Episode 51 - Interview with Michael Wagener

METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Clint Wells

Clint Wells, Ethan Luck, Heavy Metal, Arts, Nashville, Metal Up Your Podcast, Metal, Music, Society & Culture, Thrash Metal, Metallica

4.9 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Michael Wagener is a world renown producer, mixer and engineer from Hamburg, Germany with total combined sales of over 100 million albums worldwide. He’s produced and mixed records for Metallica, Accept, Dokken, Motley Crue, Megadeth, Skid Row, Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne. On the heels of the newly remastered Master of Puppets Deluxe Box set, we were able to sit down with Michael at his studio in Nashville to talk about his amazing career and what it was like mixing one of the greatest heavy metal records of all time.

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0:00.0	What really gets my dick hard is... So fucking what?
0:21.6	So fucking what? Welcome to the Leptcher podcast. I'm Ethan Luck.
0:49.6	And we're in episode 51.
0:50.8	We made our 50-episode mile marker, and now we're in into the next 50.
0:55.9	Yeah, what a long strange trip it's been. Or next 200, who knows?
0:58.6	Speaking of it being strange, we're at HQ2 today.
1:01.7	Yeah, this is the first time we've recorded anything over at Clint's studio, always at my house, so.
1:06.1	It feels new and exciting. The sun is up. I definitely feel like a vampire, like my skin's going to burn off or something.
1:11.6	Yeah, there's a bit more light in my studio.
1:13.1	There is.
1:14.1	I keep mine pretty dark.
1:16.2	We're here today because we got to interview Michael Wagner.
1:19.3	Yeah, we, as we're recording this part, we just got back from his home studio, which I
1:24.6	wouldn't call it a home studio.
1:25.5	It's like, no, call it a home studio. It's like, it's one of the more badass studios I've walked into in Nashville.
1:29.1	It's in like a separate sort of annex from his house,
1:31.5	which is why.
1:32.5	And the address,
1:33.0	if you guys want to check it out,
1:34.0	the social security number happens to be.
1:36.5	But yeah,
1:37.0	we just got back from talking to Michael and,
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