RSR287 - S Husky Hoskulds - How To Be Original Recording & Mixing in The Studio
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is S. Husky Hoskulds a Grammy winning engineer, and mixer who moved to LA in 1991 to study audio engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He began his career working with Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake as a staff engineer at The Sound Factory in the early 1990s but would quickly move on to independent projects with Michael Penn, The Wallflowers, Sheryl Crow, Tom Waits and steady collaboration with Mike Patton on his various projects.
In 2002 he won a Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical alongside Jay Newland for the multiple awarded debut album Come Away with Me by Norah Jones co-produced by Craig Street. Husky's many credits also include Joe Henry, Solomon Burke, Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint, Mavis Staples, Ann Peebles, Bettye Lavette, My Brightest Diamond, Billy Preston, Aloan, Chocolate Genius, Fantomas, Sheryl Crow and many more...
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Sound Porter mastering, Adam Audio, |
| 0:06.3 | OWC, JZ microphones, Spectra 1964, and Isotope. In fact, you're hearing my voice right now on the |
| 0:14.0 | JZBB29 microphone through the Spectra-1964 STX-100 micpre, C-610 complementer, and isotope RX and ozone. So get ready to rock. |
| 0:26.7 | Find your own thing that's yours and you like. You know, the plug-ins mixed with YouTube, |
| 0:32.3 | how-to videos, you know, that's just like the worst combination ever because it takes all the |
| 0:37.0 | guesswork out of everything. |
| 0:38.2 | You know, to see something that someone used on a track |
| 0:41.0 | and then to buy that thing is a very tricky thing, you know? |
| 0:44.3 | You need to sort of feel it, you know, |
| 0:45.6 | you need to have an idea that comes from inside of you. |
| 1:02.3 | Yeah. Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:10.1 | I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
| 1:19.6 | I'm Brian Murphrey, and I strive to produce masters that move your song emotionally, but maintain the spirit of your mix and the intention of the artist. |
| 1:23.6 | My promise is to give your music its best Sonic performance, not simply change it. |
| 1:28.3 | You work hard on your mix, and I always want to respect that. |
| 1:31.7 | My goal is to help you realize how great your mix can be, and I'll work hard to make sure it succeeds. |
| 1:37.7 | I don't just master. |
| 1:39.1 | I help your mix sound the best it can. |
| 1:41.5 | Contact me for a free mastering demo at soundporter.com. |
| 1:46.8 | I've got two words for you that will help you make your best record ever and not lose it. |
| 1:52.2 | Storage and backup. You want fast drives for composing and recording and reliable drives for |
| 1:57.8 | backup so you don't lose all your hard work when something goes wrong. |
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