Christopher Scott Cooper has been playing guitar since the age of five, composing and songwriting since the age of fifteen, and has over 30 years of experience as an audio engineer and producer. He became a Front of House (FOH) mixer and live sound engineer by chance, spending the late 1980s touring and providing services for numerous bands. In 1990, he shifted his focus to studio work, spending the next 15 years at Music Annex Studios, where he progressed from intern to Chief Engineer. Fifteen ...
Aug 10, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Sara Carter is a BBC trained, mixing and mastering engineer based in Hampshire, UK. Sara started recording and mixing music in the mid 90’s as a hobby from a small home studio after playing guitar for many years. Then, in 2000 in a bold move, she decided to sell her house, give up her established career of 16 years and relocate to London to turn that hobby into her new full-time career. She studied at the SAE Institute in London gaining an Audio Engineering Diploma and soon after secured a posit...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 105
Drew Vandenberg is a recording engineer based in Athens, Georgia. He got an internship at Chase Park Transduction in Athens, GA when he was 16, and then went to college at Indiana University where he received a B.S. in Recording Arts. He’s been working on records with people ever since. Some of his clients include: Faye Webster, Toro y Moi, SPELLLING, of Montreal, Kishi Bashi, Kristine Leschper, S.G. Goodman, Bambara, and Dent May. He was an assistant engineer on a Grammy Award winning album fro...
Jul 27, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 104
Mark Needham is a Los Angeles & Nashville based Grammy nominated record producer and mixer whose credits include a diverse array of internationally recognized superstar artists including The Killers, Fleetwood Mac, Imagine Dragons, Dolly Parton, Walk the Moon, Shakira, Pink, Moby, Chris Isaak, The Airborne Toxic Event and many more. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT: What goes into artist development How to diversify your clientele Things you can do to build your career The simplest way to...
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 103
A producer, engineer, and sonic artist, Paul "Willie Green" Womack has built a discography boasting names such as Wiz Khalifa, The Alchemist, The Roots, Billy Woods, ELUCID and many more, and established himself as one of the top names in independent Hip-Hop & R&B. Currently residing in Brooklyn NY, Womack is a member of the AES Board of Governors, and teaches at the Purchase Conservatory of Music. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT: Audio school: How to get the most out of it Relations...
Jul 13, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 102
Andy Reed is an American record maker, musician and mixing engineer based in Bay City, Michigan. He has worked with Eric Johnson, Leland Blue, Tom Iscariot to name a few. He is a voting member of The Recording Academy’s Producers and Engineers Wing and a member of The Audio Engineering Society. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT: How to work fast without using templates Recording one instrument at a time How to make sure you have the right source tones Listening to references for inspiration Wo...
Jul 06, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 101
Producer/engineer Bobby Owsinski is one of the best-selling authors in the music industry with 23 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 , Music 4.0: A Survival Guide For Making Music In The Internet Age and more. He’s also a contributor to Forbes covering the new music business, his popular production and music industry blogs are nearing 8 mill...
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 100
Larry Crane is the editor and founder of Tape Op Magazine (est.1996), owner of Portland’s Jackpot! Recording Studio (est.1997), a freelance producer/engineer/mixer who has worked internationally, and archivist for the Estate of Elliott Smith. He's worked with artists like Sleater-Kinney, The Decemberists, Jenny Lewis, M. Ward, The Go-Betweens, Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus, Wooden Shjips, Quasi, David J, She & Him, Richmond Fontaine, and more. His music recording courses at Linkedin Learnin...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 99
JJ Blair is a producer and recording engineer based in Los Angeles, California. He has worked with Johnny and June Carter Cash, Weezer, P. Diddy, Rod Stewart, Smokey Robinson, George Benson, Joe Bonamassa, Body Count, Stephen Bishop, David Cassidy, Kelly Clarkson, Jonny Lang, Josh Kelley, Kenny Wayne Sheppard, Eleven, Whiskeytown, Bird York, Unwritten Law, Black Eyed Peas, Vonda Shepard, Don Was, Ali Sudol, Jason Falkner, Mase, David Garfield, Tommy Stinson, Daniel Licht, Jon Brion, CBS Televisi...
Jun 15, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Mary Mazurek is a GRAMMY-nominated recording engineer. Her nomination was awarded at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in the category of Best Engineered Album, Classical. She is also a broadcaster and radio producer. Her work is regularly featured on WFMT Radio, WFMT.com, and through the European Broadcast Union. Her credits include Alec Baldwin, The Chicago Chorale, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Charles Earland, Michael Feinstein, International Music Foundation, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kron...
Jun 08, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Jack Hartley is an Australian producer and audio engineer who works from Interim Recording Studios in the heart of the Adelaide CBD. With over 15 years of experience as a musician/songwriter, Jack’s toured extensively throughout Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and Japan. On the audio front, Jack’s a chameleon of the many sub-genres of heavy music, having worked with a number of acts – including Truth Corroded, Hidden Intent, Relapse, Werewolves, Shatter Brain, and many more. IN THIS EPISO...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Steve Chadie, a 25+ year veteran of the recording industry, began his career as an intern at Willie Nelson's Pedernales recording studio in 1995, quickly working his way up to Assistant Engineer for Larry Greenhill. He stayed on at Pedernales until the doors closed commercially in 2012. He still records Willie Nelson at the facility, however, including vocals and guitar on “Last Man Standing”, “My Way” (for which he received a Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album), “God’s Problem Child”, ...
May 25, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Jim Diaz started his music journey at the age of 6 learning the guitar and then eventually developed more interest and proficiency playing the drums competing in music competitions sponsored by the California Music Educators Association winning Medals for Individual Snare Drum Performance at the age of 10. In his teens, he eventually realized that the Rock Star life was not exactly a viable career path. He turned his attention back to school studying Motion Picture Production at the Academy of A...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 94
McKay Garner is a producer, engineer, mixer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who has worked on records for artists such as J Dilla, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mike Shinoda/Linkin Park, Michael Buble, Dead & Company/Mickey Hart. In addition to working with recording artists, he has made music that has been featured in films such as the Transformers movie, in video games, and for television shows such as Total Recall, America’s Next Top Model, Grey’s Anatomy, and many more. IN THIS EPISODE, YO...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 93
David Street is Portland based producer, mixer, recording and live sound engineer who has worked with artists such as Ben Folds, Toby Keith, Henry Rollins, Johnny Cash, and more. Being an avid concertgoer, he started working in clubs and venues in his hometown in Louisville, Kentucky. Later moved to Nashville to become a recording engineer, David learned the ropes and further developed his recording skill assisting and learning from local and visiting engineers who came before him. Eventually, h...
May 04, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Richard Furch is a Los Angeles-based mix engineer with credits on 6 Grammy winning albums out of 23 Grammy nominated projects. Starting out in New York, he was part of some of the seminal albums of the 2000’s such as Outkast’s “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below” and Usher’s “Confessions” and critical darlings such as Fountains Of Wayne’s “Stacy’s Mom”. Moved to Los Angeles and he worked with all-time giants of the music industry such as Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. He was then tapped by the legendary Pr...
Apr 27, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Stephen DeAcutis has been working professionally as a mixer, producer, engineer, writer, and performer since the early 1980’s, having honed his skills and training under such studio heavyweights as Andy Wallace (Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana), Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith), and Max Norman (Ozzy Osbourne) amassing credits that include such acts as Vanilla Fudge, Gladys Knight, Travers and Appice, Corey Glover, and Cyndi Lauper, to name a few. He has been contracted by Sony, Intersco...
Apr 20, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 90
Travis Ference is a mixer, producer, and recording engineer based out of Los Angeles, CA. With over a decade of experience in the record business he has managed to work on multiple #1 albums, several top 10's, numerous RIAA platinum and gold certified records, as well as hit TV shows and blockbuster films. His work can be heard on more than 15 million albums sold worldwide and nearly a billion streams. Upon graduating from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, Travis moved to Hollywood and beg...
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 89
EveAnna Manley is the CEO and co-founder of Manley Laboratories - makers of high-end audio gear frequently found in studios all over the world. Born in Las Vegas stumbled out of vacuum tube lineage as her father, Albert J. Dauray, owned the famous guitar amplifier company, Ampeg, in the late 1960's. EveAnna grew up in Atlanta listening to vacuum tubes and tales of the tube. She and her sister Stacey graduated from the prestigious Westminster Schools. EveAnna was very active in both the music and...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 88
Justin Weis is a San Francisco, CA based audio engineer and owner/operator at Trakworx Mastering & Recording. Justin has mastered, mixed, recorded or produced a wide variety of independent artists. Some of his more well-known credits include: Sammy Hagar, Papa Roach, NOFX, Elliphant, Matt Nathanson, Larry Coryell, Agalloch, The Coup, B-Legit, Zion I, Berner and Andre Nickatina. His approach emphasizes analog outboard gear and tape, integrated with modern digital tools. Justin started out in ...
Mar 30, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Jeremy SH Griffith is producer, mixer, engineer and composer working in music, tv, and film. He has been involved in a wide variety of types of music, from worship music (Kim Walker-Smith, Cody Carnes, Kari Jobe) to heavy bands (Norma Jean). IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT: Treating Pro Tools like a console Setting up your sessions for speed Using track folders Working in different genres How not using templates can help with creativity The differences in working with new artists vs. establi...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 86
David Castillo is a producer and mixing engineer who conducts his business under the name “Ghost Ward”. He is renowned worldwide for his work with prestigious bands such as Opeth, Whitechapel, Katatonia, Carcass, Dark Tranquillity, Leprous, Soen, Soilwork, Candlemass, Bloodbath and many more. Since 2014 Castillo has co-owned the legendary Studio Gröndahl in Stockholm along with Jens Bogren. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT: Dealing with stress in the studio and when working in live sound Work...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 85
John Greenham is a Grammy Award-winning mastering engineer who has worked with many great artists including Billie Eilish, Los Tigres del Norte, Sam Smith, Katy Perry, Ice Cube, Banks, and many more. He currently works independently out of Echo Park in LA. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT: Learning to hear small boosts/cuts with EQ The benefits of analog vs digital gear in mastering Working with Billie Eilish How to prepare your tracks for mastering How to make your songs sound louder on Spot...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Graham Waks, recording engineer, mixer, producer, and owner of Left Plus Right Studio in Nashville, TN. He also runs Music City Acoustics, designing and building acoustic panels for home studios. He recorded and mixed projects in a wide range of genres with artists signed to major labels as well as indie artists paving their own way. Some of Graham’s music credits include: Lindi Ortega, Parade of Lights, Hadley Kennary, Kevin Presbrey, and Lauren Strange to name a few. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LE...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Jett Galindo is a Filipino mastering engineer based in Los Angeles who has worked on albums for artists including Barbra Streisand, Weezer, Selena Gomez, Neil Young, and Pink Floyd. Jett began her engineering career in the world-renowned Avatar Studios in New York 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 and Latin Grammy-winning Brazilian rock band Jota Quest. In 2...
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Bruce Kaphan is a musician who has worked on many studio projects, often as a pedal steel player. Kaphan was a member of American Music Club. In addition to Mark Eitzel and American Music Club, Kaphan has worked on albums for Sheryl Crow, The Black Crowes, R.E.M., John Lee Hooker, Chris Isaak, Francesco De Gregori, Love & Rockets, Red House Painters and many others. He has also appeared in such live or pre-recorded television performances of David Byrne’s Feelings tour, and Jewel’s Saturday ...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 81
Joe Costable started his career in Houston Texas at Studio 7303. Starting as an intern, Joe eventually moved up the ranks as an engineer working with many prominent artists and producers, such as Mike Jones, Scarface, Mannie Fresh, Gerald Levert, and many others. In the years since, Joe has worked with many more artists in genres from hip-hop to shoegaze. His work has been everywhere from top 10 at radio, selling millions of copies worldwide, national ad campaigns, to being featured on the most ...
Feb 09, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 80
Justin is an audio engineer specializing in mastering music, as well as sweetening audio for short video productions. After working at several recording studios around the state of Wisconsin including Smart Studios, Simple Studios, and a handful of others from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, he opened his own mastering studio Mystery Room Mastering in Milwaukee, WI in 2009. He also does a lot of mastering and metadata work for The License Lab , a music licensing company located in Milwaukee, ...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Dusty Wakeman has worn a lot of hats – producer, engineer, musician, and owner/manager of Los Angeles based Mad Dog Studios. His work with Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, Roy Orbison, Michelle Shocked, Buck Owens and many other artists has helped generate a number of multi-platinum and Grammy-winning records. Growing up in Texas, Dusty developed a love of the whole process of making music, from touring in groups to engineering records and designing his own studios. After moving to Los Angeles i...
Jan 26, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Don Gunn is a freelance recording/mixing engineer, producer, and musician in Seattle, WA. who has worked with hundreds of artists over the years including Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Frampton, Soundgarden, The Lonely Forest, King Crimson, The Humans, and Fences. Don started Gropius Mastering in 1997, but recently returned to the more creative side of producing, recording, and mixing. He primarily works at Two Sticks Audio in Seattle, a brand new room built by Jason McGerr from Death Cab for Cutie...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 77
