RSR277 - Brian Murphree - How to Get Your Mix Ready for Mastering
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2020
⏱️ 145 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Brian Murphree mastering engineer at Soundporter Mastering in Spring Hill TN. After recording his first band in 1994 at a studio in Decatur, AL, and taking the mix-engineer helm in 1999 for his punk band, Random Conflict, followed by a 5-year stint with Surf Rock band, Daikaiju, Brian has been focused on recording, mixing, and mastering for underground artists who might lack the budget to track in major professional studios.
Brian spent 20 years recording, mixing, and mastering music in the North Alabama, Middle TN area, helping artists find their best sounds without blowing their budget. For the past 4 years, he has focused solely on mastering and has been able to grow his client list even in the challenging climate of COVID-19.
Grammy-winning "Boo" Mitchell of Memphis' Royal Studios, Mark Slaughter, Melly Baldwin, and BZ Lewis are just a few clients Brian has worked with and his goal is to always help his clients realize their best production and mix no matter who they are, and to do it without breaking the bank.
Brian takes pride as a mastering engineer in being easy to work with and helpful at the early stages before you even think your mix is ready for mastering. And Since Brian and Soundporter are a welcome sponsor on the podcast also I thought it would be cool to have Brian as a guest on the show so that we can get to know him better and discover "how to get your mix ready for mastering".
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by OWC, Presonis, API Audio, Isotope, Sound Porter Mastering, JZ microphones, and Spectra-1964, |
| 0:14.2 | on the JZB-B-29 microphone through the Spectra-1964 STX-100 Micpre, C-610 Complementer, and Isotope RX and Ozone. |
| 0:24.3 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:27.5 | Like if you're going to put two microphones on a guitar cab, great way of making sure they're aligned. |
| 0:33.0 | Get a little bit of guitar buzz going through the amp. |
| 0:35.5 | Okay, put on a set of headphones and walk into that room. |
| 0:38.1 | Don't let anybody play guitar because we know they're going to. |
| 0:41.3 | Take one of the mics, flip the phase on it, and then adjust the mic where that buzz goes away. |
| 0:46.2 | And once it goes away, then go back in and flip the phase back around. |
| 0:49.1 | Those mics are aligned. |
| 1:03.2 | Okay. Welcome to 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. |
| 1:21.6 | I've got two words for you that will help you make your best record ever and not lose it. Storage and backup. You want fast drives for composing and recording, and reliable drives for backup so you don't lose |
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| 1:47.0 | The Spectre 1964 STX-100 micprie provides unequaled headroom and linear output regardless of transient audio peaks, |
| 1:59.0 | capturing critical details from your microphone. |
| 2:01.6 | The 100 series amplifiers were used by Tom Dowd, Muscle Shoals, and the record plant on records by Zizi Top, |
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| 2:14.6 | or call them at 801-7907602. |
| 2:22.3 | Studio One from Pre-Sonis is the ideal DAW for your home studio, taking you from songwriting |
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