Production Talk Podcast

"He rang me up and said, come on up, we need a bass player on a couple of tracks. So I went up to the studio and played bass, and it was Slim Dusty's album Lights on the Hill." - Rod Coe

"I go through the mix and give the vocals a fader ride. And I literally go through it with my eyes closed and write the fader and ask myself, is this vocal really doing what it's meant to do?" - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"You're trying to find that thing in midi and it sounds pretty cool. And you're like, that's all right. You keep it low on the mix, cuz it's a little inauthentic, but it's still creating an effect, but then he'd replace it with a legit string recording." - Josh Lee Hamilton

" Big bands will do tiny shows before they do a run, because it's actually fundamental to that band, understanding the way the band works together" - Adam Biggs

"It doesn't matter how big the get gig gets - the fundamentals don't change. A balanced mix can be as simple as turning around to the guitar player and saying, you need to come down a little. It doesn't necessarily need to be a technical solution. "

"Latency's definitely a mood killer. As a musician myself, it's impossible to play when latency becomes much of an issue. And there are a number of different ways you can deal with it." - Andy Hagerman

"You are just a vessel that is creating vibrational content as a singer or a player. And what it feels like to me is when the energy takes over, and you lose track of time. So, if you forget what you're doing, that's a magical moment. " - Paulie B.

"I did end up doing front of house for Johnny Cash, accidentally. We were working as a support band, and found out that Johnny Cash's front-of-house person was sick from the night before and wasn't operating too well. And so I said I'll do the gig, but I've got a baby. You need to accommodate for that." - Heather Bonnefond

"I rather listen to live heavy metal records because they have that human element." - Eike Freeze

"In Cuban music, the room is the key to making that percussion sound, and those horns and even the Steinway piano that was in the main room. The room was key to that sound." - Eric Coelho

"We produce and tend to overproduce things. I think we're looking for perfection, really taking the time with a mix. There are drawbacks as well as positives." - Mista Savona

"I use a Neve Customseries75 recording console. And I use it, some would say the wrong way, to create a feedback loop. And then I found a way to manipulate that sound and make it sound like a sound we are familiar with." - Marcos Micozzi

"It really wasn't until we left at 1am in the morning and came home and the bureau of meteorology had revised that the flood height level that we knew something dreadful was going to happen." - Gary Pinkerton

"There're lots of mental health messages in there, and wellbeing and being a good human, we really wanted to get that across sonically and lyrically." - Bobby Alu

"Then I go through the entire vocal track and stabilize the vocal in the mix where I like it to sit. And once I'm done, I usually update my automation using trim." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"I've always been into dynamics. That's that's my thing, I think." - James Lyall

"A massively overlooked aspect of electronic music production is the absolute necessity of tuning, kick drum, and snare drum samples effectively." - James Lyall

"It's funny. You can't beat hardware really. At the end of the day, you can't, there's some sort of magic sparkle that comes out of it." - Brett Gadenne

"He had some connections to some record labels, and they gave us the money to go over to the US and record with Sylvia " - Lucius Borich

"As a mixing engineer and a mastering engineer, you have to try to strike a balance that sounds good on a normal system, but it still sounds good on a small system, on computer speakers. These days, people even expect music from the phone to sound reasonable." - Kamal Engels

"There are so many flood stories, and I would like to ask all musicians to put these stories into songs. Pick up your guitar if you have one, or reach out to me, you can borrow mine.
And I would like to pack my car full of gear and tour around, come to your place and record the songs with you. And of course, I'm going to mix and master all of this and all of this will be free." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"A live performance report will get you anywhere between about $1.80 to $2 per song. So, if you think about the number of your own songs you're playing per gig, the number of gigs you would normally play in a year, that's when they really start to add up." - Nikky Tuckwell

"The most successful people are the most creative and the most driven. And those two factors at play together are what causes success. You've got to work so hard and you can't give up." - Marc Brown

"I'm speaking to you from the Northern Rivers in northern NSW, from Bundjalung country. At the time when the last episode was released, the entire south-east of Queensland and north-east of NSW got hammered by severe weather and extreme flooding. Lismore is under like never before." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"All this built-up conditioning that causes us to judge ourselves so much. Number one is starting to be. Fall in love with your process and with who you are and acceptance of yourself." - Jessica Schembri