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RSR091 - 7 Studio Concepts For A Better Record - From The Book Making Sound By Cristofer Odqvist Jun 02, 2017

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Learn tips about transient designers, lo-fi microphones, and enhancing reverbs.

Cristofer Odqvist is an audio engineer, sound designer and music producer based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has been running a recording studio in Stockholm, Sweden for several years where he's written, recorded, produced, and mixed music and commercials for television, film, radio, and recording artists.

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RSR090 - Joe Costa - Recording Ben Folds And William Shatner May 27, 2017

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Hear stories about recording William Shatner, drums, piano, and acoustic guitar in RCA Studio A.

Joe Costa is a freelance engineer/mixer in Nashville, TN, originally from Dartmouth, MA. A graduate of Berklee College Of Music, Joe started out at Syncro Sound in Boston before moving to Nashville in 1993. Since then, he has worked in many great studios like: Treasure Isle, House Of David, and RCA Studio A (Now Ben's Place), and with many great artists, producers, and engineers through his career like: Tom Harding, and Joe Baldridge (episode 61), and also for more than a decade with Ben Folds.

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RSR089 - John Fields - Producer for The Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Pink May 19, 2017

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John Fields is an internationally recognized, multi-platinum writer/producer/mixer who has worked with some of the biggest names in the music business - from rock bands like Switchfoot, Jimmy Eat World, Lifehouse, Goo Goo Dolls and Andrew W.K., to chart-dominating pop acts like the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, Pink and Backstreet Boys, to dance/electronic artists like Har Mar Superstar, The Presets and Cut Copy.

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RSR088 - 4-Track Grammy Production With Van Hunt May 12, 2017

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The less is more approach to winning a Grammy.

Van Hunt is a Grammy awarded musician, producer, songwriter, and recording artist originally from Dayton, OH but now living in Los Angeles. His writing and production has been featured on recordings by diverse artists, such as Dionne Farris, Rahsaan Patterson, and Cree Summer as well as the platinum-selling soundtrack, Love Jones. He has released 5 of his own records over the past 15 years, also touring alongside such diverse acts as Kanye West, The Roots, Coldplay, Mary J. Blige, and Dave Matthews Band.

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RSR087 - Chris Selim - 9 Tips For Recording, Mixing, And Producing Clients Remotely May 05, 2017

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Chris Selim is a musician, music producer and recording/mixing engineer. He is renowned for his work in the French Christian music industry. Having produced and mixed artists globally in Canada, USA, France, Belgium and Switzerland, Chris has been working remotely with many of these artists using today's technology. Out of his recording studio near Montreal, Canada, Chris has mixed and produced more than 75 albums over the past fourteen years.

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RSR086 - Jesse Cannon - Processing Creativity: The Tools, Practices And Habits Used To Make Music You're Happy With Apr 28, 2017

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Jesse Cannon is a musician, engineer, producer, and multiple author. His new book, which you can now find on Amazon & Kindle, is called Processing Creativity: The Tools, Practices And Habits Used To Make Music You're Happy With.

Over the past two decades, Jesse has worked in nearly every aspect of the music business. Most notably, recording bands like Animal Collective, The Misfits, The Menzingers, Man Overboard, Basement, Transit, Thank You Scientist, Somos, Leftover Crack as well as mastering records for acts like Brand New, NOFX, Bad Books, Real Friends and over a thousand more.

He received his pedigree under producers like Ross Robinson and Steve Evetts with groups like The Cure, Limp Bizkit, Dillinger Escape Plan, Saves The Day, Senses Fail and A Static Lullaby, and spent years working under esteemed mastering engineer Alan Douches at West West Side Music.

He is also known for writing the top rated music business book on Amazon, Get More Fans: The DIY Guide To The New Music Business, which details how bands effectively promote their music; the book is now in it's fourth edition. This year he published, Processing Creativity: The Tools, Practices And Habits Used To Make Music You're Happy With, which has already received immense praise for its innovative take on how musicians can make more emotionally powerful music.

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RSR085 - Cowboy Keith Thompson - How To Start a Record Label From Your Home Studio Apr 21, 2017

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Cowboy Keith Thompson is a record producer, live sound engineer, tour manager, and record label owner. Inglehood Records is a boutique label based out of east Nashville, that makes classic style recordings of vintage hits from the 40s to 60s with its hip rhythm and horn sections.

Originally hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Keith was a bar owner, children's TV show host, radio host, record producer, and live sound engineer. He moved to Nashville 20 years ago to pursue pro- live sound engineer, doing live sound for the likes of Peter Cetera and even Wonder Woman's Lynda Carter.

Some of Keith's credits include managing the Original Blues Brothers Band featuring Steve Cropper, Blue Lou Marini, Tom Malone, John Tropea , Murphy Dunne and Leon Pendarvis.

When he is not running his label, producing records, or touring, he records and mixes all the music performances for the hit CMT TV show "Sun Records".

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RSR084 – Kevin Killen – Recording Peter Gabriel, U2, David Bowie, and Yo-Yo Ma Apr 14, 2017

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Kevin Killen is a multi-platinum producer, engineer, and mixer. Kevin is the recipient of many Grammy Awards, and has recorded some of the most important albums of the past four decades.

His extensive discography includes: U2 Unforgettable Fire, Peter Gabriel SO, Elvis Costello Spike, The Commitments, and a long list of amazing artists like Tori Amos, Prince, Laurie Anderson, Stevie Nicks, Brian Ferry, Paula Cole, and Patti Smith.

Just this year Kevin took home a few Grammys for mixing Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble's Sing Me Home, and for best engineered album, and best alternative album for David Bowie's last record, Blackstar.

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RSR083 - Jeff Turzo - Overstayer Recording Equipment, Fusing Rock with Techno Apr 07, 2017

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Jeff Turzo is a musician, producer, and founder of Overstayer Recording Equipment, a company that designs cool audio gear for the studio. Jeff started out as a musician and spent a decade producing and touring with his band, God Lives Under Water. His band was signed by Rick Rubin to American Recordings in 1993. GLU went on to record multiple albums with a heavy guitar, synth, loop driven pop sound that landed them a movie soundtrack hit for the Keanu Reeves film, Johnny Mnemonic, and airtime on alternative rock stations and MTV. This led to years of touring for his band sharing the stage with other heavy pop bands like KMFDM, Korn, Filter, Deftones, No Doubt, and Sublime.

In the studio Jeff was a multi-instrumentalist and producer with synthesis/sampling knowledge, sometimes producing with Matt Mahaffey (episode 69), but also with his GLU partner David Reilly, staying busy with remix projects that included Skinny Puppy, Rob Zombie and Messiah. He also organized For the Masses: A Tribute To Depeche Mode in 1998, and released Up Off The Floor with GLU in 2004.

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RSR082 - Dane Myers - Custom Tracks & Online Production Mar 31, 2017

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Several years after founding local singer/songwriter recording studio, Wholehearted Productions, and producing numerous tracks for aspiring local artists, Dane Myers realized a big obstacle all of his artists faced in getting the quality of music they wanted was a lack of access to professional session musicians. Now after leaving university, Dane is bent on changing the way people think about recording, putting the focus on quality performances, and putting top-shelf musicians back in independent music production through Custom-Tracks.com.

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