RSR270 - Shawn Everett - Mixing Alabama Shakes Sound & Color and Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 123 minutes
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My guest today is Shawn Èverett, a Juno and Grammy-winning Canadian producer, engineer, previously a guest on episode RSR137. In that interview, we talked with Shawn about his background schooling and his production and mixing philosophies.
He has worked with many great artists including Grammy-winning Alabama Shakes, Weezer, Margaret Glaspy, Pete Yorn, Warpaint, John Legend, The Killers, Julian Casablancas, and The Voidz, Kesha, Har Mar Superstar, Local Natives, and many many others.
In 2019 he won his fifth Grammy for mixing Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour which included songwriting and production from Daniel Tashian and engineering from Craig Alvin both previous guests on the show as well. You can hear their episodes at RSR176 and RSR232. I'll have these links in the show notes.
I have also become a huge fan of Sound & Color by the Alabama Shakes which Shawn engineered and mixed winning a Grammy in 2015. I feel like this record has set the bar pretty high for my own mixes.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by OWC, PreSonus, API Audio, Isotope, Sound Porter, Mastering, JZ microphones, and Spectra-1964, |
| 0:14.0 | on the JZB-B-29 microphone through the Spectra-1964 STX-100 Micpre, C-610 Complementer, and Isotope RX, and Ozone. So get ready to rock. I don't necessarily feel like that's my job is to yell at people to finish it on a certain day. I mean, I'm happy to let other people yell at us to get it done, because I feel like other people can sell the record that's their job. |
| 0:40.3 | My job is to make sure that it's the most beautiful record possible. |
| 0:42.6 | And I mean, I don't want to like never finish a record. |
| 0:43.5 | That's not my goal. |
| 0:45.9 | But I don't want to put something out as stupid. |
| 0:50.3 | And that isn't what the artist feels like is in their imagination. I don't know. Welcome. |
| 1:03.2 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:11.6 | 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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