Production Talk Podcast

"It's a little bit terrifying how much you can hear. They're so transparent. You can hear absolutely everything, every little mistake and problem that you may not have heard in mixing in a different room or when mixing at home. There's everything. Everything good, everything bad, everything that wasn't meant to be." - Tahlia-Rose Coleman

"I hear things like if someone's playing some chords, I'll hear a melody. And, and same with dreams. I've often heard my songs completely rearranged and with extra instrumentation in my dreams." - Saphia Stone

"I do track in real-time with the sound of the plugins, just so I can get the effect. And I'll usually have the drums and everything going as well." - Jacob Martin

"Always focus on the sound source, and that's where the money is." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"One day I'll be doing a record in someone's living room and the next day I'll be in a studio with a Grammy award-winning artist or number 1 artist or whatever. So, it's quite a varied lifestyle." - Russell Cottier

"Hopefully, there was no feeling of frustration or annoyance. It is almost guaranteed that if you perform with one of those negative feelings, this will carry on through the entire production process." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"You're having a really long day, and you've got 1 band that has this immaculately presented spec and the line list all makes sense, and everything is really clearly labelled. They've made the effort for you." - James Boundy

"Selling merchandising is fantastic because you win twice: You can't sell t-shirts, buttons, all kinds of things to your fan base, and you can make a little profit from that. In addition, they will now proudly wear your t-shirts and effectively advertise for you." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"I have tried quite a few automated mastering algorithms, and not 1 of them was up to my expectations. Every single time, I can do a better mastering job myself, and I'm not even considering myself a mastering engineer." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"We need to rate the listeners on the higher-paying platforms better. They are worth more to us, and they're still just worth a fraction of a person attending your live show." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"I was like: "What are you talking about? Just put it out now!" Where is the barrier here? His barrier was that he believed he was too young or something, and so I thought that was fascinating because there is no such thing as too young or too old. Frankly, it's just a mindset. " - Andy Stewart

"Gain staging is important for recording and mixing and even mastering, and in some ways it even applies to what streaming platforms will do with the music that we record. " - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"They formed a corporation within themselves, and they took it seriously, and they were determined to just keep it up, and they toured, and so they've continued to tour well" - Jim Bonnefond

"When music production takes way too long, what we capture is no longer a sharp picture of this musician at that moment in time, but instead it's as if the shutter time was way too long and what we get now is a blurry image where the mind has moved on and is already in a new state. And that is not a blissful state." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"Practice your sets, work on your media, work on your photos, work on anything that you can use to promote your gigs, improve your website, work on your online appearance and give that an overhaul so when the doors open and venues are looking for artists, they can see a range of people most of them still in hibernation. But you are fresh. You're ready. You are pushing." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"Your music marketing can run on minimal effort like a well-oiled machine" - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"But I guess, being a musician, we all assume that we are creators. And as a creative, it's a wise idea to use their creativity to make your own EPK stand out. " - Daniel Musgrave

"As an artist, it is all about inspiration and passion. That doesn't always translate into the business world. It's a difficult thing to get the marketing hat on. We've got the product, but what's the promotion plan?" - Cheynne Murphy

"When I use EQs and compressors, I'm not really concerned about or what these parameters do and how to best use them. My active mind is only superficially involved in this process and it comes mainly from the heart and the soul. " Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"We were on the bus to the hot air balloon at five o'clock in the morning and I had a song idea. I just sang it into my phone on a bus full of people." - Chelsea Sky Eater

"Even if you're the self producing musician who does everything yourself, find yourself others who can give you this external perspective." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"What I'm always trying to strive for is this weird hyper like, excited, crazy laser music, alien synthy stuff, it makes me really excited when I played it, and like working within these elements. " - Andy Bowles

"71 and 74 are definitely the fun CCs if you want to produce synthesizer music, they really make a huge difference and so much fun to play with." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths

"We just consolidate the tracks. And you need to make sure that all of your tracks are exactly the same length, and that they start at exactly the same time." - Kathryn Ezzy

"Take management and compiling, those basic skills are definitely worth investing a little bit of time in." - Jan 'Yarn' Muths