Master Your Mix Podcast

Alex Allinson: Reading Artists (and Yourself) in the Studio

Alex Allinson is a recording and mixing engineer and co-owner of The Bridge Sound & Stage in Cambridge, Massachusetts: a studio built inside the former home of the legend

Ed Donnelly: Capturing Authenticity

Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer, record producer, and activist from Pioneertown, CA. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Matchbox Twenty, The Cul

Neal Cappellino: Know What You're Solving For

Originally from Rochester, NY, producer/engineer Neal Cappellino is the owner of The Doghouse Studio in Nashville, TN. A lifelong musician, he completed his formal educat

Damian Taylor: Structure, Self-Doubt, and Finishing Music

Damian Taylor is a Grammy-nominated producer, mixer, programmer and songwriter who spent six years as Björk's personal engineer and programmer, working on Volta and Bioph

Peter Craft: Intentionality is Everything

Peter Craft is the owner and chief engineer of Boxer Lodge, a destination recording studio in the hills above Napa Valley. A former software engineer and patent-holding t

Chris Collier: Earning Creative Freedom

Chris Collier is a producer, mixer, mastering engineer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Las Vegas, operating as CMC21 Productions. Across nearly three decades in hard

Tim Dolbear: Building a Remote Mixing Business

Tim Dolbear is an award-winning mixing and mastering engineer with more than 25 years of professional experience and the owner of Eclectica Studios in Nashville, Tennesse

Howard Bilerman: Not Letting Production Hide the Song

Howard Bilerman is a Grammy-nominated musician, sound engineer & record producer who has been recording bands for over 30 years. As co-owner & head engineer of the hotel2

Eric Stenman: Having an “always mixing” approach to production

Eric Stenman is an LA-based producer, mixer, and engineer whose four-decade credit list runs from Deftones, Thrice, and Weezer to Daniel Caesar's Grammy-nominated Freudia

Jon Estes: Working to make the song succeed

Jon Estes is a Nashville producer, mixing engineer, and multi-instrumentalist who works roughly 200 sessions a year, often as bassist, engineer, and producer on the same

Craig Parker Adams: Adapting to every client

Craig Parker Adams is a Los Angeles-based recording and mixing engineer, producer, and guitarist with over 25 years of studio experience at his Hollywood-based Winslow Ct

Howie Beck: The Advantages of Working with Limitations

Howie Beck is a Toronto-based mixer and producer whose credits include Feist, Barenaked Ladies, Ron Sexsmith, Walk Off The Earth, and Charlotte Day Wilson, whose breakout

Brendan Dekora: Understanding an Artist’s Vision

Brendan Dekora is a Los Angeles-based mixing engineer and producer whose two-decade climb through top studios like EastWest culminated in a full-time engineering post for

Steven Lee Tracy: Mixing Fast To Stay Objective

Steven Lee Tracy is the owner, producer, and mixing engineer at Saint Cecilia Studios in Tucson, Arizona. Before he was behind the board, he was on stage: a decade as gui

Joe Caithness: Mastering for Video Game Soundtracks

Joe Caithness is a mastering, transfer, and restoration engineer based in Nottingham, UK, with over 18 years of experience and more than 1,500 completed projects to his n

Bruno Barcella: The Analog Sound in a Digital Mix

Bruno "Brown" Barcella is a recording, mixing, and production engineer based in northern Italy. He got his start behind a drum kit, touring the US and Europe with bands l

Toby Lloyd: The Studio As A Therapeutic Space

Toby Lloyd is a Music Producer, Studio Owner, Mixing Engineer, Artist, and Film Score Mixer from New Zealand who has worked with artists such as Shapeshifter, Nightmares

Justin Cortelyou: From Intern to Directing Paul McCartney

Justin Cortelyou is a Grammy-award nominated, multi-platinum mixing engineer/producer. Justin started his career working with Chuck Ainlay at Soundstage Studios in Nashvi

Sam Moses: How to Know What a Mix Needs Before Listening

Sam Moses is a Nashville-based mastering engineer and owner of Moses Mastering, with roughly 15 years in the business. He describes his work in short as helping artists "

Dave McNair: Reinventing His Career, Again and Again

Dave McNair is a mastering engineer, producer, and recording engineer with over four decades in the music industry and more than 900 credits spanning rock, blues, country