, where he continues to lead a busy mastering practice.

Special thanks to Matt Boudreau for the introduction! And this episode is dedicated to the memory of Phil Lesh.

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RSR499 - Shawn Lemon - Organize Your Digital Life and Studio

28 mars 2025 | 139 min

"Keep it as simple as possible!" Join Lij Shaw and Shawn Lemon as they dive into the intricacies of mastering technology in the recording studio, sharing expert insights on streamlining workflows and maximizing productivity. From organizing files and navigating cloud storage solutions like Google Drive to leveraging email management techniques, this conversation is packed with essential tips for creative professionals. Discover the best practices for collaboration, the significance of effective systems, and how to adapt tech tools to fit your unique style. Tune in for a dynamic discussion that not only simplifies the tech chaos but also empowers you to elevate your music production game!

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My guest today is Shawn Lemon, founder of The Digital Organizer, which helps individuals and businesses master their technology. A teacher at heart, Shawn has seen that the biggest reason people struggle with tech is a lack of understanding—something that’s easy to fall into with constantly evolving tools. Shawn and I go way back! We met ten years ago when I joined my first mastermind group. Every Monday morning, four of us gathered for breakfast to brainstorm and tackle each other’s new online business challenges. Since then, I’ve spent a decade hosting this podcast, while Shawn has grown his Digital Organizer business, allowing him to travel with his family and help clients organize their businesses.

So, what does this have to do with making records, you might ask? Well, just as we focus on creating great records in the studio, Shawn can help us focus on how to organize our document records, streamline studio workflows, and discover new ways to stay organized in our music-making process.

A special thank you to John Meese for making our original introduction.

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RSR498 - Jamie Tate - Leaving Corporate Country for Cool Music

21 mars 2025 | 131 min

"I mix in exclamation points!" Join host Lij Shaw as he dives into a vibrant conversation with Grammy and Emmy award-winning engineer Jamie Tate in this episode of Recording Studio Rockstars! With insights from his journey as the owner of The Rukkus Room in Nashville, Jamie offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the evolving landscape of country music and the artistry of mixing. They navigate the playful intersection of analog nostalgia and digital dynamism, sharing personal anecdotes and invaluable tips for home recording enthusiasts. With Jamie’s passion and expertise, you'll discover not only the emotional depth of music production but also the pioneering spirit of independent artists. Tune in for a sound adventure that’s sure to inspire your own creative journey!

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My guest today is Jamie Tate, a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning recording engineer, mixer, producer, and the owner of The Rukkus Room in Nashville, TN. Jamie’s career in the studio world began as an intern at The Sanctuary Recording Studios, where he worked his way up to chief engineer. After The Sanctuary sold, Jamie honed his craft while working around the clock at Abtrax Recording Studios. By 2004, with 18 months of clients already booked, he took the leap and founded The Rukkus Room, which has since become one of Nashville’s most iconic recording spaces.

The Rukkus Room was designed by Gene Lawson of Lawson Microphones and is one of the last remaining purpose-built recording studios in Nashville. Spanning 8,000 square feet across two separate buildings, it offers unparalleled isolation for recording. Shortly after opening, Jamie recorded Jack Ingram’s #1 single “Wherever You Are” and several other top-five hits, cementing the studio’s reputation as a go-to destination for legendary and up-and-coming artists alike.

Jamie has mixed and recorded music for a stunning array of artists, including Thomas Rhett, Taylor Swift, Dustin Lynch, Jerrod Niemann, Maddie & Tae, Alan Jackson, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, Miranda Lambert, John Prine, Rhett Akins, Sheryl Crow, Brooks and Dunn, and many more. His work has been featured on platinum-selling records, chart-topping singles, and critically acclaimed projects across genres.

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RSR497 - Steve Pardo - Jazz, Music for Games and Atmos Mixing

14 mars 2025 | 122 min

"Get the main menu music worked out!" In this captivating episode of Recording Studio Rockstars, host Lij Shaw sits down with the talented music director and game audio specialist, Steve Pardo. They dive into Steve's journey from jazz musician to game composer, sharing his insights on the creative process and collaboration in the industry. Steve passionately discusses how to get the main menu music just right, the magic of mixing in Dolby Atmos for gaming, and why the saxophone shines with guitar pedals. From Unreal Engine to Apple Logic Pro X, he offers tips on creating huge sounds in a small studio, all while highlighting the significance of live instruments in modern production. Don’t miss this lively conversation that blends nostalgia with cutting-edge techniques, and get inspired to embrace the future of music and gaming!

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My guest today is Steve Pardo, a music director, and game audio specialist with over 15 years of experience crafting immersive music and sound for award-winning games and globally recognized franchises. Steve is the co-founder of SkewSound, Composer and Music Manager at ProbablyMonsters, and an active performing artist based in Nashville, TN.

Steve’s career began at the legendary Harmonix Music Systems, where he worked on iconic titles like Rock Band VR, Dance Central, and Fantasia: Music Evolved. He has since contributed to games such as Fortnite Festival, Cypher 007, Moonbreaker, and Signs of the Sojourner. His music also appears on platforms like Netflix, Adult Swim, and IFC, and he’s collaborated on cutting-edge projects involving generative and AI-driven music for companies like Mastercard, Warner Music, and Tribeca Film Festival.

A graduate of the University of Miami, Steve earned both a bachelor’s degree in Studio Music and Jazz and a master’s degree in Studio Jazz Writing, grounding his creative work in a rich foundation of jazz and orchestration.

Steve’s Nashville studio is equipped with a 7.1.4 Atmos system, boutique microphones, synthesizers, and more, allowing him to create very cool music in a cozy setting.

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RSR496 - Charlie Waymire - Getting the Ultimate Drum Sound at Ultimate Studios Inc

7 mars 2025 | 147 min

Wanna get a big fat snare drum sound? In this dynamic episode of Recording Studio Rockstars, host Lij Shaw interviews music producer and engineer Charlie Waymire, the visionary behind Ultimate Studios Inc. From his roots as a drummer to mastering studio workflow in Los Angeles, Charlie shares his journey and the challenges he’s faced. They delve into achieving that big fat snare drum sound, the intricacies of selecting Roswell Pro Audio mics, and the importance of collaborating with clients in the studio. Charlie emphasizes the value of experimentation and understanding gear, all while rediscovering his passion for music creation. This episode is a treasure trove of insights for both aspiring musicians and seasoned engineers alike!

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My guest today is Charlie Waymire, a music producer, recording engineer, and mixing engineer based in Los Angeles with a career that began behind the drum kit. As a drummer and musician, Charlie developed a passion for capturing the essence of sound, gradually transitioning into the world of audio production. His journey led him to establish Ultimate Studios, Inc., a place where he records, produces, and mixes music for artists across different genres.

Charlie's hands-on experience as a musician guides him as a producer and engineer, understanding the creative process from an artist’s perspective. This allows him to capture authentic performances and help guide artists in crafting their best work. As a career drummer, Charlie wanted Ultimate Studios, Inc. to have a great sounding and affordable drum room where he has had the pleasure of working with some of the best drummers in the world, including Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Ray Luzier (Korn), Oscar Seaton (Lionel Ritchie) and Steven Wolf (Dr Luke/Alicia Keys) to name a few.

With a focus on sonic quality and artistic collaboration, Charlie has built his reputation as a trusted partner for artists seeking professional recording and production services. His dedication to both the technical and creative sides of music production has made him sought-after in the Los Angeles music scene, committed to helping artists achieve their full potential.

But, he says, the real star of his studio is his dog, Delilah. She actually runs the show, and Charlie mainly makes coffee. :)

Special thanks to Matt McGlynn at Roswell Pro Audio for making our introduction.

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RSR495 - Brian Murphree - Soundporter Mastering Studio

28 februari 2025 | 144 min

"It's all about the spirit, man." In this electrifying episode of Recording Studio Rockstars, host Lij Shaw reunites with the ingenious Brian Murphree, the mastermind behind Sound Porter Mastering. Together, they traverse Brian's remarkable journey from passionate musician to a celebrated mastering engineer, illuminating the vital role of sonic excellence in music production. Their conversation uncovers the fascinating evolution of video and photography, while diving deep into recording techniques, studio design, and acoustics. With a keen focus on the artistry of sound engineering, they dissect advanced methods like mid-side processing and the artistry behind the 'do no harm' philosophy in mastering. Rounding out the episode, Brian and Lij share war stories from the punk underground, blending nostalgia with invaluable insights for aspiring sound producers ready to make their mark.

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My guest today is Brian Murphree, a seasoned mastering engineer and founder of Soundporter Mastering, based just south of Nashville. Brian’s career spans over 15 years in the mastering field, during which he’s dedicated himself to helping artists and mix engineers achieve their best possible sound. Since launching Soundporter in 2019, he’s built a client list that includes Grammy-winning producer Boo Mitchell, Melly Baldwin, touring drummer for Justin Bieber, and a range of other artists whose work has amassed hundreds of thousands of streaming plays. Brian’s approach centers on delivering professional-quality results while making mastering accessible for artists at any stage of their career.

Brian’s journey began with his own experience in bands, where he took on the mixing and mastering roles to bring underground artists' sounds to life, often on a tight budget. His supportive and collaborative approach makes him a trusted resource in the music community, and he’s passionate about helping clients get the most out of their mixes before they even reach the mastering stage. Brian has also played bass with the surf rock band Daikaiju and punk band Random Conflict, contributing to his deep understanding of the musical landscape.

You can hear Brians backstory on episode RSR227 and check out the Youtube playlist of cool music he has helped create in the show notes.

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RSR494 - Alex Oana - Risk and Reinvention Essential for Growth in Audio

21 februari 2025 | 115 min

Incremental progress leads to significant achievements! Join Lij Shaw as he interviews audio veteran Alex Ohana, who shares stories from a 35-year career. Alex reveals the power of embracing risk and reinvention, along with the importance of community in the audio world. He discusses his journey, from recording techniques to the evolution of technology, and offers insights into finding success in the music industry. This inspiring conversation delves into innovation, personal growth, and staying true to your creative vision.

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My guest today is Alex Oana, an engineer, producer, and innovator originally from Minneapolis and now based in Los Angeles. Over a 30-year career, Alex has produced hundreds of records and earned 11 Minnesota Music Awards. In 1994, he purchased the former home of Twin/Tone Records to launch his own studio, City Cabin, in Minneapolis. In the early 2000s, Alex relocated to Los Angeles, where he focused on mixing and worked as a front-of-house engineer for Pharrell Williams and NER*D on global tours.

Alex has also held roles such as Global Sales Manager at Apogee Electronics and consultant for Vintage King Audio. As Vice President at Slate Digital, he co-created the groundbreaking Raven multitouch DAW controller. Later, he founded Audio Test Kitchen, an innovative online platform offering detailed comparisons of over 300 microphones and other audio gear. He is currently the Vice President of Marketing for Sound Vision Works.

Alex first joined us on episode RSR226, where he shared his full backstory. Today, we’ll dive into the latest in studio tech and production.

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RSR493 - Jason Livermore - Grammy Winning Punk at The Blasting Room in Ft Collins CO

14 februari 2025 | 119 min

"You can do whatever you want." In this engaging interview, Lij Shaw sits down with Jason Livermore, co-owner of the Blasting Room studio, to explore Jason's transformative journey from aspiring musician to Grammy-winning producer. They discuss the studio's evolution, the significance of high-quality equipment, and the invaluable experience gained from working with interns. Jason delves into the intricacies of modern mixing techniques, the transition to digital, and the essentials of drum recording and mixing, highlighting the impact of acoustics, MIDI, and automation. Their conversation also covers the joys of learning new instruments and offers practical advice for aspiring engineers looking to thrive in the competitive world of music production.

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My guest today is Jason Livermore who got his first snare drum at just three years old and eventually picked up guitar and bass but found his way back to drums, which he loved most. In junior high, he discovered punk rock, with Milo Goes to College as his first vinyl purchase. Jason played in bands throughout high school and college, even recording some of them himself. After college, he realized that recording would be a better path than selling beer for Miller. When ALL opened the Blasting Room in Fort Collins in 1994, Jason jumped at the opportunity and has been a key part of the studio ever since. In 2015, he became co-owner alongside Bill Stevenson, working on about 95% of the albums from the studio, including producing the Latin GRAMMY-winning record Solo D’Lira in 2023. Jason has also played drums for bands like Wretch Like Me, Drag the River, Bill The Welder, Soul City Missionaries, and The Virginia Sisters.

Special thanks to Brian Murphree for the introduction!

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RSR492 - Ryan Ordway - Producing Americana at The Studio Portland in Maine

7 februari 2025 | 129 min

"It's all about intention." In this episode of the podcast, Lij Shaw sits down with seasoned artist, songwriter, and producer Ryan Ordway, who shares insights from his two-decade journey through the music industry. They discuss various nuances of music production, covering topics from remote recording challenges to the importance of acoustics and effective studio management. Ryan emphasizes the need for adaptability, personal interaction, and practical tips to ensure high-quality sound and a smooth creative process. Aspiring producers will gain valuable strategies for optimizing their craft and navigating the evolving landscape of music recording.

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My guest today is Ryan Ordway, a multifaceted artist, songwriter, producer, and audio engineer, proficient in analog and digital recording, mixing, music licensing, session playing, and commercial studio management. With over two decades of experience in the music business, he has recorded and produced nearly 1,000 songs across musical genres. Ordway has designed, built, and operated three commercial recording studios throughout his career. In 2020, he partnered with The Studio Portland in Portland, ME, where he undertook an ambitious remodel completed in 2024. Under Ordway’s direction, The Studio became home to 98.9 WCLZ’s Studio Z series, through which he has recorded an impressive roster of international recording artists, including: Noah Kahan, Grace Potter, Lake Street Dive, Joy Oladokun, The Heavy Heavy, Gregory Alan Isakov, Josh Ritter, Hiss Golden Messenger, Talk, SMYL, Lucius, Cecilia Castleman, Joseph, and Charlie Crockett, among others.

Ordway’s songwriting talents earned him an invitation to the renowned Blackbird Studios in Nashville, where he recorded with famed producer Ken Scott (whose client list includes The Beatles, Elton John, and David Bowie). His song "Easy Street," produced by Scott, was featured in Robert Willey's Getting Started with Music Production, published by Hal Leonard in 2015.

Recognized for his ability to create transformative experiences for clients throughout New England, Ordway was nominated for Producer of the Year at the New England Music Awards in 2023. His song "Back Again" was nominated for Song of the Year in 2022.

Ordway’s original music is licensed in over 13 countries and featured on major platforms like Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu. His music has appeared in popular TV shows such as NBC's The Office, ABC's Happy Endings, and FOX's Raising Hope. In 2023, his cover of Rusted Root’s “Send Me on My Way” won him a multi-year contract for Nature Valley's Life Happens Out There national TV spot He has worked with other national clients, including Klondike, Polo Ralph Lauren, and John Deere.

In addition to his technical expertise and commercial success, Ryan is a passionate educator and mentor. At The Studio Portland, he leads professional audio production training programs and recording camps, sharing his knowledge and inspiring the next generation of audio engineers and producers. Beyond music production, Ryan produces podcasts and provides voiceover (VO) and automated dialogue replacement (ADR) post-production services for elite clients such as Lucas Films, Netflix, HBO Productions, and Penguin Random House Audio Books division.

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RSR491 - Will Kennedy - Mixing Atmos with Matt Wallace at Studio Delux Immersive

31 januari 2025 | 122 min

Taking care of oneself enhances professional interactions! Will discussed his journey from a small town to the music industry, emphasizing the importance of mental health and self-care within the field. He addressed the balance between technology and artistry and explored adapting to evolving production landscapes, such as Atmos mixing. Will also shared his insights on career transitions, the impact of music budgets, and recording techniques.

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My guest today is Will Kennedy, a platinum-selling producer, mixer, and recording engineer whose credits include U2 on Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence, O.A.R. on Live From Madison Square Garden, and OneRepublic’s Oh My My. He’s also known for his work on The 88’s “At Least It Was Here,” the theme from the hit TV series Community. In 2021, Will teamed up with longtime collaborator Matt Wallace to create Studio Delux Immersive, a cutting-edge mixing studio at the legendary Sound City Center in Los Angeles. Together, they’ve mixed over 200 songs in Dolby Atmos and other immersive formats, bringing new depth to classics by Jason Mraz, Black Sabbath, The B-52s, and Selena Gomez, as well as enhancing new releases from Dave Matthews Band, Tank and the Bangas, Ondara, and Grouplove. Will’s expertise in immersive audio and multi-genre mixing has established him as a pioneer in the field, and he continues to inspire a new generation of engineers with his innovative approach and technical skill.

His personal studio in Los Angeles (Studio P) features an incredible array of modern digital equipment (Avid, Universal Audio, Waves, Soundtoys, Arturia, Korg), custom-built analog processing by JCF Audio, and vintage analog gear including a 1963 Vox AC 30 guitar amplifier, and restored 1973 Ampex 440-B reel-to-reel tape machine available for all mixing projects.

Will was also one of the originators of the popular “Mix Notes From Hell” podcast, and was the music producer for the East African singing contest show “Maisha Superstar.”

Thanks to Matt Boudreau at Working Class Audio for making our introduction!

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RSR490 - Duncan Ferguson - Mastering for Vinyl at Voltage Exchange Studio in East Nashville

24 januari 2025 | 137 min

Daily planning is crucial for managing a busy studio schedule! Duncan explored the importance of mastering, the impact of technology and AI, and the intricacies of creating a professional sound environment. He shared insights into his workflow, including his unique 'flight plan' approach to daily planning, while also discussing the challenges and rewards of mastering music for vinyl records.

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My guest today is Duncan Ferguson, a mastering engineer based in East Nashville with a true passion for critical listening and collecting all kinds of recordings. Duncan got into mastering naturally and has earned the nickname “the music librarian” from his close friends. Over the years, he’s honed his skills to bring music to life across all listening applications.

Duncan’s mastering studio, The Voltage Exchange, is all about solving problems for clients. After seeing the shifts in the music industry over the past decade, he’s focused on offering solutions for artists, producers, and mixing engineers while making the process as seamless as possible. Duncan believes in collaboration and transparent relationships — he loves having clients present during sessions and sharing his techniques, equipment, and choices to ensure their true vision shines through.

As someone who also collects vinyl, Duncan offers full-service in-house vinyl mastering and disk cutting with a new Sillitoe lathe. Duncan's mastering studio is right nearby me in East Nashville.

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RSR489 - Dave Derr - Empirical Labs Creator of the Distressor, Arouser, BIG FrEQ, Fatso, and Pump

17 januari 2025 | 133 min

"The Distressor is an iconic piece of gear." Dave talked about his journey from musician to audio engineer, creating the iconic Distressor compressor, the role of distortion, harmonics, and thoughtful gear selection in achieving masterful audio mixing and production, and offered practical advice for aspiring recording engineers.

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My guest today is Dave Derr, a musician raised in a family of engineers destined to rock and make his mark on the recording industry. Dave started with studying classical piano, composition, and theory as a Music Major in college but still loved ripping solos on his '67 Gibson SG Special. This passion for music led him to a 12-year journey with the band Jack of Diamonds, touring the Philadelphia, Delaware, and Maryland areas.

But Dave wasn’t just rocking the stage—he was also the guy fixing the band's guitars, keyboard rigs, and PA systems. This hands-on experience sparked his path to becoming an Electronics Technician and eventually a studio engineer.

Dave landed a gig at Eventide and worked alongside industry giants, contributing to the design of iconic gear like the H3000, H3500, and DSP4000. And after hours? He ran his own recording studio at home, refining his craft night and day.

In 1994, Dave’s talents culminated in the creation of the Distressor—a modern classic that’s now a staple in major studios worldwide. Empirical Labs now has over 42,000 Distressors sold and an entire line of analog processors and digital plugins and their latest creation, the PUMP, a powerful 500 Series compressor based on the Distressor is breaking new ground for getting killer sounds in the studio or out in the field.

I am super excited to have Dave Derr joining us on the podcast today. This is a big day for me, the show, and definitely a bucket list interview!

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RSR488 - Joe Carrell - Behind the Board: Mixing, Production, and the Studio Life

10 januari 2025 | 130 min

"Listen to what the session musicians say during lunch!" Joe talked about how to be a great studio assistant, orchestral sessions, choosing the perfect vocal mic and DAW, Harrison Mixbus 32, the SSL UF8 and UC-1, and being a servant to the song!

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My guest today is Joe Carrell, a Nashville-based producer, mixer, and recording engineer. Over his 20+ year career, Joe has mixed and recorded 12 Grammy-nominated albums, worked on Dove Award-winning songs, and contributed to over 38 charting number-one hits, with Billboard top tens in multiple categories, all the while producing pop artists and mixing everything from rock, country, jazz, gospel, bluegrass, etc. He currently works from the historic Treasure Isle Recorders in Nashville TN.

Joe Carrell began his journey in the professional music world as an assistant engineer for a member of Nashville's legendary Bradley family. With a strong background as a musician and a deep love for recording, Joe quickly became a sought-after expert in the industry. Today, he shares his passion and expertise on his YouTube channel, In The Mix with Joe Carrell, and in collaboration with platforms like Produce Like A Pro, Warm Audio, and SSL. Joe produces hands-on tutorials for both beginners and seasoned engineers, covering essential mixing and production techniques such as vocal mixing, managing multiple vocal tracks, adding depth to mixes, and insights into his hybrid workflow. He also offers tips on using EQ, stereo widening, automation, subgroups, balancing low-end frequencies, mixing orchestral elements, and crafting commercial-ready tracks across a variety of genres.

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RSR487 - Andrei Eremin - Producing Music with Ableton Live in a Train Carriage

3 januari 2025 | 117 min

RSR486 - Brok Mende - Mixing Albini to Atmos at Friends of Friends in Chicago

27 december 2024 | 129 min

Metal band in a gas station? Dont worry. Be happy! Brok talked about working with Steve Albini and Greg Norman at Electrical Audio, DIY rebuilding his Calrec console, custom Pro Tools headphone mixes, overdubing to cassette tape, and mixing in Atmos.

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My guest today is Brok Mende, owner of Friends of Friends Recording, a loft-style studio in Chicago specializing in analog & digital, vintage & modern recording processes, also offering Dolby Atmos mixing and mastering! With over a decade of professional experience alongside some of the largest names in the music industry (Electrical Audio, Audiotree, etc) and within studios all over the US, Brok’s work includes KAINA, Sen Morimoto, NNAMDÏ, serpentwithfeet, Madison McFerrin, and Tasha to name a few and in collaboration with designer/community builder (and partner), DeAnna Doersch.

In his own words, Brok is a listener by trade who likes to focus on creating something intentional and honest for the artist. He can take apart most anything involving capacitors and/or transformers and is usually able to put it back together correctly, too.

In the show notes, we have a playlist of Brok’s stereo and Atmos mixes. Please check those out. Thank you to Stephen Shirk and Shirk Studio for introducing us!

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RSR485 - Raphael Sepulveda - How to Automate Your Studio for Music Production & Mixing

20 december 2024 | 130 min

Why press many buttons when you can press one? Raphael talked about quick keys, Soundflow, Stream Decks, and iPads for creating macros to automate your studio processes, figuring out where you are wasting your energy, & staying in the creative flow.

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My guest today is Raphael Sepulveda, an alt-rock producer and composer based in Nashville, TN. Originally from the Dominican Republic, Raphael found his way to the US in 2010 to pursue a college degree in Music. After graduating in 2013, he obtained an internship at StadiumRed Studios in NYC, where he learned the ropes and quickly climbed the industry ladder. Raphael worked as an in-house engineer at several other studios in the city, most notably SweetSounds Studios, before setting out on his own and becoming a freelance producer/engineer focusing on alt-rock.

In 2018, Raphael relocated to Music City in search of new beginnings. After the pandemic hit in 2020, Raphael partnered with Howling Music, a music-for-advertising company, as a composer. His work has earned the music house a 2023 Nashville American Advertising Awards Gold Addy award (best ad music in Nashville) and a 2024 Clio award for Use of Music in Film & Video.

Having a strong passion for music tech, he has become a third-party app developer for the software automation platform SoundFlow, creating productivity and workflow tools for Pro Tools.

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RSR484 - Björgvin Benediktsson - How to Write, Record, Mix, and Release Your Own Music

13 december 2024 | 134 min

New levels mean new devils! Björgvin talked about finishing a record, balancing music and family, making room for your next creativity, why music should be you first, mixing templates, mixtering, reaching the finish line, and finding your first gig.

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My guest today is Björgvin Benediktsson, an Icelandic-American author, audio educator, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Audio-Issues teaching thousands of musicians and producers how to make a bigger impact with their music. Björgvin has been an audio engineer since 2006 and has worked with hundreds of artists as an audio engineer, mentor, and educator.

He is the author of multiple books, including the best-selling book Step By Step Mixing which simplifies complex audio jargon and transforms insecure musicians into confident mixing engineers. He has written over 1,000 articles on audio production and his training has been featured in publications such as MusicTech magazine, The Huffington Post, The Recording Revolution, SAE Institute, and Audiotuts+ to name a few.

As the founder of Audio Issues, Björgvin helps home studio musicians and project studio producers make a greater musical impact in their lives by teaching them the skills needed to grow their hobbies and careers. He does this by offering simple and practical music production and success skills they can use right away to level themselves up - while rejecting negativity and gear-shaming from the industry.

When he's not helping entrepreneurs, audio engineers, and other creatives, he likes to hang out with his wife, daughter, and dog in Tucson, AZ, play video games, and read comic books.

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RSR483 - Jose Castillo - Dance Producer with Bomba Estéreo in Bogota Colombia

6 december 2024 | 133 min

RSR482 - Case Newcomb - Hyde Street Studios Engineer & Mixer in San Francisco

29 november 2024 | 129 min

You've got to feel the plugin. Case talked about going from bartending to the recording studio, why people skills are the first skills you need, how to compare all your plugin options for the best mix, being vulnerable in the studio, and compressors.

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My guest today is Case Newcomb, a recording and mix engineer/producer and winner of the Music Expo Mix Critique for his live remixing who is currently working out of the historic Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco. After seizing the opportunity to go back to school and switch careers, Case's audio career has been consistently on the rise. In the studio he turned Intern to staff engineer at Hyde Street Studios in just 6 months.

Case rose up the ranks in live sound astonishingly quickly as well. From mixing in small clubs to mixing at 1000+ capacity venues within his first year of doing monitors and FOH. He has recently put live sound on hold to focus on a full time studio career. We met at NAMM at our Recording Studio Rockstars, Working Class Audio, Mixdown Online, Audio-Issues meetup which was a blast!

Case has a great energy and is making some awesome records including artists like Nvrman, Möndo Freaks, Diablo Muerto, and Manos Lindas.

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RSR481 - Chaz Root III - Recording Rock at Electric Owl Works Studio in South Wales NY

22 november 2024 | 133 min

Turn your disadvantages into advantages! Chaz talked about losing sight but gaining a love for guitar, rocking with the Goo Goo Dolls, prank calling Tom Shultz of Boston, punk band tracking sessions, the famous $300 drum sound, & his new Atmos room.

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My guest today is Charles Root III, a recording, mixing, reluctant mastering engineer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He has performed on releases by Goo Goo Dolls, Monkey Wrench, Stationwagon, Doombuggy, and Acme Anvil Corp. He is also Terran based biped who has improperly assumed human form, as evidenced by his poor eyesight. Due to this poor vision, he smells and hears things that others don't, which can be a blessing or a curse in the confines of a recording studio.

Chaz missed most of his sophomore and junior years of high school due to blindness and eye surgeries. He spent most of that period in his room with a walnut Explorer guitar, Marshall Plexi half stack, and a pile of old Electro-Harmonix pedals making sounds custom tailored to annoy his parents.

Chaz currently resides in South Wales, NY, USA with his wife and studio partner Julie "JJ" Guyse where they operate Electric Owl Works, LLC which includes a residential recording studio, Rachael's Owl Music (a BMI affiliated music publishing company), and the Electric Owl Works Records indie label. They are proud to have artists of many genres from around the world.

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RSR480 - Jeremy Stephens - Producing Rock Records at Clearwave Studio in Northern Alabama

15 november 2024 | 138 min

"Mix how you hear it!" Jeremy talked about recording Greg Allman, why no click track needed, when to use ribbon mics, thumb vs pick bass, how to mic drums, why you should get a console and tape machine, Hammond organs, and comping vocals in Logic.

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My guest today is Jeremy Stephens, a music producer, mixer based in north Alabama, about an hour and a half south of Nashville. Jeremy has had the honor of collaborating with some of the greatest musicians on earth, from the Alabama Shakes to Jason Isbell, Gregg Allman to Chuck Leavell. “I learned the art of producing and recording from legendary rock producer Johnny Sandlin. He served as Johnny's right-hand man for many years, learning everything there is to know about making a goddamn good record.”

In 2001, Jeremy started Clearwave Recording Studio as a cost effective place to craft records on his own terms. It quickly became a sonic sanctuary for indie rock, americana, and a fresh alternative to the cookie cutter Nashville thing. “This is a place where creative souls thrive, where the ideas come to life, and where being different ain't just okay – it's downright expected.”

The goal here is to make hit records and win Grammys, and to do it the right way. Jeremy remains convinced that with the right approach, anything is possible. That's why he focuses on capturing the very best performances of great songs, and gives his musicians the freedom to explore and create.

Thank you to Craig Alvin for the introduction!

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RSR479 - Jack Miele - Producing Rock & Funk Bands in New Orleans

8 november 2024 | 129 min

RSR478 - Matty Harris - Top Mixing Controllers, Plugins, and Room Correction

1 november 2024 | 125 min

"Using plugins in mastering is 100% better than analog!" Matty talked about mixing controllers Softube's Console 1, Rock Solid Audio, & the SSL UF-1, CLA plugins for vocals, room correction tools for great mixing, and the top vocal chain for hip hop.

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My guest today is Matty Harris, a music producer, mixing and mastering engineer originally from Boston. As a young musician, he won several awards, including best drummer in New England touring with jazz, blues and calypso bands, playing clubs by the age of 14. And later went on to Berklee College of Music to study Music Production and Engineering.

Matty’s work in the studio includes credits for Atlantic, RCA, & Warner Bros Records, Sammy Adams, A$AP Rocky, Logic, Lil Yachty, Cousin Stizz and the Grammy Award-winning song “Stronger” for Kelly Clarkson winning the 2008 Boston Music Award for Best Hip-Hop Engineer and Producer.

He mixes from his own studio in Los Angeles and is host of the popular Youtube Channel, Mix And Master My Song, teaching you how to mix and master music in your own studio. Matty has been a guest on the show before to talk about his back story and share some great mixing tips on episodes RSR229 and RSR364.

Today we will continue talking about mixing with digital controllers, how plugins have gotten so good he doesnt use his analog outboard anymore, and how you can dial in your studio and tune your room for professional quality monitoring.

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RSR477 - Matt "Tex" Cokley - How to Produce Heavy Rock in a Home Studio with Reaper

25 oktober 2024 | 145 min

Vacuum the studio and blow a fuse! Tex talked about balancing a career as an electrical contractor with producing heavy rock records, ninja tips for Reaper drum editing and mixing, getting polarity and phase right, & his chain for a huge rock sound!

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My guest today is Tex Cokley, a music producer and mixer in SW Washington state. He has been producing and mixing rock songs and albums for bands for the last 15 years. As a musician, he is versed in different instruments and works with many studio musicians.

I met Tex and his friend Alex at NAMM a couple of years ago when they came to our first Recording Studio Rockstars meetup. I always love connecting with fans of the podcast aka the Rockstars and Tex is definitely one of them. He has a great rock band called Opticus and balances recording with a busy career as an electrician. His enthusiasm and dedication to making records and attending NAMM each year and the fact that Recording Studio Rockstars is able to help fans like Tex make great records inspires me to make this show and keep bringing you interviews every week. Tex’s credits include powerful rock bands like Forever Dethroned, Rust and Chrome, and Opticus which you can hear in the playlist.

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RSR476 - Kris Crunk - Orchestral and Soundflow Tips for Pro Gospel Sessions

18 oktober 2024 | 121 min

Ya gotta learn the rules to break the rules! Kris talked about big tracking sessions, orchestral arranging for small vs large string sections, killer Soundflow strategies, Pro Tools marker magic, sync sessions tips, & cool plugins for awesome mixes!

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My guest today is Kris Crunk, a first-call producer, programmer, and engineer in Nashville, Tennessee. He has 4 Grammy nominations, won 2 Dove Awards for Southern Gospel Producer of the Year in 2021 and 2022, and recently was nominated for a Mark Award from the Production Music Association.

In his 20+ years in Nashville, Kris has played or worked on countless songs for artists like OneRepublic, Rascal Flatts, 5 Seconds of Summer, Tina Campbell, Jason Crabb, Cindy Morgan and many more. Kris has been a Professor of Music Technology at Union University and is an app developer for the software Soundflow is on the Avid Beta team for Pro Tools and other plug-in companies.

Kris is currently focusing on creating a large library of songs for TV shows, commercials, and movies worldwide. With over 1500 original compositions in rotation, he is constantly heard on shows like CBS NFL Football, Holey Moley, TMZ, and Real Housewives of New Jersey. His work can be heard on networks such as Discovery, Food Network, Nickelodeon, ABC, CBS, Disney+, MTV, TVLAND, and the BBC.

Thank you to Raphael Sepulveda and Joe Carroll for the introduction!

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RSR475 - Brennan Aerts - Producing Indie Pop and Rock for Bands & Sync Tracks

11 oktober 2024 | 134 min

RSR474 - Jeremy Steckel - Why You Need A Music Mastermind Group & Family Work Balance

4 oktober 2024 | 142 min

RSR473 - Matt Robertson - Ambient & Cinematic Synth Composer (Bjork, Prodigy, HBO, Ellie Goulding)

27 september 2024 | 135 min

What does it sound like miked in the bathtub? Matt talked about being at Strongroom Studios, tape flying off the machine, why you need hardware synths, MDing for Björk and Ellie Goulding, how to record ambient music, and why real guitar pedals rock!

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My guest today is Matt Robertson, a British-born, Canadian-based, 3x Grammy-nominated composer, producer, and musical director. Matt has worked with Björk, Anohni, Arca, The Cinematic Orchestra, and Ellie Goulding as musical director and orchestrator / arranger.

He has released four albums under his own name to date, balancing ambient sound design alongside warm organic techno and ripples of delicate electronics. His albums ‘Forecast’, ‘In Echelon’ and ‘Entology’, have been described as “symphonic electronica and leftfield techno that’s cinematic in scale” (Mixmag), “magnificent…wild, electronic sound” (The Line Of Best Fit) and “Nils Frahm’s modern classical meets Jon Hopkins’ grainy techno” (MOJO).

Growing up listening to a healthy mixture of Jean-Michel Jarre and Jimmy Smith, Matt graduated from the University of Surrey before working at recording studios in London learning how to fix, and later build, some of his own synths. Working with a collection of vintage, modern and DIY synths, and combining electronic music production with classical composition and cinematic soundscapes; artists, producers, and film composers alike seek his enveloping and distinct sound. His work with Anoushka Shankar awarded him 2 Grammy nominations, and he recently scored the films ‘The New Corporation – The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel’, and' ‘Navalny’.

Thanks to Damian Taylor for making our introduction!

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RSR472 - Matt Boudreau - Atmos Mixing Green Day & Alanis Morissette in a Home Studio

20 september 2024 | 134 min

How many room mics do Atmos drums need? Matt talked about recording and mixing a jazz band in Atmos, how to let old gear go to make room for new gear, speakers, mix levels, full setup for mixing in Atmos, and new ways to think about space and sound.

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My guest today is Matt Boudreau, a very successful audio engineer, Atmos mixer, producer, drummer and podcast host. I often call Matt “my brother from another podcast” as the host of the awesome Working Class Audio podcast where he also conducts interviews with producers and engineers about life in the studio but more focused on work/life balance for the working audio professional.

Matt has been a guest on Recording Studio Rockstars a couple of times already so you can check out his back story on episode RSR053 (when we actually met) and then again on RSR375 when Matt taught us all about mixing with drum samples. And today we will talk primarily about mixing because after 28 years, Matt now focuses on mixing and mastering in Stereo and Dolby ATMOS (immersive/Spatial audio). In fact Matt mixed two of the songs on my record Skadoosh! In Atmos which you can hear in the show notes along with other great works from his discography.

Matt Boudreau is based in the San Francisco Bay Area but works with people around the globe. Whether you are a self-funded artist or a major-label artist, Matt is here to help you finish a record you are proud of (literally in all directions through immersive audio)!

Thanks to iTunes search function and finding Working Class Audio for making our original introduction.

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RSR471 - Nick Krill - How To Create a Pro Mix Template from a Platinum Producer, Mixer, and Engineer

13 september 2024 | 129 min

Be willing to chase the dragon! Nick talked about creating the ultimate custom mix template, finding your ideal studio listening level, why you should only use two volumes, ninja tips for Soundflow and Avid S1, de-essing vocal tricks, and fx chains.

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My guest today is Nick Krill, an indie rock producer, mixer, and engineer. Nick's interest in the studio began as a teenager when he would spend weekends in a basement 4-track studio with his band, The Spinto Band.

Nick spent the first part of his career simultaneously playing in bands and recording and mixing other artists in the studio. In the early 2000s, The Spinto Band gained notoriety and went on to release 4 LPs and tour extensively in North America and Europe. After the Spinto Band went on hiatus, Nick spent four years touring and recording with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. In 2018 Nick decided to focus solely on the studio side of his work, and now produces, mixes, and engineers indie rock full time. Some highlights of his recording work include:

- Recording and mixing two volumes of "A Philly Special Christmas" (Which went on to chart on in the top 10 on various Billboard charts and had a No.1 iTunes single),

- Producing and mixing the "I Can't Handle Change" EP by Roar (This EP now has over 700 million Spotify streams, and the song "Christmas Kids" charted in the UK last year)

- Working as a recording engineer on the last two War On Drugs Lps ("A Deeper Understanding" and "I Don't Live Here Anymore")

- Producing and mixing the most recent Generationals LP "Heatherhead."

Nick has been a guest on the show before for episode RSR128 where you can hear more about his backstory. Today we will talk about new records and how to make an award-winning record! Thank you to The Sin City Band and also Robin Eaton for the introduction!

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RSR470 - Daniel Bacigalupi - Signal Chain Breakdown from Infrasonic Mastering

6 september 2024 | 140 min

RSR469 - Bobbi Giel - Mastering Vinyl at Welcome to 1979 in Nashville

30 augusti 2024 | 128 min

What does fifteen 1176s at once to vinyl sound like? Bobbi talked about cutting direct to disk for Tyler Bryant and The Shakedown, choosing the best compressor, pure analog mastering, speakers vs headphones, recording a Broadway cast, and iZotope RX.

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My guest today is Bobbi Giel, a mastering engineer based out of Nashville, TN. She made the move to Nashville in October 2017 and spent four years at Georgetown Masters under the direction of Chief Mastering Engineer Andrew Mendelson before joining the team at Welcome to 1979.

Bobbi began her career at University of Hartford’s The Hartt School where she earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Production and Technology with a concentration in Classical Piano and a minor in Business Administration. Following graduation in 2015 she spent two years working at various recording and post-production studios in New York City including MSR Studios (now Sound on Sound Studios in Montclair, New Jersey), the new Atlantic Studios at Atlantic Records, and LVLY Studios.

In addition to mastering, Bobbi is a member of the Audio Engineering Society and a member of the Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy. In 2016 she was also featured on Humans of New York, a popular photo blog and book of street portraits and interviews collected on the streets of New York City.

Thank you to Chris and Yoli Mara for the introduction!

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RSR468 - Andy Freeman - Producing Rock & Roll and Helping to Save Home Studios in Music City

23 augusti 2024 | 131 min

"1000 burritos, tacos, and Bud Lights came flying at me like the arrows in 300!" Andy talked about recording Andrew WK from a mobile truck, doubling vocals like Mahler, learning to listen, recording Cuban music, guitars, vocals, and tuning drums.

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My guest today is Andy Freeman who got his hands on a console at age 12 and at age 21 got his first job in audio, recording and editing voice over artists in Atlanta. In 2002, after a friend asked if he produced bands, Andy said yes.

This was a lie. But he hasn’t stopped producing and mixing bands since then, so I guess it was a good lie.

Learning on the job at his own studio in Atlanta, he and his wife Malie [“Molly”] moved to San Francisco in 2008, then to Los Angeles in 2015, then to Nashville in 2017 where he works out of a full tracking and mixing space in his house.

Andy doesn’t hear music in genre, preferring the idea that there are only two kinds of music: good and bad. Consequently he’s been able to work with just about anyone. Jason Hawk Harris, Ace Monroe, Leeann Skoda, Eisley, and lots of fun San Francisco bands you have never heard of. He also made a lot of live recordings in his time rambling around the country in a mobile recording truck with Bay Area Tone. They include Andrew WK, Carney, The Bravery, The Sounds, Niko Case… Anyway, if there’s passion and determination, he wants to be involved.

Oh, and he likes real stuff. Like real people in a real room playing real instruments while being really inspired by each other's presence. If you work with him, he will spend an awful lot of time talking about energy and flow and stuff like that. Because he wants to know who you are as an artist, he’ll use words like “identity” and “impact” and “deliberate” and he will frequently ask you why you’re doing what you’re doing when you could be doing something else. He believes in tube amps, consoles, tape machines, analog hardware, and doing it the hard way. He will make a record in Pro Tools but he doesn’t like it, and he refuses to learn how to program because let’s face it, everybody else can already do better than he could anyway.

He also doesn’t like writing in the third person. He thinks it’s weird.

Importantly to me Andy teamed up with Mark Rubel in 2020 to create a GoFundMe page to help me save home studios in Music City, which we did. It was probably the greatest honor I've ever received in music. So thanks Andy! https://www.gofundme.com/f/nashville-says-039thank-you039-lij-shaw

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RSR467 - Roger Alan Nichols - Guitars, Amps, Studios, Songwriting and Rock & Roll

16 augusti 2024 | 137 min

If you stop being curious then you're done! Roger talked about choosing monitors for mixing, collecting guitars and amps, songwriting prosody, baritone guitar voicings, synth vs espresso, miking guitar cabinets, and how to take great session notes.

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My guest today is Roger Alan Nichols, an all-around musician, songwriter, engineer, producer, mixer, and owner of Bell Tone Recording in Nashville, TN. His producing and engineering credits include a Grammy-nominated project with Larkin Poe and artists like Hayley Williams (Paramore), Steven Tyler, Tyler Bryant and The Shakedown, Kim Richey, and many others in Rock, Country, and Americana genres.

From 1981 to 1989, Roger Alan Nichols toured the 50 United States and Canada professionally as a guitarist, with multiple rock bands. During a brief stint in Atlanta, he attended the Art Institute and continued doing sessions and performing with regional acts. Roger then moved to Nashville and formed the alternative rock band, Dreaming In English. The band toured the Southeast, gaining a large fan base before releasing their debut album, “Stuff,” in 1998 to critical acclaim. Shortly after that, Roger signed a publishing deal as a writer with Acuff-Rose/Idea Music. Through this publishing deal he started producing and engineering his own demos. Eventually, he established his studio where he began producing and writing with, and for, other artists.

As a multi-instrumentalist, Roger has written and produced tracks for Showtime, HBO, MTV, Spike TV as well as all 3 major networks. His diverse playing and producing skills were showcased in the trailer music for Mission Impossible III’s national TV campaign and most recently he composed the music for “Bluebird,” a documentary on the legendary Nashville venue where numerous songwriters have advanced their careers.

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RSR466 - Steven Lee Tracy - Producing & Mixing at St Cecelia Studios in Tuscon AZ

9 augusti 2024 | 129 min

RSR465 - Dan Millice - Grammy Winning Mastering Hip Hop and Rock on Laptop & Headphone Studio

2 augusti 2024 | 141 min

RSR464 - Jimmy Nutt - The NuttHouse Studio In Muscle Shoals

26 juli 2024 | 138 min

Sometimes you feel like a Nutt... Jimmy talked about Fame Studios, Jason Isbell, how to get $1000 for recording your music, miking up a bluegrass band, miking upright bass, the secret to great drums, large versus small mics, and setting up monitors.

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My guest today is Jimmy Nutt a GRAMMY Award winning Engineer, Jimmy Nutt, grew up in Shreveport Louisiana surrounded by musicians steeped in blues and rock. He joined his first band at age 13. Early on, Jimmy was interested in recording and sound. He acquired a Tascam 4-track cassette recorder while still in his teens and started learning how to record a band.

In 2000, Jimmy moved his family to Muscle Shoals, AL. to work as a staff-recording engineer at FAME Recording Studios. During his time at FAME, he recorded sessions for Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Clarence Carter, Heartland, Russell Smith, The Drive-by-Truckers and many more. He worked at FAME for almost 3 years before becoming an independent recording engineer and producer. He was also a staff writer for FAME’s publishing company during this time.

Jimmy is now the owner of The NuttHouse Recording Studio, Inc. located in downtown Sheffield, Alabama. He transformed a bank built in 1955 into a recording studio and has hosted numerous recording sessions in the last 14 years including well-known artists; Percy Sledge, The Dead South, Blind Boys of Alabama, Dylan LeBlanc, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jason Isbell, John Paul White, Donna Jean Godchaux, and The SteelDrivers.

In 2016, Jimmy won a GRAMMY award for engineering and mixing the “Bluegrass Album of the Year”, The SteelDrivers, “The Muscle Shoals Recordings”. And In 2020, Jimmy won the Canadian Juno award for producing and mixing the “Traditional Roots Album of the Year” for The Dead South album “Sugar & Joy”.

Thank you so much to Jake Kiser, Mark Rubel, Craig Alvin, suggesting Jimmy come on the show and Kyle Lenhing for making our introduction!

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RSR463 - Harold Larue - Mixing & Mastering Tips for Home Studios

19 juli 2024 | 129 min

Don't sweat the noise too much! Harold talked about derressering masters, iZotope RX ninja tips, phase aligning mixes, how to use mid side eq, mastering Moogs, bass wins in big vs small control rooms, LUFS targets, and why linear eq + hip hop = bad.

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My guest today is Harold LaRue, a GRAMMY-winning mastering engineer in Houston, Texas. Harold’s recent clients include contemporary jazz masters: The Wayne Shorter Quartet, Terri Lynn Carrington, and Joey Alexander — synth sorceress: Lisa Bella Donna, and R&B legend: Jeffrey Osborne.

Harold has worked as a software developer, pro-audio service manager, theatrical sound engineer, and restaurateur and was the monitor engineer for the Houston Symphony Orchestra before leaving to focus on his growing mastering business.

As an audio educator, Harold has developed and taught studio production and mastering courses at universities and recording schools across the country. He continues to present public workshops and teach privately. He is a Voting Member of the Recording Academy’s Producers & Engineers Wing, Audio Engineering Society, and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Check out our previous interview on episode RSR225 to learn more about Harold’s backstory.

I want to dedicate this episode to the late great audio designer and engineer Glenn Coleman whom Harold introduced me to at NAMM 2020.

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RSR462 - Mark Martin - From Nashville Music Row Sessions to Film School and Drone Piloting

12 juli 2024 | 112 min

RSR461 - Brad Jones - How To Produce and Finish a Great Record

5 juli 2024 | 138 min

RSR460 - Damian Taylor - The Psychology of Mixing with Great Character

28 juni 2024 | 118 min

RSR459 - Greg Norman - Recording Rock Bands in Chicago (Steve Albini, Electrical Audio)

21 juni 2024 | 140 min

RSR458 - Bobby Owsinski - Tips From Musician's Ai Handbook to Enhance And Promote Your Music With Artificial Intelligence

14 juni 2024 | 117 min

Will Ai ever understand emotion in music? Bobby talked about writing the Musician's Ai Handbook on how to write lyrics, chords, melodies, and beats, generate vocal tracks, mixing and master, create lyric videos, and market your music easily using Ai.

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My guest today is Bobby Owsinski a Producer/engineer and one of the best-selling authors in the music industry with 24 books that are now staples in audio recording, music, and music business programs in colleges around the world, including The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook, Social Media Promotion For Musicians, and now The Musician’s Ai Handbook.

He’s also a contributor to Forbes as a category expert on the new music business, his long-running production and music industry blogs have won numerous industry awards, and he’s appeared on CNN and ABC News as a music branding and audio expert. Bobby’s highly-rated Inner Circle podcast is now in its 10th year, with more than 500 episodes that feature mover and shaker guests from all parts of the music industry.

He’s also recently produced and mixed albums that appeared at #2 on the Billboard Blues Chart and #5 on the Apple Music Rock Chart.

Bobby has been a guest on the podcast on episode RSR010 and RSR395 and is back today to share how Ai can help us create, complete, publish, and promote our music from all the cool stuff he learned writing The Musician’s Ai Handbook.

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RSR457 - Glenn Rosenstein - Fame Studios, Madonna, Talking Heads, Ziggy Marley, U2

7 juni 2024 | 112 min

The best ad for mixing was "Leave the door open!" Glenn talked about mixing at the Power Station and Sigma Sound, recording Madonna, Springsteen, U2, Talking Heads, Ziggy Marley, the birth of remixing, and renewing Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals.

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My guest today is Glenn Rosenstein a Multi Grammy-winning producer, engineer, and mixer who began his music career at the legendary Power Station Recording Studio in NYC, assisting alongside some of the best producers, engineers as well as at New York’s historic Sigma Sound Studios where Glenn became a mixer and remix engineer, creating work for such artists as U2, Madonna, Talking Heads, The Ramones, Ziggy Marley, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, James Brown, Miles Davis and many others.

Glenn’s music production & mixes continue to be highly visible & diverse, from Whitney Woerz, Carly Simon and Earl “Chinna” Smith to James Taylor, Black Uhuru, Wes Sheffield and Bif Naked. He produced Benedictines Of Mary project for Decca/Universal which was Billboard Magazine’s #1 Classical release for the 2012 to 2013 holiday season.

As a producer, mixer, & engineer, Glenn’s projects have won 3 Grammy Awards, 5 Grammy nominations, an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award.

His work is responsible for record sales well in excess of 300 million units. His music production & mixing credits for film & television include The Sopranos, Celebrity Circus, The Last Emperor, Blown Away, Married To The Mob, Charmed, Beverly Hills 90210, All My Children and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. As both songwriter & producer, Glenn’s work with reggae artist Snow led to a chart-topping single in Canada.

In addition, Glenn has overseen production of a landmark multi-DVD project for Saturday Night Live‘s 25th Anniversary, producing the surround remixes and audio for 60 unique music performances, as well as 60 musical comedic sketches. This project features the live performances of Mariah Carey, Sting, Aretha Franklin, Metallica, Nirvana, Paul McCartney, Snoop Doggy Dog, Paul Simon, Alanis Morissette, James Brown and Bruce Springsteen, to name just a few.

Glenn has also partnered in the renovation and restoration of the historic Fame Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals AL, where he maintains a residence and studio and where we join you today.

And last but not least I consider Glenn a longtime friend and mentor here in Nashville.

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RSR456 - Bill Demain - Nashville Songwriter, Cartoonist, Tour Guide, Journalist

31 maj 2024 | 131 min

Was Elvis the real phantom of the Opry? Bill talked about songwriting with artists over Zoom, writing for Mojo, the Brill Building in 1961, confederate ghosts, Crowded House, Jill Sobule, Tin Pan Alley, and finding inspiration in artwork & cartoons.

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My guest today is Bill DeMain, a successful author, songwriter, journalist, tour guide, and musical historian who has been on the podcast previously for episode RSR200.

As one half of the pop duo Swan Dive, he has released ten acclaimed albums with his singing partner Molly Felder, enjoying several Top 5 singles and tours of Japan, Thailand and Korea. He’s also written songs for and with many other artists, including Curtis Stigers, Marshall Crenshaw, Teddy Thompson & Kelly Jones, David Mead, Bleu, Kim Richey, Jill Sobule and Boo Hewerdine. His songs have appeared on TV shows like Sons of Anarchy, Private Practice, Felicity and The L Word, and in commercials for Laneige Cosmetics, Unicef and Sky Mobile.

Bill is also a much-published music journalist, who's written for MOJO, Uncut, Entertainment Weekly and Classic Rock. He has written five books, including 2017's Amazon best-seller Sgt. Pepper At 50, and two of collections of interviews with noted songwriters such as David Bowie, Stevie Nicks, Ray Charles, Dolly Parton, Barry Gibb, Kate Bush and Smokey Robinson.

In addition, he is the owner of the music history walking tour Walkin' Nashville, a radio correspondent for BBC Glasgow and a cartoonist whose work has been published by Reader's Digest and Funny Times.

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RSR455 - Mike Senior - Recording Secrets For The Home Studio

24 maj 2024 | 150 min

RSR454 - Joe Hutchinson - How To Master A Record

17 maj 2024 | 146 min

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RSR453 - Todd Burke - How To Make Records Sound Cool

10 maj 2024 | 138 min

Rack-mount your own real transformers! Todd talked about recording with dynamic mics, mixing with real transformers as plugins, setting up Atmos, automating Pro Tools with Soundflow, how to 3-mic drums, building a studio, and mastering your own mix.

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My guest today is Todd Burke who has been recording and mixing records and underscores in Los Angeles for over 25 years. His album credits include Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, The Kooks, Belle and Sebastian, M83, and Fitz and the Tantrums.

More recently, he has been enjoying mixing Atmos versions of records by Albert Hammond Jr, Christina Perri, and Jeff Goldblum and working as a Score Mixer. A few notable films include The Big Sick, Daddy's Home 1 & 2, Second Act, I Feel Pretty, The Lovebirds, Stargirl, The King of Staten Island, Yes Day, and The Bubble. He also dabbles a bit in Album Mastering with recent projects for The Lickerish Quartet, Motochrist, and Greyboy Allstars.

As a teacher he’s a main contributor on the recordBetter project and is passionate about handing the art of record making on to young creators. And he is a Brand Ambassador and Artist Representative for Antelope Audio.

He’s available for engineering bookings in Los Angeles and abroad. Favorite tracking rooms include Sunset Sound and Capitol Studios. His own studio, affectionately coined Listening Room LA, is in the foothills east of LA and outfitted with an Aurora Audio 10 channel sidecar, a 24 channel Aurora Audio GTM Mixer, the most modern generation of digital conversion from Antelope Audio and Chord Electronics, ATMOS monitoring on an array by Wilson Audio, as well as mastering-grade stereo monitoring on a custom Tannoy system by Chris Pelonis.

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RSR452 - Mark Rudin - Songwriting for Sync License Music

3 maj 2024 | 144 min

RSR451 - Brad Wood - Recording Rock Bands & Mixing In Atmos

26 april 2024 | 162 min

Send Santa's sleighbells to the chimney object of course! Brad talked about recording awesome drums, creating your own snare and kick samples, how to get a great kick drum sound, how to capture a guitar DI without the buzz, and mixing 9.1.4 in Atmos.

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My guest today is Brad Wood, a producer originally from Chicago where he had Idful Music Corporation - a small but mighty recording studio in Wicker Park. There he recorded albums by bands like Seam, Tar, Shrimp Boat and Eleventh Dream Day. In 1993 he produced Exile In Guyville for Liz Phair which became the catalyst for what became a very long and prosperous career as a producer and mixer.

Brad wrapped up the 90’s with many debut albums under his belt, including Sunny Day Real Estate‘s Diary, Veruca Salt‘s American Thighs, Placebo’s self-titled LP, Placebo, and Ben Lee‘s Grandpaw Would. He also notably produced the Original Broadway Cast Recording for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Throughout the iconic decade, Brad also worked with bands such as Far, that dog., Menthol, Pete Yorn, and The Smashing Pumpkins’ Adore (which peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 charts).

Later Brad relocated to Los Angeles, California, where he built Seagrass Studio where he’s tracked and mixed for Say Anything, mewithoutyou, The Bangles, Sherwood, Touché Amoré, and many other artists. I am excited to have Brad back on the podcast again. You can catch his earlier episode RSR095 when he talked about his work in Chicago and moving to LA. Today we will catch up with Brad to see what’s new at Seagrass Studio and talk about producing and mixing in Atmos among other things.

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RSR450 - Marc Urselli - Mics, Doom Metal, Jazz, and Throat Singing

19 april 2024 | 136 min

Organization is everything! Marc talked about recording Bill Frisell & John Zorn, producing The Ramones tribute with Steppendoom, how to make a great compilation album or killer remix, traveling the world to collect vintage ribbon mics, and backup.

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My guest today is Marc Urselli a 7-time Grammy Award nominated, 3-time Grammy Award winning music producer, audio engineer, mixer, sound designer and front of house engineer. Marc Urselli is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar and devotee of all things art, sound & music and works for and collaborates with musical & visual artist, bands, musicians, composers, theater directors, film, TV, brand & mixed media multi disciplinaires from around the world.

He has worked with U2, Foo Fighters, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Sting, Keith Richards, Kesha, Jeff Beck, Les Paul, Buddy Guy, Luther Vandross, Bill Frisell, Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson just to name a few in syles ranging from rock, pop, metal, jazz, experimental/avantgarde/new music, urban and electronica and classical. He also collaborates as an artist on some of his records which you can hear in the playlist below.

Marc currently resides and works as Chief House Engineer for the historic & legendary recording studio EastSide Sound. And he has been a guest on the podcast before for episodes RSR264 & RSR 378 where you can hear his backstory in music and get some excellent recording and mixing tips!

Thanks again to Rudy Roopchan for our original intro, and to Adam Audio!

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RSR449 - Dominique Sanders - Jazz Bass Player Hip Hop Producer & Beat Maker in LA

12 april 2024 | 130 min

RSR448 - Vance Powell - Big Phish Stories with Mixing Q&A

5 april 2024 | 126 min

RSR447 - Steve Genewick - The Beatles & Mixing Miles Davis in Atmos

29 mars 2024 | 142 min

Make mine a phantom center! Steve talked about the birth of mixing in Atmos, recording strings for the last Beatles song, Now And Then, how to record immersively, building a home mixing studio, mics for strings, object bed mixing, and the LFE sub.

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My guest today is Steve Genewick a Grammy-nominated recording engineer with 30 years of experience, both as a studio and live recording and mix engineer. Steve has had the pleasure of working at iconic recording studios around the world such as United Recording, East West Studios, Sunset Sound and Village Recorders in Los Angeles, Abbey Road and Angel studios in London and La Fabrique Studios in France.

For 20 years, Steve had the great honor of working alongside the legendary 23-time Grammy award-winning producer and engineer, Al Schmitt. They worked with artists such as Diana Krall, Chris Botti, Gladys Knight, Neil Young, George Benson, Quincy Jones, Burt Bacharach and Paul McCartney. Steve also joined Al for “Mix With The Masters” seminars for nine years in the south of France, in addition to collaborating on their instructional film “The Art of Recording a Big Band”.

Steve worked primarily out of the famed Capitol Studios in Hollywood as a staff engineer from 1994 to 2022. At Capitol, he worked with countless renowned artists such as Elton John, Bastille and Trisha Yearwood. Steve was among the first studio mixers to begin mixing music in Dolby Atmos, working on projects with Beck, Gregory Porter, LL Cool J, Sam Smith and Niall Horan, and on the popular video game Apex Legends.

In 2017, Steve received the Pensado Award for Best Recording Engineer. He was also a part of the Universal Audio and Capitol Studios team that won a 2020 TEC Award for their Capitol Chambers plugin.

Check out Steve’s earlier episode on RSR231. Thanks to Matt BOUDREAU at the Working Class Audio podcast for making our introduction!

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RSR446 - Sara Carter - How To EQ Everything in Your Home Studio!

22 mars 2024 | 137 min

Trust your first instinct! Sara talked about setting up your monitors for accurate mixing, how to place your subwoofer, learning to balance a mix first, why 85db is too loud, the power of a high pass filter, group vs solo audition, and mixing vocals.

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My guest today is Sara Carter, a BBC trained mixing engineer based in Leicester (pronounced “lester”) in the UK. Sara started recording and mixing music as a hobby in the mid-90s then later turned it into a full-time career after studying Audio Engineering at the SAE Institute in London and working as a Sound Engineer for the BBC.

Sara learned her trade at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios by working under the mentorship of some of the best engineers in the business. During this time, Sara worked with a wide variety of artists such as Adele, The Black Keys and Rod Stewart to name a few. More recently she focuses on helping home studio musicians mix music at home through her training courses, coaching sessions and YouTube channel, Simply Mixing.

If you enjoy this interview please check out our earlier episodes RSR204 and RSR377 when we talked about her background in music and shared some great home studio mixing tips. Today we are going to focus more on how to eq everything and then get into some compression talk.

Thanks again to my brother from another podcast Matt Boudreau at Working Class Audio for making our original introduction!

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RSR445 - Ken Sluiter - Tips for Production , Mixing, and Atmos

15 mars 2024 | 144 min

RSR444 - Joe Baldridge - Mixing Tips from Ocean Way Studios Grammy Winning Engineer at Belmont University

8 mars 2024 | 137 min

Do frozen cats make your mixes cooler? Joe talked about the history of Ocean Way Studios, how to fix cymbals ruining your drum mix, how to make a Decca tree in your home studio, double miking vocals, mixing with parallel dynamics, & immersive audio.

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My guest today is Joe Baldridge, a multi Grammy winning engineer with over 36 years of professionally credited experience in music production, recording, mixing, artist management and brand / artist development with nearly 600 credits on AllMusic.com, and has received a nomination for 2014 Record of the Year for work on Taylor Swift’s RED and won a Dove award for production work for Toby Mac.

Joe is a graduate of Belmont University where he also now teaches. He joined the Audio Engineering Technology department at The Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business as an adjunct in 2010, Fulltime Lecturer in 2013 and Instructor in 2019. He is now the Director of Studio Operations at Ocean Way Nashville, designed by Allen Sides and purchased by Belmont in 2001, and the number one tracking room in Nashville and a world-class teaching facility that also serves an impressive client roster.

Housed in a 100-year-old Gothic revival gray stone church, Ocean Way Nashville provides an exceptional acoustical space, all in the rich visual beauty of a sanctuary. The studio serves a diverse list of clients spanning various styles from pop, rock, hip hop, country, gospel while emerging as the premier scoring facility in the Southeast. Besides being a sought-after space for full band tracking, Ocean Way Nashville has become an internationally favored destination for orchestral recording and scoring for today’s most popular films and video games.

Joe continues to teach in the classroom through an adjunct role teaching master mixing techniques, a course he designed which meets at Ocean Way.

Joe was a guest on the podcast back on episode RSR061 when he shared his story of getting into music and later teaching, and today I am happy to have him back to talk more about what he teaches in the master mixing class and to focus on the future of music making in the studio.

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RSR443 - Dave Coleman - East Nashville Songwriter, Rocker Guitarist, and Producer

1 mars 2024 | 125 min

RSR442 - John Arrucci - Master Percussionist in Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, North-Indian, and Classical Composition

23 februari 2024 | 139 min

Ga Ga Ti Ga, Ga Ga Ga Ti Ga... John talked about the Samba sing-a-long, studying in India, and Brazil, recording vibes and various percussion instruments, the importance of cultural context in music, and bringing your A-game to every studio session!

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My guest today is John Arrucci, an acclaimed master artist in Classical, Jazz, North Indian, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Brazilian and other indigenous traditions and someone I first met when he moved to Nashville to build his studio. Having composed, performed, and instructed for over 40 years, John has studied on three continents and received numerous honors.

His work as drummer and percussionist is featured on scores for feature films, television, commercial spots and recordings including on Sony, Polygram, Mercury, Chesky, Koch Jazz, Chiaroscuro, Rykodisc and other labels. He has performed and/or recorded with Michael Brecker, John Patittucci, Mariah Carey, David Byrne, Philip Glass Ensemble, and for Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu and many other dignitaries and has performed at notable venues such as Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Merkin Hall and United Nations.

His percussion can be found on programs including Patriot, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Oprah Winfrey and Rosie O’Donnell.

As a composer, John has received numerous commissions, grants and awards from members of The New York Philharmonic, The Manhattan Marimba Quartet, The Mannes College of Music and many others. His acclaimed 2011 release “Metaphors” features 9 of his compositions and performances on Drum Set, Vibes, Marimba and Percussion.

John taught for over 20 years at Princeton University, the City University of New York, and many other prominent institutions including an Eastman School of Music where he graduated with distinction. The Smithsonian Institution awarded him a Post-Doctoral level research fellowship to study Tabla in Benares, India with Pandit Sharda Sahai. He has also studied music in Brazil, and Shekere and Agbe with the renowned Chief James Hawthorne Bey, and Conga and Afro-Cuban drumming with Frank Malabe and Tabla with Robert Becker.

He has basically done a tremendous amount of music and finally landed in Nashville, Tennessee making himself available for in-studio and remote recording, live performances, touring, commissions and Master Classes, one of which I recently took to learn Samba drumming which was amazing!

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RSR441 - Brandon Highfill - Neotek Consoles, UAD Luna, and Guitar Pedals!

16 februari 2024 | 129 min

RSR440 - Al Evans - Producing Grateful Dead Ballads in Iceland “Lovely View Of Heaven”

9 februari 2024 | 122 min

RSR439 - Brian K Fisher - LEWITT Microphones and Home Studio Rock Production

2 februari 2024 | 134 min

RSR438 - Dave Godowsky - From Songwriting to A&R for Rounder Records, iZotope, Native Instruments, and Plugin Alliance

26 januari 2024 | 134 min

Can you write a song on an island? Dave talked about capturing the seeds of songs, mixing with Chris Shaw, signing Nataniel Rateliff, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, and Ween to Rounder Records, and finding inspiration in Native Instruments Kontakt.

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My guest today is Dave Godowsky, a veteran in the music industry, having spent the past 20+ years in Management, A&R, and Artist Relations. On the label front, he served as Director of A&R for Rounder Records (where he discovered and signed artists including Nathaniel Rateliff and Delta Spirit) and GM at Partisan Records (home to artists like IDLES, Fontaines DC, and Deer Tick). On the management front, he served as VP for Danny Goldberg at GoldVE, managing the careers of artists including Against Me!, Okkervil River, Speedy Ortiz, and Cass McCombs. On the technology front, Godowsky handles all artist and industry relations for the pioneering audio tech innovator iZotope, and now Native Instruments, and Plugin Alliance .

A songwriter and producer himself, Godowsky has released three records, and co-written/collaborated with many others including Adam Duritz (Counting Crows), Lianne LaHavas, and Gene Ween (Ween). He has toured nationwide, including performances at major festivals and on the Late Show with David Letterman. Godowsky was named one of Billboard's "30 Under 30" and has been profiled by the Boston Globe for his industry and musical contributions. He currently lives with his wife and 18-month-old son in Maine.

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RSR437 - Jordan Hamlin - MOXE Studio [Indigo Girls, KT Tunstall, Brandi Carlile]

19 januari 2024 | 126 min

Take care of your unicorns! Jordan talked about using a Neve console with Pro Tools, capturing the moment and letting the vibe happen, recording your heroes and when to push them for even more, and microphones for vocals, guitar, piano, and drums.

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My guest today is Jordan Hamlin, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, engineer and music producer based in Nashville, TN. A lifelong advocate for Creatives, she is the owner and founder of a 20 acre residential recording studio and retreat space, MOXE.

In the studio, she’s produced and/or engineered albums or new musical works for the GRAMMY winning duo, Indigo Girls, KT Tunstall, Tenille Townes, Allison Russell, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Sasha Sloan, Lila Blue, Rufus Wainwright, Adia Victoria, and many others.

As a touring and session musician, her contributions on stage and in the studio have included collaborations with Brandi Carlile, Missy Higgins, Amy Ray, Ruby Amanfu, Loudon Wainwright III, Katie Herzig, Dar Williams, The Secret Sisters and The Nashville Ballet.

Please check out the discography playlist in the show notes. Jordan is making awesome sounding records with exceptional singers and you will love it!

Thanks so much to Cheyenne Medders for making our introduction and for Dave Kalmusky and Addiction Studios for reconnecting us recently.

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RSR436 - Nathan Yarborough - Heavy Rock and Metal Recording [Korn, Mastadon, Code Orange, Rise Against]

12 januari 2024 | 155 min

Digital or real guitar cabinet? Nathan talked about going from intern to engineer at Blackbird Studios, running a studio like a high-end hotel, how steel drums are heavy metal, why tape should always be rolling, and how to create crankable records.

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My guest today is Nathan Yarborough, a heavy rock and metal music producer, engineer, and mixer who started out in North Carolina with a Tascam 4 track studying recording in college and finding his way to Nashville to intern at Sony/Tree and Blackbird Studios where he worked for eight years with some of the greatest engineers like Vance Powell, Niko Bolas, George Massenburg, Joe Chiccarelli and many others.

He then went on to engineer records for producer Nick Raskulinecz for 10 years and now he works with a variety of bands at all different levels to make great recordings here in Nashville.

I met Nathan recently at the 25th Annual AudioMasters Benefit Golf Tournament when we stopped at hole. That was sponsored by the Nashville Recording Supply Company. I came home with a crappy golf score but a new role of black galf tape for the studio and an amazing playlist of Nathan’s discography of hard rock and metal albums including artists like Korn, Mastadon, Glasswalker, Code Orange, and Evanescense. So please give a listen to that in the show notes below.

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RSR435 - Jacquire King - Answers All Your Questions How To Make A Great Record

5 januari 2024 | 135 min

Don't let the gear eclipse the performance! Jacquire talked about creating 1+1 Management, the five tiers of an artist's professional team, mixing in UAD Luna, making music for META, why social media is important, and how to mix with delay & reverb.

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My guest today is Jacquire King, a Grammy-winning music producer, mixer, and engineer with over 13 billion streams and more than 35 Grammy nominations. His extensive credits include: Tom Waits, Kings of Leon, James Bay, Shania Twain, Modest Mouse, Smash Mouth, Norah Jones, Buddy Guy, Zach Bryan, Punch Brothers, Ingrid Michelson, Cold War Kids, City and Colour and many many more. And I’m going to quote from his great website bio: “Jacquire has just one gold record hanging in his studio. It’s Mule Variations by Tom Waits, a personal favorite in the mile-long list of critically acclaimed albums, multiple GRAMMY Awards, and national accolades he’s earned in more than 30 years as a sought-after recording engineer and producer.”

He grew up in the Washington, DC area, absorbing a rich mix of influences from reggae to punk rock. While his friends were forming hardcore bands, Jacquire was studying the noise, making cassette mixes, and learning to transform raw live music into a complex listening experience.

If he maintains one constant aesthetic in his work, it’s blending traditional recording artistry with emerging tools and technology. “Curiosity moves an art form forward, so I incorporate whatever gives the artist the freedom to create. I always want to be part of that evolution.”

Jacquire is committed to playing an active role in the recording industry’s next chapter, serving as an ambassador for new technology and acting as a frequent mentor to up-and-coming professionals. “I don’t have any studio secrets,” he said. “If I can help someone figure out their own combination of talent and technology, I want to do that. If I can give an artist a new tool to make something great, count me in.”

He has his own studio, The LBT, just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

Thank you to Matt Boudreau and Mark Rubel for connecting us - and for API putting us on the same golf team for the The Annual AudioMasters Benefit Golf Tournament for the Engineers Relief Fund. If deals really do get made on the golf course then this interview might be one of them!

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RSR434 - Pete Lyman, John Baldwin & Brandon Towles - Atmos Mixing & Mastering & Vinyl at Infrasonic Sound East

29 december 2023 | 116 min

How many engineers can you fit on a podcast? Pete, John and Brandon talked about the good and bad of a shared studio, Atmos mixing and mastering, how to make great bass, vinyl records, and why their worst day is better than most jobs' best days!

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My guests today are Pete Lyman, John Baldwin & Brandon Towles mixing, mastering, and cutting vinyl at Infrasonic Sound East here in Nashville.

Pete Lyman who has been a guest on episode RSR165 is a GRAMMY-nominated mastering engineer, and owner of Infrasonic Mastering, an audio and vinyl mastering studio with locations in Los Angeles, CA and Nashville, TN. Pete’s digital and vinyl mastering career spans thousands of titles with clients like Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile, Sturgill Simpson, John Prine, Weezer, Panic! At the Disco and more.

John Baldwin is a GRAMMY-nominated mastering engineer based in Nashville, TN. In 2010 John launched John Baldwin Mastering out of a studio he built in his house, eventually moving to Historic RCA Studio A. John joined the Infrasonic Mastering roster in 2021, bringing a wide spectrum of genres and skills, including restoring and remastering from vinyl and tape. His discography includes artists such as Nancy Sinatra, Deer Tick, Emmylou Harris, The Jesus Lizard, Sly Stone, The Stone Roses, Margo Price, Delta Spirit, and many others INCLUDING Twiggs II a record I produced at The Toy Box Studio.

Brandon Towles is a Mixing Engineer and Assistant/Engineer/All Around Good Guy to multi-Grammy winner F. Reid Shippen. Originally from Georgetown, KY, after traveling the country for a few years, Brandon landed in Nashville to work with Reid and Infrasonic Immersive. He has Co-Mixed and Assisted on projects for artists including Dierks Bentley, Keke Palmer, Parker McCollum, The Aces, Kenny Chesney, and many more. Outside of music, Brandon loves playing basketball, the Detroit Lions, and very, very short walks on the beach.

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RSR433 - Katrina Mae Stone - Writing and Producing Soul Pop For Sync in Film and TV

22 december 2023 | 123 min

RSR432 - Orlando Torres - Illegal Mixing Tips for Home Studio Pros

15 december 2023 | 132 min

How not to be invisible... Orlando talked about his successful mixing career despite growing up illegally in the US, calculating your flat mix rate, getting the best mix notes from an artist, networking tips, and how to mic timbales, congas, & bongos!

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My guest today is Orlando Torres a mixer/engineer based in the Los Angeles area who has worked with legendary musicians, including Abraham Laboriel, Joey DeFrancesco, Alex Acuña, Justo Almario, percussionist Ron Powell, Lee Rocker (Stray Cats) and Little Willie G. But he is equally proud of his work with up-and-coming local bands and artists.

Orlando has worked on television productions that include an Emmy nominated song for The Young And The Restless and ADR cutting for Law & Order. In 2019 he worked with Kobe Bryant at his Granity Studios as a recording engineer for Kobe’s ESPN Detail and as an audio editor for The Punies podcast.

He is also an active live sound engineer with experience in all genres including orchestral classical music and house of worship and works as a “Playback” engineer running backing tracks for Trace Adkins, Sheila E, Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes), Mary Mary, Alex Fernandez, The President’s Own Marine Chamber Orchestra and the Fox Network to name a few.

I met Orlando at our NAMM 2023 meetup and learned that he has a unique story which includes immigrating from Mexico with his family and becoming a naturalized citizen as part of his life and career journey. Today we will talk about the importance of networking and the challenges we all face in connecting with artists and musicians and how to overcome them even when faced with overwhelming obstacles.

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RSR431 - Ady Parzentny - Hit The Road Youtube Channel Recording Music Around The World

8 december 2023 | 152 min

RSR430 - Sam Sherbin - Mixing 808, Bass, and Pop Vocals for Top Producers in LA

1 december 2023 | 137 min

RSR429 - Jermaine Stegall - Composing Music For Film: Coming 2 America, Proximity, Praise

24 november 2023 | 121 min

Sometimes it's better to conform! Jermaine talked about hybrid composing music for film, making the music fit ever-shrinking film edits, switching to Cubase, how to create an orchestra in your home studio, and the secret to realistic-sounding scores.

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My guest today is Jermaine Stegall, a film composer and conductor. With over 50 projects to his credit, Jermaine most well-known for the score to “Coming 2 America”, the highly anticipated sequel to the Eddie Murphy classic, with Murphy, Arsenio Hall and James Earl-Jones all reprising their roles. Jermaine recently completed the score for "Praise This" for Universal Pictures. Other scoring and conducting assignments have included “Senior Year” (2022) for Paramount Pictures, and the upcoming film “Oracle” for Universal Pictures.

As a musical conductor, Stegall led a live string orchestra alongside Grammy-winning artist Tori Kelly at the televised 2019 ESPY Awards. A year prior, he conducted the orchestra to Camila Cabello’s performance of “Consequences” on ABC’s American Music Awards. In addition to scoring 2 seasons of "Our Star Wars Stories,” an original digital series from Lucasfilm and StarWars.com, in which host Jordan Hembrough uncovers heartfelt tales of fans and families who have found inspiration in the galaxy far, far away, Jermaine was also nominated for a MPSE Golden Reel Award for scoring the animated Netflix short film "Canvas" directed by Pixar's Frank Abney III.

Thank you to Chris James for the introduction!

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RSR428 - Nick Townsend and J Clark - Vinyl Vs Atmos Vs Sony 360RA Vs Chat GPT

17 november 2023 | 129 min

Cutting edge technology vs technically cutting edges... Nick and J talked about mixing and mastering vinyl records, Atmos vs Sony 260AR, how to listen to immersive audio, mixing for Halloween, old school vs modern low-end, and how to rescue a snare.

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My guests today are Nick Townsend and J Clark joining us from Infrasonic West in Los Angeles.

Nick Townsend’s musical prowess is rooted in the punk rock scene. He began drumming for punk bands at the age of 16, and has been playing professionally ever since. His trained ears, and passion for music production, is owed to recording bands in his grandmother’s garage. He attended the Audio Engineering School at Citrus College in Glendora, CA. He then landed his first audio job with Infrasonic Mastering in 2012 where he assisted Pete Lyman, while simultaneously learning the craft of vinyl mastering and lacquer cutting. Soon thereafter, he started his own Townsend Mastering until 2021 when he rejoined Infrasonic Los Angeles. Nick has mastered records for The Egyptian Lover, Militarie Gun, No Pressure, Fleshwater, Spanish Love Songs and many more, and specializes in vinyl mastering and lacquer cutting of over 2,000 vinyl records including artists such as Cheap Trick, Paramore, Weezer, Iron Maiden, Bad Religion, Garbage, Dr. Dre, 2pac, Grimes and more. His work can be identified by the hand scribed “NT” found on the lock groove of each vinyl.

J Clark is an engineer, mixer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, CA. He spent the majority of the late 90’s and 2000’s playing and touring in the bands Pretty Girls Make Graves, Killsadie, Jaguar Love, and Sharks Keep Moving. After moving to Los Angeles in 2010, he began composing music for ads and movies before expanding into post production; Re-Recording mixing, Sound Design, and Dialogue editing for film and television. In late 2020 he began mixing and mastering music in Dolby Atmos and Sony 360RA. His spatial credits include artists such as Jennifer Lopez, MK, The Hold Steady, Nelly, Nicky Jam, Marc Anthony, and many others. J’s studio was designed and built in collaboration with PMC Loudspeakers, Dolby Laboratories, and Sony Home Entertainment and boasts an impressive 24 speakers! It’s built to handle the present and future of multichannel sound for music, picture and gaming offering an 11.1.6 ATMOS and a 13.1 Sony360 array for the most precise playback and detail of your immersive projects.

Thanks to Raelynn Janicke for setting this interview up!

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RSR427 - Raelynn Janicke - Mastering Engineer and Manager at Infrasonics

10 november 2023 | 133 min

It's gotta slap to be right! Rae talked about mastering everything from pop to hard rock and punk to EDM and respecting the bass drop, how to master Atmos mixes, tips for managing a studio, when loudness matters, and the importance of level matching.

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My guest today is Raelynn Janicke, a mastering engineer and the studio manager for Infrasonic Mastering, based in Nashville, TN. Before joining Infrasonic in 2019, Raelynn worked at Tommy’s Tracks, where she fulfilled a variety of roles alongside owner Tommy Wiggins including mastering and archival. Raelynn has mastered and assisted on projects for The Shins, Kayla Hall, Nefesh Mountain, Talia Stewart, Big 50, and Eli Howard.

Raelynn got her Bachelor's Degree in Applied Arts and Sciences, with Concentrations in Audio Engineering and Computer Science, from The Rochester Institute of Technology. Much like her career thus far, Raelynn’s path to her degree was self-made. She was initially drawn to the practicality of a job in computer programming, but switched majors halfway through her program after assisting on a college a cappella record. From there, she discovered the school’s modest audio program, created an individualized degree, and threw in minors in history and music technology, just to keep things interesting.

Raelynn brings this level of enthusiasm and exploration to every project she works on at Infrasonic Mastering, both as manager and engineer.

She describes herself on her website as a “Mastering Engineer Who Loves Tacos and Is Taller Than Danny Devito.” Thanks to F Reid Shippen for connecting us.

Today we will talk about the tech meets art of mastering, running a busy multi room facility, Atmos immersive audio, and how AI in mastering could affect our future of music.

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RSR426 - David Vignola - Home Recording and Mixing Made Easy!

3 november 2023 | 130 min

RSR425 - Joe Pisapia - Producing Guster, Ben Folds, and KD Lang in a Home Studio

27 oktober 2023 | 135 min

The standard guitar tuning is only a suggestion! Joe talked about Mellotron, Cubase and Pro Tools, creative guitar tunings, recording piano and drums, training your ear for eq, headphones vs speakers, home studios and the sound of drywall vs volume.

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My guest today is Joe Pisapia a singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work as a member of Guster and k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang. He co-produced and co-wrote Guster’s 2006 release, Ganging Up On the Sun, an album that cracked Billboard’s Top 25 and was one of the best selling internet albums of the year. He did the same on the band’s 2010 Easy Wonderful. He produced and penned the title track for Lang’s 2011 album, Sing It Loud, and acted as music director for the accompanying tour.

As a producer and mixer Joes credits include: Ben Folds Five’s, The Hush Kids, Zac Clark, Drew Holcolmb, Chuck Mead, Josh Rouse, Courtney Jaye, Matt Wertz, William Tyler, The Silver Seas and The Pierces and when the Grammy Award-winning band Fun needed orchestral recording for its Grammy performance, they called on Joe.

Originally from New Jersey Joe moved to Nashville with his band Joe Mark’s Brother in the 90s with whom he has made beautiful sounding records and Joe has continued to record as a solo artist producing from his own studio Middle Tree in East Nashville.

His 2002 release Daydreams was given four stars and called “stellar” by AllMusic.com. Ron Sexsmith called 2015’s Nightvision, “amazing” and the “best thing” he’s “heard in a long time.”

In 2016 Pisapia collaborated with singer/ songwriter Kate York for the duet E.P. “Kate York And Joe Pisapia.” and in 2018 Joe released two full length solo albums. “Connection” and “Cosmic Christmas”.

In 2019 Pisapia recorded his first instrumental album, “Imbolc.” For a 2020 release of the album, he made music “videos,” which consisted of him making some of his favorite comfort foods. Joe also produced much of, and mixed all of Pam Tillis’ “Looking For A Feeling.” Tillis cut Pisapia’s song “Better Friends,” which was originally released on his solo album, “Connection.” NPR’s Ann Powers singled out Tillis’ version of “Better Friends” calling it a “quintessential country song.” Also in 2019 Joe produced Jillette Johnson’s “It’s A Beautiful Day And I Love You,” and was part of the live ensemble whom recorded the album “Outside Child” by Allison Russell, produced by Dan Knobler which Joe described as “tantamount to a holy experience.”

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RSR424 - Joe Gilder - How To Write Songs and Record Vocals In Your Home Studio

20 oktober 2023 | 121 min

RSR423 - Andris Zemmers - JZ Microphones What You Need To Know

13 oktober 2023 | 127 min

RSR422 - F Reid Shippen - Mixing Tips, using AI and Atmos!

6 oktober 2023 | 139 min

Fully concentrating while mixing is a bad idea! Reid talked about the future of mixing with AI, why the role of music producer will survive the tech, how much cooler Atmos is over stereo mixes, and how to make your vocals and drums sounds amazing!

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My guest today is F. Reid Shippen a multiple Grammy Award-winning mixer, engineer, and record producer, whose credits include 10 Grammy Award-winning albums and over 100 #1 singles and artists such as Ingrid Michaelson, Kenny Chesney, India.Arie, Cage the Elephant, Little Big Town, CeCe Winans, Steven Tyler, Colony House, Lucie Silvas, Jessie Reyez, and Dierks Bentley.

He has previously served as co-chair of the Producers & Engineers Wing of NARAS, and currently serves as the Chief Creative Officer for the music production house, The Music Playground. As an advocate for music education, Shippen teaches a class at Middle Tennessee State University where we were classmates in audio school, and is a co-founder of SongFarm, a creative-centered charity that focuses on providing creative curricula for secondary schools. He currently works out of his private Robot Lemon studio, located in the Green Hills area of Nashville.

Reid has been on the podcast a few times already to talk about recording and mixing. And today we will dig into some more mixing tips and maybe even talk about mixing in Atmos.

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RSR421 - Mark Prentice - From The Meat Puppets to the Fairfield Four as Nashville Session Bass Player

29 september 2023 | 128 min

"You're the cat on the date!" Mark talked about session mindset with Hall Blaine, vocal arranging for the Fairfield Four, a Meat Puppets session in Pheonix, how to play the right bass note, why your headphones matter, and how to rock online sessions.

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My guest today is Mark Prentice, a Grammy-winning Record Producer, studio musician, music director, and hit songwriter. His versatile and exhaustive music industry resume includes recording and performance credits with renowned County Artists as well as various Internationally known Pop, R&B, and Rock-n-Roll Artists, including: Elvis Costello, John Fogarty, Jonathan Cain, Desmond Child, The Fairfield Four, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, BJ Thomas, Frankie Miller, Delbert McClinton, Ricky Skaggs, Olivia Newton-John, Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Johnny Cash, Don McLean, Crystal Gayle, Kevin Griffin (Better Than Ezra), Jennifer Nettles, Michael McDonald, Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt, Bruce Hornsby, Felix Cavaliere, The Young Rascals, Charley Pride, Allison Morer, Sam Moore, Billy Preston, Ben E. King, Michelle Wright, Jennifer Hanson, John Oates, Pat Boone, Patti Page, Lady Antebellum, Rodney Atkins, Chuck Wicks, Paulette Carlson, Bruce Cockburn, Holly Williams, Bo Diddley, Mitch Ryder, others.

I met Mark in the past couple years through mutual friends who gather to talk about music, life, and what the hell just happened to music and the world recently, and when I was invited to the annual Christmas party and saw how Mark could sit at the piano and play any song just by thinking about how should probably go I knew I was in the company of some serious musical talent.

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RSR420 - Todd Lombardo - Playing Guitar with Kacey Musgraves and Lera Lynn

22 september 2023 | 135 min

RSR419 - Hugh Macdonald aka Fairhazel - Killer Tips for Home Studio Songwriting Production and Video Creation

15 september 2023 | 143 min

My fingers are in tons of pies! Hugh talked about songwriting from dusty notes, Monty Python animations, shooting music videos, piezo mics for guitars, creating sounds from voice memos, pushing through writer's block, and podcast editing for money.

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My guest today is Hugh Macdonald aka Fairhazel a British/South African singer songwriter, artist, and producer born in Brighton but raised in London, Cape Town and Paris. Hugh left Berklee College of Music in Boston in 2018 returning to London to work with Communion Music under the name Fairhazel, releasing his first single 7x7 in February 2018 to critical acclaim. Roisin O’Connor of The Independent described it as having "tender, whispering vocals that recall the likes of Villagers, Ben Howard and Sufjan Stevens”. Inspired by artists France Gall, Harry Nilsson and Andy Shauf among others, Fairhazel has established himself as a musical storyteller blurring the lines between fiction and true stories.

At his Los Angeles studio, he works on creating all aspects of his music himself from songwriting to arrangement, production, and engineering. He also frequently produces and mixes music, primarily rock, folk, jazz, pop and soul. Although Fairhazel is a solo venture, a band often accompanies him at shows and he has opened for Agnes Obel, Banfi and Astræa. Recently he played Whispering Bob Harris's Under the Apple Tree, and featured thrice on the lineup of the Counting Crows Underwater Sunshine Festival. As well as the Fairhazel project, Hugh runs a monthly live music event with his wife, Danielle, soon to be growing into a day long monthly festival. Hugh and Danielle also direct, shoot and edit music videos for independent artists.

I met Hugh back in 2019 when he came through Nashville at 21 years old and we did a live stream for our Youtube channel where Hugh wrote a song on the spot using lyrics from you Rockstars in the comments and everything was recorded on the Roswell Pro Audio Delphos and Colares mics. And Hugh has since worked with me a couple of years as the head videographer for our NAMM videos in Anaheim CA.

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RSR418 - Chuck Ainlay - The Future of Immersive Audio, Dire Straits, Peter Frampton, METalliance & Country Music

8 september 2023 | 167 min

Give it all you've got because that might be all they get! Chuck talked about Nashville history, mixing "Money For Nothing", how to record acoustic and vocals, and why your favorite microphones could change in the future of mixing for immersive audio.

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My guest today is Chuck Ainlay, a four time Grammy winner with Ten ACM, Two CMA’s Awards & Two Tech Awards. Chuck has over thirty five hundred credits to his name, including work with legendary and defining country music artists such as; George Strait, Miranda Lambert, Steve Earle, Lee Ann Womack, Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris and The Chicks.

Chuck has placed his distinctive production and engineering stamp on projects with more mainstream artists such as Dire Straits and nearly the entire solo career of Mark Knopfler as well as Peter Frampton, Taylor Swift, Lionel Richie, Ann Wilson, James Taylor, Jewel, Bob Seger, Pentatonix and Sheryl Crow.

His work in immersive mixing has resulted in ground-breaking projects such as the 25th and 35th anniversary remix of Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive and the Grammy award-winning 20th anniversary remix of the Dire Straits album Brothers In Arms.

He is currently serving as Trustee for the Nashville chapter of the Recording Academy and numerous terms as a Governor. He has chaired the Nashville P&E Wing and is the current Co-Chair the Recording Academy P&E Wing National Steering committee. Chuck has been a co-author of the majority of the P&E Wing Guidelines and recommendations. Chuck is also currently on the board of directors for the Country Music Association. Belmont University awarded Chuck with the Robert E. Mulloy Award of Excellence.

Chuck is a founding member of the METalliance, committed to promoting standards of quality in the art and science of recorded music through education and product certification.

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RSR417 - Joakeem Gaston - Home Studio Production with iZotope

1 september 2023 | 146 min

Nothing is bigger than you! Joakeem (our youngest guest yet) talked about producing Hip-Hop-J-Dilla-Haitian-Komba music, midi studio signal flow, AI studio assistants, why you need Twitch & Discord, and a thorough breakdown of iZotope plugins & apps.

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My guest today is Joakeem Gaston a Boston-born musician, producer and photographer growing up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and a graduate of the Full Sail recording program. As a first-generation American of Haitian immigrants, Joakeem was exposed to a variety of artists, music and people. Hearing different languages and different genres were hand in hand with his upbringing. Through his networking skills he learned in High School he was able to land at iZotope where he worked on the Customer Care and Artist Relations team.

I met Joakeem through his time working with iZotope and we got to connect at AES 2022 when I heard some of the cool vocal featured groove-based music he was creating. Joakeem is both musically and technically proficient in creating music on the computer so I thought it would be a great opportunity to learn more about some of the cool things that he learned at iZotope and talk about how he is making his tracks. I use iZotope all the time (and a ton for this podcast) but I also know there are many other musical uses we could learn about.

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RSR416 - Tom Lord-Alge aka TLA - Answers All Your Mixing Questions!

25 augusti 2023 | 138 min

Does your mix need a spanking? Tom talked about mixing on SSL consoles and the UF8 & UC-1, why Pro Tools works great for mixing, how to get a bigger chorus, set up your monitors, how to create a killer snare, and the secret to nailing your vocal mix!

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My guest today is Tom Lord-Alge aka TLA a Multi Grammy winning mixer who started out as a young engineer in New York like his older brother Chris Lord Alge. Tom began his career as a touring lighting director before being thrown into the FOH seat when the original FOH engineer went ill.

After 5 years of touring, Tom moved his focus to studio work and with his brother Chris worked at Unique Recording in New York. Then he was the resident mixer at what used to be known as "South Beach Studios", located on the ground floor of the Marlin Hotel in Miami Beach Florida.

TLA received two Grammy Awards for his work on Steve Winwood's Back in the High Life (1986), and Roll with It (1988), both winning in the 'Best Engineered Recording – Non-Classical' category. His third Grammy was for Santana's Supernatural (1999), which won Album of the Year.

Tom has mixed records for U2, Simple Minds, The Rolling Stones, Pink, Peter Gabriel, OMD, Sarah McLachlan, Dave Matthews Band, Blink-182, Avril Lavigne, Hanson, Sum 41, Live, The Wallflowers, Weezer, Manic Street Preachers, New Found Glory, Story of the Year and Marilyn Manson, among others.

He now resides in Austin Texas where he has built 2 mixing rooms. SPANK Studios ATX houses TLA's SSL 4064G+ console and ORG Studios ATX houses TLA’s SSL Origin console.

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RSR415 - Jacob Light - Modern Tone Studios & Music School

18 augusti 2023 | 139 min

So comfy luck can't find you? Jacob talked about beating imposter syndrome, building a commercial studio with a staff of session musicians and teachers, how to get great vocal, guitar, and drum recordings, and how to be super organized in business!

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My guest today is Jacob Light a musician, record producer, and audio engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been playing, writing, performing and recording music with bands and solo artists on stage and in the studio for 25 years. He has been credited on hundreds of commercial recordings for his work as a producer, engineer, guitarist, bassist, vocalist, songwriter, and arranger.

Jacob is the founder, owner, musical director, and head engineer of ModernTone - a full-service recording studio and music education facility in Lafayette, CA. Jacob runs the studio with his team of pro session musicians, producers, audio engineers, and educators. Together they cater to recording artists, bands, aspiring musicians and music students of all ages and levels. Driven by their love of music, they aim to provide professional instruction, guidance, and support that empower people to realize and fulfill their potential and achieve their musical dreams.

I met with Jacob at NAMM 2022 and we got to hang out my the poolside bar and talk studio stuff. He had emailed me about the podcast and how it helped him put himself out there through his studio and production and getting over imposter syndrome, not to mention surviving musically through the 2020-2022 years.

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RSR414 - Wilson Harwood - Soundproof Your Home Studio

11 augusti 2023 | 139 min

RSR413 - Kevin Paul - Home Studio Mixing Advice (Depeche Mode, Kinks, David Bowie, Nick Cave, Goldfrapp)

4 augusti 2023 | 135 min

RSR412 - Colin Scharf - How to Grant Fund Your Record and Home Studio!

28 juli 2023 | 121 min

Find the universal in the specific! Colin talked about writing grant proposals for records, organizing local show live albums, drum edits, and mixing templates in Logic Pro X, and how to create cool vocal harmonies in a "rock-in" closet home studio.

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My guest today is Colin Scharf a songwriter, producer, filmmaker, author, event organizer, occasional actor, and English professor living in Mankato, Minnesota.

He moved from NYC to Mankato Minnesota and has an indie rock band with his wife called Good Night Gold Dust. Conlin has been on the podcast before to talk about his discovery of this podcast in 2020 and how it helped him make his best record ever to produce his first major album: a holiday compilation featuring musicians from my city performing standard and original songs.

Colin has also produced over a dozen short films and starred as Buddy Holly in the biographical musical Buddy! The Buddy Holly Story (2016, 2022). He is the recipient of numerous arts grants, including a 2021 Minnesota State Arts Board grant, and the author of two young adult novels.

In February 2021, Colin officially opened Gold Mine Studios. Since then, he has produced numerous albums, EPs, and singles for local bands, including the Golden Hour Live Album, which features live recordings of 14 Mankato-area artists that performed during Colin’s summer 2022 Golden Hour Concert Series. Colin has also produced promotional videos for the Mankato chapter of the American Lung Association and Open Arts Minnesota’s Aktion Club Theater.

Colin is also producing the debut albums for his new band Silver Summer and his wife Laura’s all-girl band Given Names. These albums will be released on Precious Metals Records, the DIY label Colin founded to help keep track of his and his friends’ musical endeavors. “At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what sort of project Colin is involved with; he just wants to create and help others create great art.”

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RSR411 - Nick Bullock - How to Get a Great Vocal Production

21 juli 2023 | 130 min

Vocal production starts with a hand-shake! Nick talked about the secret to a great vocal performance, mixing with the SSL UF8 and Neve Satellite, building a barn studio, running a studio business successfully, and how to mix the perfect vocal track!

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My guest today is Nick Bullock a Nashville based producer, engineer, musician, and artist.

One of the many things I was taught as a young man was to follow my curiosity. That curiosity led me to music school, to my band of ten years (and over fifteen hundred shows worldwide), and to my love of recording today. It leads me to ask questions even when I felt stupid asking them. Each and every one of those questions, and the discoveries that came afterwards have led to a wonderful life and relationship with music, and the artists I work with. Following that curiosity is one of the main reasons I'm still in love with music and recording.

Every day I do my best to live by some pretty simple principles; be honest, be present, try to learn something new, help others dig deep to be the best version of themselves they can be, and when in doubt, always reference a Beatles or Stones song (not kidding).

So here I am, living in Nashville, TN, married to the love of my life, Meredith (also an amazing visual artist) with three incredible (and curious) boys. I get to make music every day in one of the greatest studios in the world. Each day is a gift. I'm eternally grateful that I get to create music with some of the best people in the world.

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RSR410 - Dan Pfeifer - Audio Professor of Engineering and Production at MTSU

14 juli 2023 | 151 min

Would you say no to a session with Bono and Edge? Dan talked about working at Memphis Sound Productions, recording B.B. King & Paul Schaffer, writing manuals for API, mixing with SSL, and teaching at one of the top recording colleges in Nashville TN.

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My guest today is Dan Pfeifer a professor in the Department of Recording Industry and Graduate Faculty Member at Middle Tennessee State University, and a native of Louisville, Kentucky. He got his Bachelor of Music degree from Middle Tennessee State University in 1983 and Master of Arts degree from the University of Memphis in 1987 with an emphasis in audio engineering and music production.

Before to coming to MTSU, Dan worked professionally as an audio engineer and producer, working with artists that include B.B. King, ZZ Top, Albert Collins, Al Green, Jerry Lee Lewis, and many others. He has also served as 2nd Vice President and member of the Board of Governors for the Memphis Chapter of the NARAS, and he is a voting member of the Recording Academy and a professional member of the Audio Engineering Society.

Dan has received many awards including the MTSU Alumni Association True Blue Citation of Distinction for MTSU Faculty, the MTSU Distinguished Achievement in Creative Activity Award, the Tennessee Board of Regents Academic Excellence and Quality Award, the MTSU Outstanding Teacher Award, and the Recording Industry Outstanding Alumni Award for University Service, and was inducted into the MTSU Band of Blue Hall of Fame.

But most significantly for this interview, Dan was my audio teacher 30 years ago when I was at MTSU as an undergraduate student learning the basics of audio and recording. Dan taught me with a black board and three recording studios everything audio including the difference between various types of microphones, audio signal flow, the science of sound and hearing, flow charts for mixing consoles, and how to align an analog tape machine. Basically, Dan was the first teacher in my life to teach me stuff that would carry forward to change my life and career and inspire me to make records for 30 years. And the only part I regret is making those stupid bubble charts to represent audio mixes. You know the ones with a big bubble for the kick drum and a little bubble for the hi hat. "Writing (or drawing) about music is like dancing about architecture."

This episode is dedicated to Ben Morton my classmate from MTSU. Ben may your bass have six strings on it in heaven and may you never have to change them again.

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RSR409 - Shawn Everett - How To Produce Music Like A Painter

7 juli 2023 | 121 min

RSR408 - Bryan Cook - Mixing Advice for Pro Tools in the Box

30 juni 2023 | 125 min

RSR407 - Justin Perkins - Mastering Plugins and Samply.app Tour

23 juni 2023 | 138 min

Replace the Replacements? Justin talked about delivering mixes and masters with Samply, remastering Can’t Hardly Wait by the Replacements, the best plugins you can use for mastering, fixed-level monitoring, and mastering with speakers and headphones.

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My guest today is Justin Perkins a mastering engineer in Madison, Wisconsin with Mystery Room Mastering who has worked on remastering projects for The Replacements, En Vogue, Ol’Dirty Bastard, Busta Rhymes, Jason Mraz, and mastering projects for Michael Franti & Spearhead, North Mississippi Allstars, Tommy Stinson, Lydia Loveless The Gaslight Anthem, G. Love, Screeching Weasel, The Figgs, and thousands of other independent bands and artists around the world.

Justin also masters nearly all the content for The License Lab which is a library music company based in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and does a monthly livestream for Steinberg Media to help both new and current users of WaveLab Pro get a better understanding of how to use it. And he has also written a number of articles for the popular website The Pro Audio Files on the topic mastering, preparing for mastering, and an overview of what types of master files you may need for various release formats.

Check out episode RSR303 for my previous interview with Justin about his background in mastering.

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RSR406 - Damian Taylor - Mixing, Production, Synths, and Speakers

16 juni 2023 | 140 min

Where is the attack of a bass anyway? Damian talked about wireframing production, mixing on small speakers, Pro Tools editing by hand, recording modular synths, pen and paper producing, how to get wide bass, and why you don't need no stinking mono!

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My guest today is Damian Taylor a 10 x Grammy nominated producer, engineer, and mixer best known for his work with Bjork, The Prodigy, The Killers, Arcade Fire, UNKLE, TR/ST, Odette, The Temper Trap, City of the Sun, and Dizzy and recently for Bomba Estéreo’s album “Deja” picking up 4 nominations between the Anglo and Latin Grammys, including an album of the year nomination at the Latins. Damian has also been a guest on the podcast previously for episode RSR316 where we talked about his background in recording.

Damian hosts an online community The Complete Producer Network is a positive and supportive place for folks to talk about all aspects of creating and releasing music at www.completeproducer.net and there are a few music production programs within the network.

The Mix Accelerator Process is all about ensuring your vision and creativity are in the driving seat when you mix. The Beats Accelerator Process establishes the foundations of instant creativity through a drum programming and practice system. Damian’s Online Studio makes the community, learning, networking and collaborative aspects of multi-room studio facilities available in an online format for people anywhere in the world.

Thanks so much to Colin Ramsay at GPS Management for making our introduction.

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RSR405 - Larry Crane - Audio Restoration & Mixing Advice for the Home Studio

9 juni 2023 | 140 min

RSR404 - Collin Dupuis - Philosophy and Techniques for Mixing in Pro Tools

2 juni 2023 | 151 min

RSR403 - Vance Powell - Answers All Your Questions About Mixing and Atmos

26 maj 2023 | 154 min

RSR402 - Stephen Shirk - Console, Tape, and Ribbons in Chicago

19 maj 2023 | 139 min

Gloria Estefan was right! Stephen talked about Sphere and the history of American consoles, Smoky Joe amps, printing fx plugins, recording drums, acoustic, and electric guitars, deconstructing your tape machine alignment, and stereo ribbon mics.

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My guest today is Stephen Shirk an Engineer, Co-Producer and Musician. Stephen has been a guest on the podcast back on episode RSR272 when he talked about his background and starting Shirk Studios in Chicago restoring a beautiful Sphere console and building a dedicated space for recording full bands to analog tape.

“CONSOLE: 1976 Sphere Eclipse A - Discrete Inline Console. 32 Channels - 24 Mic Pres - 16 + 8 busses (24 outputs during recording) - With Eight 920 EQ’s and twenty four 910 EQ’s - Reichenbach input and Jensen output transformers give the console a punchy tone that defines the pinnacle of the 70’s American console design. Balanced Line Input mod features Cinemag Transformers and Discrete GAR6220 Op Amps (SPA62).”

In 2019 Stephen open up the studio to Recording Studio Rockstars for a weekend mixing clinic with Anthony Gravino which was a blast! We had Rockstars traveling overnight on the bus from Canada and flying in from New York state just to be there and were able to listen to everyones music and offer feedback. Today we will catch up and see whats new at Shirk studio and learn more about how Stephen is recording and mixing such great sounding records. Thanks again to Anthony Gravino for the introduction.

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RSR401 - John Mayfield - Mixing Advice From Mayfield Mastering

12 maj 2023 | 131 min

Is it bad to print your mix offline? John talked about the importance of arrangement, mastering dynamics in your mix, the Fletcher Munson curve, listening loud and quiet, crest factor, customer care, and why some plugins are different every time!

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My guest today is John Mayfield a mastering engineer with over 50 years of experience and owner of Mayfield Mastering in Berry Hill. Originally a career musician, John turned to recording and mixing in the 80s travelling to studios all over the world. He has also been a guest on episode RSR036.

Originally a successful touring and studio musician John started out in the studio recording and then mixing all over the world finally settling on Nashville to start his own mastering studio. Dave Matthews Band, Sara Evans, Kathy Mattea, Naturally 7, Warner Brothers Records and Universal Music Group-UK, to list a few.

John notes on his website that everyone in music is trying to figure out what is next and define the new business model. Since records are being made more often by independent sources with smaller budgets that cannot always afford the high dollar mixer the need for quality mastering is very much in demand. “Music will always be a part of our lives. Maintaining and improving the quality of that music has always been at the heart of my efforts. It is not a job to me, but rather a true joy, You would be amazed at what we can do with a project in mastering that might not have been an A+ mix.”

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RSR400 - Bill & Michael Szymczyk - Producing Hotel California for The Eagles on the Historic MCI Console

5 maj 2023 | 119 min

"Made Loud To Be Played Loud!" Bill talked about recording with his son Michael, how to create cinematographic drums, single mic vocal stacking with The Eagles, producing demos on a boat, how to record great rock guitars, and singing at 8000 feet.

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My guest today is Bill Szymczyk (and his son Mike Szymczyk) a Grammy-winning and multi-nominated American music producer and engineer best known for producing Hotel California by The Eagles. He produced many top albums and singles of the 1970s, though–aside from continuing to work with Joe Walsh–he retired from the music business by 1990 re-emerging in the late 2000s for select projects including the 2007 Eagles album Long Road Out of Eden and the 2008 eponymous debut of Brian Vander Ark.

Unlike many music producers, Szymczyk has no background as a musician. He was originally a sonar operator for the U.S. Navy and took some audio production classes as part of his Navy training. Besides his work with the Eagles, he has produced hit songs and albums for such diverse artists as B.B. King, Joe Walsh, The James Gang, and Elvin Bishop.

Thanks to Rick Carson with Make Believe Studio for making our introduction, and to Jonathan Roye.

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RSR399 - Billy Decker - How To Mix A Song Fast & Great Every Time

28 april 2023 | 116 min

Delete most of those damn tracks before you mix! Billy talked about narrowing the drum and guitar mics down to the essentials for mixing, his vocal chain, bass eq roll-off, designing the perfect mixing chain plugins, and how mixing mono can help you.

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My guest today is Billy Decker aka The Deckerator is an award winning Nashville mixing engineer known for his efficient and effective mixing method.

He’s mixed 16 Billboard #1”s to date such as Dustin Lynch’s “Riding Roads” and notable artists as Sam Hunt, Chris Young, Rodney Atkins, Parmalee, Colt Ford, and the metal band Starset to name just a few. He also mixed George Jones’s last album before he passed. Billy Decker made history in July of 2014 when Sam Hunt became the most added new artist of all time.

Decker works in a unique way. “I mix really fast. Most of my mixes are finished within an hour. To be able to do this, I use a lot of templates in pro tools. Instead of spending two hours EQing a kick drum I can do it in thirty seconds, because I have set up templates for the album that outline all the basic parameters for each instrument. I can then work on fine tuning - working on the entire mix, rather than focusing on individual adjustments. It’s a good way to work. It’s fast efficient and most importantly it’s fun."

He has been on the show recently for episode RSR281 and is also now a published author for his book “Template Mixing and Mastering: The Ultimate Guide to Achieving a Professional Sound” and has created a series of mixing plugins called the Bus Glue Billy Decker Bundle over at Joey Sturgis Tones.

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RSR398 - Sean Sullivan - Recording Acoustic String Bands (Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers, Del McCoury, John Prine, & The Black Keys)

21 april 2023 | 140 min

RSR397 - Adam Greenspan - Recording Bloc Party & Mixing With Guitar Pedals in Pro Tools

14 april 2023 | 132 min

RSR396 - Joe Costa - Recording at Sound Emporium & Mixing in The Box with Ben Folds and Caitlin Rose

7 april 2023 | 127 min

RSR395 - Bobby Owsinski - Answers All Your Mixing Questions

31 mars 2023 | 124 min

Mix with your ears closed! Bobby talked about mixing using only visual meters, why playlist mixes are the new radio mixes, immersive audio, simple home studio sound treatments, mixing in headphones, and how to take your mix from muddy to magnificent.

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My guest today is Bobby Owsinski a Producer/engineer and one of the best selling authors in the music industry with 24 books that are now staples in audio recording, music, and music business programs in colleges around the world, including The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook, Social Media Promotion For Musicians, and The Music Business Advice Book.

He’s also a contributor to Forbes as a category expert on the new music business, his long-running production and music industry blogs have won numerous industry awards, and he’s appeared on CNN and ABC News as a music branding and audio expert.

Bobby’s highly-rated Inner Circle podcast is now in its 9th year, with more than 400 episodes that feature mover and shaker guests from all parts of the music industry. He’s also recently produced and mixed albums that appeared at #2 on the Billboard Blues Chart and #5 on the Apple Music Rock Chart. And his new book update is out Mixing Engineers Handbook Fifth Edition.

Bobby has been a guest on the podcast on episode RSR010.

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RSR394 - Josh Harris - Producing Dance Music in Studio One and Healthy Studio Lifestyle

24 mars 2023 | 130 min

We need more kettlebell! Josh talked about mixing in Studio One so your song sounds like a finished record, a healthy studio lifestyle and working routine, understanding compression, mixing dance kick and bass, and producing in Poland and Romania.

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My guest today is Josh Harris an internationally known producer, composer, engineer, remixer and music industry educator. His credits include top artists like Seal, Madonna, The Killers, and James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem). His corporate clients include NBC, ABC, MTV, VH1 and USA Network. Classically trained as a pianist and composer, he has always focused on fusing different musical genres, resulting in memorable songs and productions that stay with you long after the first listen.

No stranger to working with major label recording artists, in 2008, Josh toured with Grammy award winning artist, Seal, as his musical director and keyboardist. In both 2007 and 2008, Josh received nominations from the International Dance Music Association (IDMA) for best remixer. In 2011, he engineered a remix of "Orpheus" (Quiet Carnival), by Sergio Mendes, that was nominated for a Grammy.

In addition to being a contributing composer for California-based music library, 21 South, Josh spends his time working on several original projects: 2 Saol, Room 111, Kosca.

Thank you to Roger Nichols for the introduction. Josh has been a guest on the show before on episode RSR054 talked about his musical background and has even joined me to teach mixing clinics both online and in person. Today we will talk about what's new in the studio and dive into some mixing and production advice for the home studio.

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RSR393 - Warren Huart - Home Studio Advice From Produce Like A Pro

17 mars 2023 | 102 min

Don't be afraid to grab the guitar when engineering! Warren talked about choosing the right mic for your studio, why modern mics sound so clean, giving back to the community, the future of the clicktrack, TEC award, the Beatles, and session players.

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My guest today is Warren Huart an English record producer, musician, composer and recording engineer based in Los Angeles, California who is most associated as a music producer and/or engineer in the recording industry as a multi-platinum producer for The Fray, Daniel Powter, Marc Broussard, Trevor Hall, Korn, Better Than Ezra, James Blunt, Matisyahu, Ace Frehley, Aerosmith and Howie Day.

His film and television credits include Inglourious Basterds, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, MTV’s The Hills, Lost, Scrubs, and Grey’s Anatomy. Huart is the owner of Spitfire Studio in Los Angeles, California, and runs a DIY YouTube Channel called "Produce Like a Pro" with over 670,000 subscribers worldwide. Warren is also an audio educator, and he won the 2019 NAMM TEC Awards for Audio Education Technology for his Produce Like a Pro website.

He has been a guest on the show on episode RSR064 talking about his background and recording tips like finding the best snare drum for rock and roll. I even had a chance to stop by his home studio in Laurel Canyon for a studio tour video in 2017. And today we will keep talking about whats new in the studio and mixing.

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RSR392 - Wessel Oltheten - Understanding Sound and Emotion in Mixing and Mastering

10 mars 2023 | 131 min

RSR391 - William Wittman - Production Expert Creator Producing Vocals & Mixing Remotely

3 mars 2023 | 119 min

Can't have Too Much Joy in the studio? William talked about best practices for producing and recording vocals and guitars over the internet, mixing in Pro Tools like a console, Slate Raven, Stream Deck, Sound Flow, drums and his mix bus template.

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My guest today is William Wittman, a Grammy Award-winning independent Producer/Engineer/Musician/Songwriter based in New York. He began his career as a musician and moved from there into work as a studio engineer and producer. He held the position of Chief Engineer at several major recording studios. As Producer and Engineer, his credits include the multi–platinum debuts from Cyndi Lauper, Joan Osborne, the Hooters, and The Outfield.

His success as an independent producer led to several years as an A&R Vice President and Staff Producer at two major record labels (Sony/Columbia and BMG/RCA). As a musician, he has appeared on nationally televised shows including The Late Show with David Letterman, the Rosie O’Donnell Show, CBS Late Late Show, Ellen Degeneres, the NBC Christmas Tree Lighting Special, and New Year’s Eve in Times Square.

He has also played and sung with many of the artists he has recorded and is a member of alternative rock band Too Much Joy (Giant/Discovery/Sire Records). He now plays bass guitar in the Cyndi Lauper Band, recording and touring internationally, and also serves as the Musical Director.

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RSR390 - Michael Brauer - Brauerize ITB and Mixing With Emotion

24 februari 2023 | 134 min

"Sonically good without the sonic soul is crap!" Michael talked about why it's the emotional stuff, not the technical stuff that makes a great mix, how to understand multi-bus mix compression, why plugins are fun, and mixing in Atmos on headphones.

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My guest today is Michael Brauer a Grammy-winning New York mix engineer. His many credits include "Best Pop Vocal Album" for John Mayer's Continuum, "Best Alternative Album" for Coldplay's Parachutes, and also "Best Rock Album" for Coldplay's "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends". Other artists include The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Jeff Buckley, David Byrne, Paul McCartney, Ben Folds, KT Tunstall, and Martha Wainwright. He also invented the technique known as 'Brauerizing', in which mixes are routed through multiple compressors and busses to create a blended sound. And he is a co-founder of Mix With The Masters which has been running for over a decade.

Michael has been a guest on the show previously to talk about his background in music and mixing so please chack out that episode at RSR300. And at that time he had relocated outside the heart of the city in NY to settle into his home studio for mixing. He also completed his journey of migrating his mix template over from a hybrid setup to a full “in the box” method with the help of his engineer Fernando Reyes. Michael created a fantastic course on Puremix.net called Brauerize ITB to teach his mixing setup so you can recreate the whole thing in your home studio if you choose.

So I am excited to have Michael joining us to talk about his philosophy of mixing and the migration over to mixing “in the box”.

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RSR389 - Danny Reisch - Producing & Mixing Tele Novella, Local Natives, White Denim, and Shearwater

17 februari 2023 | 131 min

RSR388 - Dave Schiffman - Recording with Rick Rubin, Red Hot Chili Peppers, System Of A Down, and Strumbellas

10 februari 2023 | 118 min

Nashville tuning for rock guitars? Dave talked about shooting out vocal mics, recording overheads from the drummer's perspective, mixing the Jayhawks for Rick Rubin, starting at Oceanway Studios, click tracks, perfect hand claps, and mixing in Atmos.

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My guest today is Dave Schiffman a Grammy winner and Multi–Platinum selling producer, mixer, and engineer came up the ranks as Rick Rubin’s engineer. Together they produced monster hits such as Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ‘Californication’, System Of A Down’s ‘Toxicity’, which reached # 1 on Billboard, certified double platinum, and earned multiple awards and nominations. They also produced ‘Hypnotize’ which once again hit Billboard #1 and led the band to be the first-ever rock outfit to have two #1 LPs in one year.

Dave’s production and mixes have topped the charts recently with The Strumbellas Hope from which the single ‘Spirits’ hit #1 on the Billboard Alternative charts, took home the Juno Award for Single of the Year (2016), received an iHeart Radio’s Best New Artist nomination, and won Much Music’s Best Alternative Video. Dave produced Pup’s 2019 ‘Morbid Stuff’ which debuted #1 on multiple Billboard charts including Rock, Heatseekers, Alternative, and Independent Albums – it also landed at #14 on Billboard top 200 charts. The album went on to be shortlisted for the prestigious Canadian Juno Award for Album of The Year. Dave has also worked on Smashing Pumpkins’ latest album CYR, The Killers’ critically acclaimed LP Imploding The Mirage, Grammy Award-winning album Father Of The Bride by Vampire Weekend, and Haim’s Days Are Gone, which reached #2 on both the Billboard top Rock and Alternative charts.

Thank you to Kelle Musgrave Glanzbergh at Linear Management for the introduction.

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RSR387 - Paul Wolff - Designing Immersive Analog Consoles and Studio Gear [API, Tonelux, FIX]

3 februari 2023 | 105 min

"Does it go to eleven?" Paul talked about why level matching sucks for a real studio session, Recreating classic doubler and flanger plugins, designing immersive analog consoles, and why you should mix in 7.4.1.

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My guest today is Paul Wolff.

In his own words - “In 1972, I was hanging out at a local TV shop, a guy comes in with a Strat with "no sound". The shop owner had no clue, I pulled the jack out and fixed it, the guitar player said "from now on, your name will be FIX…". That was the beginning of my course on the road to the studio to designing. Both parents were in Big Bands during the 40’s, and later my Father was a civil engineer and my mother was a custom jeweler.

A club in Washington DC called the Bayou, I did FOH for such bands as Foreigner, Dire Straits, Pat Benatar, etc. I was the FOH for many showcase bands attempting to get signed.

In June of 1985, I was offered API at a very low price because the current owners wanted to trim the assets so sell the whole company. I purchased the company and opened in a 20X30 foot office, and received a phone call from a guy named Shelly Yakus, looking for API 560 equalizers. Shelly was my first customer and has remained a good friend since. We were a company that grew without any kind of credit line, as we were self funded. Later I sold API and In 2005 I started Tonelux and then in 2012 started FIX Audio Designs, LLC, to make consoles again….

The current product line includes a Stereo input module, a 5.1 input module and an Immersive input module with Object Sends. I am currently the only company in the world making analog Immersive consoles. The console can be fitted with any op-amp/transformer combination to get any console tone you desire. The Stereo input module allows you to choose 3 different tones, and each of the 3 mix busses can have any op amp transformer. The stereo module also has a DAW monitor loop, much like an inline console.

I have also designed products like the Tony Shepperd/A-Designs MIX Factory, The Sunset Sound Tutti Mic Pre, A Lindell input module with EQ and a compressor, Analog Alien EPI universal pedal interface, the Slate VMS1 Mic Pre, the Slate Control monitor system, The new Slate Audio Monitor system, and was involved in the new Slate Audio VSX headphone system.”

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RSR386 - Jon Fintel - Hybrid Mixing Trident 80B Console and Pro Tools with Indie Artists

27 januari 2023 | 115 min

RSR385 - Larry Crane - Recording, Mixing, and Archiving Elliott Smith Stories and Studio Tips

20 januari 2023 | 129 min

RSR384 - James Lugo - How an American Idol Vocal Coach Lost 100 Pounds at 51 Years Old, Regained His Health and Took Back His Mojo!

13 januari 2023 | 131 min

Are you trying or just lying? James talked about why losing weight, staying healthy, and doing rather than trying, how to eat well and find a daily exercise routine for life in the studio, and vocal coaching tips for being able to hit the high notes.

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My guest today is James Lugo singing and playing music since he was 6 years old. His career as a singer / guitarist / songwriter spans decades and coasts. Cutting his teeth in the late 70’s playing in country and rock bands in Fort Lauderdale to headlining LA’s Sunset Strip in the late 80’s, later playing guitar with Dokken and singing with Nazareth. He toured for years, playing and living in Los Angeles, Nashville, and Austin and wrote countless songs professionally in all genres with much commercial success and TV and film placement.

While living and working in Los Angeles his skill as a vocal coach and music producer began to take off in 2001 when he began working as a vocal analyst and coach with American Idol. He was involved with the show for 10 years and directly worked on the show for 3 seasons. His years on screen and behind the scenes with Idol made him a household name in the Hollywood music and vocal coaching scene and landed him on the rosters of almost every major label as a vocal coach and producer, for many people in the industry he was their go-to guy!

James is also an author writing a book to tell his story of personal transformation called “Swing For The Fence” a field manual on how he lost 100 pounds at 51 years old, regained his health and took back his mojo, and how you can too!

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RSR383 - Craig Parker Adams - Mixing Frank Zappa, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono Live at The Fillmore East 1971

6 januari 2023 | 141 min

RSR382 - Joe Armin - 4-Track Sessions, and Band Stories From the '80s With Lij Shaw

30 december 2022 | 162 min

Can you really get kicked off an island? Joe shared stories of early band memories with Lij Shaw, recording to a double cassette deck and microphone, capturing great drum, bass, and guitar sounds on a 4 track in a home studio and writing cool lyrics.

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My guest today is Joe Armin, a drummer, guitarist, and songwriter and leader of the first band I ever got to play with in St Louis a college cover band called Ayatollah Joe And The Hostages.

“Joe grew up in Cincinnati, and started playing piano, drums and then guitar as a kid. He started multitracking in his basement in 4th or 5th grade. Joe got addicted to playing in bands and recording one-off tunes. In college during the mid to late 80's at Washington University in St. Louis he played music in a handful of bands, one of his first that started doing paying gigs was a covers and originals 4-piece with yours truly, Elijah Shaw.

Joe & Elijah got their first studio experience while taking a recording studio course together at college. Joe's focus quickly became writing originals. By senior year he was in a band, Dirt Cousin with friend David Gendelman, cowriting songs and starting to play dive bars and music clubs throughout the St. Louis area.

After graduating then moving back and forth between San Francisco and St. Louis Joe finally settled in San Francisco for good in 1994 where he currently works as an architect, while still playing gigs and recording at home. He started recording with a handful of friends under the name, The Aerosols, self-releasing a self-titled CD in 1999. The music was oftentimes noisy and spacey but pop was lurking in the darkness.

It took several years for a band with a steady lineup to take form. A trio version of The Aerosols played live in the San Francisco area and beyond from the mid-2000's until Joe's future wife, Amy Fowler joined in 2010, at first on keyboards, but eventually on second guitar and backing vocals also. This 4-person lineup released an LP in 2014, Fake Mirror, containing angular psych songs which were less shy about embracing melody.

Amy started her own 5-piece band, Latitude, in 2014 (with herself on guitar and vocals and with Joe on drums and backing vocals) Latitude has had a couple full-length releases, the latest, Mystic Hotline, coming out in 2020 on Emotional Response records. Meanwhile during all this time The Aerosols have continued to play live and record. They released their third full-length, the slightly more atmospheric LP, Room for Wrong, in late 2021. Over the last 14 years Joe has recorded and mixed all of The Aerosols recordings at his and Amy's home studio, Boring Basement Studios, located in San Francisco. He has also recently provided guest guitar tracks on recordings by James Goode and David Gendelman.

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RSR381 - Clint Murphy - Atmos Ideas, SSL Controllers, and Drum Mixing Tricks for Home Studios

23 december 2022 | 135 min

RSR380 - Andy Reed - Awesome Home Studio Microphones, Pre Amps, and How To Release Your Music!

16 december 2022 | 131 min

RSR379 - Brian Rivlin - Studio Macros, Cubase, and Composing for Film

9 december 2022 | 118 min

RSR378 - Marc Urselli - Fine Italian Espresso, Vintage Ribbon Mics, Mixing Tips, Throat Singing, and Doom Metal!

2 december 2022 | 138 min

When do you have enough ribbon mics? Never! Marc talked about his touring band food blog, why Italian espresso tastes better, restoring vintage ribbon mics, Tuvan throat singing doom metal, mixing with a console, and lots of fun mixing plugins!

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My guest today is Marc Urseli a 6-time Grammy-nominated, 3-time Grammy Award-winning engineer, producer, mixer, sound designer, and front of house engineer Marc Urselli works with many artists from around the world.

He has worked with U2, Foo Fighters, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Sting, Keith Richards, Kesha, and Laurie Anderson and scores of other amazing artists performing rock, pop, metal, jazz, experimental/avantgarde/new music, urban and electronica and classical.

Marc also composes music for ﬁlm and television, creates sound design for commercials and mixes audio for ﬁlm and television as well as mixing more than half a dozen movie soundtracks.

Marc has been a guest on the podcast for episode RSR264 where we talked about everything from his background, effective backup strategies. mixing tips and templates, and lots of other stuff. So today we will see what's new at his studio and keep rocking on some mixing insights for your studio.

Thanks again to Rudy Roopchan for our original intro, and to Adam Audio!

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RSR377 - Sara Carter - Mixer, Pro Mix Academy Teacher, and Youtube Creator

25 november 2022 | 133 min

How do you mix five sub-bass tracks??? Sara talked about sidechain compression, managing the low end in mixing, exciting drums, mixing modern classical music, dynamic eq, split eq, and transient shaping, and why you should create Youtube videos too!

My guest today is Sara Carter a BBC trained, mixing engineer based in Basingstoke in the UK. She started recording and mixing music in the mid-’90s from a small home studio until eventually landing her dream job working from the famous BBC's Maida Vale Studios and Broadcasting House in London.

Sara has worked with a wide variety of recording artists from Beyoncé and The Black Keys to The Cure and Rod Stewart and has been credited on records by Corrine Bailey Rae and KT Tunstall amongst many others.

She now runs an online mixing business Music Mix Pro in the UK working with unsigned bands from all over the world. And she has a fantastic fast growing Youtube channel called Simply Mixing! Sharing tips and tutorials, writes for the Production Expert blog, and has appeared on many of the Production Expert podcasts. I've also been interviewed on the Working Class Audio podcast and the Recording Studio Rockstars podcast for episode RSR204 where you can learn more about her backstory.

Thanks to my brother from another podcast Matt Boudreau for making our original introduction! You might even hear Saras voice on the intro to Matt’s show.

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RSR376 - Weston Wellman - Recording Heavy Rock and Modular Synths in Nashville

18 november 2022 | 128 min

Turn it up to eleven! Weston talked about recording rock guitars, playing movies and video games in the studio while recording, committing through an analog console eq on the way into Pro Tools, and dialing in the perfect kick drum sound with Peavey.

My guest today is Weston Wellman an artist engineer and music producer in Nashville TN.

“I like to record bands and play music. So if you want your band recorded or enjoy listening to music, consider me an option for one, or both of those things. The louder, the weirder, the crazier, the better.”

I actually met Weston through Instagram in 2021 when I got my Behringer Model D analog synth (modeled after Moog) and was so into it that I was posting and browsing IG videos of synths. Weston was also sharing some killer sounds with his synths, pedals, and cassette four-track, and making killer sounding heavy records with his band Noise Relay.

It also turns out that we are connected both through Nashville and Mike Purcell over at County Q studio. Mike was actually the very first guest back on episode RSR001 so how cool is that?

I’m psyched to talk to Weston today about making fantastic sounding heavy rock records with his bands Noise Relay and Sleepercab, creating wild and weird sound in the studio using guitar pedals, synths, and whatever else sounds cool.

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RSR375 - Matt Boudreau - Mixing With Drum Samples (Tips For The Home Studio)

11 november 2022 | 130 min

My guest today is Matt Boudreau a mix and mastering engineer for bands and solo artists. He is the producer and host of the podcast Working Class Audio interviewing other audio professionals about their journey to where they are today. Matt also tests audio software for Universal Audio as a contractor and speaks on audio panels at conferences as a moderator/and or panelist. In general, he loves anything audio-related, and also loves coffee and connecting with forward-thinking people in all industries.

Matt has been involved in music and audio for 35 years starting out as a drummer working his way through bands and six-figure record deals. He was lucky to experience firsthand how records were made on a high level with producer/engineers like Larry Hirsch, Joe Chicarelli, and Gil Norton and these guys got him excited about the record-making process.

In 1994 he began his journey to the “other side of the glass”; trading drum sticks for faders. That journey has taken him through a series of amazing recording experiences with many well-known artists as well as many lesser-known artists.

Now Matt reaches studio fans all over the world through his podcast, is a published author, and also teaches mixing courses over at Working Class Audio. He has been on the podcast early on episode RSR053 and I am psyched to have my Brother From Another Podcast back to share some cool tips on mixing awesome pro-sounding drums using plugins and sample triggers in your DAW.

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RSR374 - Ross Hogarth - Meditation, Music, Mixing, & Mindfulness In The Studio

4 november 2022 | 117 min

RSR373 - Marc Daniel Nelson - Guitars, Drums, Mix Templates, and Summing!

28 oktober 2022 | 125 min

RSR372 - Ethan X Howard - NFTs and The Exciting Future Of Your Music

21 oktober 2022 | 141 min

RSR371- David Kalmusky - Pro Tips for Playing and Recording Guitar From Owner of Addiction Studio

14 oktober 2022 | 116 min

RSR370 - Sean Giovanni - Helping Artists Reach Music Goals at The Record Shop Nashville

7 oktober 2022 | 139 min

RSR369 - Bob Bullock - Saving Fleetwood Mac Rumours & Ruminating About Mixing Fleetly on a Mac

30 september 2022 | 122 min

RSR368 - Chris Mara - Analog Tape, Tubes, and Tunes at Welcome To 1979

23 september 2022 | 123 min

My guest today is Chris Mara who says in his own words, “Well, basically... I'm the luckiest guy in the world. My "job" (I'm a recording engineer and producer) is to find cool artists & bands and help them make cool music. How frickin' awesome is that? I've been doing this music thing here in Nashville for over 20 years (since I was 19 years old), and it's the only real job I've ever had. I absolutely love helping people make music and also take a lot of time to help them make some wise career decisions too. There's a lot of bullshit. in the music biz, so I try to keep things really straightforward and simple for the people I come in contact with.

I really dig the art of getting artists comfortable and then capturing great performances in the studio. Although I use all types of technology to record, tend to gravitate to the "old school way of doing things and record on analog tape whenever I can. That's probably the reason I built my retro, all analog recording studio called "Welcome to 1979".

I also record in other studios all over the country, as well as in barns, cabins, old churches, hallways, highways, byways, parks, and garages....basically wherever people are making good music!”

Chris also runs a tape machine restoration company called Mara Machines and In early 2016, Mara launched a vinyl electroplating facility offering vinyl mastering and electroplating under the same roof to allow for the highest quality vinyl to be produced. And every November you can travel to Music City to attend the annual W21979 Recording Summit for panel discussions on all things studio.

Chris has been a guest on the show before RSR027 and later his wife and studio manager Yoli Mara joined us for episode RSR180.

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RSR367 - Daniel Ford aka Dr Ford - Award Winning Mixing Tips and Marketing Strategies for Your Studio

16 september 2022 | 147 min

RSR366 - Daniel Tashian - Winning Grammys And Writing Songs With Burt Bacharach

9 september 2022 | 119 min

RSR365 - Chris Shaw - Soundflow, Stream Deck, and Other Tools for Modern Mixing In Pro Tools

2 september 2022 | 125 min

RSR364 - Matty Harris - Pro Tools Mixing Tools and Systems from Mix And Master My Song Youtube Host

26 augusti 2022 | 119 min

RSR363 - Freddy Avis aka Arswain - Composing Cinematic Music for Film and Indi Electronica at Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions

19 augusti 2022 | 134 min

RSR362 - Jett Galindo - Mastering at The Bakery and at the Mastering Lab with Doug Sax

12 augusti 2022 | 128 min

My guest today is Jett Galindo, a Los Angeles-based mastering engineer and vinyl cutter now working at The Bakery. Jett has worked on albums spanning a wide array of genres and artists including Barbra Streisand, Haley Reinhart, Weezer, and the La La Land OST, to name a few.

Jett kickstarted her post-Berklee engineering career in the world-renowned Avatar Studios in New York (now known as Power Station) as the recording engineer for producer Jerry Barnes. As Barnes’ engineer, Jett engineered for veteran artists such as legendary singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, Nile Rodgers, Bashiri among others.

In 2013, Jett joined The Mastering Lab family as the sole right-hand woman to pioneer mastering engineer and GRAMMY Technical Achievement awardee Doug Sax, working on various notable vinyl releases including Pink Floyd’s 15th & final album “Endless River”, Bette Midler, Neil Young, Randy Travis, and Seth MacFarlane. Some of the other great mentors Jett has been able to work with include George Massenburg; producer Prince Charles Alexander; recording engineer Susan Rogers (Prince’s Purple Rain); and mastering engineer and AES President-elect, Jonathan Wyner.

Most recently through The Bakery, Jett has helped pave the way for the growing audiophile releases in the video game soundtrack genre, having mastered award-winning chart-topping releases such as the “Pokemon Red & Blue Piano Collections”, Rozen’s Legend of Zelda tribute “Children of Termina”, and the remastered 1980s Nicon Falcom’s “Ys I & II: Ancient Ys Vanished” original soundtracks.

Jett is actively involved with Soundgirls, an organization for women working in the audio engineering field, and she is a contributing writer for iZotope’s widely popular LEARN portal. Jett is also an accomplished lyric soprano who specializes in choral ensemble music. Currently singing with Los Angeles-based professional choir Tonality, Jett has performed in various countries spanning across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Thanks very much to Bryan Cook! For making our introduction!

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RSR361 - Anthony Gravino - Recording Live to Analog Tape & Mixing Grammy Nominated Kurt Elling and Charlie Hunter at High Cross Sound

5 augusti 2022 | 132 min

RSR360 - Vance Powell - Mixing in Dolby Atmos on Pro Tools at Sputnik Sound

29 juli 2022 | 137 min

RSR359 - Jay Lauterwasser - Video Game Composer and Sound Designer for EverQuest

22 juli 2022 | 113 min

RSR358 - Daniel Donato - Cosmic Country on Nashville’s Broadway Strip

15 juli 2022 | 126 min

RSR357 - Steve Ornest - Total Access Recording in Redondo Beach CA

8 juli 2022 | 133 min

My guest today is Steve Ornest a rock multi instrumentalist, engineer, and producer in Redondo Beach CA. Steve learned his studio skills at Total Access Recording under the guidance of Wyn Davis (RSR192) starting at the young age of 15. Steve started out playing guitar for rock sessions by bands like Don Dokken, Minoru Nihara (Loudness), and many others, but fast forward to the present and Steve is now running the studio with Wyn.

Steve’s mission has been to reinvigorate the local South Bay music scene by making it affordable for young local artists to come in and work on their song, EP or album and walk away with the same commercially competitive results Total Access has become known for over the past forty years. Aside from working with incredible local talent like Joker’s Hand, Mor Flowrs and Hand Drawn Maps, Steve continues to work on records for legacy artists such as Foreigner and Dio. Steve is currently working on a record with country artist Annie Bosko, which features a duet with country legend Vince Gill. Steve has also worked alongside producers Ken Scott (Beatles, Elton John, Supertramp), Eric Sarafin (Ben Harper, Amy Grant), and many others.

Steve recently opened a 1000sq ft rehearsal suite steps away from the studio, called Total Access Rehearsal. The idea was born from a frustration at the lack of rehearsal studios in Los Angeles, particularly in the South Bay. The suite boasts an acoustically treated showcase room, top-of-the-line gear, a private lounge/bathroom, A/C, free water and coffee, private parking, and convenient roll-up entry.

Total Access Recording has an extensive client list including L.A. punk band Black Flag and many SST Records artists, Husker-Du, The Descendants, then flourishing in the 80’s hair metal era recording Dokken, Great White, and White Lion, followed in the 90’s with post-punk artists; Sublime, No Doubt, Pennywise, Slightly Stoopid and others.

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RSR356 - Matt Ross-Spang - Southern Grooves Recording Studio in Memphis

1 juli 2022 | 114 min

RSR355 - Chad Copelin - Tape, Synths, and Samples Oh My!

24 juni 2022 | 132 min

RSR354 - Russell Cottier - Mixing in the Metaverse and Jamming Over the Internet

17 juni 2022 | 124 min

RSR353 - Tyler Campbell - Alder Audio Ribbon Microphones - How To Record With The H44

10 juni 2022 | 120 min

My guest today is Tyler Campbell CEO the founder of Alder Audio, an Ann Arbor, Michigan based company pushing the boundaries of ribbon mic design. Alder Audio launched in February 2021 with the H44, a workhorse ribbon mic with a patented capsule and durable herringbone ribbon.

Before founding Alder, Tyler worked in product development as a chemist and engineer. He specializes in developing products related to materials design and has worked on a diverse array of projects, from high power lithium batteries to automotive communication cable, to adhesives you can find on the shelf of your local hardware store.

Tyler is also a self-proclaimed gear addict and lifelong home recording enthusiast, who grew up with a front row seat to his family’s small manufacturing business in Wisconsin. The H44 design is a direct result of his scientific background combined with his passion for audio, recording, and small business.

I have been trying out the H44 and H44S here at The Toy Box Stusio aka RSR HQ and I have to say these mics sound really fantastic! One of the big challenges for me is recording things like drums with bright cymbals and acoustic and electric guitars that can sometimes be too harsh or vocals that have too much edge. The H44 does a beautiful job of smoothing out those instruments and making them mixable and listenable.

So I’m happy to have Tyler joining us on the show today to learn more about Alder Audio and his mission to design a great ribbon microphone at a great price

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RSR352 - Jon Blass - Grammy Winning Gospel Mixer in Nashville TN

3 juni 2022 | 122 min

RSR351 - Bill Mims - Sunset Sound, Morrissey, Death Cab, Brandi Carlile, Nancy And Beth, Devil Doll

27 maj 2022 | 134 min

My guest today is Bill Mims, a graduate of Full Sail University in the Recording Engineering program. In 2001, he spent a year in Orlando doing live sound, as well as an internship at a post production facility before moving to LA in 2002 and getting hired by Sunset Sound where he worked his way up the ranks and was an assistant engineer by the end of 2004. He became proficient in Pro Tools, as well as analog tape machines. Between 2004 and 2010, Bill worked with some of the most famous artists in the world at Sunset Sound.

Bill left Sunset and went freelance in 2011. Since then, he has done engineering and producing work for many artists. He has been lucky enough to have been a part of many Grammy winning projects, two of which Bill earned statues for (Jimmy Cliff-Best Reggae 2012 and Ben Harper/Charlie Musselwhite-Best Blues 2013). Bill has worked on several films, two of which have either won or been nominated for an Oscar (The Theory Of Everything-Best Original Music Score 2015, Sicario-Nominated for Best Original Music Score 2016). Bill has also worked on TV shows, including Transparent, which has won Emmy and Golden Globe awards. Some recent work includes Mrs. America, For Life, and When They See Us.

Recent albums would be the last few Morrissey albums, Death Cab, and I produced 2 albums for Megan Mullally.

Thanks so much to Howard Willing for making our introduction.

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RSR350 - Eric Bazilian - Recording His Solo Record Remotely In Stockholm

20 maj 2022 | 119 min

My guest today is Eric Bazilian, an original member of The Hooters, producer, and musician writing and recording with other artists liken Cyndi Lauper, Joan Osborne, The Scorpions, Ricky Martin, Jonatha Brooke, Leanne Rymes, and William Wittman to name just a few.

Eric has been a guest on the podcast on episode RSR122 to talk about his start in music and writing the song “One Of Us” for Joane Osborne on his kitchen table. So please go check out that episode too. Also, make sure to catch his video series Under The Hood where Eric breaks down all his music and writing methods.

Email in 2021 “...Being stuck in Stockholm with limited resources (a 2012 MacBook Pro, Apollo Twin, one Gefell mic, a couple of electric guitars, a mandola, a keyboard controller, and a short scale Gretsch bass that my son bought when was twelve) afforded me the time and motivation to make my first solo album in almost twenty years. Drums were cut by my drummer in Philadelphia (challenging considering his total lack of engineering experience, but I made it work), and by my other drummer in Slovenia (recorded by a producer/engineer genius in an amazing studio). I mixed it myself on a pair of Yamaha HS5s, with a lot of input from some legendary mixers (including our pal John Fields), mastered by my guy in Slovenia. A real quarantine pandemic musical fairy tale.

Thanks again to John Fields for making our original introduction.

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RSR349 - Bill Cheney - Understanding Audio Peaks at Spectra1964

13 maj 2022 | 106 min

RSR348 - Moot Booxlé - Vintage Synth Guru & Funky Drummer in Ft Meyers FL

6 maj 2022 | 127 min

RSR347 - Trent Jones - Podcast & Music Production and Strength Training Coach

29 april 2022 | 146 min

My guest today is Trent Jones, a podcast producer, editor, and composer based in Chattanooga, TN. He has produced over 1,000 podcast episodes in a wide variety of formats and topics, as well as a number of audiobooks. As a composer, he has written bumpers and music beds for podcasts and midroll advertisements.

Trent is also a strength and conditioning coach, with a speciality in training men and women over 40 using barbells, resistance training, and high intensity interval training. After years of “working out” in public gyms and seeing little progress, Trent discovered the Starting Strength method in 2016 and began training under a Starting Strength Coach.

He gained 40lbs of muscular bodyweight over a year and greatly improved his strength, joint health, and mental health in the process. He began coaching others in 2018, and earned the Starting Strength Coach credential himself in 2020. His passion is teaching people to lift barbells to build stronger, more useful bodies, gain confidence, and improve their quality of life for the long-haul.

Trent currently coaches online and in-person out of his home gym. And He co-hosts two podcasts about health and fitness, Weights and Plates and 40fit Radio and also a music podcast called Music and Ideas, and regularly hosts workshops and training camps teaching the Starting Strength training method.

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RSR346 - David Gnozzi - Mixing and Health Wisdom for the Studio From Mix Bus TV

22 april 2022 | 127 min

My guest today is David Gnozzi a platinum mixing/mastering engineer and producer, as well as the creator and host of the popular YouTube channel MixbusTV and a Pro Mix Academy Tutor.

David is a former professional musician with 2 albums published (Universal Records and Danse Macabre Records), and he has been recording and mixing for almost 20 years, he fully dedicated himself to recording, mix and mastering after ending his career as musician in 2010.

David initially started to gain recognition as a mixing engineer after successful remixes for Ladytron and Felix Da Housecat. His credits include: Raygun Romance, MC Solaar, Ryan Shuck (Orgy, Adema, Julien-K), Daniel Graves (Aesthetic Perfection), Mad Gallica, Danny Blue, Stonebreed, The Nest, and Italian pop superstar, Valeria Rossi to name a few. He mixed various projects for Universal Records, Nettwerk Records and Virgin Radio and video games such as Fallout 4 and Rock Band 3.

In 2017, David worked with one of France’s most famous and influential hip hop artists of all times, MC Solaar, mixing the multiplatinum album Geopoetique. The release also went on to win “album of the year” at the French Music Awards.

In 2014 he started the now popular Youtube channel MixbusTv, which became one of the most trusted and respected online resources for audio mix and mastering. David does “how to” video tutorials for the studio. And with an ever expanding list of partners like AMS Neve, SSL, Empirical Labs, and many more, he’s known for his detailed and very technical reviews of pro audio hardware and software.

Now located in Los Angeles, California, David has his own private mix and mastering suite, equipped with some of the best gear available on the market he is available as a producer, mix & mastering engineer. David also discovered and developed the upcoming alternative popstar Bella Kelly, and the new singles “Throat” and “Heartbreak Motel” are both in the Youtube playlist.

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RSR345 - Linda Taylor - Whose Line Is It Anyway? Guitarist and Improv Music Composer

15 april 2022 | 113 min

RSR344 - Duane Lundy - Americana, RIngo Starr, & Disco at Lexington Recording Company in KY

8 april 2022 | 134 min

My guest today is Duane Lundy, a music producer, mixer, and studio owner in Lexington Kentucky. Duane has worked with hundreds of artists from Grammy-Award winners like Sturgill Simpson & Flor de Toloache, to critically acclaimed and eclectic Ben Sollee, Vandaveers, Jim James, and the Horse Feathers.

Duane also works on projects that include legacy artists like Ringo Starr, Michael McDonald, Bela Fleck, Robert Randolph, Earl Slick, Duff McKagan, and touring artists like Joe Pug, JDawn Landes, Daniel Rodriguez, as well as emerging buzz acts such as The National Reserve, Ian Noe, Brain Owens, Miles Nielsen and The Rusted Hearts.

Recently he produced and engineered two tracks on the new Ringo Starr album, as well as produced and mixed Saving Country Musics 2016 song of the year “The Dogs” by Justin Wells. He also records his own music for television shows, feature films and advertising like Sons of Anarchy, Weeds, NCIS, and BMW Mini Cooper among many others.

I met Duane in 2013 when he produced Americana band, The Breedings, here at The Toy Box Studio with me engineering, and we had a blast recording to analog tape through my MCI console. So I’m psyched to have him back!

Thanks to Justin Perkins for reconnecting us for this interview.

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RSR343 - Brian Charles - 8 Alarm Fire Destroys Zippah Studio... What You Need To Know

1 april 2022 | 131 min

My guest today is Brian Charles a producer, engineer, plugin designer for Rare Signals from Boston Massachusetts. Brian has been a fantastic guest on the podcast before on episode RSR174 to talk about working with indie rock bands. He’s worked with thousands of artists over the years and has made albums in almost every genre imaginable.

Some of Brian’s many credits include The Vatican Commandos featuring a young “Moby” as the lead singer, Dispatch, pop artist Marina and the Diamonds, Weakened Friends, and his longtime work as a producer and touring member of the band “The Sheila Divine”.

Brian is also an educator working with Berklee College of Music, Emerson College, The Walnut Hill School for The Arts, and The Recording Workshop. And he is the creator of the “Transatlantic Plate Reverb” at his plugin company Rare Signals where he digitally recreated the iconic plate reverbs of Zippah studio.

Tragically in December 2021 His Home base studio, Zippah Recording (of 33 years), was destroyed in an 8-alarm fire. Incredibly the music community has come together to fundraise in support of Brian’s studio and family recovery after the devastating loss of many decades of instruments, recording equipment, and musical history.

Thanks so much to Mark Rubel at Blackbird Academy for making our original introduction.

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RSR342 - Ben Rubin - Mixing Workflow for Hip Hop and Jazz In Brooklyn with Soundflow

25 mars 2022 | 138 min

My guest today is Ben Rubin a producer, mixer, bassist, and composer in Brooklyn NY. Whether he’s melding hip-hop and jazz with legends like Masta Ace and Donny McCaslin, playing upright bass at the Newport Jazz Festival with Dred Scott Trio, remixing Karsh Kale or WuTang’s Killah Priest, rockin’ on electric bass with Marshall Crenshaw, or producing Peter Bernstein solo jazz guitar, Grammy-nominated producer/(re)mixer/bassist/composer Ben Rubin (aka Benny Cha Cha) is renowned for making records that are pure or genre-bending or both. Picked seven times as a “Rising Star Producer” in DownBeat Magazine’s International Critics’ Poll, Rubin has well over 100 album credits to his name. Lately, he has been working with a diversity of artists including Queen Esther, Erik Deutsch & Theo Bleckmann, Steve Conte (New York Dolls), Stripmall Ballads, Rachel Eckroth (St Vincent), Lower Power, Caleb Wheeler Curtis, Drifter feat. Lucy Woodward, Buzzed Armstrong, and Jon Irabagon, as well as labels like Ropeadope, Sunnyside and Imani. Most recently, Rubin’s attention has focused on Analog Players Society at the Bridge Studio in Brooklyn with APS founder Amon Drum creating cut-up hip-hop instrumental records and jazz albums released on Ropeadope and described by Downbeat Magazine as “truly compelling.” featuring legendary Juice Crew MC Masta Ace described as “in the direct lineage of classics like A Tribe Called Quest’s Low-End Theory, and Guru’s Jazzmatazz.” Bens production and mixing credits include Walking Distance feat. Jason Moran, Grammy nominated composer/pianist Emilio Solla, and many recordings for Smalls Live Records releasing more than 30 records with jazz greats including Larry Goldings, Louis Hayes, Tom Harrell, Johnny O’Neal, Chris Potter, Tim Ries, Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller, Seamus Blake, and Cyrille Aimeé to name just a few. As a bassist, Ben has toured and recorded both upright and electric bass with a diversity of artists, including Dred Scott Trio, Patti Smith, James Maddock, Courtney Love, Mary J. Blige, Moby, Bill Frisell, and his own acclaimed, genre-bending band Mudville which I believe my brother Nate played in at one point. Ben has also composed scores for features and short films, including director Nelson Kim’s feature film debut, Someone Else, which premiered at the Miami International Film Festival in 2015.

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RSR341 - Collin Dupuis - Mixing Angel Olsen, Lana Del Ray, Yves Tumor

18 mars 2022 | 137 min

RSR340 - Mike Fahey - Starbird Sound and Mix Assistant for Vance Powell

11 mars 2022 | 129 min

RSR339 - Alan Evans - Ironwax Studios Mixing Funky Music

4 mars 2022 | 149 min

RSR338 - Enrico Berto - Mushroom Studio Rocking out in Northern Italy

25 februari 2022 | 123 min

My guest today is Enrico Berto an engineer, producer, and musician from Northern Italy. I am very lucky to receive a lot of wonderful emails and messages from our listeners, aka you Rockstars. Here is what I received from Enrico.

“Hello Lij,

Few weeks ago I discovered your podcast and ever since I've been an avid consumer of it!

I love the way you make your guests feel cause they open up in a way I rarely saw on other shows. Beside the great nerdy tips they seem to be willing to share deeper stuff - ex I now know what's Vance Powell monthly break even or that huge mixers still suffer from "impostor syndrome" - and this is very inspiring and precious.

I've been in the music industry as a session player, then a mixer/producer for nearly 20 years and as covid hit I was having a major momentum that got slowed down quite a bit. Listening to your podcast is a great source of inspiration and it's giving me the power to keep my head down and carry on with the grind.

I thank you so much for it!

I have a vast love for music in all its genres. If I really had to pinpoint some they would be Classic Rock, Alternative Rock and HipHop. I make music because of a deep, almost spiritual, connection to it. Making music is my passion and my call. I decided to turn it into my profession so my whole life could revolve around it.

I went to the University to study foreign languages and literature but later attended the Musician Institute in Los Angeles and a couple of Robert Fripp’s Guitar Craft seminars. And then decided to give the music a serious go so I started hustling. I played in bands, composed jingles for TV, taught guitar, recorded and mixed bands on a crappy laptop out of mouldy rehearsal spaces …you name it! I was eager to get more so I pushed further by moving to London and studying sound engineering at the SAE Institute.

I then began session playing, touring, producing and engineering full time, all of it bouncing between UK and Italy. In 2008 I founded Mushroom Studio: a little production heaven hidden on the mountains of northern Italy where other artists and I could cozy up and create.”

I’m always grateful to receive emails like this, and listening to Enrico‘s work I discovered that it was fantastic! And so nothing brings me greater joy than to help showcase members of our own community at Recording Studio Rockstars.

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RSR337 - Jack Rubinacci - 12 Tools To Help You Overcome Tinnitus in The Studio

18 februari 2022 | 115 min

My guest today is Jack Rubinacci an Anglo - Italian Singer, songwriter, producer and author, now based in Norway. Jack started playing in bands in his hometown Birmingham UK. Was the lead singer of Honeyman, and was widely considered one of the best Birmingham bands of the late 90’s.

He went solo and recorded his debut album with producer Tchad Blake at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studio with Jerry Marotta on drums. He released 4 studio albums including his latest album A Thousand Winters. And Worked with producer Ian Grimble and Thomas Johansen.

Many of his songs have been covered by international artists in Italy, France, Norway and Asia.

He has opened for Lionel Richie. Joe Cocker. Arcade Fire. Jackson Browne. The Script. The Chicks. Heather Nova and many others. And many of his songs have gotten radio play in Norway.

In his 20s he Developed Tinnitus and has had chronic tinnitus ever since. He is now a strong advocate for ear protection and offers help and advice for people suffering from Tinnitus. Jack was recently a guest for The British Tinnitus Association, speaking to their musician’s support group. And is the author of the book Overcoming Tinnitus. 12 Tools That Helped Me Overcome Tinnitus.

Thanks to James Ivey at Studio Rats for making our introduction.

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RSR336 - Nick Broste - Creative Improvisation, Folk, and New Music Forms in Chicago

11 februari 2022 | 126 min

My guest today is Nick Broste, an audio engineer and musician who works in a wide variety of musical situations, ranging from creative improvisation to popular, folk and new music forms. He has engineered hundreds of recordings and performed all over the world, from tiny clubs to huge festivals and live television.

Having spent much of his youth obsessed with music but in a small midwestern town, Nick moved to Chicago in 1996, where he attended music school and began performing around the city and on the road, all the while soaking up any new sounds he could find. Touring with bands led to performing in the recording studio, where he began to get interested in the capture, manipulation and reproduction of audio.

In 2005 Nick moved into the Shape Shoppe, an underground music, art and living space with a 16 track analog studio, where he was able to experiment and teach himself how to record, eventually re-designing and completely rebuilding the space in 2008. At the same time Nick began mixing bands live in venues, trying to give both the musicians and audiences the best experience possible. This spirit of removing the obstacles of artistic expression for artists is the driving force for Nick's work to this day, no matter which side of the microphone he is on.

Nick can currently be found working freelance in studios such as Electrical Audio, Shirk, Palisade, Narwhal and Jamdek in Chicago, around the world and wherever interesting sounds are being made. And his clients include Wilco, TV on the Radio, Broken Social Scene, The Walkmen, Cursive, Mucca Pazza, Head of Femur, Calexico/Iron & Wine, and Afghan Whigs to name just a few.

Thanks so much to Greg Norman for making our introduction.

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RSR335 - Alena Moran - Producer Engineer Manager at Triple 8

4 februari 2022 | 116 min

RSR334 - Bob Clearmountain - Answers All Your Mixing Questions

28 januari 2022 | 143 min

My guest today is Bob Clearmountain, an American recording engineer, mixer and record producer. He has worked with many prominent names in music including Bruce Springsteen (mixing Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. and 25 other projects), The Rolling Stones including Tattoo You and Voodoo Lounge amongst over 20 album, movie & concert video projects, Bryan Adams (producing and/or mixing nearly all of his albums since 1983), Robbie Williams, Huey Lewis & The News, Toto, Bon Jovi (These Days, Crush, Bounce), Simple Minds, The Pretenders, The Who, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, INXS and hundreds of other artists. He is also married to Apogee Electronics CEO, Betty Bennett and has created a plugin for mixing called Spaces.

With multiple Platinum LPs, Grammy Awards, Emmy’s and even a Les Paul Award, Bob continues to be one of the world’s premier mixers working from his studio in Los Angeles Mix This! sharing his knowledge in places like Mix With The Masters and right here on Recording Studio Rockstars.

I’m excited to have Bob joining us on the show today, and have gathered a bunch of great questions for Bob from you Rockstars in our Facebook group. If you want to join the group follow the link in the show notes. You will also find a great discography playlist of Bob’s work.

Thanks so much to Brian Murphree for connecting us and Kelle Musgrave at Linear Management for your help.

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RSR333 - Bryan Cook - Producing and Mixing Tips - Jeff Goldblum, U2, One Republic

21 januari 2022 | 112 min

My guest today is Bryan Cook a Los Angeles based mixer working in the studio world for the past 20 years. Bryan grew up just outside of Philadelphia, playing the saxophone. A book of Charlie Parker solos became the initial inspiration to pursue music on a deeper level experiencing the studio for the first time in high school and he went on to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston to study music production and engineering, where his first studio job was interning at Blue Jay studios outside of Boston. Upon graduation, Bryan headed to Los Angeles, where he landed at the legendary A&M Studios, which has since been renamed Henson Recording Studios. He worked with artists like Rod Stewart, The Wallflowers, Korn and +Live+, and producers such as Brendan O’Brien, Roy Thomas Baker, Jerry Harrison, Richard Perry, and Trevor Horn.

He then headed out on his own in 2002. He worked for many years recording and mixing for composer/producer Michael Andrews doing music projects including Inara George and Gary Jules, alongside film projects like Walk Hard and 40 year old virgin. He now mixes on his own full time with the rare tracking or production session sprinkled in. He enjoys all kinds of music, except klezmer and polka.

Bryan is best known for his work as a mixer for artists like U2, One Republic, the tv show Songland, and Allie Sherlock produced by Ryan Tedder. He has recorded the Raconteurs, Fleet Foxes, Iggy Pop, Queens of the Stoneage, Cold War Kids, Damien Rice, The Eels, and Autolux for Nigel Godrich’s well-received “From The Basement” series. His recent work includes producing, recording, and mixing Jeff Goldblum’s latest album, “I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This.”

Thank you to Howard Willing for the introduction.

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RSR332 -Jamie Lidell - Soul Scientist Playing With Beck, Prince, and Prodigy

14 januari 2022 | 122 min

My guest today is Jamie Lidell a Grammy nominated self described Soul Scientist who has been making all manner of noise since he was a teen.

His early outpourings were purest of techno until, rather unexpectedly, his voice emerged and he discovered a live looping style that took him around the world as a solo act opening as a one-man show for Beck, Bjork and James Brown.

He has had several bands to play later albums and opened for Prince, Elton John and more.

There was a whole lot of touring, much opening, much headlining. Much of a muchness really. Somewhat of a rambling man, he’s jumped all over the place, from Brighton to Berlin to New York to his current castle dwelling in Nashville.

For the hunters, there’s plenty of music to be discovered, whether it’s from his first 9 EPs with Subhead to 2 LPs as Super_collider (with badass weirdo Cristian Vogel) to the rare work he pushed out as George Lister to a slew of solo Lidellian activity and there’s now his rather entertaining podcast of course.

The pod goes by the name Hanging out with Audiophiles (although it has nothing to do with hi-fi really). The fun began in 2017 and has already featured some of the very best artists and producers in the business such as Mark Ronson, Four tet, Susan Rogers, Imogen Heap and many more. His YouTubing is showing signs of growth also. Let’s see. Yes, in case you were wondering, the sonic adventures continue. One never knows what’s next with this one.

Thanks so much to Anders at Adam Audio for making our introduction.

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RSR331 - Craig Parker Adams - The Oldest Recording Studio In The World

7 januari 2022 | 136 min

RSR330 - Randy Leroy - Mastering in Nashville TN and Takoma Park MD

31 december 2021 | 122 min

My guest today is Randy LeRoy a musician, engineer, A&R, and mastering engineer in Nashville TN and Takoma Park Maryland. A graduate of the recording program at Middle Tennessee State University (also my alma mater) he got his first gig cutting publishing demos on Nashville’s “Music Row” in CBS Song’s basement studio, editing radio spots on ¼” tape for a company called Starliners and hanging out in small studios around town.

Eventually, he was offered a job with CBS Records as an A&R coordinator and spent time in high-end facilities like Emerald, Stargem, The Dog House, Masterfonics, Sound Shop, Treasure Isle, Studio 19, and even legendary studios like The Record Plant in LA while working for CBS. Randy worked with a variety of the label’s many noteworthy artists such as Ray Benson, George Jones, Ricky Van Shelton, Tammy Wynette, Vern Gosdin, and Exile.

In 1988 Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics offered him a job as his mastering assistant where Randy learned how to cut reference lacquers, assemble and quality checking masters, and help out engineers during mixing, while mastering small projects on his own.

At Masterfonics he would work alongside notable country music producers like Jimmy Bowen, Tony Brown, James Stroud, Jerry Crutchfield, and Barry Beckett. And in 1991 Randy left Masterfonics to start his own mastering studio, Final Stage Mastering located in Sound Stage Studios on Music Row in Nashville where he worked on more Grammy nominated and winning projects throughout the 1990s and 2000s such as Relient K’s Two Lefts Don’t Make A Right… but Three Do, Allison Brown’s Fair Weather, Nappy Root’s Humdinger, and Jamey Johnson’s That Lonesome Song, to name a few.

In June of 2010, Randy left Nashville to become the Senior Mastering Engineer at Tonal Park in Takoma Park, MD where he has mastered some of the biggest names in country, bluegrass, folk, Americana, and gospel such as Jim Lauderdale, Bryan Sutton, Jamey Johnson, Dale Ann Bradley, Colin Hay, Kelsey Waldon, Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, Gold City, and John Cowan. including the 2020 Grammy Winning, Michael Cleveland’s “Tall Fiddler” and two other Grammy nominated albums in the Best Bluegrass Album category.

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RSR329 - Malcolm Springer - What Would Bigfoot and Elvis Sound Like Together?

24 december 2021 | 127 min

My guest today is Malcolm Springer an arranger, writer, engineer, producer, and mixer living in Nashville TN working in a studio cottage at the previously named House of Blues Studios (now East Iris Studios under Universal Music Group).

Malcolm has worked with many artists and genres in his career including Matchbox 20, Collective Soul, Isaac Hayes, Clutch, Fear Factory, Eric Clapton, Johnny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, God Street Wine, Albert King, Derek Trucks, and Nappy Roots, just to name a few.

He has been awarded platinum and gold records for his work with Collective Soul (Disciplined Breakdown, 1997), Matchbox 20 (Yourself or Someone Like You, 1996; Exile on Mainstream, 2007), Liquid Gang (Blunt Force Trauma, 2000), Fear Factory (Digimortal, 2001), The Horse Whisperer: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1998), 2 Fast 2 Furious: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2003), and Heavy Metal 2000: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2000).

In the early '90s, Malcolm was part of the first team to install the first moving Ultimation system for Solid State Logic. He also lived for a while in Memphis working at Beale Street Studios where he recorded The Mother Station, O'Landa Draper and the Associates, Bobby Whitlock (of Derick and the Domino's), and Teeny Hodges and later recorded in Missouri as well.

At 29 years old, in 2000, Malcolm secured a label imprint as an A&R representative with the legendary Lyor Cohen, one of the founders of Def Jam/Island Records, in New York City.

Malcolm also has been remixing music for Dolby Atmos surround sound. Some of these artists include Nirvana, White Zombie, Bon Jovi, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kanye West, Soundgarden, Jay-Z, Steve Miller Band, Three Doors Down, and many others.

He now runs his own production company and label, 10 Inch Wax, out of Nashville.

Thanks so much to Andy VanDette for making our introduction!

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RSR328 - Frank Filipetti - Six Time Grammy Winning Mixer (Frank Zappa, Korn, James Taylor)

17 december 2021 | 122 min

My guest today is Frank Filipetti a Six-time Grammy winner and world-renowned music producer, engineer and mixer. Born in Bristol, Connecticut, and based in New York since 1971, Frank was one of the first engineers to embrace digital mixing.

His early credits include his first number one album, Foreigner’s “Agent Provocateur” which included the single “I Want to Know What Love Is”; Foreigner’s “Inside Information” which he also co-produced; KISS’s, “Lick It Up”; Carly Simon’s “Coming Around Again”, The Bangles’ “Eternal Flame”, Courtney Love’s “Celebrity Skin”, and Rod Stewart’s “The Great American Songbook” Volumes 1 and 2.

Active in film and theatre as well, Frank’s work as a producer, engineer, and mixer earned the Aida Broadway Original Cast Album a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2001, and he has since produced Wicked, Spamalot, Disney’s Aladdin, The Book of Mormon, and Gigi. His work in film includes the soundtracks for Mike Nichols’ “Working Girl”, and “Postcards From the Edge”; “The Pirates of Penzance” with Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline; Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe”; Disney’s “Enchanted”; Pixar’s “Cars”, and “August Rush” (See Spotify playlist).

In addition to his recording and producing talents, Frank has been busy since the early 1980’s designing the acoustics for all three Right Track rooms in NY, and in 1999 Frank joined with Simon Andrews to design and build New York City’s premier orchestral recording studio.

The result, Studio A509, was one of the most highly praised sonic achievements in a city known for incredible studios. In 2005 Frank became a founding partner of METAlliance, a collaborative community of globally-recognized audio engineers and producers that works alongside technology manufacturers to ensure the highest standards of audio production.

Thanks so much to Brain Murphree at Soundporter Mastering and Joe D’Ambrosio Management for connecting us.

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RSR327 - Dorian Heartsong - Playing Bass With Jason Bonham and Powerman 5000

10 december 2021 | 98 min

RSR326 - Jay Messina - Recording at The Record Plant with Aerosmith, KISS, and John & Yoko

3 december 2021 | 111 min

RSR325 - Colin Brittain - Producing Papa Roach, Dashboard Confessional, & 5 Seconds of Summer

26 november 2021 | 106 min

RSR324 - Micah Tawlks - Producing And Mixing Killer Indie Pop In Nashville

19 november 2021 | 125 min

RSR323 - Quentin "Q" Gilkey - Mixing on Pro Tools and SSL For Dr Dre

12 november 2021 | 117 min

RSR322 - Colin Scharf - Home Studio Rockstar Success Story!

5 november 2021 | 137 min

RSR321 - Graham Waks - Sound Proofing Your Home Studio

29 oktober 2021 | 121 min

RSR320 - Stephen Kelly - Songwriting and Mixing in Dublin Ireland

22 oktober 2021 | 131 min

RSR319 - Pierre de Reeder - 64 Sound, Rilo Kiley, M Ward, She & Him

15 oktober 2021 | 130 min

My guest today is Pierre de Reeder who spreads his time between making records as a commercial studio owner at 64 Sound and its affiliated production room facilities, inhabiting the occasional role as a solo artist or player in various projects, running his indie record label Little Record Company, and managing all things Rilo Kiley… a band for which he is both a founding member, as well as now having its two latest releases on his label.

In recording things, he has worked with the likes of Mavis Staples, She & Him, M. Ward, Sia, Tim Heidecker (from Tim & Eric), Emitt Rhodes, Vampire Weekend, Ben Gibbard, Julian Casablancas, Bright Eyes, and much of his own and various bands. And his studio, 64 Sound and its incarnations have hosted artists such as X, Devendra Banhart, My Morning Jacket, Amanda Palmer, Michael Kiwanuka, Tokyo Police Club, Bat For Lashes, Ty Segall, St. Vincent and Sleater-Kinney, Starcrawler, Warpaint, and many more.

Because of its very extensive collection of vintage recording gear, microphones and instruments (lifelong collections of Pierre and his studio partners Curt Anderson and Kingsize Soundlabs), as well as multiple analog tape formats and/or digital, 64 Sound, has become a highly coveted recording destination for bands and songwriters from around the country and globe who come to play and write on more than 50 vintage guitars, 40 vintage keyboards, synths and organs, multiple pianos and drums and effects and doodads galore.

Thanks so much to Rob Schnapf for making our introduction...

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RSR318 - Paul "Willie Green" Womack - Mixing Indie Hip Hop

8 oktober 2021 | 120 min

RSR317 - Jaimeson Durr - Working With Sammy Hagar

1 oktober 2021 | 125 min

My guest today is Jaimeson Durr a San Francisco Bay Area Top Billboard charting recording engineer, mixer and producer that works on a variety of music genres from legends like, Sammy Hagar and his band The Circle, Chickenfoot, Megadeth, Joe Satriani, The Dead, Don Felder (The Eagles), The Head and the Heart, Dan the Automator as well as many other new promising artists.

Jaimeson works out of some of the best bay area recording studios but primarily works out of his own studio, Wally’s HydeOut in the legendary Hyde Street Recording Studio complex in San Francisco since 2004. It’s a classic studio where many well-known artists have recorded like, Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Green Day, Train, and many, many more.

Jaimeson has also performed on and mixed several songs for hit prime time TV shows and movie trailers for, 90210, The Mindy Project, Ugly Betty, Rango, Arthur, The Lorax, Tangled and many more. He is a Waves Audio Artist who continually develops new presets for their plugins. With over 24 years of experience as a professional engineer, Jaimeson has a passion for the craft of making great timeless records that live forever.

Thanks so much to John Cuniberti for making our introduction!

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RSR316 - Damian Taylor - Collaborating with Bjork and Arcade Fire

27 september 2021 | 129 min

My guest today is Damian Taylor a six-time Grammy-nominated record producer, music mixer and programmer, songwriter, song doctor, sonic architect and explorer best known for his work with Bjork (in the studio and on stage), The Prodigy, The Killers, Arcade Fire, UNKLE, TR/ST, Odette, The Temper Trap, City of the Sun, and Dizzy to name a few.

Damian describes his love for creating music and art at the intersection of ideas and expression, performance and design; juxtaposing not only organic and synthetic methods of creation and manipulation but also cultural and stylistic concepts and perspectives.

He is also the founder of The Complete Producer Network, an active hub for people all over the world who are dedicated to improving their ability to create and share extraordinary music. It’s an open, inclusive, and supportive community of music creators who come together to share ideas, insights, tips, tricks, strategies and perspectives to drive themselves and others forward.

Damian also live streams over on Twitch sharing his studio experience and is active on social media writing essays on Twitter and Instagram.

Thanks so much to Colin Ramsay at GPS Management for making our introduction.

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RSR315 - Justin Phelps - Live video and VR recording in Studio

17 september 2021 | 107 min

My guest today is Justin Phelps chief engineer and designer of the Hallowed Halls recording studios in Portland OR. He began his career in 1996 at San Fransisco’s famed Coast Recorders where he worked as a house engineer and received considerable guidance from a chief engineer/producer John Cuniberti and studio owner/gear guru Dan Alexander as well as working at some of the Bay Areas finest studios including The Plant, Prairie Sun, Studio 880, Tiny Telephone and Studio D.

In 2004 he acquired the lease for one of the more historic spaces in San Francisco, Hyde Street Studio C which he restored to its former glory and ran for the next 5 years as one of the busiest rooms in San Francisco when he met his wife Deanna and started his family.

With the birth of their first daughter, they relocated to Portland Oregon where he founded Cloud City Sound a multi room facility with a busy mastering suite serving many regional and international until 2016 when he opened The Hallowed Halls located in a 5500 square foot, historic, turn of the century library where the building’s natural acoustics made for an ideal recording studio site.

Since then, they have been cranking records out for a wide variety of American and International acts, hosting a constant stream of events benefiting the local music and arts community and dabbling in new recording directions. The most prominent of these would be music video production.

The Covid 19 era has seen a particularly high spike in combined music and video as a result of the severe limitations placed on live performance. Necessity is the mother of invention and Justin is currently modifying The Hallowed Halls to facilitate concert performances and multi camera shoots including VR concerts in Studio A’s main hall.

Through a partnership with a strong concert streaming distribution network, the hope is to use this to get the lifelong patrons of our studios back to work and to find new creative outlets for the music we create. So far it’s working.

Thanks so much to John Cuniberti for making our introduction!

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RSR314 - Geoff Daking - Recording The Blues Magoos, Meat Loaf, and Lou Reed

10 september 2021 | 106 min

My guest today is Geoff Daking who grew up playing in local bands before attending American University which he ultimately left to join the NY based Mercury artist Blues Magoos to play the drums in 1966 (I was born in 1967).

Between ‘66 and ’69, they recorded four albums, two of which were platinum, and a top-five single, “We Ain’t Got Nothin’ Yet”. The peak of their career was in 1967 when they toured four months with Herman’s Hermits and The Who (the Hermits were the headliners). During that time he became fascinated with recording and engineered some of the Magoos last albums. In the summer of 1969, Geoff went back to Woodstock where he played in bands with Tim Harden, Dave Sanborn, Paul Butterfield and Buzzy Feiton.

In 1970, Geoff became a staff engineer at Sound Ideas in NYC, then SoundMixers NYC, and later as an independent engineer. And In 1982. he opened his own studio, Nimbus Nine, which grew to four rooms, one API, one Neve, one Trident, and one ProTools.

Since 1970, Geoff has designed and built more than 20 recording studios for music, film and commercial production. including the all analog “BIG Blue” in Katonah NY for the recording of Joan Osborne’s premier album, “Relish” and Tuxedo Park for Cyndi Lauper’s “Sisters of Avalon”. His most recent studio is the multi-million dollar music production facility in Saint Petersburg Florida, Big3 Entertainment.

In 1993 Geoff started manufacturing his own line of audio equipment. The first product was a combination mic-pre/eq. This all-discrete Class “A” unit was based on the legendary Trident A Range circuits by Barry Porter. Next was the FET Compressor. In 2000, production began for full-size Class A recording consoles in frame sizes from 16 to 80 inputs.

Thanks so much to William Wittman for making our introduction!

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RSR313 - Clint Murphy - Mixing Rock Drums, Guitars, and Vocals

3 september 2021 | 123 min

My guest today is Clint Murphy a multi-platinum, award-winning producer, engineer, mixer, songwriter, and musician. He has worked on records as diverse as Manic Street Preachers, Enter Shikari, RØMANS, and 50 Cent, racking up hits both in the UK and internationally.

UK chart successes include recording and mixing No.2 album ‘Half Way There’, for English pop-punk band Busted, mixing No.3 album ‘Rip It Up’ for hard rock legends Thunder and producing, mixing and writing for upcoming bands such as Keir, Courts, Twin Wild and Youth Club. Most recently, Clint has been working with British rock band Enter Shikari, mixing their critically-acclaimed, UK No.2 album ‘Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible’.

Back in his native New Zealand, Clint’s work continually tops the charts through artists such as Devilskin, Opshop, Annabel Fay, The Feelers, Kimbra, Junica (Ladyhawke), 8 Foot Sativa and Bic Runga. This has resulted in Clint being recognized as ‘Engineer Of The Year’ multiple times at the New Zealand Music Awards.

Other international successes include Chinaski’s no.1 album ‘Rockfield’, covering three no.1 singles notching up over 60 million YouTube streams, Codes’ multi-award-winning album ‘Trees Dream In Algebra’ and Melanie C’s multi-platinum album, “Beautiful Intentions”, which spent nine weeks topping the charts in Europe.

Thanks so much to Ryan Smith at (Sterling Sound) for making our introduction.

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RSR312 - Howard Bilerman - How to Inspire a Band Performance

27 augusti 2021 | 133 min

RSR311 - Jay Tooke - Nashville Country Rock Drums

20 augusti 2021 | 127 min

RSR310 - Jessica Thompson - Audio Restoration and Mastering From Tape and Vinyl

13 augusti 2021 | 124 min

RSR309 - Wes Little - Nashville Funky Drummer playing with Steven Tyler, Robben Ford, and Beyonce

6 augusti 2021 | 126 min

My guest today is Wes Little one of Nashville’s most adaptable and multi-faceted drummers, as well as a top flight arranger, producer and songwriter.

Wes was trained in performance and composition at the Manhattan School of Music and shaped by years of studio and stage work with major acts. Currently a first call session drummer in Nashville, Wes has also performed or recorded with Chuck D, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, John Legend, Melissa Etheridge, Robben Ford, Michael and Randy Brecker, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. He works in Nashville, where he lives and records daily in the studio.

Some of his credits for recording or touring are with Robben Ford, Christopher Cross, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Trey Anastasio, Little River Band, Larry Carlton, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, John Legend, Jamie Fox, Melissa Etheridge, Jermaine Jackson, Mariah Carey, Public Enemy, Shakira, Busta Rhymes, Emmylou Harris, Mary J. Blige Anita Baker, Paul Shaffer, Dierks Bentley, Pam Tillis, Ashley Cleveland, Bootsy Collins, MC Lyte, KRS-One, Vernon Reid, Delbert McClinton, Big Daddy Kane, The Pointer Sisters, Emmylou Harris, Wynonna Judd, Pam Tillis, Lorrie Morgan, Luke Combs, Warren Haynes, Sonny Landreth, Little Big Town - Eric Johnson, Larry Carlton, Deena Carter, Paul Schaffer, and his own venture - The Big Greasy.

On another note, Wes also played on Broadway. “I have made whip crack sounds for John Lithgow in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” says Little. “I have played quite possibly the largest set up in the world of drums and percussion in the show BKLYN. I acted the part of a drummer that couldn't speak in the show "Once Around the Sun.” I also played in a big bang on stage for 3 months in a show of “Rat Pack, Live at the Sands."

Thanks so much to Smith Curry for making our introduction

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RSR308 - JJ Blair - Recording Johnny Cash, Joe Bonamassa, Bernard Purdie, Ziggaboo, Jason Faulkner, and Rod Stewart

30 juli 2021 | 125 min

My guest today is J.J. Blair a native Chicagoan, who came up playing in blues and reggae clubs as a teenager in his home town, before eventually moving to Los Angeles to begin his recording career. Known for taste, musicality and proficiency in a broad range of musical styles, J.J. has also amassed a great collection of vintage mics, outboard gear and instruments, which he draws on to make outstanding recordings and productions.

He produced and mixed the Grammy winning record "Press On," by June Carter Cash, engineered on the Grammy winning and #1 Billboard Hot 100 record "Great American Song Book vol. 3," by Rod Stewart, as well as engineering on P. Diddy's #1 hit "All About the Benjamins."

J.J. has been a producer and engineer since 1994. His clients, credits and list of musicians he's recorded include Jeff Beck, George Benson, The Black Eyed Peas, Body Count, Joe Bonamassa, Jon Brion, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, David Cassidy, Kelly Clarkson, Vinnie Colauita, Double Trouble, Peter Erskine, Melissa Etheridge, Jason Falkner, Josh Freese, Jim Keltner, Roger Manning, Keb Mo, Zigaboo Modeliste, Bernard Purdie, Smokey Robinson, The Pointer Sisters, Rod Stewart, Tommy Stinson, Marty Stuart, Weezer, Whiskeytown, and Edgar Winter to name just a few.

J.J. works mainly from his personal recording studio, Fox Force Five Recorders.

Thanks so much to William Wittman for making our introduction!

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RSR307 - Adam Krinsky - Mixing Studio and FOH In Minneapolis MN for Trampled By Turtles

23 juli 2021 | 133 min

My guest today is Adam Krinsky a Mixer/Engineer in Minneapolis, MN. He owns and runs a studio in St. Paul, MN called Bellows. In his 15 years of music, he has been a Producer, Engineer, Mixer, FOH Mixer, Tour Manager, Manager, and Educator.

Adam’s career started after graduating from the Institute of Production and Recording in Minneapolis. He was hired by the owner and co-founder Tom Tucker as his assistant engineer at Master Mix Studios. In parallel to working in a big fancy studio, he was also moonlighting in a small punk rock basement studio called Vaudeville. A million dollar studio during the day, a Mackie and 57’s at night. Krinsky started working at a local guitar shop called Twin Town Guitars which is where he met many of the local musicians.

In 2006 he recorded and mixed an album called A Detail of Soldiers by The Alarmists which received local recognition. Since he has never been without a project to mix. Over the years Adam has worked on albums for artists like Bo Ramsey, Mason Jennings, The Pines, Kill The Vultures, Sadistik, and Peter Wolf Crier to name a few. These artists range in genre’s from Blues and Folk to Hip-Hop to Indie Rock.

Somewhere along the way, he was asked to go on the road. Reluctantly he eventually tried it out and found a second passion in touring. He’s since mixed FOH for artists like Iris DeMent, Mason Jennings, Har Mar Superstar, Marijuana Deathsquads, The Pines, and Trampled by Turtles to name a few. He has also taught at a few recording schools and was a field mixer for the 6th Season of Jersey Shore. These days Krinsky is either mixing in his studio or on tour with Trampled by Turtles.

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RSR306 - William Bowser - Awesome Tips for Mixing Hip Hop Vocal and Bass

16 juli 2021 | 124 min

My guest today is William Bowser an audio engineer based out of La Plata Maryland.

“I've been engineering for almost 20 years since 2002 where I started in the chorus room of Leonardtown High School, just myself, a microphone, and a tape recorder. From there for years I ran a home studio as an artist, producer, singer, songwriter, rapper, and engineer trying to make it and perform all over the country.

I signed a developmental deal early on in my career with Universal Music and an indie label based out of Brooklyn New York which at the time was my most successful endeavour. When that fell through because of monetary mismanagement on the label's part I went back to being an independent artist but this time more informed and with a larger grasp of the business side of music.

I began slowly but surely becoming more and more enamoured with the engineering side of things while bringing my skills and experience as an artist to the table. This helped me not only cross over easier but get jobs engineering for studios in Southern Maryland, Baltimore, and Atlanta Georgia.

Fast forward after going through both a divorce and personal growth I was blessed to meet my now wife and Co-Owner of the studio (Quality Touch Studios) Tracy Bowser.

The birth of my son signalled a new chapter in my life that changed everything from being more responsible to holding myself accountable for the actions that directly now affect my family as well as, myself and my career. Now here I am doing major work, being attached to millions of plays and achieving all my life goals one at a time, and letting God lead the way.”

Thanks to Patrick Rene aka Killah Trakz for making our introduction.

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RSR305 - Julian Dreyer - Chief Engineer at Echo Mountain Studios Asheville NC

9 juli 2021 | 121 min

RSR304 - Raag Sethi - Recording in India at Compass Box Studio, Ahmedabad Gujarat

2 juli 2021 | 120 min

RSR303 - Justin Perkins - Mystery Room Mastering Tips for Home Studio Mixing & Mastering

25 juni 2021 | 134 min

My guest today is Justin Perkins a mastering engineer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin who has worked on remastering projects for The Replacements, En Vogue, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and mastering projects for Michael Franti & Spearhead, Tommy Stinson, The Gaslight Anthem, Smoking Popes, Anberlin, Screeching Weasel, The Mr. T Experience, and thousands of other independent bands and artists around the world.

Before transitioning to mastering full-time he also spent time at Butch Vig’s Smart Studios in Madison Wisconsin recording and mixing a number of projects, and has been working full-time in the audio field for nearly 20 years. His studio Mystery Room Mastering has been in business since 2009.

Growing up and playing in bands in the midwest is what helped Justin formulate a career in audio and ultimately led to playing bass for a time in the band Screeching Weasel, as well as playing bass for Tommy Stinson’s solo shows, and the relaunch of Tommy Stinson’s post-Replacements band called Bash & Pop who released a new album in 2017 on Fat Possum Records and performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Aside from mastering tons of singles, EPs, and albums, Justin also masters nearly all the content for The License Lab which is a library music company based in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and recently started doing a monthly livestream for Steinberg Media to help both new and current users of WaveLab Pro get a better understanding of how to use it.

Justin has also written a number of articles for the popular website The Pro Audio Files on the topic of mastering, preparing for mastering, and an overview of what types of master files you may need for various release formats.

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RSR302 - Cason Cooley - Writing and Producing Ingrid Michaelson, NEEDTOBREATHE, and Katie Herzig

18 juni 2021 | 127 min

RSR301 - Bob Horn - Mixing Advice for Big Bass Hip Hop With Usher and Timbaland

11 juni 2021 | 139 min

RSR300 - Michael Brauer - How to Design Your Own Mix Template in the Box

4 juni 2021 | 138 min

My guest today is Michael Brauer a multiple Grammy-winning New York mix engineer. His many credits include "Best Pop Vocal Album" for John Mayer's Continuum, "Best Alternative Album" for Coldplay's Parachutes, and also "Best Rock Album" for Coldplay's "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends". Other credits include The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Jeff Buckley, David Byrne, Paul McCartney, Ben Folds, Willie Nelson, KT Tunstall, Martha Wainwright, and more recent projects include Zac Brown Band, Hootie & the Blowfish, Michael Kiwanuka, Slash, and The Courteeners.

Beginning at MediaSound Studios in New York City in 1976, Michael worked his way up from the Shipping Department to staff engineer assisting the hottest guys in town including; Bob Clearmountain, Mike Barbiero, Ron St. Germain, Michael DeLugg, Ed Stasium, Godfrey Diamond, Tony Bongiovi and Harvey Goldberg. He became Luther Vandross’’s engineer recording all his music for four years including two Aretha Franklin albums and spent half of the eighties making records in London’s exploding music scene returning home to focus on the American scene after 1990.

In 2018 Michael opened BrauerSound Studios, in New York City's Chelsea area. At the new studio, he began utilizing a hybrid mixing setup for the first time in his career, making the mixing process more powerful and efficient. He also created the technique known as 'Brauerizing', in which mixes are routed through multiple compressors and busses to create a blended sound. And he is a co-founder of Mix With The Masters which has been running for over a decade.

Thanks to Randy Fuchs at Artist Relations and OWC for making our introduction.

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RSR299 - Piper Payne - How To Setup Your Home Studio Monitors, Turntables, and Master for Vinyl

28 maj 2021 | 112 min

My guest today is Piper Payne a mastering engineer based out of Nashville, TN, where she works on albums for independent artists and major labels. In Spring of 2019 Piper joined the famed Infrasonic Mastering team, merging her successful Oakland studio, Neato Mastering, with the Nashville based company, owned by Pete Lyman.

Piper is a Trustee of the Recording Academy and she is Co-Chair of the P&E Wing Steering Committee. She is a Governor of the Audio Engineering Society and she is the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the AES’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee as well as an active member of Women's Audio Mission and she serves on the Board of SoundGirls.org.

In addition, Piper is a keeper of Vinyl Quality Control and a consultant for vinyl record pressing plants and is opening her own vinyl manufacturing plant in Nashville in mid-2021. She has been an audio professor and guest lectures often about mastering and recording.   Piper began her career with a BFA in Audio from The University of Michigan, continuing her graduate education in Audio at the University of Stavanger in Norway.

Piper has a diverse background in musical styles. As a drummer, she knows that the best outcome of every project is that it has to feel good. As an engineer, Piper is focused on technical quality and correctness. But, at the end of the day, mastering is about format conversion and quality control so the project gets just what it needs.

Piper has mastered a wide variety of music including nationally renowned artists Third Eye Blind, LeAnn Rimes, The Go-Go’s, Madame Gandhi, Geographer, The Steven Universe Soundtrack composers Aivi and Steven, Basement, Hundredth, Elettrodomestico (Jane Wiedlin/Go-Go’s), Blithe, ANIIML, Shamir, Betsy, Between You & Me, and Fritz Montana to name a few.

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RSR298 - Peter Deimel - Recording Analog Post Punk in France at Black Box Studio

21 maj 2021 | 134 min

RSR297 - Donald Mitchell and Peter Katis - The Making of Darlingside’s Fish Pond Fish at Tarquin Studios

14 maj 2021 | 137 min

RSR296 - F Reid Shippen - Advanced Mixing Advice Tips and Tricks For Your Home Studio

7 maj 2021 | 118 min

RSR295 - Jordan Valeriote - How to Mix Heavy Hardcore Music to Sound Powerful Lush and Loud

30 april 2021 | 114 min

RSR294 - Brian Lucey - Mastering Music Is All About Love Not Fear

23 april 2021 | 134 min

RSR293 - Vance Powell - Answers All Your Home Studio Recording And Mixing Questions

16 april 2021 | 149 min

RSR292 - Scott Michael Smith - From Score to Studio to Sound Stage for Mank, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Invisible Man

9 april 2021 | 130 min

My guest today is Scott Michael Smith a Grammy nominated Mixer, Producer, and musician based in Los Angeles working largely in music for the screen. Scott got his start at the legendary Village Recording studio in Los Angeles where he became a staff engineer, working with artists like John Mayer, Keith Emerson, Colbie Caillat, Carole King, Fink and many others. He spent countless hours in the studio learning from guys like Ed Cherney, John Alagia, and T-Bone Burnett while honing his own skills as an Engineer/Producer.

For over a decade Scott has been one of Hollywood's most in-demand film music mixers. Recording and Mixing scores for projects like The Revenant, The Handmaid's Tale, It Chapter 2, Minions, The Invisible Man, and many more. Recently Scott completed work on Mank, the new David Fincher period piece featuring the music of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails, the entire score was done in isolation during the pandemic.

Scott is known for his ability to bridge the gap between modern film scoring and record production, helping to create a sound that serves what's happening on screen while creating an immersive and rewarding listening experience at the same time. Scott has also recently composed music for Marvel 616, a behind the scenes look at the history of Marvel, streaming now on Disney+.

Thanks so much to Andris Evelis at JZ Microphones for making our introduction. I’m excited to talk about recording and mixing music from the studio to the orchestral hall on the show today.

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RSR291 - Larry Droppa - The Legendary Sound of API Audio in Your Home Studio

2 april 2021 | 129 min

My guest today is Larry Droppa the owner and president of API since 1999, when he acquired the company at auction. He and two friends launched ATI, the live console company, in 1988, positioning that company’s Paragon console as the premier live sound mixing tool for many years. After adding Uptown Automation in 1995 and then API in ’99, Larry’s quest for audio manufacturing notability had been satisfied.

He spent the first half of his professional career as a live mixing engineer, progressing from a local bar band, to a small regional sound company, to one of the larger live sound companies in the US. Larry has toured with folk groups, orchestras, pop and rock bands and spent an ear-splitting 6 weeks on the road with the band listed in the 1984 Guinness Book of World Records as the ‘Loudest Band In A Performance’. But the highlight of his live mixing days is unquestionably the 12 years he spent mixing in-ear monitors for Stevie Wonder. Stevie was an early adopter of in-ears and Larry developed both high-quality in-ear monitors as well as a unique wireless transmission system during that time.

With the purchase of API, Larry had to pivot to become familiar with the studio environment and its inherent differences. Hard work and a team of dedicated audio professionals re-built the API brand into the acknowledged powerhouse it is today. The entire range of API products remains firmly dedicated to co-founder Saul Walker’s original ideas and designs.

A statement on Larry’s passion for the music business can best be summed up in the words of a Stevie Wonder song, Sir Duke – ‘Music is a world within itself with a language we all understand, With an equal opportunity for all to sing, dance and clap their hands…’

It is an honor to have the fearless visionary leader keeping the legendary API sound alive and well joining us today...

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RSR290 - Björgvin Benediktsson - “You Get What You Give” The Story of a Home Studio Engineer’s Path to Success

26 mars 2021 | 132 min

My guest today is Bjorgvin Benediktsson an Icelandic-American author, audio educator, and entrepreneur. He is also a friend of mine and the founder of www.audio-issues.com where he has taught thousands of music producers how to make a bigger impact with their music since 2009.

His latest book, You Get What You Give is a business parable a la The Go-Giver that follows Casey, an aspiring music producer stuck in a dead-end job. He dreams of becoming successful in the music industry but has no idea how to find clients. After a disastrous start (sound familiar?), he meets a mentor who teaches him the success principles he needs to make an impact and find success with his music.

Björgvin is the author of seven other books in the music industry: Step By Step Mixing, Get More Gigs, and Better Mixes in Less Time. He has written over 1,000 articles on music production and his advice has been featured in publications such as MusicTech magazine, The Huffington Post, CD Baby's DIY Musician's Blog, Audiotuts, and the SAE Institute.

Today we are going to talk about his new book, and dig into some of the topics surrounding the business side of running a recording studio whether it's a pro or home studio or recording and releasing your own music. We will tackle the often elusive question of marketing and promotion so that you can connect with your customers and make a great living doing what you love.

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RSR289 - Adam "Atom" Greenspan - Producing & Mixing IDLES, Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and The Veils

19 mars 2021 | 133 min

My guest today is Adam Greenspan A Grammy-nominated engineer, mixer, and producer who had a pretty good start to his career engineering Faith No More’s “Album of the Year” at age 20. He later spent time at two world-class studios, Westlake Audio and The Village Recorder, working with artists such as Marilyn Manson, Rage Against the Machine, and Bono before going freelance in 2000.

As a consultant for setting up home studios, he met Nick Launay and began collaborating on albums by Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Refused, while at the same time taking on more and more producing and mixing gigs of his own for the likes of The Veils, INVSN, and French Style Furs (featuring members of Cold War Kids.)

More recently Adam has seen great success receiving a Mercury prize nomination for IDLES “Joy As An Act Of Resistance.” also nominated for Best Album at the UK Music Producers Guild Awards and won the Ivor Novello award for writing. In 2019 Adam was Grammy-nominated for Thomas Dybdahl “All These Things” and he just had his first #1 in the UK with IDLES “Ultra Mono” and a top 10 with Cliff Richards.

I have really enjoyed listening to Adam’s discography which we have put together in a special playlist for you in the show notes. Thanks so much to Adris Evelis at JZ Microphones for making our introduction.

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RSR288 - Rafa Sardina - 5 x Grammy Winning Mixer For Alejandro Sanz, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, and D'Angelo

12 mars 2021 | 122 min

My guest today is Rafa Sardina a recording and mixing engineer with 5 Grammy wins, 12 Latin Grammy awards, and a total of 60 Grammy nominations during his career including winning the South African SAMA award in 2018. A Basque native of Spain Rafa started out with four years in med school before deciding to pursue his passion for music which led him to Full Sail University.

After graduating as valedictorian he found himself at Oceanway in Los Angeles working with a wide variety of artists including the Black Crows, Celine Dion, Greenday, Madonna, The Rolling Stones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Frank Sinatra to name a few. Today he works from his own After Hours Studios where he regularly mixes artists from around the world.

Though Rafa is best known for working on pop, rock and R&B projects, he has recorded and mixed just about any genre of music you can imagine: orchestral recordings, big band, R&B, dance, gospel, soul, rap, choral, film/TV soundtracks and huge movie scores like “Any given Sunday”, “102 Dalmatians”, “Michael Jordan- To the Max”, Johnny Depp’s “The Rum Diary” and many more.

He is also a founding member and vice-chairman of the Latin Recording Academy's CPI the equivalent to the Producers and Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy. And Rafa enjoys teaching what he knows through platforms like Mix With The Masters, Pensado’s Place and of course Recording Studio Rockstars.

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RSR287 - S Husky Hoskulds - How To Be Original Recording & Mixing in The Studio

5 mars 2021 | 132 min

RSR286 - Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown With Roger Alan Nichols - the Making of the New Album Pressure

26 februari 2021 | 135 min

RSR285 - Brent McCollough - Producing The Viral Bee Gees Parody Video "Stayin' Inside"

19 februari 2021 | 132 min

RSR284 - Tony Black - Grammy Winning Engineer for Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, Wu Tang Clan, Luther Vandross, and More...

12 februari 2021 | 151 min

RSR283 - Tony Succar - Latin Grammy Producer Of The Year

5 februari 2021 | 114 min

My guest today is Tony Succar a two-time Latin Grammy award-winning and #1 Billboard charting artist, producer, and composer/arranger Born in Lima, Peru and raised in Miami, Florida. Tony’s produces music in the world of salsa, jazz, pop, and afro-latino-inspired music. He has a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters degree in Jazz Performance from Florida International University.

In 2018, Tony was nominated for the prestigious Latin Grammy Awards for Best Tropical Song, “Me Enamoro Mas De Ti.” He received four nominations in 2019 for Album of the Year, Best Tropical Song, Best Salsa Album, and Producer of the Year for his most recent album, Mas de Mi. Tony took home two Latin Grammys for Producer of the Year and Best Salsa Album, making history as the youngest winner to have ever won both categories.

Mas de Mi was released by Tony through his independent label, Unity Entertainment. His inspiration for the album was to write and produce non-traditional songs that will appeal to younger generations. He has also worked with an impressive array of talented artists, including Tito Nieves, India, Jon Secada, Marc Anthony, Sheila E., Arturo Sandoval, Judith Hill, and Obie Bermudez, among others.

Tony’s debut album, UNITY: The Latin Tribute to Michael Jackson, had tremendous success, reaching Billboard’s #1 Tropical Album Music Chart, iTunes' #1 World Latin Chart, and Amazon's #1 Latin Pop Music chart, among others. It also evolved into a nationally-televised primetime PBS special that kicked off the PBS Fall Arts Festival.

He has performed at the Caribbean Sea Jazz Festival (Aruba), the Ravinia Festival (Chicago), Auditorio Telmex (Mexico), Vivo Beach (Puerto Rico), Tempo Latino (France), and the 2019 Latin Grammy Awards (MGM Grand Las Vegas), among others.

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RSR282 - Kurt Ballou - Recording Heavy Guitars at God City Studios in Salem MA

29 januari 2021 | 125 min

RSR281 - Billy Decker - New Book Template Mixing & Mastering

22 januari 2021 | 124 min

RSR280 - Justin Francis - More Mixing Tips For The Home Studio

15 januari 2021 | 114 min

RSR279 - Chris Adams aka AHEE - How To Produce Massive Dubstep From Your Home Studio

8 januari 2021 | 120 min

RSR278 - Daniel Schlett - Finding the Space Between the Notes at Strange Weather Studio in Brooklyn NY

1 januari 2021 | 134 min

RSR277 - Brian Murphree - How to Get Your Mix Ready for Mastering

25 december 2020 | 145 min

My guest today is Brian Murphree mastering engineer at Soundporter Mastering in Spring Hill TN. After recording his first band in 1994 at a studio in Decatur, AL, and taking the mix-engineer helm in 1999 for his punk band, Random Conflict, followed by a 5-year stint with Surf Rock band, Daikaiju, Brian has been focused on recording, mixing, and mastering for underground artists who might lack the budget to track in major professional studios.

Brian spent 20 years recording, mixing, and mastering music in the North Alabama, Middle TN area, helping artists find their best sounds without blowing their budget. For the past 4 years, he has focused solely on mastering and has been able to grow his client list even in the challenging climate of COVID-19.

Grammy-winning “Boo” Mitchell of Memphis’ Royal Studios, Mark Slaughter, Melly Baldwin, and BZ Lewis are just a few clients Brian has worked with and his goal is to always help his clients realize their best production and mix no matter who they are, and to do it without breaking the bank.

Brian takes pride as a mastering engineer in being easy to work with and helpful at the early stages before you even think your mix is ready for mastering. And Since Brian and Soundporter are a welcome sponsor on the podcast also I thought it would be cool to have Brian as a guest on the show so that we can get to know him better and discover “how to get your mix ready for mastering”.

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RSR276 - Kevin McMahon - How to Get The "Band in a Room" Sound

18 december 2020 | 127 min

RSR275 - Morgan Page - Producing Grammy Nominated EDM & Electro House for Clubs and Festivals

11 december 2020 | 128 min

My guest today is Morgan Page a GRAMMY-nominated producer and DJ with hundreds of millions of plays, and charted multiple Billboard, Beatport, and US Dance Radio #1s.

Morgan has built a massive live following performing at major festivals across the world, including Coachella, EDC, Electric Zoo, Burning Man, and Ultra Music Festival, as well as countless shows in the world’s top venues and clubs. He typically tours nearly year-round and holds a Las Vegas residency at Daylight, having previously held a three-year residency at Wynn Las Vegas.

Morgan also curates and hosts a weekly radio mix show, ‘In The Air,’ which airs on Sirius XM and broadcasting weekly uninterrupted for nearly ten years, and has surpassed episode number 500!

Outside of music, his two main passions are the environment and technology, and particularly where the two intersect. The Tesla-driving producer installed solar panels to power his recording studio; he is always on the cutting edge and an early adopter and advocate of new tech.

In 2013, he brought to life the groundbreaking ‘Morgan Page Presents 3D Tour,’ a forward-thinking, immersive visual experience utilizing 3D technology. In 2014, partnering with Oculus, DTS, and Alienware, he also produced the first-ever virtual reality lyric video for his single ‘In The Air.’ Followed by an Oculus partnership to produce a Gear VR mobile experience for his single “Open Heart.” Most recently, he’s produced music for Tesla and SpaceX.

Morgan’s Quick Tips project is his way to pass on his vast wealth of knowledge and experience to an eager audience of musicians and producers, as well as the broader creator community, helping them crack the creativity code and improve their workflow. MPQT is comprised of a series of 750+ short-form tips and 50+ blog post deep-dives available online and in physical card sets. Recently Morgan partnered up with technology leader OWC to distribute the cards and connect with creators as a brand ambassador.

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RSR274 - John Storyk - Designing Electric Lady Studios For Jimi Hendrix & Advice For Your Home Studio

4 december 2020 | 106 min

My guest today is John Storyk, registered architect and acoustician, is a founding partner of WSDG (Walters-Storyk Design Group). He has provided design and construction supervision services for the professional audio and video recording community since the 1969 design of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios in New York City.

John Storyk received his architectural studies from Princeton and Columbia Universities. As an independent designer, engineer and principal designer of WSDG he has been responsible for over 3.5k world-class audio/video production facilities, including studios, radio stations, video suites, entertainment clubs and theatres.

His work includes private studios for Whitney Houston, Bob Marley, Ace Frehley, Russ Freeman, Taylor Dayne’s producer Rick Wake; Johnny Yuma Recording in L.A.; Greenway; C & C Music’s Robert Clavicles; Oven Studios (Alicia Keys); Roc the Mic (J-Z) and others.

Professional audio video installations include Soundshop, Nashville; Crawford Post, Atlanta; Talking House (San Francisco); screening rooms for NYC’s Planet Hollywood and Technicolor; conference facilities for Mercury (Polygram), EMI, CEMEX, Sumitoma; large scale educational and performance facilities for Full Sail/Platinum Post (Orlando), Ex’Pression Center for New Media (San Francisco), and Jazz at Lincoln Center / XM Radio (New York city).

He is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Acoustical Society of America, Audio Engineering Society (AES) and a frequent contributor to AES convention papers and professional industry periodicals. John is also a frequent lecturer at schools throughout the nation. He has established courses in acoustics at both Full Sail and Ex’pression Center for the Media Arts and is an adjunct professor of Acoustics and Studio Design at Berklee College of Music, Boston.

As an architect turned music producer myself I feel very honoured to have John with us today on the show to see what we can learn about studio design and the ways it can help us make better records.

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RSR273 - Patrick Rene aka Killah Trakz - Writing & Producing Old School Hip Hop in Miami

27 november 2020 | 113 min

My guest today is Patrick Rene aka Killah Trakz a Miami native rapper and hip hop music producer who has worked with artists like Iconz, Rick Ross, 2 Live Crew, and Uncle Luke to name a few.

An analog junkie at heart adapting in the world of digital, Trakz has been at the forefront of the digital revolution of music distribution by having one of the most downloaded albums in the MySpace / Napster era titled “ Hoodz Prodigy “.

Getting his start in '07 at a time when the "Internet" was at its peak of popularity for all advocates of music, sites like AcidPlanet, UGHH, MP3.com, and hundreds more were gaining more notoriety by the day. Within the first week, Trakz saw his debut album surpass 50,000 downloads with ease. Overnight Success was an "understatement" for what would follow.

After landing several placements with his production on numerous indie films, Trakz got calls from everyone wanting his sound. By 2008, his sound was hitting the radio waves but getting heard by millions by "ghost producing" for the likes of many of today's favourites.

I met Trakz through our Facebook group at Recording Studio Rockstars. He kept posting so many great hip hop songs that I knew I had to learn more. So I am excited to have him join us today on the podcast to hear more about his story and see what we can learn about writing, producing, and mixing hip hop in the digital age.

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RSR272 - Stephen Shirk - How to Record a Great Band Performance in the Studio

20 november 2020 | 130 min

My guest today is Stephen Shirk an engineer, producer, and owner of Shirk Studio in Chicago. Originally from Bloomington, Illinois, he began playing in bands through junior high college at Miami University where he earned a degree in Business and Marketing.

In 1998 he moved to New York City to chase his dream of working in a recording studio where he worked at The Hit Factory, Pink Noise and Three Tree Productions as well as assisting on sessions at many legendary NYC facilities like Avatar (Power Station), Clinton, Right Track, and Sound on Sound. Recording in New York also exposed Stephen to a unique artistic community beyond that of music. His collaboration with Nadine Robinson would ultimately land one of his sound designs in the Museum of Modern Art’s Tempo exhibit in 2002.

In 2004, Stephen relocated to Chicago to continue producing and recording bands, creating sound for art installations, as well as providing audio services for the advertising community. This was the beginning of SHIRK studios. Through a chance meeting at SXSW in 2006, Stephen partnered with the music blog, HearYa.com, and began recording and filming the HearYa live sessions.

The video series featured powerful live in-studio recordings of artists like Alabama Shakes, Delta Spirit, Other Lives, Patterson Hood, White Denim, Strand of Oaks, Rayland Baxter and many more. In 2013 he acquired the building that now houses SHIRK studios in Chicago’s West Town neighbourhood. Firmly planted in Chicago, Stephen records, produces and hosts sessions with some of Chicago’s most celebrated artists as well as those just getting their start.

I had the pleasure of spending a day at Shirk studio in 2019 when I hosted a mixing clinic there with Anthony Gravino. We spent the day listening to the beautiful Sphere console and I knew I found a new favourite studio in Chicago. Plus Stephen is the coolest.

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RSR271 - Marc Daniel Nelson - Mixing Music & Trailers In Pro Tools During Quarantine

13 november 2020 | 107 min

RSR270 - Shawn Everett - Mixing Alabama Shakes Sound & Color and Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour

6 november 2020 | 123 min

RSR269 - Bill Cheney - Spectra 1964 & The STX 600 Complimiter

30 oktober 2020 | 91 min

RSR268 - Bill Schnee - Recording Steely Dan Aja, Miles Davis, and Huey Lewis & The News

23 oktober 2020 | 162 min

My guest today is Bill Schnee an internationally renowned producer, engineer and mix master. In a highly decorated career that spans five decades, Bill has engineered many gold and platinum albums with a wide variety of artists that include Three Dog Night, Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Rod Stewart, Chicago, Steely Dan, Natalie Cole, The Jacksons, Marvin Gaye, Dire Straits, Ringo (with all the Beatles), Barry Manilow, Carly Simon, Michael Bolton, George Benson, The Pointer Sisters, Bette Midler, Amy Grant and Whitney Houston, including her mega-single "I Will Always Love You”.

Bill also produced multiple projects with Huey Lewis and the News, Boz Scaggs, Pablo Cruise, Joe Sample, as well as internationally renowned direct-to-disc recordings with Thelma Houston and James Newton Howard and Friends.

In addition to working on dozens of Grammy-nominated and Grammy-winning albums, Bill has been personally nominated 11 times for The Best Engineered Album category and has won twice for Aja and Gaucho, both from Steely Dan. Those two multi-platinum releases add to a harvest of hits that includes over 85 gold records, 50 platinum projects and 50 top twenty singles. Schnee also has won an Emmy Award for Best Sound Mixing for a Variety Special and a Dove Award.

In 1981, Bill opened his own recording facility in Los Angeles – Schnee Studio. It boasted a large live recording room with a very unique acoustical sound, a custom made recording console, custom tube mic pre-amps, and an extensive collection of vintage tube microphones. It was widely regarded as one of the finest recording rooms in Los Angeles.

Bill currently resides in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife Sallie. And we are lucky to have him here on the podcast with us today!

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RSR267 - Marc Frigo - Mixing Multiple Musical Genres In The Box

16 oktober 2020 | 124 min

My guest today is Marc Frigo a mix engineer, recording engineer, and producer based out of Nashville, TN with multi-platinum credits and over 29 years of experience.

Marc started out in his hometown of Chicago in 1990 but relocated to Nashville, TN in early 1991 where he became a staff engineer at Woodland Studios. It was there that he was able to work with and learn from some of the best engineers and producers in the world, such as producers Peter Collins, Don Was, T-Bone Burnett, Tony Brown, Josh Leo, Jay Joyce and engineers David Leonard, Steve Marcantonio, Rick Will, Bob Bullock, Steve Tillisch, Bill Schnee, and so many others that were great mentors.

During his days as an assistant engineer, he worked on projects with Bob Seger, Keith Urban, Restless Heart, Tammy Wynette, George Jones, The Divinyls, Nancy Griffith, Larry Carlton, Gillian Welch, and the list goes on.

Eventually moving out of assisting and into engineering, Marc engineered and/or mixed projects for The Indigo Girls, K.T. Oslin, Nelson, Dez Dickerson (of Prince & The Revolution) Israel Houghton, Jewel, and Future Leaders of the World to name a few. Marc also recorded and mixed the "Larry Boy" theme song featuring Nicole C. Mullen for the popular Veggie Tales children's video series, which went on to sell 15 million copies.

Marc And I Met when I was interning at Woodland and I’m psyched to be reconnecting 25 years later!

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RSR266 - Dana Dowd - Mémoire of Her Father Tom Dowd

9 oktober 2020 | 125 min

My guest today is Dana Dowd whose father was the legendary Tom Dowd an American recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records with a credit list of top artists in jazz, blues, doo wop, soul, and rock records spanning 5 decades of recording from the 50s-90s.

Credited with innovating the multitrack recording method and linear console faders from their original round knobs Tom engineered through the various phases of recording technology starting with direct to disc all the way through analog tape 2 track, 4 track, eight-track, 16 24 and finally Pro Tools in the 90s.

His first hit in the 50s was Eileen Barton's "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake". And he went on to record popular artists such as Ray Charles, the Drifters, the Coasters, the Spinners, Ruth Brown and Bobby Darin.

He recorded iconic jazz records by John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Herbie Mann and continued through other genres of music recording Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Oak Arkansas, Derek and the Dominos, Rod Stewart, Wishbone Ash, New Model Army, Cream, Lulu, Chicago, the Allman Brothers Band, Joe Bonamassa, Robin Gibbs, Meat Loaf, Cher, the Rascals, the Spinners, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross, the Four Seasons, Kenny Loggins, James Gang, Dusty Springfield, Eddie Harris, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Joe Castro and Primal Scream.

I met Tom’s daughter Dana Dowd more recently when she wrote a glowing testimonial as part of our movement to help save home studios in music city. Dana is an outspoken supporter of the music industry, and expert on her father and his work, and a successful business person and entrepreneur in her own industry of brand marketing.

So It’s an honour to have Dana joining us on the podcast and today we are here to learn more about her dad Tom Dowd and what it was like to grow up around so much incredible music that influences us all.

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RSR265 - Buick Audra & Jerry Roe - Sludge Stoner Doom Rock with Friendship Commanders and Steve Albini

2 oktober 2020 | 97 min

My guests today are Buick Audra and Jerry Roe of Friendship Commanders, a heavy duo from Nashville TN. Their new EP - HOLD ON TO YOURSELF released in April of 2020 follows their second LP, BILL, which they made with Steve Albini Electrical Audio. HOLD ON TO YOURSELF was tracked between Fort Knockout and Sound Emporium studios in Nashville TN. It was mixed by Kurt Ballou at GodCity in Salem MA and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege in Portland OR.

In this body of songs, Friendship Commanders examines the world around them, their part in the problems and potential solutions, and even challenges the patriarchy. The release also gets personal and discusses what it looks like to be an adult who survived childhood trauma.

The band’s primary songwriter, Buick Audra, is an abuse survivor and has chosen to dedicate this work to other survivors. Her outgoing message is summarized in the EP’s title. The phrase has been a personal mantra for Audra; she has a habit of writing it down every morning as a reminder.

Buick and Jerry record and self produce their music and have created an immediately classic heavy punk rock sound. I’ve known Buick for years playing in other band settings and when I heard this record I knew we would want to learn more from Buick and Jerry about the process of writing, capturing, mixing, and mastering such a powerful sound.

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RSR264 - Marc Urselli - Pro Tools Mixing Template Breakdown From a Grammy Winning Engineer

25 september 2020 | 112 min

How to Go from Charging $100 to $1000/song as a Full-Stack Producer - Jordan Valeriote [Bonus Episode]

23 september 2020 | 51 min

RSR263 - Dana Nielsen - Recording with Rick Rubin, Neil Young, Smashing Pumpkins, and Will Ferrell

18 september 2020 | 125 min

RSR262 - Eyal Levi - Unstoppable Recording Machine Podcast Host & Nail The Mix Teacher for Rock And Metal Production

11 september 2020 | 145 min

RSR261 - Mike Fanuele - Mixing for Stage and Studio With Gwen Stefani, Dashboard Confessional, Paper Music and Second Letter

4 september 2020 | 115 min

RSR260 - Chuck Zwicky - The Convenience Con - One Man's Nirvana Is Another Man's Map

28 augusti 2020 | 116 min

RSR259 - Eric Masse - 3-Time Grammy Losing Producer/Engineer of Miranda Lambert, Rayland Baxter, and bringing Low-Level concepts to High-Level brains

21 augusti 2020 | 136 min

RSR258 - Michael Beinhorn - The Art Of Remote Pre Production

14 augusti 2020 | 59 min

My guest today is Michael Beinhorn who has lived his life in the pursuit of artistic expression, first as a visual artist, then as a performer, and finally as a record producer.

Michael began in 1979 as co-founder of the seminal New York musical collective Material and has since produced and or recorded a long list of artists including Brian Eno’s “Lizard Point” from “Ambient 4: On Land.”, Herbie Hancock’s Future Shock, which included the groundbreaking cut “Rockit.”, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ breakthrough albums “The Uplift Mofo Party Plan” and “Mother’s Milk”.

Michael’s recordings have achieved combined worldwide sales of more than 45 million albums helping to define the careers of a diverse range of artists, including Soul Asylum, Hole, Soundgarden, Ozzy Osbourne, Courtney Love, Marilyn Manson, Social Distortion, Korn, and Mew.

Over the past 20 years, Michael has become increasingly aware of the concerns facing artists and producers alike who are trying to maintain their creative ethics, personal expression and focus in the recording process. He has increasingly devoted his attention to artist development, the changing music industry and various ways to improve the quality of contemporary popular music.

For this reason, he has been increasingly active in mentoring fellow artists and aspiring record producers. He has extensively addressed these (and other pertinent) issues in his book, “Unlocking Creativity” published by Hal Leonard. He has also started an innovative online consulting service (Beinhorn Creative) that remotely provides all the functionality of music production to artists who would otherwise, be unable to afford these services.

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RSR257 - Packy Lundholm - Chip Tunes, Tetris Guitars, Vulfpeck & I Fight Dragons

7 augusti 2020 | 120 min

RSR256 - David Rodgers - Grammy Winning Jazz Keyboardist With Keb' Mo'

31 juli 2020 | 142 min

RSR255 - Ike Schultz - Vocal Production Advice, Recording With Tinashe & Mixing Lizzo

24 juli 2020 | 130 min

My guest today is Ike Schultz, a Multi-Platinum award-winning mixing and tracking engineer based in Los Angeles, CA originally from Toronto Canada. He’s collaborated and worked on albums for a variety of artists including Tinåshe, Lizzo, Adele, Rihanna, Kanye West, Ariana Grande, Adam Lambert, Whethan, Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa, Charlie Puth (pooth), Phantogram, and more.

Ike worked at the legendary Larrabee Studios directly assisting nine-time Grammy award-winning mixer, Manny Marroquin, for 3 years. Then went on to mix Lizzo’s debut release ‘Coconut Oil’, under executive producer Ricky Reed at S.K.A.M. Studios. Ike worked on the majority of the album including the singles “Phone” & “Good As Hell”.

While at S.K.A.M. Studios, Ike worked with DJ Felli Fel, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Yachty, Whethan, DRAM, Imad Royal & Post Malone. Afterwards, he mixed & contributed as a songwriter for multiple feature films for Paramount Pictures’ music department, and began working with Grammy award-winning producer & engineer Chris Testa for the Oprah Winfrey Network, MTV, & Facebook’s content collaborations with Buzzfeed.

In 2018, Ike became the engineer/vocal producer for Emmy Nominated & Multi-Platinum recording artist Tinashe. He recorded & mixed her fourth studio album “Songs for You” which became the first independently released #1 album on iTunes in the US since 2016.

Thanks to Gabe White at WhisperRoom for the introduction.

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RSR254 - Kevin White - Retro Future Music And Theramin For Film & Bands

17 juli 2020 | 119 min

RSR253 - Mike Senior - Best Free Plugins For A Pro Mix In Your Studio

10 juli 2020 | 100 min

RSR252 - Collin Dupuis - Stuff You Need To Know To Make Great Records

3 juli 2020 | 138 min

My guest today is Collin Dupuis a Nashville and Detroit based multi Grammy-nominated and two time Grammy-winning mixer, producer, and engineer. Collin has developed a sought after sound over the last fifteen years working with critically acclaimed artists and projects including Angel Olsen, Lana Del Rey,St. Vincent, Dr. John, The Black Keys, and many others.

Beginning his career playing in bands, running a DIY recording studio in Michigan, and doing tech work around the Detroit area, he quickly found himself working at FBT (The Bass Brothers) studio as an assistant engineer. From there, he cut his teeth working with artists and producers of the likes of Mr. Porter, Eminem, Pharoahe Monch, and many more.

He soon got a call to set up a studio at Jack White's house and help out on the White Stripes’ “Get Behind Me Satan.” Shortly after that, Collin was hired over at Carl Craig’s Planet-E records. He engineered for the next five years alongside Carl on remixes, production, live sound in Europe, mastering, and mixing.

Collin next got the call from Dan Auerbach to help him get his Akron studio up and running. This led to a move to Nashville and many critically acclaimed albums working as the lead engineer at Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound. During his time at Easy Eye Sound he earned a Grammy win for engineering and mixing Dr. John’s “Locked Down”. Along with a Grammy win for engineering Cage The Elephants “Tell Me I Pretty”. Currently, Collin is busy working as a freelance mixer and engineer, producing, recording, and mixing albums for artists including Angel Olsen, Jeff The Brotherhood, Nikki Lane, Rayland Baxter, and many others.

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RSR251 - Jamie Tate - Mix Advice From A Grammy Winner

26 juni 2020 | 134 min

RSR250 - Anthony Gravino - How To Mix in Pro Tools & Console Hybrid

19 juni 2020 | 124 min

RSR249 - Derek Bargaehr - Vanguard Audio Labs Microphones

12 juni 2020 | 89 min

RSR248 - Fela Davis - How To Run A Podcast Studio Business

5 juni 2020 | 127 min

My guest today is Fela Davis a graduate and recent Hall of Fame inductee at Full Sail University with almost 20 years of experience in audio engineering, working for clients like Clair Global and House of Blues. Fela also has experience mixing live shows for the likes of Ron Carter, Brian Blade, Jose Feliciano, Meshell Ndegeocello and Bilal. She's currently front of house engineer for 6-time Grammy Award winner Christian McBride, mixing sold out shows across Asia, Europe, Canada and America.

When not on the road, she's recording and creating new projects at 23dB Productions & One of One Productions Studio.

23dB Productions specializes in live mixing, recording, producing original music, podcasts, creating video and social media content for businesses and offers mobile recording services for Live Nation NYC venues like Music Hall of Williamsburg and Bowery Ballroom and SiriusXM's Real Jazz The Lowdown.

23dB records, mixes, and edits at their One of One Productions Studio located 5 minutes from NYC in Fort Lee, NJ specializing in podcast recordings for clients as well as Fela and cohost Denis Orynbekov’s own The Art of Music Tech Podcast.

Fela’s podcast highlights the latest in audio gear, mixing techniques and interviews with top audio engineers, musicians, and producers like Leslie Ann Jones, Jeff Bova, Jett Galindo, and Patrick Smith about their journey in audio. You can find The Art Of Music Tech on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, iHeart Radio and YouTube.

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RSR247 - Larry Crane - How To Get A Pro Mix While Avoiding Common Mixing Mistakes

29 maj 2020 | 129 min

RSR246 - Chris Shaw - Recording and Mixing with Public Enemy, Weezer, Ric Ocasek, and Jeff Buckley

22 maj 2020 | 120 min

RSR245 - Howard Willing - Recording with Billy Corgan, Sara Bareilles, Tchad Blake & Bob Clearmountain

15 maj 2020 | 130 min

RSR244 - Bobby Holland - Pro Mixing on a Console and Pro Tools at Pentavarit Studios

8 maj 2020 | 125 min

RSR243 - Cheyenne Medders - Songwriting and Producing Pop Indie Rock and Folk

1 maj 2020 | 122 min

My guest today is Cheyenne Medders a singer-songwriter, producer and musician living in Nashville. Originally from North Georgia and taught guitar by his father, Cheyenne started writing songs and playing music with his brothers as a young teenager. In 2005 he moved to Nashville, where he produces his own music and helps other artists bring their ideas to life.

Cheyenne co-wrote songs on The Secret Sisters' Grammy -nominated album You Don't Own Me Anymore as well as Ward Thomas' UK #1 album Cartwheels. He collaborates with Allie Farris as FM and Sara Beth Go as Geographi, and his brothers Carson and Will Medders as The Medders.

He is a member of indie rock band The Nobility, and produces lo-fi electronic music under the name Bellbear. He is a member of the Real Sword music collective in Nashville. Cheyenne runs a home studio called Departure Room and has produced, mixed, written on, played on or otherwise worked on recordings by The Secret Sisters, Sarah Darling, The Kernal, James Paul Mitchell, Z Swann, Jude Smith, Svrcina and more. In 2019 he released 3 new singles from his upcoming full-length album Sapphired Up, due in February 2020.

I actually met Cheyenne through his uncle’s studio designed by Carl Tatzwhich I was checking out back when I wanted to build my own studio. In fact, I got my design for the loft above the control room from there.

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RSR242 - Glenn Fricker - Spectre Sound Studios Heavy Metal Youtube Channel

24 april 2020 | 71 min

RSR241 - Doug Sarrett - Recording Tips with Al Schmitt, U2, and One Republic

17 april 2020 | 118 min

RSR240 - Adam Bokesch - Recording & Composing with Keys & Vintage Synths

10 april 2020 | 106 min

RSR239 - Grant Walden - Recording Legendary Muscle Shoals Musicians

3 april 2020 | 109 min

RSR238 - Richard Dodd - Grammy Winning Mixing Tips and Other Cool Stuff

27 mars 2020 | 132 min

RSR237 - F. Reid Shippen - Awesome Mixing Tricks To Try On Your Next Mix

20 mars 2020 | 116 min

RSR236 - Andrés Mayo - How To Create 360 Immersive Audio for Music, VR & Games From Your Studio

13 mars 2020 | 125 min

RSR235 - Casey Barker - How To Find Your Dream Job in Recording & Mixing

6 mars 2020 | 117 min

RSR234 - Jason Soudah - Composing For Film With Matt Margeson at Hans Zimmer's Remote Control

28 februari 2020 | 128 min

My guest today is Jason Soudah a Composer/Singer-Songwriter/Producer/Mix Engineer from the UK, and has been based in Los Angeles since 2009, when he was invited to intern at Hans Zimmer’s studio complex. Jason was quickly recruited by composer Matthew Margeson (Rocketman, Kingsman: The Secret Service & The Golden Circle, Rings), and they have been collaborating ever since.

In this “additional music” capacity, Jason has also worked with composers Henry Jackman, Dominic Lewis, Heitor Pereira, Jim Dooley, Al Clay, Daniel Heath, Benjamin Wallfisch, and Ryan Taubert, among many. As a composer Jason recently won the Best Music Award at the 2019 Boston Film Festival for his score to the movie "Whaling," as well as scoring the multi-award winning Horror Feature "FOLLOWED", and the Emmy-Awarded Documentary Feature “Paradise Reef: The World Is Watching.”

Jason has had songs featured on MTV (The Real World, Teen Mom…). He wrote “A Sporting Chance” for the movie “Eddie The Eagle,” “Ladyphones” for the movie “GI-JOE: Retaliation,” and co-wrote “Handy Candy” for the movie “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” with composers Matthew Margeson and Mike Higham.

Right now, Jason is writing music for multiple film projects, mixing scores (most recently for BAFTA-supported composer Emily Rice), and collaborating with other songwriters and artists (as a co-writer and/or producer) with a view to creating songs for synch licenses, for the artist/s themselves, or to be cut by other artists. Jason also produces backing tracks for KIDZ BOP, collaborating with Gary Philips.

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RSR233 - Evan Bakke - Recording Prince at Paisley Park and Engineering at Power Station NE

21 februari 2020 | 114 min

RSR232 - Craig Alvin - The Ultimate Step By Step Process For a Perfect Mix Every Time

14 februari 2020 | 125 min

RSR231 - Steve Genewick - Recording at Capitol Studios with Al Schmitt

7 februari 2020 | 112 min

RSR230 - M Allen Parker - Chief Engineer at Easy Eye Sound with Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys

31 januari 2020 | 120 min

RSR229 - Matty Harris - How to Write Mix & Master Hip Hop

24 januari 2020 | 127 min

RSR228 - Jason Hall - Recording Cage The Elephant, Little Big Town & Coheed and Cambria with Jay Joyce

17 januari 2020 | 138 min

RSR227 - Bill Cheney - Spectra 1964 Sound of Record Plant, Stax Studio, Ardent, and Easy Eye Sound

10 januari 2020 | 127 min

RSR226 - Alex Oana - Which Mic Should You Buy? Audio Test Kitchen

3 januari 2020 | 127 min

RSR225 - Harold LaRue - How To Do Pro Mastering In Your DAW

27 december 2019 | 133 min

RSR224 - Jesse & Jonah Marks - Capturing Sounds Around The World at The Touch of Sound

20 december 2019 | 124 min

RSR223 - Jarrad K - Writing, Producing, and Programming in LA & Nashville

13 december 2019 | 125 min

RSR222 - Steve Chadie - Recording Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Los Lonely Boys, Wilco, and Supersuckers

6 december 2019 | 108 min

RSR221 - Hamish Benjamin - Lessons Learned from Mark Howard, Joe Chiccarelli, Steve Albini, Butch Vig, Vance Powell, and Eric Valentine About Recording Bands

29 november 2019 | 146 min

RSR220 - Justin Francis - Grammy Nominated Engineer Shares Mixing Tips for Your Home Studio

22 november 2019 | 137 min

RSR219 - Ryan Smith - Sterling Sound Engineer & Tips for DIY Mastering At Home

15 november 2019 | 129 min

RSR218 - Dr Ford - How to Mix in a Pro or Home Studio from an Award Winning Mixer

8 november 2019 | 143 min

RSR217 - Justin Cortelyou - Platinum Engineer working with Paul MacCartney, Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper, and Phish

1 november 2019 | 135 min

RSR216 - Chris Finney - Recording Dr John, The Meters, BB King, and the Rebirth Brass Band in New Orleans

25 oktober 2019 | 127 min

RSR215 - Jessica Tomasin - Managing Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville NC

18 oktober 2019 | 119 min

My guest today is Jessica Tomasin, manager at Echo Mountain Recording Studios in beautiful Asheville NC. Under her direction, the studio has evolved into a world-class destination featuring a full range of digital and analog capabilities with an amazing selection of gear and a wide variety of credits like War On Drugs, The Avett Brothers, Dierks Bentley, Iron and Wine, Flogging Molly, Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers, and many more. And through volunteering and establishing private companies and non-profit organizations, she is committed to helping the future of music and promoting the city as a musical destination.

Jessica also co-founded the Asheville Music Professionals, a non-profit organization committed to providing education, advocacy, connection, and collaboration in the music community. She is also the co-owner of ACME, a publishing company that helps to connect artists with licensing opportunities.

In 2013 she was chosen as Entrepreneur of the Year by the City of Asheville/Chamber of Commerce for her work in music. In 2014 she started Jet Up Productions, a full service event management and production company, and has curated a number of festivals and events each year such as The Breeder’s Cup, Asheville Goombay Festival, Beer City Festival, Brewgrass, RHS Community Foundation Fundraiser featuring Gladys Knight and Little Big Town, and many other projects. Her latest event, Connect Beyond Festival, is an arts and literature festival featuring creative talent from around the world with a mission to inspire change for social justice through music, film, art and literature.

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RSR214 - Kim Rosen - Mastering Grammy Winning Records from a Home Studio

11 oktober 2019 | 109 min

RSR213 - Tommy Womack - Government Cheese, Indie Rock, and Writing Good Songs

4 oktober 2019 | 91 min

RSR212 - Matt McQueen - How to Do Music and Video at Your Studio

27 september 2019 | 119 min

RSR211 - Rolff Zwiep - Managing Blackbird Studio in Nashville

20 september 2019 | 116 min

RSR210 - Billy Decker - Speed Mixing #1 Hits Inside Pro Tools

13 september 2019 | 126 min

RSR209 - Colt Capperrune - Empowering Artists and Producing Guitar Driven Music In Nashville

6 september 2019 | 128 min

RSR208 - Andy VanDette - Awesome Mastering Advice for Home Studio Mixes

30 augusti 2019 | 122 min

RSR207 - Tim Dolbear - Eclectica Studio Design and Mixing Advice with Analog Tape

23 augusti 2019 | 128 min

RSR206 - Steve Albini - How To Mix a Record

16 augusti 2019 | 100 min

RSR205 - James Ivey - Host of Pro Tools & Production Expert, Owner of Location Recording

9 augusti 2019 | 125 min

RSR204 - Sara Carter - Mixing And Mastering Indi Music In the UK

2 augusti 2019 | 139 min

RSR203 - Langston Masingale - Make Your DAW Sound Like Analog Tape with Zulu

26 juli 2019 | 126 min

RSR202 - Nick Lobel - From Mix Assistant To Pro Mixer

19 juli 2019 | 133 min

RSR201 - Steve O'Brien - Writing Nashville Country Songs

12 juli 2019 | 131 min

RSR200 - Bill Demain - Songwriting & Interviews with Burt Bacharach, Neil Finn, Ken Scott & David Bowie

5 juli 2019 | 126 min

RSR199 - Jon Fintel - Recording Awesome Indie Rock and Jazz In Columbus OH

28 juni 2019 | 122 min

RSR198 - Lee Turner - Producing Artists with Top Country Musicians in a Home Studio Setting

21 juni 2019 | 123 min

RSR197 - Austin Hull - How To Make Pop Music

14 juni 2019 | 131 min

RSR196 - Steven Durr - Designing The Perfect Recording Studio

7 juni 2019 | 127 min

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3 juni 2019 | 1 min

RSR195 - Boz Millar - Boz Digital Labs Building Creative Plugins To Solve Your Mixing Problems

31 maj 2019 | 132 min

RSR194 - Ken Sluiter - Tips for Mixing in the Box with Pro Tools in 2019

24 maj 2019 | 136 min

RSR193 - Mike Indovina - Mastering Your Mixing Mindset

17 maj 2019 | 113 min

RSR192 - Wyn Davis - Recording 80s & 90s Punk, Hair Metal, and Post Punk Bands at Total Access Recording in Redondo Beach CA

10 maj 2019 | 113 min

RSR191 - Jordan Reynolds - Recording for Voice Over, ADR, and Podcasts

3 maj 2019 | 129 min

RSR190 - Dave Hillis - Recording Mace, Pearl Jam, and Alice In Chains During The Seattle Grunge Era

26 april 2019 | 120 min

RSR189 - Stuart Richardson - Producing Wall Of Sound Post Hardcore Music

19 april 2019 | 118 min

RSR188 - Brandon Bell - Recording Zac Brown and Alan Jackson at Southern Ground Nashville.

12 april 2019 | 126 min

RSR187 - Jared Eliseo - How To Manage Your Recording Studio Finances

5 april 2019 | 83 min

RSR186 - John Paterno - Recording with Tchad Blake, Joe Chicarelli, Los Lobos, Soul Coughing and Steve Gadd

29 mars 2019 | 135 min

RSR185 - Simon Walls & Greg Bonnier Record The World

22 mars 2019 | 134 min

RSR184 - Spencer Bastian - Producing Bass Music and EDM Pop in LA

15 mars 2019 | 108 min

RSR183 - Alan Evans - Recording Funky Retro Soul at Iron Wax Studios

8 mars 2019 | 121 min

RSR182 - Pete Johns - How To Make Records On Your iPhone - Studio Live Today

1 mars 2019 | 128 min

RSR181 - Jonathon Jircitano - How To Record Awesome Vocals In Your Studio

22 februari 2019 | 104 min

RSR180 - Yoli Mara - How To Manage A Pro Studio - Welcome To 1979

15 februari 2019 | 109 min

RSR179 - Charles Holloman - Muscle Shoals Now, More Than Just the Music

8 februari 2019 | 120 min

RSR178 - Smith Curry - Playing Bad Ass Pedal Steel and Slide Guitar in Nashville.

1 februari 2019 | 114 min

RSR177 - Tim Easton - How To Write Songs and Travel The World.

25 januari 2019 | 92 min

RSR176 - Daniel Tashian - Writing Great Songs In Nashville

18 januari 2019 | 120 min

RSR175 - Michael Estok - Writing and Recording for Pop and Independent Artists in Nashville and Ohio

11 januari 2019 | 110 min

RSR174 - Brian Charles - Designing Transatlantic Plate Reverb and Recording Indi Rock in Boston at Zippah Studios

4 januari 2019 | 130 min

RSR173 - Chris Graham - How One-On-One Lessons Can Teach You Things You Won’t learn By Yourself.

28 december 2018 | 77 min

RSR172 - Tim Lauer - Writing, Composing, And Producing Music For The TV Show Nashville.

21 december 2018 | 134 min

RSR171 - Vance Powell - How To Produce, Record, And Mix A Record That Rocks

14 december 2018 | 135 min

RSR170 - Matt Beaudoin - How to Get a Great Recording of a Band Live Together in a Room

7 december 2018 | 100 min

RSR169 - Eric Sarafin aka Mixerman - Musician’s Survival Guide To A Killer Record

30 november 2018 | 110 min

RSR168 - Marc Daniel Nelson - Producing, Recording, and Mixing for Music and Picture.

23 november 2018 | 126 min

RSR167 - Nikolay Georgiev - Capturing and Recreating Reverbs From Secret Spaces Around the World.

16 november 2018 | 135 min

RSR166 - Paul Moak - How To Make Your Records Rock!

9 november 2018 | 144 min

RSR165 - Pete Lyman - Mastering For Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, and Weezer at Infrasonic Sound

2 november 2018 | 113 min

RSR164 - Jim Stewart - Producing, Recording, and Mixing, Rock, Soul, Jazz, and Americana In Cleveland OH.

26 oktober 2018 | 131 min

RSR163 - Ryan Sutton - Capturing, Editing, And Mixing Pro Vocals In The Studio.

19 oktober 2018 | 130 min

RSR162 - Jonathan Haidle - Drawing Inspiration From The Fashion Industry To Create Music With Ableton Live.

12 oktober 2018 | 135 min

RSR161 - Ian Shepherd - How To Keep Your Mixes Out Of The LOUDNESS Penalty Box.

5 oktober 2018 | 99 min

RSR160 - Ryan Earnhardt- 4 Ways To Think Creatively In The Studio from Creative Sound Lab TV

28 september 2018 | 130 min

RSR159 - Brad Dollar - Music Catalyzer And Entrepreneur

21 september 2018 | 125 min

RSR158 - Paul Niehaus IV - Producing Soul & Blues In St Louis MO

14 september 2018 | 140 min

RSR157 - Hayley McLean - Guitar Voice And Ableton Live From Studio To Stage

7 september 2018 | 124 min

RSR156 - Anthony Gravino - Creating The Illusions In The Moment Of Inception

31 augusti 2018 | 126 min

RSR155 - Kyle Andrews - Producing Bedroom Pop Songs For Shampoo, Oscar Meyer, Holiday Inn, And You

24 augusti 2018 | 138 min

RSR154 - Dan Shike - Tone And Volume Mastering In Nashville TN

17 augusti 2018 | 119 min

RSR153 - Maor Appelbaum - Mastering Metal, Rock, And Everything Else

10 augusti 2018 | 130 min

RSR152 - Wessel Oltheten - Mixing With Impact

3 augusti 2018 | 125 min

RSR151 - Michael Cronin - Designing World Class Recording Studios

27 juli 2018 | 143 min

Michael talked about building recording studios around the world from Mutt Lange to Blackbird Studios to your home studio wherever you are.

My guest today is Michael Cronin who has never once had a hit record or for that matter even recorded one himself, but nevertheless has played an important role in the creation of hundreds of millions of records through his famous designs for over 200 world class recording studios all around the globe.

Michael started out restoring a 19th century London church as a modern recording studio for the Eurythmics in 1984. Then worked with Tom Hidley afterwards creating his own company, Michael Cronin Acoustic Construction. Some of Michael studios include: Guillermo Tell and MEGA in Paris, France; the renovation of MOSFILM in Moscow, Russia; BOP Studios Bophuthatswana, South Africa; The Tracking Room, Ocean Way, Blackbird Studios and Masterfonics in Nashville, Tennessee; Capri Digital in Capri, Italy, and even producer Mutt Lange’s famed hideaway studio Sully Sound in Tou de Pays, Switzerland.

In addition, Michael has been a pioneer in designing and building educational recording facilities such as the multi-studio complexes he has done in New York City, Miami, and Atlanta for SAE, the world’s largest multimedia academy.

He has also contributed his skills to culturally significant facilities, including the archivist mastering room at the Country Music Hall of Fame and acoustical consulting work for the Songwriters Hall of Fame, both in Nashville, Tennessee. He is also one of the most sought after designers and builders of advanced, high-end home theaters in the U.S.

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RSR150 - John Cuniberti - Recording Punk, Metal, & Amazing Records With One Mic

20 juli 2018 | 115 min

RSR149 - Ted Skolits - Producing For TV, EA Games, And Bands

13 juli 2018 | 112 min

RSR148 - Ross Hogarth - Multi Grammy Producer, Taj Mahal, Keb Mo, Van Halen, John Mellencamp, Ziggy Marley

6 juli 2018 | 125 min

RSR147 - Steve Dawson - Capturing The Moment, Loving The Mistakes, Embracing The Bleed

29 juni 2018 | 127 min

RSR146 - David Hewitt - 1000 Concerts 1000 Stories From The Recording Truck

22 juni 2018 | 118 min

RSR145 - Derek Olds - Pop Production Tips In Logic, Ableton, And Melodyne

15 juni 2018 | 121 min

RSR144 - Ryan Hewitt -Grammy Winning Advice On How To Not Lose The Edge In Your Music

8 juni 2018 | 127 min

RSR143 - Chris Harden - Rock Production And Mixing At IV Labs Studios In Chicago

1 juni 2018 | 113 min

RSR142 - Russ Long - Recording And Mixing At Dangerland Studio

25 maj 2018 | 112 min

RSR141 - Nick Worley - Capturing The Soul Of A Band In The Studio

18 maj 2018 | 110 min

RSR140 - Mitch Dane - Producing Grammy Winning Americana At Sputnik Sound

11 maj 2018 | 110 min

RSR139 - Andrew Scheps - Mixing Hit Records With A Laptop And Headphones (In The Box)

4 maj 2018 | 112 min

RSR138 - Eric Taft - Producing Rad Pop, Getting Killer Sounds, And Growing Your Studio Business.mp3

27 april 2018 | 96 min

RSR137 - Shawn Everett - Grammy winning engineer and mixer for The War On Drugs, Alabama Shakes, Weezer, Margaret Glaspy, Pete Yorn, Warpaint, John Legend, & The Killers

20 april 2018 | 113 min

RSR136 - Daniel Ford - The Secrets To Hip Hop, LCR Mixing, Powerful Vocals, And Studio Biz

13 april 2018 | 135 min

RSR135 - Rob Schnapf - Recording Beck, Elliot Smith, Fu Manchu, and Kurt Vile

6 april 2018 | 116 min

RSR134 - EveAnna Manley - CEO of Manley Labs, Massive Passive EQ, Vari Mu Compressor Limiter

30 mars 2018 | 96 min

RSR133 - Femke Weidema - Composing, Producing, and Creating Your Own Record Label

23 mars 2018 | 86 min

RSR132 - Mac Gayden - Session Guitar Player, Nashville Cats, Barefoot Jerry, Area Code 615

16 mars 2018 | 86 min

RSR131 - How To Sound Analog In A Digital World with Johnnie Truesdale - Recording Steve Martin, Tony Bennett, and Harry Belafonte

9 mars 2018 | 93 min

RSR130 - Andy Reed - Recording Power Pop with The Legal Matters & The Verve Pipe

2 mars 2018 | 88 min

RSR129 - Alysha Brilla - Mixing Sounds; Producing outside of the lines

23 februari 2018 | 88 min

RSR128 - Nick Krill - The Spinto Band, Grammy winning War On Drugs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tchad Blake, and Dave Fridmann

16 februari 2018 | 115 min

RSR127 - 5 Big Mixing Mistakes You Don't Know You're Making - Jason Moss from Behind The Speakers

9 februari 2018 | 89 min

RSR126 - William Wittman - Multi Platinum Producer Mixer for Cyndi Lauper, The Outfield, The Fixx, The Hooters, and Joan Osborne

2 februari 2018 | 111 min

SR125 - Lior Goldenberg - Recording With Rick Rubin, Michael Beinhorn, Allen Stone, Allanis Morisette, And Marylin Manso

26 januari 2018 | 111 min

RSR124 - Mike Senior- The Tao Of Facepalm - Important Failures You are making In Your Home Studio And How To Turn Into Big Wins

19 januari 2018 | 117 min

RSR123 - George Massenburg - Multi Grammy Winning Producer And Inventor Of The Parametric EQ

12 januari 2018 | 119 min

RSR122 - Eric Bazilian - Writing And Recording The Hooters, Joan Osborne, And Cyndi Lauper

5 januari 2018 | 112 min

RSR121 - Joe Chiccarelli - 10x Grammy Winner Talks About Recording Frank Zappa, Jack White, Tori Amos, My Morning Jacket, Jason Mraz, The Strokes, and Morrissey

29 december 2017 | 110 min

RSR120 - Jim Scott - Recording with Rick Rubin, Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wilco, Johnny Cash & Tedeschi Trucks Band

22 december 2017 | 55 min

RSR119 - Jim Scott - Multi Grammy Winning Producer, Engineer, Mixer

15 december 2017 | 67 min

Music City Declares War On Home Studios? with Lij Shaw, Björgvin Benediktsson, and Chris Graham - RSR118

8 december 2017 | 66 min

RSR117 - Ted Hutt recording Dropkick Murphys, Old Crow Medicine Show, and The Gaslight Anthem

1 december 2017 | 92 min

RSR116 - How To Build Your Mic Locker With Matt McGylnn of Roswell Pro Audio

24 november 2017 | 103 min

RSR115 - The Only 7 Plugins You'll Ever Need with Rob Mayzes - Musician On A Mission

17 november 2017 | 107 min

RSR114 - Karen Kosowski - Producing Ear Catching Pop and Party Driving Country Chart Topping Hits

10 november 2017 | 112 min

RSR113 - David Earl aka sflogicninja - How to Compose For Games In Logic Pro X Like A Ninja

3 november 2017 | 75 min

RSR112 - Brian Deck - Recording Modest Mouse, Iron And Wine, And Punk Rock in Chicago

27 oktober 2017 | 106 min

RSR111 - Ken Sluiter - Recording with Jim Scott, Andrew Scheps, Joe Chiccarelli, and Keith Richards

20 oktober 2017 | 118 min

RSR110 - 5 Game Changing Mix Moves for the Home Studio with Pete Woj of Mix Better Now

13 oktober 2017 | 100 min

RSR109 - Dayna Manning - What I Learned From Jim Scott, Rick Rubin, Don Was, and Dave Kalmusky

6 oktober 2017 | 100 min

RSR108 - How To Self Produce And Release 4 Records In One Year with Joe Gilder

29 september 2017 | 71 min

RSR107 - Russell Cottier - Loudness And The Lost Art Of Mixing with Mixbus

22 september 2017 | 107 min

RSR106 - Recording The Voiceless in Tanzania and Rwanda with Ian Brennan

15 september 2017 | 99 min

RSR105 – Kevin Becka from Mix Magazine – How to add your music credits and get paid using the RIN-M plug-in

8 september 2017 | 109 min

RSR104 - Successful Scoring, Songwriting, and Production Advice from East Nashville with Jordan Lehning - Randy Travis, Kacey Musgraves, Kenny Rogers

1 september 2017 | 79 min

RSR103 - Finally A Way To Get Credit For Your Music With RIN-M from Soundways! - Gebre Waddell

25 augusti 2017 | 82 min

RSR102 - 4 Steps To 1.4 Million Spotify Plays In A Year with Kirk Teachout

18 augusti 2017 | 83 min

RSR101 - 7 Things About Plug-Ins That Will Make You Sound Like You Have a Ph.D with Eric Tarr

11 augusti 2017 | 116 min

RSR100 - Top 10 Shows - 100th Episode Of Recording Studio Rockstars

4 augusti 2017 | 84 min

RSR099 - Top 10 Audio Bloggers Best Of Summer NAMM Breakdown 2017

28 juli 2017 | 89 min

RSR098 - Summer NAMM 2017 - Warren Huart, Matt Boudreau, Larry Crane, Roswell Pro Audio, Pete Woj, Chris Selim, Dane Myers, Rob Christensen, Kirk Teachout, Lilly Hiatt, and many others!

21 juli 2017 | 85 min

RSR097 - Will Pugh - Producing, Recording, and Mixing Top 40 Songs - Cartel

14 juli 2017 | 100 min

RSR096 - Richard Dodd - The Engineer Behind The Traveling Wilburys - George Harrison, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison

7 juli 2017 | 108 min

RSR095 - Brad Wood - Producing Liz Phair, Veruca Salt & Smashing Pumpkins

30 juni 2017 | 110 min

RSR094 - Kyle Lehning - Producing Randy Travis, Ray Price, and Ronnie Milsap

23 juni 2017 | 90 min

RSR093 - Bonnaroo 2017 Hay Bale Studio - Behind the Scenes

16 juni 2017 | 101 min

RSR092 - Preparing Your Mixes For Mastering with Alan Douches - Sufjan Stevens, Brand New, Animal Collective

9 juni 2017 | 93 min

RSR091 - 7 Studio Concepts For A Better Record - From The Book Making Sound By Cristofer Odqvist

2 juni 2017 | 87 min

RSR090 - Joe Costa - Recording Ben Folds And William Shatner

27 maj 2017 | 104 min

RSR089 - John Fields - Producer for The Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Pink

19 maj 2017 | 87 min

RSR088 - 4-Track Grammy Production With Van Hunt

12 maj 2017 | 67 min

RSR087 - Chris Selim - 9 Tips For Recording, Mixing, And Producing Clients Remotely

5 maj 2017 | 91 min

RSR086 - Jesse Cannon - Processing Creativity: The Tools, Practices And Habits Used To Make Music You’re Happy With

28 april 2017 | 103 min

RSR085 - Cowboy Keith Thompson - How To Start a Record Label From Your Home Studio

21 april 2017 | 97 min

RSR084 – Kevin Killen – Recording Peter Gabriel, U2, David Bowie, and Yo-Yo Ma

14 april 2017 | 100 min

RSR083 - Jeff Turzo - Overstayer Recording Equipment, Fusing Rock with Techno

7 april 2017 | 96 min

RSR082 - Dane Myers - Custom Tracks & Online Production

31 mars 2017 | 89 min

RSR081 - Jamie Tate - Multi Grammy Winning Mixer At The Rukkus Room

24 mars 2017 | 88 min

RSR080 - Stewart Eastham - Learning Pro Tools

17 mars 2017 | 88 min

RSR079 - Bobby Holland - Nashville Producer & Mixer

10 mars 2017 | 93 min

RSR078 - Steve Albini - Electrical Audio, Recording Nirvana, & Shellac

3 mars 2017 | 115 min

RSR077 - Derrick Bostrom - The Meat Puppets & Nirvana

24 februari 2017 | 99 min

RSR076 - Bjorgvin Benediktsson - Step By Step Mixing Q&A

17 februari 2017 | 95 min

RSR075 - Chris James - Grammy Nominee - Best Engineered Album for Prince

10 februari 2017 | 88 min

RSR074 - Jason Lehning - Growing Up Producing & Mixing In Nashville

3 februari 2017 | 104 min

RSR073 - Ken Stringfellow - The Posies, Big Star & REM

27 januari 2017 | 82 min

RSR072 - Chris Graham - How To Grow An Online Mastering Studio Business

20 januari 2017 | 112 min

RSR071 - Chris King - Poetry Scores & Field Recording With Lij Shaw

13 januari 2017 | 118 min

RSR070 - Roger Moutenot - Producing Yo La Tengo & Paula Cole

6 januari 2017 | 101 min

RSR069 - Matt Mahaffey - The Band sElf & Composing Music For Cartoons

30 december 2016 | 108 min

RSR068 - Pat Sansone - Recording with The Autumn Defense & Wilco

23 december 2016 | 110 min

RSR067 - Carl Nappa - Producing and Mixing Hip Hop with Nelly & The Hit Factory

16 december 2016 | 107 min

RSR066 - Danny Wyatt - EDM and Mix Master Wyatt Academy

9 december 2016 | 101 min

RSR065 - Meghan Gohil - From Live Sound to Studio, Recording with Lij Shaw

2 december 2016 | 94 min

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My guest today is Meghan Gohil, a producer, engineer, musician, studio and record label owner in Hollywood CA. It was Meghan was who recorded my first college band in St Louis called Dr Seuss. He recorded many projects with me over the next couple of decades.

Our first big release was for my band Enormous Richard, a twangy alt country band from St Louis. We recorded 30 songs live to cassette in a basement in Granite City IL and went on to sell and distribute several thousand copies, nearly landing a record deal in the process.

Later we renamed ourselves Eleanor Roosevelt and made “Walker With His Head Down” with Meghan for his college audio program at Webster University where he studied under Barry Hufker, and Bill Porter who recorded Elvis, Roy Orbison, and The Everly Brothers.

Meghan has recorded with many greats including: Cure co-founder Lol Tolhurst’s band, Levinhurst, Trey Anastasio of Phish, Jack Johnson with the Animal Liberation Orchestra, Phil Lesh & Joan Osbourne, Digable Planets, and Michael Frante to name a few.

For 20 years Meghan has maintained a dual career in radio promotions, and career development & management working with many independant artists. He worked as the Project Manager at Contemporary Productions in St. Louis, SFX Entertainment, and Clear Channel Concerts. And He’s also consulted for AEG Live and Emery Entertainment. Currently, he records from his home studio which you can check out at HollywoodRecordingStudio.com, and works as a Strategy and Analytics Manager at Live Nation Entertainment’s Amphitheater division..

Get the full show notes at http://RSRockstars.com/65

Other records by Lij Shaw recorded by Meghan Gohil:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/crumbling-in-the-rain/id218367749

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/water-bread-beer/id583731682

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/walker-with-his-head-down/id269344447

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hell-bent-insurgent-country/id5835023

You can also get a copy of the podcast theme song at: SkadooshMusic.com

RSR064 - Warren Huart - Produce Like A Pro

25 november 2016 | 112 min

RSR063 - John Jaszcz The Yoshman - Recording Funk with Bootsy Collins & Funkadelic

18 november 2016 | 88 min

RSR062 - Robin Eaton - Alex The Great & Club Roar Studios

11 november 2016 | 72 min

RSR061 - Joe Baldridge - Multi Grammy Winning Producer & Engineer, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley

4 november 2016 | 101 min

RSR060 - Jordan Valeriote - Hard Core Mixing & Silverstein

28 oktober 2016 | 80 min

RSR059 – Mike Radovsky – Music Composition, Licensing, & Drums

21 oktober 2016 | 90 min

RSR058 - Fab Dupont - Flux Studios & PureMix.net

14 oktober 2016 | 58 min

RSR057 - Nick Devan - G.E.D. Soul Records

7 oktober 2016 | 54 min

RSR056 - Ben Loftis - Harrison Consoles, MixBus 32C, Designing MixBus Plugins

30 september 2016 | 70 min

RSR055 - Bob Bullock - Recording, Crazy Horse, Chick Corea, & Steely Dan

23 september 2016 | 51 min

RSR054- Josh Harris - Defining His Sound as a Remixer & Studio One Expert

16 september 2016 | 67 min

RSR053 – Matt Boudreau – Working Class Audio Podcast

9 september 2016 | 56 min

RSR052 - David Kalmusky - Recording Journey and Addiction Sound Studios

2 september 2016 | 77 min

RSR051 -Larry Crane - Tape Op Magazine and Jackpot! Recording Studio

26 augusti 2016 | 91 min

RSR050 – Carl Tatz – Designer of the PhantomFocus System ™

19 augusti 2016 | 73 min

RSR049 - Steve Walsh - Producing In Prague

12 augusti 2016 | 83 min

RSR048 - Neal Cappellino - Recording Vocals With Alison Krauss

5 augusti 2016 | 93 min

RSR047 - James Waddell - An Expert on the Maschine

29 juli 2016 | 83 min

RSR046 - Steve Marcantonio - John Lennon At The Record Plant

22 juli 2016 | 74 min

RSR045 - Roger Alan Nichols - Recording Vocals With Steven Tyler

15 juli 2016 | 81 min

RSR044 - Jim Reilley - How To Write A Song For Music Row (Or Not)

8 juli 2016 | 76 min

RSR043 – David Thoener - ACDC For Those About To Rock (Part 2)

1 juli 2016 | 63 min

RSR042 – David Thoener - ACDC For Those About To Rock (Part 1)

24 juni 2016 | 58 min

RSR041 – Jeff Powell - How To Prepare For Vinyl Mastering & Recording With Jim Dickinson & Tom Dowd

17 juni 2016 | 70 min

RSR040 – Matt Ross-Spang - Working at the Famous Sun Studio, Learning from the Great Sam Phillips

10 juni 2016 | 69 min

RSR039 - Jody Stephens - Big Star and Ardent Studios

3 juni 2016 | 46 min

RSR038 - Ian Brennan - How Music Dies (Or Lives)

27 maj 2016 | 86 min

RSR037 - Tommy Wiggins - Tommy's Tracks

20 maj 2016 | 90 min

RSR037 - Tommy Wiggins - Tommy's Tracks

20 maj 2016 | min

RSR036 - John Mayfield - Mayfield Mastering

13 maj 2016 | 70 min

RSR035 - Cameron Henry - Vinyl Mastering Engineer

6 maj 2016 | 76 min

RSR034 - Brad Jones - Alex The Great

29 april 2016 | 72 min

RSR033 - Jon Tidey - Reaper Blog

22 april 2016 | 63 min

RSR032 - Slau Halatyn - Besharp Studio

15 april 2016 | 67 min

RSR031 - Dave Tough - The Producer’s Room

8 april 2016 | 62 min

RSR030 - Nick Bullock - 52 in 52

1 april 2016 | 55 min

RSR029 – Craig Alvin – Badass Mixer

25 mars 2016 | 80 min

RSR028 – Kevin Ward – The Mix Coach

18 mars 2016 | 67 min

RSR027 - Chris Mara - Welcome to 1979

11 mars 2016 | 64 min

RSR026 - Matthew Weiss - The Pro Audio Files

4 mars 2016 | 83 min

RSR025 - Chad Brown - Grammy Award Winning Mixer

26 februari 2016 | 64 min

RSR024 - Jonathan Roye - Woodshed Audio

19 februari 2016 | 68 min

RSR023 - Bob Olhsson - Motown Records

12 februari 2016 | 61 min

RSR022 - Michael Hardesty and Stephen Turney - 24HR Records

5 februari 2016 | 76 min

RSR021 - Blessing Offor - Songwriter Producer

29 januari 2016 | 74 min

RSR020 - Shane D Wilson - St Izzy’s Of The East Studio

22 januari 2016 | 73 min

RSR019 - F Reid Shippen - Multi Grammy Winning Mixer

15 januari 2016 | 59 min

RSR018 - Daniel Grimmett - Songwriting Team

8 januari 2016 | 74 min

RSR017 - Mark Rubel - Blackbird Academy

1 januari 2016 | 71 min

RSR016 - Dave Hagen - Dark Horse Recording

25 december 2015 | 52 min

RSR015 - Ronan Chris Murphy - Recording Boot Camp

18 december 2015 | 73 min

RSR014 - Greg Norman - Electrical Audio & Normaphone

11 december 2015 | 70 min

RSR013 - Joe Hutchinson - Garage Mastering & Bonnaroo

4 december 2015 | 61 min

RSR012 - Mark Haffner - Emmy Award Winning Composer

27 november 2015 | 55 min

RSR011 - Kern Ramsdell - Home Recording Weekly

20 november 2015 | 47 min

RSR010 – Bobby Owsinski – 101 Mixing Tricks

13 november 2015 | 54 min

RSR009 - Michael Beinhorn - Unlocking Creativity

6 november 2015 | 84 min

RSR008 - Ian Shepherd - Home Mastering Masterclass

30 oktober 2015 | 54 min

RSR007 - David Glenn - The Mix Academy

23 oktober 2015 | 53 min

RSR006 - Graham Cochrane - TheRecordingRevolution.com

16 oktober 2015 | 61 min

RSR005 - Russell Wolff - Producer, Songwriter, Musician, Funny Dude

9 oktober 2015 | 64 min

RSR004 - Björgvin Benediktsson

2 oktober 2015 | 55 min

RSR003 - Joe Gilder - HomeStudioCorner.com

25 september 2015 | 50 min

RSR003 - Joe Gilder - HomeStudioCorner.com

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My guest today is Joe Gilder. He is songwriter, producer, engineer, teacher and innovator in the online world of music production, blogging, and podcasting. Joe’s focus is the home studio owner, to help you create the best recordings you can. He has created a fantastic resource and website called HomeStudioCorner.com

In his own words:

“Home Studio Corner (HSC) exists to help home studios excel. It gives you LOTS of ways to expand your recording knowledge, hone your recording skills, and make better recordings.”

Joe offers articles, videos, podcasts, and training products so that you can start learning for free now and dive in for much more in depth training when you are ready.

Here are some of the topics we discussed on the show.

Dueling Mixes:

Dueling Mixes is for users who are comfortable with their DAW and want to go deeper into what the program can do. The site offers alternate mixes of the same song so the user can compare the two and see how different a single track can be mixed. They can also download the original track to mix the song themselves. Joe and his co-host Graham Cochrane create videos on how they mix the songs to give you insights into the process.

“Home Studio Corner” & “Simply Recording” Podcast:

Joe talks about the production of one of his albums from 2010. He brings up the 80/20 rule which states 80% of your results comes from 20% of the inputs given. He talked about how he was going to write 50 songs in 12 weeks to create at least 10 that he was proud of.

Predicting The Cost of a Record:

Joe talks about how to plan out how long and how much time it will cost to complete a record. This goes back to knowing how long it takes you to accomplish something in order to accurately predict how long the process will take. Joe talks about the value of salesmanship when quoting a client on how much his services will cost.

Recording Advice - Q&A:

Q- “What is the most important advice you have?”

A - “Getting it right at the source.”

Q - “What was an important failure or setback that became an important learning lesson for you in the studio or in your musical journey?

A - “The more I learned about the proper way to record music, the less time I spent creating it.”

Q - “Tell us about a moment of success in your recording career.”

A - “Listening back to old recordings and noticing how the emotion of the songs are still coming through, even after so much time.”

Q - “Where can we find your album “Better This Way?”

A - “You can find it at http://www.joegildermusic.com/

Q - “Tell us about something you’re excited about right now.”

A - “I am most excited about writing more music, especially in the studio with my drummer and bassist.”

Q - “How do you imagine capturing that writing process with a group of people like that?”

A - “I think it would be let’s just set up a recording session and jam until we come up with something or jam to a click to build a track that way.”

The “Jam Session” Q&A:

Q - “What was holding you back from getting started in recording?”

A - “Feeling like I had to do everything myself.”

Q - “What was some of the best advice you received about recording?”

A - “Get it right at the source.”

Q - “How about a tip hack or secret sauce that you would like to share from your experience?”

A - “Committing to time-based effects at the time of the recording.”

Q - “Do you have a favorite book you would like to share?”

A - “I love the War of Art by Steven Pressfield.”

Q - “Can you share a favorite hardware tool of the studio?”

A - “I love the Avid Eleven Rack for the different guitar tones I can get.”

Q - “How about a favorite software tool?”

A - “Presonus Studio One. I don’t even have Pro Tools installed anymore.”

Q - “Would you like to just drop a reference to one favorite new feature that exists in it that you’re liking a lot right now?”

A - “I like the feature that lets you to route the plug-in chain on any channel and split the signal, and do different things on each part of the signal”

Q - “How about a great resource for the business part of the recording studio?”

A - “The Audio Income Project is the great resource for freelance engineers at http://www.audioincome.com/sp/24311-order”

Q - “If you were dropped into a strange city and you could only take a simple setup for recording, what would you choose, how would you find people to record, and how would you make ends meet right away to continue recording?”

A - “The rig - a laptop with Presonus, an interface, and a mic. People to record - you have to go to where the musicians are and find them.

Q - “What if someone is in a town that doesn’t have many musicians?”

A - “Everything can be done online now. http://crowdaudio.com/ is a great place for finding songs to mix.”

Q - “How can our listeners follow you?”

A - “http://www.homestudiocorner.com/, Simply Recording Podcast,

https://twitter.com/joegildermusic, https://www.facebook.com/joegilder

For more about Joe go to

HomeStudioCorner.com

RSR003 - Joe Gilder - HomeStudioCorner.com

Recordingstudiorockstars.com

Text RSROCKSTARS to 33-444 and get free content delivered to your email!

My guest today is Joe Gilder. He is songwriter, producer, engineer, teacher and innovator in the online world of music production, blogging, and podcasting. Joe’s focus is the home studio owner, to help you create the best recordings you can. He has created a fantastic resource and website called HomeStudioCorner.com

In his own words:

"Home Studio Corner (HSC) exists to help home studios excel. It gives you LOTS of ways to expand your recording knowledge, hone your recording skills, and make better recordings."

Joe offers articles, videos, podcasts, and training products so that you can start learning for free now and dive in for much more in depth training when you are ready.

Here are some of the topics we discussed on the show.

Dueling Mixes:

Dueling Mixes is for users who are comfortable with their DAW and want to go deeper into what the program can do. The site offers alternate mixes of the same song so the user can compare the two and see how different a single track can be mixed. They can also download the original track to mix the song themselves. Joe and his co-host Graham Cochrane create videos on how they mix the songs to give you insights into the process.

“Home Studio Corner” & “Simply Recording” Podcast:

Joe talks about the production of one of his albums from 2010. He brings up the 80/20 rule which states 80% of your results comes from 20% of the inputs given. He talked about how he was going to write 50 songs in 12 weeks to create at least 10 that he was proud of.

Predicting The Cost of a Record:

Joe talks about how to plan out how long and how much time it will cost to complete a record. This goes back to knowing how long it takes you to accomplish something in order to accurately predict how long the process will take. Joe talks about the value of salesmanship when quoting a client on how much his services will cost.

Recording Advice - Q&A:

Q- “What is the most important advice you have?”

A - “Getting it right at the source.”

Q - “What was an important failure or setback that became an important learning lesson for you in the studio or in your musical journey?

A - “The more I learned about the proper way to record music, the less time I spent creating it.”

Q - “Tell us about a moment of success in your recording career.”

A - “Listening back to old recordings and noticing how the emotion of the songs are still coming through, even after so much time.”

Q - “Where can we find your album “Better This Way?”

A - “You can find it at http://www.joegildermusic.com/

Q - “Tell us about something you’re excited about right now.”

A - “I am most excited about writing more music, especially in the studio with my drummer and bassist.”

Q - “How do you imagine capturing that writing process with a group of people like that?”

A - “I think it would be let’s just set up a recording session and jam until we come up with something or jam to a click to build a track that way.”

The “Jam Session” Q&A:

Q - “What was holding you back from getting started in recording?”

A - “Feeling like I had to do everything myself.”

Q - “What was some of the best advice you received about recording?”

A - “Get it right at the source.”

Q - “How about a tip hack or secret sauce that you would like to share from your experience?”

A - “Committing to time-based effects at the time of the recording.”

Q - “Do you have a favorite book you would like to share?”

A - “I love the War of Art by Steven Pressfield.”

Q - “Can you share a favorite hardware tool of the studio?”

A - “I love the Avid Eleven Rack for the different guitar tones I can get.”

Q - “How about a favorite software tool?”

A - “Presonus Studio One. I don’t even have Pro Tools installed anymore.”

Q - “Would you like to just drop a reference to one favorite new feature that exists in it that you’re liking a lot right now?”

A - “I like the feature that lets you to route the plug-in chain on any channel and split the signal, and do different things on each part of the signal”

Q - “How about a great resource for the business part of the recording studio?”

A - “The Audio Income Project is the great resource for freelance engineers at http://www.audioincome.com/sp/24311-order”

Q - “If you were dropped into a strange city and you could only take a simple setup for recording, what would you choose, how would you find people to record, and how would you make ends meet right away to continue recording?”

A - “The rig - a laptop with Presonus, an interface, and a mic. People to record - you have to go to where the musicians are and find them.

Q - “What if someone is in a town that doesn’t have many musicians?”

A - “Everything can be done online now. http://crowdaudio.com/ is a great place for finding songs to mix.”

Q - “How can our listeners follow you?”

A - “http://www.homestudiocorner.com/, Simply Recording Podcast, https://twitter.com/joegildermusic, https://www.facebook.com/joegilder

For more about Joe go to

HomeStudioCorner.com

RSR002 - Vance Powell

14 september 2015 | 72 min

RSR EP002 - Vance Powell

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Intro:

Vance Powell is a Grammy award winning producer, engineer and mixer from Joplin, MO. who’s impressive list of credits include Keb’ Mo’, Jars of Clay, Jack White (Third Man Records), Buddy Guy, Kings Of Leon, Sturgill Simpson, and local Nashville artists such as Jeff The Brotherhood, Moon Taxi and Bobby Bare Jr. He made his start in live sound, touring with local Missouri bands as a front-of-house engineer and in 2002 John McBride asked him to run Blackbird Studio. Vance is now also co-owner of Sputnik Sound.

Early Life:

Vance was introduced to electronics early in his childhood, as his grandfather was an electrical engineer and miner. He later attended electronic school while in high school. This helped him to land a job as a second audio engineer in a local studio – Massey Studios – in Missouri where he worked for $5/hour learning and teaching himself the arts of mixing, and other tools of the trade like tape duplication (i.e. mastering). This marked the beginning of his successful career as an audio mix engineer.

Reference Monitors:

Auratone Monitors are speakers designed to listen to mono mixes. Yamaha NS10’s later became the replacement for Auratone reference monitors.

“…I use NS10s (Yamaha) because they sound cool… and they will translate well in any situation.” –Vance Powell

“It’s all about your reference… It doesn’t matter what your speakers are,” says Powell. “I have definitely made changes to a mix based on a mono iPhone speaker.

When asked how one is able to hear the bass on a mono iPhone speaker he says simply “turn the bass off and then back on.”

Jam Session:

Q: What is the best advice you have for someone just starting out?

A: You have to be fearless to make it in this business. If you are a person who is afraid of change, or afraid of failing, or afraid of losing your house… you’re normal, but if you are afraid and act upon it because you are afraid, you’re not going to last.

Q: What was a time where you feel you hit a real point of failure or a time you felt like giving up that turned out to be a valuable learning experience for you.

A: A year after I moved to Nashville, I did my first session and I had no idea what these people were wanting or doing. In some ways that was an interesting failure but I’ve been very lucky in that I don’t have anything I can really point out and say, “that was a disaster.”

Q: I definitely know you for working with a lot of artists that like to push the boundaries and really get to the heart of what makes something great. You want to tell us a little bit about that?

A: Obviously, I’ve spent 8 years working with Jack white and that’s been an incredibly eye-opening thing because he’s pretty amazing. He’s probably the most talented person I’ve ever been around. He’s one my favorite drummers…ever. He’s my favorite keyboard player, pianist and organist. He’s the easiest artist I’ve ever had to get a guitar sound for. It doesn’t matter what amp he plays, it doesn’t matter what guitar, it doesn’t matter how old the strings are it doesn’t matter what microphone you put in front of it, it sounds just like him. It’s all in his hands. He’s an amazing vocalist.

Q: What is a tip about the process of recording that you learned while working with artists like Jack White?

A: Learn to be fast. I think anybody learning this business should do live sound. Live sound teaches you a bunch of things. You have to put a mix together in a very short period of time. You don’t have all day. You have one song to put a killer 48-channel mix together; otherwise you’re going to lose people.

Q: If you were dropped into a strange city and you were going to start out in recording or live sound, what advice would you have for someone who’s willing to take on that challenge?

A: If you want to record, the first thing you need to do is purchase some way to record such as a laptop and an interface or port-a-studio. Then go find a band that you are willing to do what ever it takes to help them out. That means cart their gear around, do live sound for them, or record demos in your basement. Get yourself 4 good microphones. You can pretty much record a band with 4 or 5 good microphones. Don’t let the technology get in the way of creativity. I have a rule for my own productions and that is: my entire record has to fit inside 32 tracks. Don’t be afraid to make a decision; that’s the number one thing I’d say to anyone first starting out.

Websites:

Twitter - @Vancalot

Sputniksound.com

Credits - Allmusic.com

So if you have any questions or suggestions for the show please email me

lij@recordingstudiorockstars.com

Also you can check out more at recordingstudiorockstars.com to follow the blog or watch the free videos. If you dig the show and find it helpful I would be honored if you would leave a rating and review in iTunes. You can tap through right on your phone from the podcast search page or go to recordingstudiorockstars.com/review for easy instructions.

And if you want to get on the email list for free content full of videos, tips, studio tricks, and special offers just text RSROCKSTARS to 33-444 from your phone (super easy and I promise you won’t get spammed!)

Cheers!

Lij

RSR EP001 - Mike Purcell

14 september 2015 | 69 min

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Mike purcell has a long list of recording, mixing and mastering credits including Lynyrd Skynyrd, Brad Paisley, Waylon Jennings, and Billy Ray Cyrus. He is a recording artist himself, and has a passion for indie rock. He is also an entrepreneur with many business ventures.

He grew up in Nashville, and started playing guitar when he was 14. He began recording with 2 cassette decks and a Radioshack mixer, and his first recording studio experience in 1988 solidified his passion for recording.

Early Career:

Mike attended Belmont University from 1990-1994. He interned at The Castle recording studio and was offered a job there for $150/week. He later went to LA for a six month trip to record Lionel Richie.

When he returned to Nashville, he got a ProTools rig and was very into digital audio. He did a lot of vocal tuning work at this time. He would also often record using the Otari RADAR II digital multitrack recorder.

Demo Recording:

A demo recording is done for songwriters who want to pitch something to a recording artist. These songs are often done with session musicians who do not rehearse extensively before the session, because they can sight-read the charts.

At County Q studio, Mike would record a high volume of demos in a single day. Because of his ability and experience as an engineer, and the quality of the session musicians, they were able to record songs very quickly and efficiently.

Philosphy/Advice:

-What comes next in the recording industry is what you invent. Don’t be afraid to try new things and make mistakes.

-Mike Purcell prefers to find music he loves, and capture it, rather than finding music that he kind of likes and reinventing it.

-Take every job you can if it has anything to do with music. Take the gigs that you’re uncomfortable taking; you’re probably uncomfortable because you don’t know much about it, so you’ll probably learn from the experience.

-Don’t have an ego as an engineer. Try to fulfill the client’s vision rather than your own.

-Get hooked up with someone who is successful and doing something that you want to be a part of. Do the best job out of anybody there, and confess to your mistakes, and you’re likely to be successful.

Jam session:

-what was holding you back at the beginning of your career?

-lack of resources to and access to the good studios. That’s different now, because you can buy ProTools.

-what was some of the best advice you’ve received?

-do it right and do it once.

-What is your favorite recording trick?

-Sidechain compress the bass, using the kick drum as a key input, and squash it down half a dB. It helps keep kick punch through the mix.

-Do you have any book or magazine recommendations?

-Abbey Road book.

-Tape Op magazine.

-Favorite piece of gear that you have?

-SansAmp gt 2.

-Favorite software tool?

-I use an old standalone version of T-RackS (version 3) for mastering. You can get stuff really loud with it.

-Favorite internet resource?

-Facebook

-If you were dropped in a strange city, and could only take a simple recording setup, what would you take? How would you find people to record? How would you make ends meet?

-Take a simple m-box setup with a couple of mics.

-Go to shows to meet bands.

-Deliver pizzas or something like that to make ends meet.

Links to Check Out:

-Mike’s current project, 6minor Films, which creates documentary films about the music creation process:

So if you have any questions or suggestions for the show please email me

lij@recordingstudiorockstars.com

Also you can check out more at recordingstudiorockstars.com to follow the blog or watch the free videos. If you dig the show and find it helpful I would be honored if you would leave a rating and review in iTunes. You can tap through right on your phone from the podcast search page or go to recordingstudiorockstars.com/review for easy instructions.

And if you want to get on the email list for free content full of videos, tips, studio tricks, and special offers just text RSROCKSTARS to 33-444 from your phone (super easy and I promise you won’t get spammed!)

Cheers!

Lij

RSR EP000- Lij Shaw Introduction

12 september 2015 | 16 min