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Recording Studio Rockstars

Lij Shaw Interviews music producers, engineers, studio owners, and other professionals to bring you inspiring stories, tricks, and insights from the recording studio. So that you can take your recordings to the next level and become a rockstar of the recording studio yourself! - Vance Powell, Michael Beinhorn, Russell Wolff, Graham Cochrane, Joe Gilder, Björgvin Benediktsson.
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Now displaying: 2016
Jul 8, 2016

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My guest today is Jim Reilley, a songwriter, producer, member of The New Dylans, and recording artist from Nashville TN. Jim moved to Nashville in 1998 and landed a publishing deal with Curb Publishing where he wrote songs for nearly a decade. 

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Jul 1, 2016

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My guest today is David Thoener, a multi Grammy winning producer, engineer, and mixer with a true rockstar list of credits to his discography. In fact David made many of the records that I grew up with that help define rock music for me. Part 2!!

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Jun 24, 2016

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My guest today is David Thoener, a multi Grammy winning producer, engineer, and mixer with a true rockstar list of credits to his discography. In fact David made many of the records that I grew up with that help define rock music for me.

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Jun 17, 2016

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My guest today is Jeff Powell who got his start as an assistant engineer at Ardent studios in Memphis TN and steadily advanced his career over decades to become a multi faceted gold, platinum, and Grammy winning record producer, engineer, educator, and vinyl mastering engineer.

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Jun 10, 2016

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My guest today is Matt Ross-Spang, a Grammy winning engineer, mixer, producer and recording historian. Matt began his career at Sun Studio in Memphis TN, which he revitalized during his decade of work there bringing it back to it’s original analog roots. After his time at Sun Studio he migrated over to Sam Phillips Recording Services.

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Jun 3, 2016

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My guest today is Jody Stephens a rock star, session drummer, songwriter, composer, producer, and studio administrator at Ardent Studios in Memphis TN. Jody’s music has had a great influence on me through his work as the drummer for the legendary band, Big Star. 

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May 27, 2016

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My guest today is Ian Brennan a recording artist, producer, concert promoter, activist, and author. He is a GRAMMY-winning producer with four GRAMMY-nominated records for Best World Music, and Best Traditional Folk. Ian has written a fascinating book called “How Music Dies (Or Lives)” that shares his deep understanding of music, culture, and recording.

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May 20, 2016

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My guest today is Tommy Wiggins. Throughout his career, Tommy has released his own albums, started his own label, and built a recording school from the ground up. More recently Tommy lives here in Nashville TN and records and masters music from his own studio, Tommy’s Tracks.

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May 20, 2016

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My guest today is Tommy Wiggins. Throughout his career, Tommy has released his own albums, started his own label, and built a recording school from the ground up. More recently Tommy lives here in Nashville TN and records and masters music from his own studio, Tommy’s Tracks.

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May 13, 2016

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My guest today is mastering engineer and owner of Mayfield Mastering, John Mayfield. Two decades of mastering have allowed John to work with some very talented artists and clients including the Dave Matthews Band, Sara Evans, Kathy Mattea, Naturally 7, Warner Brothers Records and Universal Music Group to name a few. 

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May 6, 2016

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My guest today is Cameron Henry, a vinyl mastering engineer at Welcome to 1979 Studio. He has mastered over two-thousand LP & 45-single releases. In addition, Cameron hosts a "vinyl camp" at Welcome to 1979, which is focused on teaching the basics of disk cutting & a chance to participate in an actual direct-to-disk recording session.

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Apr 29, 2016

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My guest today is Brad Jones, Producer, Engineer, Mixer, and Musician based in Nashville. He has co-owned the Alex the Great Recording with Robin Eaton since 1993. This is a particularly special episode today because Alex The Great was the first studio where I learned how to record, and Brad was the one who taught me how to make the musicians feel at home to capture a great performance

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Apr 22, 2016

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My guest today is Jon Tidey, a home studio engineer, blogger, podcaster, and audio jack-of-all-trades from Vancouver British Columbia. In 2010, Jon started ReaperBlog.net. The aim of Reaper Blog is to be an indispensable resource providing news, reviews, tips & tricks, and detailed tutorials on music production using the REAPER software.

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Apr 15, 2016

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My guest today is Slau Halatyn, a recording engineer, producer and owner of BeSharp Studio in New York City where he specializes in classical, jazz and musical theater recordings as well as rock and pop music. Slau is a blind recording engineer and makes great records despite this obvious obstacle. He works directly with AVID to help make Pro Tools accessible for blind and visually impaired audio engineers and musicians.

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Apr 8, 2016

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My guest today is Dave Tough,a Dove award-winning producer, engineer, and songwriter, music industry educator at Belmont University, and an active voting member of the Recording Academy (Grammy Awards). He has written and produced over 150 songs for major motion pictures and television and started his own show called The Producer’s Room, featuring interviews with music industry creators.

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Apr 1, 2016

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My guest today is Nick Bullock, a musician, teacher, producer, songwriter and music blogger. In 2015 Nick launched an intense studio project with his band, The Sound Awake, called 52 in 52 where he committed to writing and recording 52 songs in 52 weeks.

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Mar 25, 2016

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My guest on the show today is Craig Alvin, a fantastically talented recording and mixing engineer originally from Portland, OR. He has been making records for over 20 years, and has an eclectic discography having worked on several Grammy nominated projects. He has long since mixed with a hybrid of digital and analog gear that brings the best of both worlds together to create a sound that is powerful and compelling.

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Mar 18, 2016

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My guest today is Kevin Ward, a producer, mixer, audio blogger and teacher who has been making award winning records since he moved to Nashville in 1991. Along the way he created Vine Records and has won many Dove awards for the great artists that he produces. Kevin then took all his experience and knowledge from years of producing and mixing and decided to help others learn how to record themselves creating an online coaching program called The Mix Coach.

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Mar 11, 2016

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My guest today is Chris Mara owner of Nashville’s Welcome To 1979 recording studio, and owner of Mara Machines; the largest analog tape machine restoration company in the world. Chris’s passion for recording led to founding the analog-centric Welcome To 1979; which has clients such as Pete Townshend, Eric Burdon, Brendan Benson, The Features, North Mississippi Allstars, The Protomen, John Oats, and Jack White’s Third Man Records among many.Welcome To 1979 also has a beautiful cutting lathe and vinyl mastering department!

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Mar 4, 2016

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My guest today is Matthew Weiss, a Grammy nominated, and Spellemann Award winning engineer. He began his career assisting such notable engineers and producers as Bobby Eli, Mark Marshall, Denise Barbarita, and Ron St. Germaine. Matthew loves teaching audio recording and mixing. His audio education tutorials are among the best selling and most highly regarded that you will find. He has teamed up with The Pro Audio Files to create Matthew's Mix Thru Series that teach you everything from mixing Hip Hop & EDM, or Rock and Pop music. He also offers advanced courses diving deeper into topics like mixing rap vocals or Hip Hop beats.

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Feb 26, 2016

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My guest today is Chad Brown, an engineer, producer, gear guilder, and Grammy winning mixer living in East Nashville TN, but hailing from the "Birthplace of Country Music", Bristol VA. In 2015 Chad received a Grammy Award for mixing "Shine For All The People" by Mike Farris. He mixed the record right here at The Toy Box Studio through the famous MCI console, and the classic sound won the Grammy for Best Roots Gospel Album of the Year.

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Feb 19, 2016

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My guest today is Jonathan Roye. He is a producer, mixer, musician, and audio blogger from Nashville TN. He shares that knowledge with you through his audio blog at JonathanRoye.com and Youtube channel called Mix Notes.

He is also the creator of Woodshedaudio.co a boutique sample and loop library in Nashville TN. If you are producing music using drums samples you can find a growing library of cool sounds to fill in the sweet spots of your production. With sample packs like Shaker & Tamborine they keep it focused and easy to use. 

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Feb 12, 2016

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My guest today is Bob Olhsson a master audio engineer and producer with 50 years of experience. Bob has a truly remarkable career path that has led him from Detroit to San Francisco to (Hearts of) Space and finally back to Nashville.

He was one of only two people to ever hold every engineering position at Motown Records in Detroit during which he recorded and mastered 100 top ten singles 42 of which were #1 hits. He even recorded Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, Stevie Wonder, and Motown’s first successful rock act, Rare Earth.

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Feb 5, 2016

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My guests are Michael Hardesty and Stephen Turney. Together they created 24HR Records a Youtube web series that hand picks a team of musicians, locks them in a studio, and tasks them with writing and recording three original songs in 24 hours.

Each episode is brought to you from a different recording studio, and even The Toy Box Studio has been home to one of these creative all nighters. Check the video out here!

 

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Jan 29, 2016

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My guest today is Blessing Offor an eclectic musician, songwriter, and producer. Born in Nigeria and raised in Connecticut with cultural and musical influences that span continents, cultures, and decades. As an artist and songwriter Blessing has mastered guitar and piano as the tools of composition. But his voice has taken him to studios and stages all over. He has been on the TV show The Voice, and appeared at The Kennedy Center on multiple occasions, and is also an international songwriting competition winner.

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