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Mark Mynett, Senior Lecturer in Music Technology and Production at Huddersfield University, talks about selecting the right course and the vital importance of real-world experience and networking in order to develop a successful music industry career.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:20 - Career Background
01:18 - Courses At Huddersfield Uni
02:20 - Working Across Departments
04:03 - Music Industry Connections
05:50 - Work Experience Placements
08:01 - Accreditation
08:44 - Developing People Skills
Mark Mynett Biog
As well as Senior Lecturer in Music Technology and Production at Huddersfield University, Mark Mynett is a live music front-of-house engineer, and record producer/engineer/mix and mastering engineer. Mainly focused on indie, rock and metal genres, he produces from his own studio - Mynetaur Productions (www.mynetaur.com) – where he recently completed the latest My Dying Bride album ‘The Ghost of Orion’: referred to by Dom Lawson (The Guardian, Metal Hammer, Prog, Classic Rock) as “…a master class in modern metal production”.
Metal Music Manual (instructional book for producing contemporary metal music)
Sam Inglis Biog
Editor In Chief Sam Inglis has been with Sound On Sound for more than 20 years. He is a recording engineer, producer, songwriter and folk musician who studies the traditional songs of England and Scotland, and the author of Neil Young's Harvest (Bloomsbury, 2003) and Teach Yourself Songwriting (Hodder, 2006).
This podcast was originally recorded for SOS by Paul MacDonald.
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Dom Morley is a Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer who has worked with Amy Winehouse, Adele, Sting, Mark Ronson and many more big names. In this episode, he goes into detail with SOS's Sam Inglis about the art and craft of recording and mixing vocals.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:39 - Tracking vocals
02:49 - Favourite mics and preamps
05:43 - EQ and compression
07:30 - The artist headphone mix
08:50 - Recording in the control room
10:00 - Leaving the vocals until last
11:02 - Guiding and coaching the vocal performance
13:19 - Vocals recorded remotely
15:18 - Submitting vocal tracks for mixing
16:45 - Sending a comped version
17:24 - Full takes then working through sections
19:02 - Track mixing order
21:29 - Not using vocal presets
23:25 - Using analogue and digital
24:18 - Analogue EQ and compression
25:38 - Setting up compression
27:00 - Automating dynamics
30:35 - Drawing in the automation
31:36 - Processor plugin order
33:05 - Vocal tuning
35:21 - Choosing a reverb or delay
38:44 - Synchronising delays to song tempo
39:26 - Treating BVs as an instrument
41:15 - The Mix Consultancy
Dom Morley Biog
Dom Morley is a Grammy Award-winning producer, mixer and engineer, who has worked with Amy Winehouse (Back To Black), Mark Ronson (Version, Record Collection), Richard Ashcroft (These People, Keys To The World), Nick Cave (Grinderman), Sting (Live at Durham Cathedral), The Police (pre-production for their world tour), Adele, Morrissey, JP Cooper, Estelle, Live8 (DVD), Rag'n'Bone Man, The Staves, Rumer, Keane, Birdy, Lemon Jelly, Jeff Beck, Sting, I Am Kloot, The Verve and Underworld amongst others.
Dom is involved in sound design, providing all the sounds for the 'Dirty Modular' Kontakt instrument (Samplephonics), Stranger Synths, Modular Synthwave and the Roland CR-78 Synth Explorer (Loopmasters).
He is also the founder of The Mix Consultancy (an online service offering feedback and advice on your mix) and tutors MA students in Music Production at Leeds College of Music.
https://www.dommorley.com/
https://www.themixconsultancy.com/
Sam Inglis Biog
Editor In Chief Sam Inglis has been with Sound On Sound for more than 20 years. He is a recording engineer, producer, songwriter and folk musician who studies the traditional songs of England and Scotland, and the author of Neil Young's Harvest (Bloomsbury, 2003) and Teach Yourself Songwriting (Hodder, 2006).
Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts
Ross Orton talks to Nigel Humberstone about his transition from playing drums with Add N to (X), Fat Truckers and Jarvis Cocker into the world of production, remixing and songwriting. His steel city stories include working with Arctic Monkeys & Working Men’s Club, amassing mic pre-amps, favourite microphones and setting up his ‘drum centric’ studio in Sheffield.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:47 - Transition from drummer into recording
03:00 - Favourite mic Beyer M380
03:47 - Production
04:19 - Layering electronic drum sounds
05:00 - MIA remix
05:51 - McCall Sound Studios
07:18 - Phone call from Arctic Monkeys
08:38 - Outside toilets
09:09 - Clap master
10:15 - Any old console
10:54 - Mic pre-amps
13:24 - Default drum mic set up
16:11 - Never record in the hole!
18:03 - And compress at will
20:42 - Production & development tricks
21:10 - ‘Make em a reyt good coffee'
23:05 - Mixing quiet on 70s Auratones
25:31 - 'Drum-centric’ studio
Ross Orton Biog
Ross Orton is a musician/songwriter/producer based in Sheffield, England.
From a background playing drums with Add N to (X), electro trio Fat Truckers and Jarvis Cocker, Orton's songwriting, production and mixing credits include Arctic Monkeys' 2013 album AM, the Mercury Music Prize-nominated Arular by M.I.A., The Fall, Toddla T, Roots Manuva, The Kills, Tinchy Stryder, Ladyhawke, Drenge and Working Men’s Club.
Nigel Humberstone Biog
Nigel Humberstone is a film music composer and founding member of In The Nursery, the Sheffield-based band who have released more than 30 albums since 1981 with their music featured in numerous film soundtracks and theatrical trailers.
Alongside a passion for sound design and binaural field recordings, Nigel has developed ITN's Optical Music Series, a continuing series of new scores for classic silent films.
Nigel is also co-founder and Music Director of Sensoria Music & Film Festival.
http://www.sensoria.org.uk/
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Behind The Brand - Cranborne Audio. SOS Technical Editor Hugh Robjohns chats to the Managing Director of Cranborne Audio, Sean Karpowicz about how and why he started this innovative British pro-audio manufacturer, the many business and technical challenges involved along the way, and his company's approach to product design and manufacture.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:25 - Hugh Meets Sean Remotely
00:51 - Where Cranborne Audio Began, and the Founding Members
02:34 - Musicians at Work
03:46 - From Soundcraft to Cranborne Audio
06:03 - Funding the New Business
07:39 - First Preamplifier Product
09:06 - Finding the Mojo
11:03 - Expanded Rackmount EC2 Version
13:38 - The Appeal of 500-Series Racks
16:03 - Manufacturing Challenges and Decisions
21:00 - Protecting Intellectual Property
22:53 - What Comes Next - Products and Company?
25:03 - One Magic Wish?
25:45 - Ending
25:55 - Further Information and Payoff
https://www.cranborne-audio.com/
Sean Karpowicz Biog
Sean Karpowicz is Founder and Managing Director of Cranborne Audio - an innovative emerging British-based professional audio manufacturer. Sean has developed several award-winning audio products in his career working for several professional audio companies - the most notable being legendary British mixing console manufacturer Soundcraft where Sean met fellow Cranborne Audio founding members Edward Holmes, Elliott Thomas, and Andrew Pat.
Sean, Ed, Elliott, and Andy founded Cranborne Audio as an antidote to various trends they observed in the Professional Audio industry that they felt negatively affected product quality and innovation. Vowing to do things the "right way" and never allowing "good enough" to be good enough - Cranborne Audio released their first product in October 2018 - their Camden 500 preamp and saturation module - to critical acclaim. Cranborne Audio has since released a handful more products - all very innovative and unique with high-performance analogue and digital designs, whilst offering outstanding value and quality including their latest product - Camden EC2.
Hugh Robjohns Biog
Hugh Robjohns has been Sound On Sound´s Technical Editor since 1997. Prior to that he worked in a variety of (mostly) sound-related roles in BBC Television, ending up as a Sound Operations Lecturer at the BBC´s technical training centre. He continues to provide audio consultancy and bespoke broadcast audio training services all over the world, lectures at professional and public conventions, and occasionally records and masters acoustic and classical music too!
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First steps for a graduate - recent graduate Felipe Gutierrez chats to record producer Steve Levine at his Liverpool studio about careers in the music industry, how to encourage good performances from your artists, and utilising whatever tech you have available in the recording process.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:19 - Degree Importance
02:52 - Hands On Training
03:15 - Practise Working With Bands
04:11 - Working With Modern Tech
06:39 - Using The Resources Available
08:39 - Encouraging A Good Performance
10:36 - Performance In Electronic Music
11:48 - Working For Free
13:55 - Self-Releasing Artists Budgeting
15:02 - Intellectual Share Of Rights
17:33 - Helpful Music Organisations
18:49 - Sound Design Opportunities
19:42 - Working With A Varied Skillset
Steve Levine Biog
Starting as a trainee tape-op at CBS Studios in 1975, Steve progressed to in-house engineer and worked with many now classic new wave and punk acts The Clash, The Jags, The Vibrators, XTC as well as many of CBS Records' pop acts, including Sailor. Beach Boy Bruce Johnson was to play an important part in Steve's early career, culminating with Steve producing an album for the Beach Boys several years later. Steve produced all of Culture Club’s classic hits and the bands’ three multi-platinum albums.
Since then Steve has worked with a wide spectrum of artistes and composed a number of film scores. Artist collaborations include Honeyz, China Crisis, Gary Moore, Ziggy Marley, Louise, The Creatures, Lemmy & Motorhead, David Grant, Westworld, Mis-teeq, 911. He also produced and composed the score for the action video game Hyperbrawl.
In his career, Steve has collected a number of prestigious awards including BPI Producer of the Year, Musicweek Top Singles Producer and a Grammy for his work with Deniece Williams. Plus a Sony Radio Award.
Steve has also appeared on many radio and TV programs, and is a regular guest on BBC’s 6 Music. His radio production company Magnum Opus Broadcasting produces several shows for the BBC; in particular The Record Producers, a radio documentary series for BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music for which Steve received a Sony Radio Award for the 'Best Specialist Contributor'. This acclaimed documentary series focuses on the art of record production from the producer's perspective.
Along with his radio and TV work, Steve is currently busy producing exciting new bands for his new label Hubris Records.
Steve is a Director of PRS For Music, a member of the MU, PPL and The Music Producer’s Guild, as well as a LIPA Companion (Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts).
http://www.stevelevine.co.uk
Felipe Gutierrez Biog
Felipe is a BA Music Technology and Popular Music 2018 graduate from Huddersfield University.
He carried out his course with a strong focus on music production and music for the moving image. During his placement year, Felipe worked at Warner Music as a marketing intern, but ever since graduating he has been working as a freelance sound engineer and composer.
Some of the highlights of his career so far include working on Ben Frost’s score of the second and third seasons of Netflix’s hit series Dark, over at Soundgas Studios alongside Tony Miln and Ben Hirst; working with Yusuf Islam Foundation (founded by Yusuf / Cat Stevens) on a variety of projects.
He has also worked as an assistant engineer for Kit Downes, as a recording and live sound engineer for the RIOT Ensemble, and has worked for American bassist and label-owner, Michael Janisch from Whirlwind Recordings. In addition to this, he is a writer and composer for The Nerve , a music library based in the UK.
Currently Felipe lives in London and has started to get more involved in the studio circuit, working as a runner at RAK Studios.
https://soundmusicuk.com/
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Martin Seidl, Founder and CEO of Microphone & Headphone manufacturer Austrian Audio, chats to Sam Inglis about the company origins, current products and future technological developments, plus why their core range of products will remain analogue at heart.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:39 - Austrian Audio heritage
02:12 - Audio Engineer beginnings
02:55 - Manufacturing the CK-12 capsule
06:24 - Materials used in new capsule
07:16 - OC18 OC818 without valves
08:32 - Head basket shape
09:55 - Digital control of OC818
12:32 - Polar pattern designer
15:02 - Future digital advances
16:12 - Products in development
17:54 - Hi-X headphones
20:34 - Closed vs Open back
22:18 - Digital processing in headphones
23:46 - Currently manufacturing
25:05 - Research and testing services
27:07 - Austrian Audio USP
Austrian Audio
https://austrian.audio/
Martin Seidl Biog
Meet Martin Seidl, CEO of Austrian Audio, the microphone and headphone company that emerged like a Phoenix from the ashes of AKG and has been on a steep trajectory with technologically superior microphones and headphones ever since.
Martin is the former VP of AKG Acoustics, Microphones and Headphones and Director for JBL’s European loudspeaker business. He’s been in the pro audio industry for all his professional life, and Austrian Audio is his latest brainchild. Following the closure of the AKG offices in Vienna, he set out to create something new, challenging, and respectful to the AKG heritage. In 2017, he asked his former AKG team of engineers to join him to produce products embodying the sound and engineering excellence. Austrian Audio started with a core team of 22 former AKG personnel from management, acoustics, electronics, test and measurement, mechanical design, RF/wireless, and software and firmware.
Backed by over 350 years of cumulative engineering experience, Martin now leads his team in building high-quality and innovative microphones and headphones. Currently, the flagship mic is the OC818, a large-diaphragm, multi-pattern condenser microphone with a unique dual-diaphragm ceramic capsule. At NAMM 2020, the company launched a line of professional headphones, the Hi-X55 and the Hi-X50.
Sam Inglis Biog
Editor In Chief Sam Inglis has been with Sound On Sound for more than 20 years. He is a recording engineer, producer, songwriter and folk musician who studies the traditional songs of England and Scotland, and the author of Neil Young's Harvest (Bloomsbury, 2003) and Teach Yourself Songwriting (Hodder, 2006).
Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts
Mark Crabtree of AMS Neve chats with Sam Inglis about how two of the biggest names in UK audio technology came together, and how they are using their unique expertise in analogue and digital audio to develop the next wave of studio products.
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:19 - History of AMS and Neve
01:21 - Analogue and Digital Approaches
01:58 - The Beginnings of Sampling
03:38 - Mellotron and Dubbing
05:04 - Classic Tech Vs Digital
06:59 - Tape and Pitch Change
08:04 - The Ear Test
08:59 - Developing New Products
11:06 - AMS Neve Genesys Inspiration
11:55 - Analogue Digital Hybrids
13:25 - Benefits of Consoles
15:13 - Universal Audio Plugins
16:04 - 500 Series
16:56 - Neve 1073 Copycats
18:45 - The DFC
19:58 - Film Tech
20:53 - Dante
21:42 - Training
23:04 - UK Manufacture and Education
24:42 - Next Generation of Engineers
25:15 - Ending
AMS Neve Website
https://www.ams-neve.com/
See SOS website for photos https://www.soundonsound.com/music-business/ams-neve-mark-crabtree-podcast
Mark Crabtree Biog
APRS Fellow Mark Crabtree is the owner and Managing Director of AMS Neve and the creator of many classic digital and analogue audio products.
After graduating from Cambridge with an Engineering degree and from Manchester with a Masters’ Degree in Digital Electronics, Mark worked as Engineering Manager at Lucas Aerospace. However, in his spare time he was combining his love of music (he plays piano, guitar and violin) with his electronics knowledge to invent digital sound-enhancing devices. This resulted in the formation of AMS Neve in 1975, a company that sold its first product to Sir Paul McCartney and is still designing and making innovative audio products in Mark’s hometown of Burnley, Lancashire.
Awarded an OBE in 2014 for Services to Advanced Manufacturing and Creative Industries, Mark is also the recipient of two Scientific and Technical Oscars®, an Emmy™ and a Grammy™, while AMS Neve has three Queen’s Awards for Export to its credit.
Sam Inglis Biog
Editor In Chief Sam Inglis has been with Sound On Sound for more than 20 years. He is a recording engineer, producer, songwriter and folk musician who studies the traditional songs of England and Scotland, and the author of Neil Young's Harvest (Bloomsbury, 2003) and Teach Yourself Songwriting (Hodder, 2006).
Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts
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