Recording Studio Rockstars

Björgvin Benediktsson is author of the blog Audio-Issues where he writes all about recording, production, and mixing music from your studio. His new book Step By Step Mixing reached #1 on Amazon teaching you how to mix using only five basic plugins choices. Bjorgvin joins us to talk about his new book and his full featured course Mixing with Five Plugins. We are trying something new for Recording Studio Rockstars. We won't be going through the usual list of interview questions. Instead we reached out to you Rockstars ahead of time, and asked for your questions about mixing. We got lots of great submissions and are excited to dig into all of your great questions. Get your copy of Step By Step Mixing on Amazon Get the full show notes at http://RSRockstars.com/76 -Also- Free mix training with Lij at MixMasterBundle.com Get yourself a Rockstar T-shirt at: RSRockstars.com/Tshirt Download the theme music at: SkadooshMusic.com

Chris James is a Los Angeles based musician, songwriter, producer and first time Grammy Nominee in the 2017 Best Engineered Album - for Prince, HITNRUN:Phase 2. In 2012, Chris James began working with Prince at Paisley Park Studios. Chris recorded and mixed countless Prince productions including the Warner Bros. released albums, ART OFFICIAL AGE and PLECTRUMELECTRUM -- along with many unreleased songs for the legendary Prince Vault. A personal career highlight was when Prince invited Chris James to play guitar on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live. Later that same year, Prince insisted he tour as live sound engineer where one notable gig included the critically praised set during SXSW (Prince's first and only). Chris James talks about his beginnings in music, his rad roommates in college, and his amazing journey leading to the Grammys. Get the full show notes at http://RSRockstars.com/75 -Also- Free mix training with Lij at MixMasterBundle.com Get yourself a Rockstar T-shirt at: RSRockstars.com/Tshirt Download the theme music at: SkadooshMusic.com

Jason Lehning is a musician, songwriter, producer, and twice Grammy winning engineer. He was even nominated for Best Engineer Grammy in 2008. Son of the successful country producer Kyle Lehning, who produced nearly every record by Randy Travis, Jason has always been at home in the studio, and immersed himself in bands and recording projects full time from a young age. In The Silver Seas he writes and records with Daniel Tashian, and has also worked with other Nashville artists David Mead, and Josh Rouse. Some of Jason's credits include: George Jones, Erasure, Mat Kearney, Guster, Bill Frisell, and Alison Krauss. Get the full show notes at http://RSRockstars.com/74 -Also- Free mix training with Lij at MixMasterBundle.com Get yourself a Rockstar T-shirt at: RSRockstars.com/Tshirt Get the theme music at: SkadooshMusic.com

My guest today is Ken Stringfellow, a musician, songwriter, producer, arranger who formed the power pop band The Posies in 1988 with Jon Auer. Notably he was an important part of reviving the band Big Star, one of the most acclaimed and legendary groups of all time. Ken also spent ten years on the road, and in the studio with R.E.M, and continues to record and release his own records, and has recorded and produced many other artists like: Damien Jurado, the Long Winters, China's Hanggai, Snow Patrol, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Mudhoney, Death Cab For Cutie, The Head & The Heart, and many others. Get the full show notes at http://RSRockstars.com/73 -Also- Free mix training with Lij at MixMasterBundle.com Get yourself a Rockstar T-shirt at: RSRockstars.com/Tshirt Get the theme music at: SkadooshMusic.com

Lij Shaw interviews mastering engineer, Chris Graham, to learn about building and growing your online studio business. Chris has grown his mastering business online from the comfort of his own home studio, in Columbus OH, using the power of the internet through careful advertising and free marketing on Google and Youtube. He shares many of his techniques with us in this episode. So that you can benefit with your own studio from anywhere! Get the full show notes at http://RSRockstars.com/72 -Also- Free mix training with Lij at MixMasterBundle.com Get yourself a Rockstar T-shirt at: RSRockstars.com/Tshirt Get the theme music at: SkadooshMusic.com

Free mix training with Lij at MixMasterBundle.com Get yourself a Rockstar T-shirt at: RSRockstars.com/Tshirt Get the theme music at: SkadooshMusic.com Get the full show notes at http://RSRockstars.com/71 Chris King is a songwriter, music and film producer, and award winning author. He also happens to be the singer in my St Louis bands, Enormous Richard, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Three Fried Men. Chris has produced or co-produced musical adaptations of the poetry of Gertrude Stein, Pulitzer laureate Paul Muldoon, Missouri Poet Laureate David Clewell, Australian poet laureate Les Murray and Connecticut Poet Laureate Leo Connellan. He directed two feature silent films for Poetry Scores "Blind Cat Black," which scores the Turkish poet Ece Ayhan, and "Go South for Animal Index," which scores the Salt Lake City / St. Louis poet Stefene Russell. He co-produced "No Dark in America" by legendary jump blues musician Rosco Gordon (Dualtone, 2002). He served as executive producer on St. Louis raconteur Fred Friction's "Murder Balladeer" and on "Just Piping" by All-Ireland piper Michael Cooney, and he produced "Memory Music" by Merchant Marine songster Pops Farrar, the father of Jay Farrar (Uncle Tupelo / Son Volt). And he has done all this while working daily as the managing editor of The St. Louis American, the largest weekly newspaper in Missouri.

Free mix training with Lij at MixMasterBundle.com Get yourself a Rockstar T-shirt at: RSRockstars.com/Tshirt Get the theme music at: SkadooshMusic.com Get the full show notes at http://RSRockstars.com/70 My guest today is Roger Moutenot, a multi platinum Grammy nominated producer and engineer here in Nashville. Roger started out in Cliffside Park NJ with a view of Manhattan recording bands in his basement studio before attending the Institute of Audio Research in New York and landing a job at Skyline Studios in 1975. During his time at Skyline Roger recorded many important artists including Laurie Anderson, They Might Be Giants, and 10,000 Maniacs. Making the inevitable shift to freelance Roger began working at Chung King House of Metal with Run DMC, Heavy D, and Stetsasonic, and also recording greats from the the NY jazz scene John Zorn, Bill Frisell, and Don Byron. Moving to Nashville TN in the 90s I first met Roger when he was mixing Jill Sobule at Woodland Studios where I was interning. And then we got a chance to work together at Alex The Great studio owned by Robin Eaton and Brad Jones recording a cool indi band Toy Bean. In 1993 Roger produced Painful, for the college radio favorites Yo La Tengo, which began a long relationship with the band going on to record seven full length albums. These included the critically acclaimed albums I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One in 1997, and 2000's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out. Roger continued to make records in both Nashville and NY until building his own Haptown Studio, where we are today. He has a long list of credits which include: producing Paula Cole's double platinum, Grammy Nominated album, This Fire, Joseph Arthur, Lambchop, Josh Rouse, Jefferson Airplane/ Hot Tuna guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, Lou Reed, Rosanne Cash, John Cale, Jeff The Brotherhood, Son Volt, Mindy Smith, Cheap Trick, Gillian Welch, and John Mayer. The list goes on...

Free mix training with Lij at MixMasterBundle.com Get yourself a Rockstar T-shirt at: RSRockstars.com/Tshirt Get the theme music at: SkadooshMusic.com Get the full show notes at http://RSRockstars.com/69 My guest today is Matt Mahaffey, probably the most talented multi instrumental song writer, composer, and producer I know. Matt formed his own successful rock band, sElf and then cofounded Spongebath records an imprint of Zoo records. From 1995 on sElf and Spongebath became a shining beacon of hope for indi bands in middle TN wanting to shake the stereotype of country music. After a decade in middle TN Matt moved to LA to be closer to his next label Dreamworks where he developed his production career continuing to write and record for his own band. He has a long list of artists in the studio including: Pink, Beck, Liz Phair, Tenacious D, Lupe Fiasco, Phantom Planet, Beyoncé, Butch Walker, Hellogoodbye, Forever the Sickest Kids, Miranda Cosgrove, The White Tie Affair, Keith Urban, The Sounds, L.E.O. and Smash Mouth. And recently Matt just played on Beck's Grammy winning Album of the Year 2015, Morning Phase. Matt has also created music for many filmmakers including Ivan Reitman, Michael Mann, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Andrew Adamson, and Hans Zimmer. And he also wrote music for Shrek, Shrek 2, and Shrek 4. And contributed music for the cartoons Ni Hao Kai-Lan and Sanjay and Craig. And other TV credits include: CSI Miami, DanceLife, Entourage, MTV, E! Entertainment, Weeds, and 60 Minutes. He has even spoken at TEDx Nashville, and notably created the famous jingle for Expedia.com, and appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live as the Muppet character "Animal" in a drum off with Blink 182 drummer, Travis Baker.

Free mix training with Lij at MixMasterBundle.com Get yourself a T-shirt at: RSRockstars.com/Tshirt Theme music: SkadooshMusic.com My guest today is my good friend Pat Sansone, a prolific, and talented multi instrumentalist, songwriter, and Grammy nominated producer. Pat's early bands included playing guitar with Beagle Voyage and Stretch Armstrong, a rock band influenced by Black Sabbath and the Butthole Surfers, and then his own power pop band Birdy. In 1999, Pat formed The Autumn Defense, in New Orleans, with his friend John Stirratt of Wilco. He has worked with many great musicians and artists along the way including: Dawes, Jamie Lidell, Phil Selway of Radiohead, The Future Monarchs with Josh Shapera, Elizabeth Cook, Garrison Starr, Richard Julian, Will Kimbrough, Joseph Arthur, Andrew Bird, Josh Rouse, Mavis Staples, Swan Dive, Jenifer Jackson, Ryan Adams, and The Clientele In 2004 Pat joined Wilco following the departure of multi-instrumentalist Leroy Bach. And now Pat plays guitar, keyboard, maracas, and several other instruments, as well as singing backup vocals with Wilco. He was also involved in the writing and recording of Wilco's albums: Sky Blue Sky, Wilco, and co producing The Whole Love in 2011. Get the full show notes at http://RSRockstars.com/68

Free mix training with Lij at MixMasterBundle.com Get yourself a T-shirt at: RSRockstars.com/Tshirt Theme music: SkadooshMusic.com My guest today is Carl Nappa with over 30 Gold, Platinum and Multi-Platinum records as an engineer, mixer or producer. He has worked with a long list of high profile artists in Rock, Hip Hop, R&B & Pop. In his 20+ year career Carl is credited as engineer or producer for more than 50 million records sold. He has been a staff engineer at The Hit Factory in NYC, owned and operated "Hell's Kitchen Recording and Social Club" In NYC for 4 years, is a voting member of NARAS and now also teaches in St Louis at the Ex'Treme Institute by Nelly. Carl's extensive discography includes many names that you will recognize like: Nelly, Chris Brown, R. Kelly, N'SYNC, Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube, NRBQ, Blondie, Moody Blues, John Mellencamp, Mariah Carey, Prince, Wyclef Jean, Run DMC, Pet Shop Boys, Alan Parsons, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Missy Elliot, Madonna, and the Manhattan Transfer. And the list goes on and on... Get the full show notes at http://RSRockstars.com/67