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We talked about studio construction, getting great drums, guitar, and horn sounds, and how to build your production career.
My guest today is Chris Harden, A Chicago based producer, engineer, and mixer and guitar player, and partner at IV Lab Studios.
Getting his start as assistant engineer on the Grammy nominated Plain White T’s single “Hey There Delilah,” Chris went on to work with Rachael Yamagata, The Von Bondies, Gary Louris (The Jayhawks), Wayne Baker Brooks, and supergroup Hard Working Americans.
Chris’ production credits include Miracle Condition, District 97, Like Pioneers, and Chicago Farmer. And he continues to perform locally with The Pod (a Ween cover band) and tour nationally with the Ike Reilly Assassination. And He also tours as a live sound engineer and is a member of the Recording Academy.
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Andrew Talked about mixing hit records with only a laptop and headphones, and great ways to use your plugins for creating powerful drums, awesome guitars, and spot on vocals.
My guest today is Andrew Scheps, a multi Grammy award winning engineer, producer, and mixer. He has worked with a wide array of great artists from Stevie Wonder, to Michael Jackson, and then recorded and or mixed top records for The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Adele, Audioslave, Green Day, Beyonce, Zac Brown Band, Jay Z, Weezer, Metallica, and Black Sabbath to name just a few.
Andrew is known for his loud and exciting mixes, and for bringing all that to life while mixing within the DAW or otherwise known as ITB (In The Box). He has also helped to create some of the tools that we can use for mixing ITB ourselves with his plugin designs for Waves: the Scheps 73, Parallel Particles, and Scheps Omni Channel. I highly recommend that you check them out Rockstars.
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Ryan talked about not losing the edge in your music that makes it awesome, recording vocals and acoustic instruments, mixing, and lessons learned from Rick Rubin.
My guest today is Ryan Hewitt, a grammy-winning engineer, mixer and producer with a credit list spanning all popular genres of music for artists like The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Avett Brothers, blink-182, Bob Dylan and The Dixie Chicks to name a few.
Ryan is also a great teacher and has videos on Lynda.com, Puremix, UAD, Pensado’s Place, and The Recording Academy. So I’ve put these together into a Youtube playlist for you, in the show notes, along with many of his awesome records which we will talk about today.
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Recording Bon Jovi, getting voice and guitar just right, upright bass, mixing with Neutron, and recording guitar amps.
My guest today is Steve Dawson, a multiple Juno award-winning musician, with over 80 projects into his career producing award-winning recordings for such artists as Kelly Joe Phelps, Jim Byrnes, Old Man Luedecke, The Deep Dark Woods, Big Dave McLean, John Hammond, Jenny Whiteley.
Steve works onstage and in the studio with musicians as diverse as Tim O’Brien, Matt Chamberlain, Jay Bellerose, Wayne Horvitz, Jill Barber, Colin James, Colin Linden, Sonny Landreth, and The McCrary Sisters. Steve has 8 solo albums to his credit, and tours as a sideman as well, recently touring regularly with the band Birds of Chicago.
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Jim Scott returns to dig deeper into his story, talk about recording Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and give tips on miking up drums.
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Multiple Grammy-winning producer/engineer/mixer, Jim Scott, has worked with many artists since his start with Sting's Dream of the Blue Turtles three decades ago. His discography lists over 200 credits on his website including Dixie Chicks, Tom Petty, the Rolling Stones, Roger Daltrey, Crowded House, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ron Sexsmith, Dweezil Zappa, Styx, Foo Fighters, Johnny Cash, Rage Against The Machine, Santana, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Nikka Costa, Weezer, and Audioslave. So many great records I had to stop writing them down.
Jim has recorded and mixed records with Rick Rubin and also with our previous guest on the podcast Richard Dodd on Tom Petty’s Wildflowers. In 2006, he built Plyrz Studio in Valencia, CA. An inviting space to make music with a classic Neve 8048 recording console, walls of colorful tapestries adorning rooms full of vintage instruments.
We are going to dive into questions about many of these classic albums that Jim has produced, engineered, and mixed, and just how he got such wonderful sounds.
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Eric Tarr shares thoughtful insight on programming for plug-ins, convolution, dither, harmonics, synthesizers, and much more!
Eric Tarr is an audio engineer based in Nashville, Tennessee. He is an assistant professor at Belmont University. He has been a regular contributor to the Pro Audio Files since 2013. He is the founder of Hack Audio, a company developing content connecting computer programming and audio engineering. Additionally, he runs a local “Meet-up” group called the Nashville Music Programmers, which is a gathering of technologists working around the music industry. He completed a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University, where he focused on digital signal processing.
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Jordan Lehning gives advice on collaboration, songwriting, production, what makes great songs, and his experience in the music industry.
Jordan Lehning is a Nashville native who grew up in the studio. After a brief stint at Berklee College of Music, he returned to Nashville to record, play in bands, and cut his engineering teeth working for his father, Kyle Lehning, who has also been on the show on Episode 94: http://RSRockstars.com/94. We have also heard from Jordan’s brother, Jason Lehning, on Episode 74: http://RSRockstars.com/74. The Lehnings are obviously a very musical family and I am honored to have all of them on the podcast!
After working with the likes of Randy Travis, Ray Price, BJ Thomas, Kenny Rogers, among others, Jordan ventured out on his own finding success in film scoring, commercial licensing, and production. He has worked with many Nashville indie artists including Jasmin Kaset, Caitlin Rose, Andrew Combs, Kree Harrison and more. He has become known for his skills in composition, and arranging with Kacey Musgraves, Shane MacAnally, Rodney Crowell, Charlie Worsham, Jacquire King, Jessie Baylin, Lucie Silvas and others.
Jordan now works out of his newly constructed full-service studio, The Duck, where we are joining you today.
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Kirk Teachout gives excellent tips for songwriting, branding, balancing family & work, building relationships, teamwork and much more!
Kirk Teachout is a producer who was introduced to me as dude with a huge YouTube channel of nursery rhymes! I met Kirk at Summer NAMM 2017, where he explained to me that he had been creating content for a company that has the top 500+ YouTube channels in the world. Kirk started out working in Memphis, TN, alongside Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell at Royal Studios. And followed that by opening his own studio, Rise Studios, in Memphis (http://RiseRecording.com). Today he is going to share with us his outline of 4 Steps to 1.4 Million Spotify Plays in a Year. Yup, you heard that right. We are going to be sitting at the high stakes table today!
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Mike talks about the importance of mistakes in the studio, and shares some great tips for recording drums, bass, guitars, and vocals!
My guest today is Mike Senior, a professional recording and mixing engineer, who writes for Sound On Sound magazine both the popular 'Studio SOS' and 'Mix Rescue' columns. He teaches recording on his fantastic blog at http://cambridge-mt.com/.
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Rob Mayzes explains the recording process, gives songwriting techniques, talks about how to get sounds right at the source, and how less is more when mixing.
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Free PDF notes from Rob at: http://MusicianOnAMission.com/Lij
Rob Mayzes is an audio professional, musician and educator. He has helped thousands of home studio owners produce better music and mixes through his website, Musician on a Mission.
He is also a contributor to The Pro Audio Files, Udemy, Tuts +, Recording Revolution, and SonicScoop. Rob likes to teach “mixing minimalism” with the goal of helping you make a great record without the clutter of plugin overkill.
He is joining us today to help us listen through the din of plug-in choices clamoring for our attention when it comes time to mix. Rob is going to narrow the choices down for us to “The Only 7 Plugins You'll Ever Need.”
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We talked about how you can avoid 5 Big Mixing Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making In your Studio.
My guest today is Jason Moss, a mixer, producer, and engineer focusing on the pop, EDM, hiphop, folk, and indie rock.
Jason is a graduate of New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, where he honed his skills through mentorships with Grammy winning music makers like Bob Power, Kevin Killen, and Jim Anderson.
As a music educator Jason is the founder of BehindTheSpeakers.com, and frequently lectures on mixing at NYU. His how to articles have been featured in leading industry publications by Berklee, TuneCore, SonicScoop, The Pro Audio Files, and Disc Makers.
Download the free eBook: 35 Mixing Mistakes You Don't Know You're Making
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How to write songs in Nashville with artists from around the world, produce records that are successful once they leave the studio, and create and grow your own record label.
My guest today is Femke Weidema, a musician, producer, songwriter, and composer for film and TV. A Dutch native starting out at Berklee College Of Music, she has also spent time in LA working at Hans Zimmer’s prestigious Remote Control studios in Los Angeles, won the ASCAP Harold Adamson award, studied with Lin Manual Miranda at Chicago's North Western University with the Johnny Mercer Foundation, and worked for Richard Gibbs, and Don Grusin.
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Pete Woj gives us killer advanced mix techniques to utilize in the home studio.
Pete Woj is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, audio engineer, and home studio owner. Pete studied music at Berklee College of Music, Rollins College, and University of Vermont, and has produced and written music in many genres professionally over 15 years, with a focus on rock, pop, hip-hop, and americana.
Pete enjoys taking what he has learned both in the classroom and in the studio and teaching that knowledge with a focus on Mixing, Mastering, and Recording in Home and Project Studio environments through his blog and YouTube channel. (http://MixBetterNow.com)
I’m excited to have Pete joining us on the podcast today because he is going to lay some serious mixing wisdom with us Rockstars: Pete is going to teach us... 5 Game Changing Mix Moves for the Home Studio.
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Joe shares with us a number of ways that you can go from dreaming of making your own record to enjoying the satisfaction of having your music everywhere for your future fans, friends, and family to listen to.
Joe Gilder of Home Studio Corner is a songwriter, producer, and home studio engineer who has been recording and teaching recording for many years. His blog Home Studio Corner is dedicated to helping you make better records from your home studio.
His partner site, Dueling Mixes, is a collaboration with Graham Cochrane of recording revolution, where you can learn how to mix from your home studio, following along with two great teachers each month in a larger community of home studio mixers. Joe was actually one of my first guests on the podcast back on Episode 3, and we’ve been friends ever since. I’m psyched to have him back on for this special follow up episode!
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We interrupt the regular podcast schedule to bring you a breaking news story about how Music City is bringing the hammer down on working home studios!
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Would you believe Nashville brought the hammer down on my home studio just because I was recording other people to make a living? Well it's true!
My name is Lij Shaw and I have a Grammy awarded home studio in East Nashville TN called The Toy Box Studio where I have been peacefully recording local musicians for nearly 20 years. Until recently that is...
Learn more by listening to this out take from my live video broadcast with Björgvin Benediktsson and Chris Graham as I explain the situation, what happened to me, and how I decided to fight back!Thanks to our sponsors:
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