Production Talk Podcast

"For Elvis, we had to go through and listen to all 800 of his songs and work out which ones might be good. And this is all stuff that you do with the director, obviously with Baz" - Elliott Wheeler

"So I did write this little ukulele song called Let's Go. And ironically, that did get placed on a US McDonald's commercial." - Cass Eager

"As a musician, you are a business. Business is what you are doing. You are not on a salary." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"The key to happiness and successful, blissful music production, is to finish a project before the excitement level falls under a certain threshold." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"A really important aspect of Loonaloop is that we write the music with live performance in mind." - Shiney Lefai

"Kawai pianos tend to have a slightly heavier touch generally than Yamahas, and their tone is noticeably different. Yamahas are always a little bit brighter" - Dr. Fred Cole

"You don't even notice the bass. It's just providing such a beautiful harmonic foundation that's linking in so beautifully with the drums and the other instruments" - Dr. Barry Hill

"I set up a microphone in the control room and in the live room. There's no time, when they say 'I wanna record', it's now!" - Tom Garnett

"The vocals needed no EQ whatsoever. So it was basically recorded with my preferred vocal microphone, which is a tube microphone, straight into the console preamp. And then it was slightly compressed with an analog compressor on the way in, and then in the mix it just received a little bit more compression." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"My most recent album is an Irish album that I did for ABC Music, and that's a Celtic Kids album. And I did all that from home during lockdown." - Mick McHugh

"And then at the most hectic point where the house is completely engulfed in water, we had to separate." - Leesa Gentz

"I'm all about finding the loudness sweet spot. Mastering is all about balance. It's not about matching. You don't wanna make all the songs sound the same or be the same loudness. Everything is unique and wants to be treated the best possibly. But it's about balancing things." - Ian Shepherd

"In the end, what really counts is that you have some fun. It is so important for recording, because if you don't have fun, nobody else will have fun listening to your music." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"When I choose my preamp, the coloration that a preamp adds is definitely on my mind. It sets the direction in which you shape the sound." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"We got cut off for about three days by flood waters, so there was about waist high water outside, and it got up to our front door step at our unit" - Shannon Loch

"We were sweeping and trying to push and fight the rain and the floods that was coming in. And for weeks after, I was just thinking about how lucky we were that we could fight. For the people that had 14 meters, you can't fight that much water. There's nothing that you can do except sit on your roof and try and get saved." - Shelly Brown

"I have a beautiful guitar, I'm completely in love with it. It was made by a guy in Toronto just north of Sydney." - Felicity Lawless

"I was slightly obsessed with John Bonham when I was growing up. He's my biggest influence. I mean, I'm sure he is the biggest influence of bloody thousands of drummers, but definitely, I'm happy to put my hand up and say I'm one of them." - Ben Gillies

"I always have to laugh when people congratulate me to my overnight success. And then I'm like, if you're talking about a 20-year-long night, then thank you." - Chris Harms

"I tend to hit the kick a bit harder than a lot of other drummers, so there's gonna feel slightly different, and it might only be a tiny bit harder, or I'll try to play note length on a kick drum," - Grant Gerathy

"Vinyl has a distinct sound as opposed to streaming or to CD. I believe that there's no right or wrong answer when it comes to sound quality, whether you're talking CD or whether you're talking high quality stream or whether you're talking vinyl. Vinyl's just a different sound." - Neil Wilson

"We recorded the beds in the downstairs of a restaurant in West End." - Peter Hunt

"Hopefully, we get back to the UK again, as soon as possible." - Mike Watson

"The best investment to get the very best vocal recordings done is to hire a professional vocal coach in the days, or sometimes weeks leading up to the recording." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"Really my main focus when I'm making music from home, it's all about sync licensing." - Adam Gardiner