Mix Notes From Hell

Defining Success   Thanks for listening!!!!             Matt Hennessy – Matt’s Website Will Kennedy – Will’s Website – Will’s Facebook Marc Lacuesta – Marc’s Website Richard Furch – Richard’s Website Phil Dubnick – Phil’s Website

Work / Life Balance   Thanks for listening!!!!             Matt Hennessy – Matt’s Website Will Kennedy – Will’s Website – Will’s Facebook Marc Lacuesta – Marc’s Website Richard Furch – Richard’s Website Phil Dubnick – Phil’s Website

The Tutorial Makers We’ve decided to go in a different direction for this episode and Kenny and Phil are joined for a few of the best tutorial makers around. Jon Tidey (REAPER Blog) – David Glenn Kulp (David Glenn Recording) and Matthew Weiss (The Pro Audio Files) Thanks for the support. Enjoy!   Thanks for listening!!!! […]

No Producer At The Wheel After a brief discussion of the progress being made in the building of Matt Hennessy’s new Chi-town-based recording facility, Will, Kenny, Marc & Phil ponder the question “What happens when no one involved in the project, including the producer, seems to understand what a producer actually does?”. Then Marc wraps […]

Kurt Ballou & Jay Maas Phil sits down with two prolific and prominent producer/engineers in the hardcore, punk and metal space: Kurt Ballou of God City Recording Studio & Converge and Jay Maas of Getaway Recording Studio & Defeater. For more info on Kurt Ballou, including a detailed discography, go to: http://www.godcitystudio.com For more info […]

Bryan Cook Phil sits down for a conversation with engineer extraordinare and friend of the show Bryan Cook, whose credits include work with One Republic, Train, Cheap Trick, Beck, Richie Sambora, Jewel, QOTSA, American Idol, and many, many more. For more info on Bryan Cook, including a detailed discography, go to: http://www.juicemonster.net   Enjoy and […]

Will Sandalls Special guest Will Sandalls shares his experience working on American Idol and Will Kennedy (Producer, Mixer, Engineer) talks about his recent experience working on a similar weekly singing competition TV show based out of Kenya called Maisha Superstar. We discuss the challenge of tracking vocalists of varying degrees of experience under severe time […]

Marc and Phil talk Nashville In this Podcast, Marc & Phil go it alone to talk about a whole bunch of stuff that I (Kenny) haven’t listen to yet. LOL Thanks for listening!!!!           Kenny Gioia – Kenny’s Website – Kenny’s Facebook Matt Hennessy – Matt’s Website Will Kennedy – Will’s Website – Will’s […]

Kenny & Phil In this Podcast, Kenny & Phil go it alone to talk about creating Mixing tutorials, Kenny’s new website and Mixing and ReMixing educational ideas along with Music and the Music Business in general. Thanks for listening!!!!           Kenny Gioia – Kenny’s Website – Kenny’s Facebook Matt Hennessy – Matt’s Website […]

The Great Matt Wallace – Part III We continue with Matt Wallace as he discusses his work with Maroon 5 and his more recent work with Live at the Redux and other exciting projects. Thanks for listening!!!!         Kenny Gioia – Kenny’s Website – Kenny’s Facebook Matt Hennessy – Matt’s Website Will Kennedy – […]

The Great Matt Wallace Part II We continue with Matt Wallace as he discusses his work with The Replacements, Train and Maroon 5. Thanks for listening!!!!           Kenny Gioia – Kenny’s Website – Kenny’s Facebook Matt Hennessy – Matt’s Website Will Kennedy – Will’s Website – Will’s Facebook Marc Lacuesta – Marc’s Website Richard […]

The Great Matt Wallace Part I Matt Wallace joins the podcast and we discuss his early start, meeting and working with Faith No More leading up to his work with the Replacements. Thanks for listening!!!!         Kenny Gioia – Kenny’s Website – Kenny’s Facebook Matt Hennessy – Matt’s Website Will Kennedy – Will’s Website – […]

Piracy and Digital Consumption of Music We start off talking about the movie “Downloaded” which is the story of Napster and Kenny describes what he thinks piracy did to the business and how it cut out mid-level bands. Will adds on to the same theme where budgets were dropped and how the audience doesn’t see […]

Major Market vs Big Fish – Little Pond   Thanks for listening!!!!             Kenny Gioia – Kenny’s Website – Kenny’s Facebook Matt Hennessy – Matt’s Website Will Kennedy – Will’s Website – Will’s Facebook Marc Lacuesta – Marc’s Website Richard Furch – Richard’s Website Phil Dubnick – Phil’s Website

Producing vs. Songwriting Turning in Masters We start by taking a reader’s question regarding producing a record and going over to the side of songwriting and how to deal with the discussion of taking that credit and figuring out splits. Kenny talks about splitting everything equally when doing songwriting sessions. Will brings up the Wrecking […]

Spec Mixes or Working for Free We start by bringing up the idea of doing spec mixes or spec anything and what that means. Marc talks about not doing alot of these because he was taught early on to always be paid for doing gigs. Matt goes on to talk about working at a studio where […]

Risk Management       Great Music vs. Getting Paid We start by reading a question involving the balance of dealing with choosing the music we work with based on budget vs. how good the music is and what are the repercussions of each. Kenny brings up how hard it is to build a career recording […]

Signal to Noise Ratio on Forums and FB Groups We start by talking about the not so informed discussions on gear forums and facebook groups and the echo chamber created. Kenny brings up the idea that room treatment has become a lot more important to novices than most professional. Will brings up the idea that […]

Mixer’s Job                 Create the Vision              or Take Direction We start by reading a listener’s comment: “This whole obsession with you guys having to match what is on the radio to me means you have bought in to this arbitrary standard that […]

Recording Schools          To go, or not? We start by mentioning we have a Facebook page and group. Please sign up. We then start talking about recording schools with Matt talking about how import mentoring and internships are. Will talks about having less studios with less upward mobility. Kenny brings up the […]

Expensive Thrifty-ness Cutting Corners        Studio Musicians We start off discussing expensive thrift-ness or cutting corners to save money and having it hurt you in the end. Will tells us a story of why you need a producer. Kenny tells stories of working with great (studio) musicians and how important that is and […]

Self Producing                 as the Artist We start off this episode by introducing ourselves again adding Grammy Winning/Multi-Platinum Mixer Richard Furch to the mix or group. We then discuss more and more music being self produced by the artist and the positives and negatives of this situation. And […]

Notes for the Mixer We start off this episode by introducing ourselves and noting that Kenny doesn’t have a website (at the time) and giving him a hard time for it. We move on to discussing “Mix Notes” and what’s the best way for engineers to communicate with their mixing engineer and vice versa to […]