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Stop Struggling for Perfection: Bruce Sugar on Working with Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Ozzy & More

They say you should never meet your idols, but recording and mixing engineer Bruce Sugar would surely disagree.

Growing up near Atlantic City, Sugar was a bright-eyed kid who was introduced to music early on and spent his childhood practicing piano. Then, one day in 1964, he heard a sound Read more...

David Boucher on Working with Pixar, Randy Newman, Andrew Bird, & Bob Clearmountain

Discovering the best way to make initial contact with David Boucher took weeks. The L.A.-based recording/mixing engineer doesn’t have a website—a remarkable feat these days—and he has no interest in social media.

He does have an email address (two, in fact), but friends of his keep it close to the Read more...

Silas Brown on Classical Techniques, Video Game Sound, Audio Education & the Future of Virtual Reality

Silas Brown grew up in “the middle of nowhere,” as he likes to put it.

His parents were artists and the family scraped by with little to no money. Thankfully, you don’t need to be wealthy to fall in love with music. First finding solace in his piano lessons, he Read more...

20 Years in the Industry: Ryan Freeland on His Studio, Career, and the Impact of Sound

Ryan Freeland is the classic audio triple threat: A recording engineer, mixing engineer, and producer.

“Each day is really different, which I really appreciate,” he tells me on a call from his personal studio. “I don’t know if I’d want to just do one or the other.”

His legacy to Read more...

Music Production Legend Daniel Lanois on Melody, Mixing and Starting Small

It would be difficult to find a producer, engineer, or musician who hasn’t been influenced by the work of Daniel Lanois in some way.

Over the past few decades, the Canadian multi-instrumentalist, mixer, and producer has continuously released his own solo works while collaborating with an array of remarkable, world-renowned Read more...

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