Ep334: Jack Endino - Producer, Mixer, Noisemonger
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Jack Endino was at the epicentre of the grunge and alternative music scene, recording and producing music from Nirvana, TAD, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees & more. Jack shares his history working with the vinyl format, preserving master tapes and continuing the legacy.
Topics include:
- Jack has a lot of music in his house
- What format is your preferred for casual listening?
- The difference in vinyl pressing in the 80s and now
- Are you surprised about the recent vinyl revival?
- Jack found Waterfront Nirvana Bleach in Chile
- Jack's vinyl story on quality control incident
- Did you participate in the lacquer cutting process?
- Jack's tour of a vinyl pressing plant
- Quick discuss on TMoQ bootleg records
- Difference in mastering for vinyl and digital
- Discussion of the remaster of Soundgarden Ultramega OK
- Riding balance of preserving original mix in a modern remix
- Discussion of the Volume Wars
- Communicating about the remaster to the record cutting engineer
- Discussing receiving and reviewing vinyl test pressings
- Discussing the quality of coloured v black vinyl
- Remaster of Nirvana Bleach: What's changed in the modern remaster v the original?
- Managing the decaying of master and multitrack tapes
- Jack's process of baking tapes
- Knowledge of master tapes destroying in the Universal Music fire
- Nirvana's Inutero tapes
- Jack's role in the Nirvana universe
- Nirvana recordings: what else is left?
- Inspecting Jack's Waterfront Nirvana Bleach
- Vinyl: Set Myself On Fire
- More Vinyl: 10 Minute Warning
- More Vinyl: Krist Novoselic - Butterfly Launched from Spar Pole
- More Vinyl: Sky Cries Mary
- Jack's thoughts on the future of vinyl
- Has he ever considered throwing his vinyl away?
- Wrapping up the interview
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| 0:45.1 | Well, hey everyone, welcome to episode 334 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors |
| 0:51.6 | and music nerds, and today we have on the show, legendary producer, engineer, musician, witness to music history, storyteller, and historian Jack Indino. |
| 1:02.9 | Jack was present and behind the board for many bands you know and albums you love. He's worked with Nirvana, Soundgarden, Tad, Screaming Trees, Mudhoney, just to name a few. |
| 1:13.2 | And he's played on many records himself as well. Today, Jack is going to share all about his |
| 1:17.8 | time and perspective and experiences recording these bands and producing vinyl records. |
| 1:23.1 | He's going to talk about the remixes and remasters for the likes of Nirvana and Soundgarden. We'll cover some |
| 1:28.4 | rare records he's got, some rare records he's recorded, and his new LP, Set Myself on Fire. |
| 1:34.6 | You can stream the album right now, I suggest you do. Load it up, Jack and Dino, |
| 1:39.6 | set myself on fire. Check it out, and there is vinyl available, red copies, black copies, autograph |
| 1:46.0 | copies, and more at capacitor records.com. |
| 1:50.6 | And as usual, I've made available an extended an ad-free version of this interview, |
| 1:56.3 | available only to show patrons at patreon.com slash vinyl guide. Now, if you thought about helping out this show in the |
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