RSR255 - Ike Schultz - Vocal Production Advice, Recording With Tinashe & Mixing Lizzo
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2020
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Ike Schultz, a Multi-Platinum award-winning mixing and tracking engineer based in Los Angeles, CA originally from Toronto Canada. He's collaborated and worked on albums for a variety of artists including Tinåshe, Lizzo, Adele, Rihanna, Kanye West, Ariana Grande, Adam Lambert, Whethan, Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa, Charlie Puth (pooth), Phantogram, and more.
Ike worked at the legendary Larrabee Studios directly assisting nine-time Grammy award-winning mixer, Manny Marroquin, for 3 years. Then went on to mix Lizzo's debut release 'Coconut Oil', under executive producer Ricky Reed at S.K.A.M. Studios. Ike worked on the majority of the album including the singles "Phone" & "Good As Hell".
While at S.K.A.M. Studios, Ike worked with DJ Felli Fel, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Yachty, Whethan, DRAM, Imad Royal & Post Malone. Afterwards, he mixed & contributed as a songwriter for multiple feature films for Paramount Pictures' music department, and began working with Grammy award-winning producer & engineer Chris Testa for the Oprah Winfrey Network, MTV, & Facebook's content collaborations with Buzzfeed.
In 2018, Ike became the engineer/vocal producer for Emmy Nominated & Multi-Platinum recording artist Tinashe. He recorded & mixed her fourth studio album "Songs for You" which became the first independently released #1 album on iTunes in the US since 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by OWC, JZ Microphones, Prisones, Spectra-1964, and API Audio. |
| 0:11.5 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:13.1 | I think a lot of my decisions personally in a room when I'm cutting have to do a lot with the feel of the room, where the artist's headspace is at, what I can do to facilitate that person kind of getting exactly what they need to say across. |
| 0:26.6 | It requires technical skills, but it's also very much so like paying attention to what's happening. |
| 0:31.6 | And what decisions can you make ahead of time to make all of those things as smooth as possible. That's a lot of it. |
| 0:50.1 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
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| 2:09.0 | Hey, Rockstars, it's your host, Lid Shaw, and welcome back to recording studio rock stars, |
| 2:13.9 | bringing you into the studio to learn from recording professionals so that you can make your |
| 2:17.4 | best record ever and be a rock star of the studio yourself. My guest today is Ike Schultz, |
| 2:22.8 | a multi-platinum award-winning mixer and tracking engineer based in Los Angeles, originally from |
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