RSR293 - Vance Powell - Answers All Your Home Studio Recording And Mixing Questions
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 149 minutes
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Summary
I am totally psyched to welcome today's guest.
He is a Grammy award-winning mixer, and owner of the beautiful (and newly relocated) Sputnik Sound.
He has a long discography of accomplished records including artists like Keb Mo, Jars Of Clay, Jack White and 3rd Man Records, Buddy Guy, Kings Of Leon, Danger Mouse, Sturgill Simpson and some well known local artists: Moon Taxi, Bobby Bare Jr, and Jeff The Brotherhood (who lives right down the street from me in fact). Our guest originally hails from the town of Joplin MO which most people mistake as being named after the Ragtime Pianist Scott Joplin, but was in fact named after its founder the Reverend Joplin.
And other than being mentioned in Bobby Troup's legendary song "Route 66", the town of Joplin MO, which gained notoriety for mining Zinc, may owe its biggest musical credit to our guest on today's show.
I met him back in 2002 when he became the head engineer for the incredible Blackbird Studios, right here in the city of Berry Hill a part of Nashville often referred to as the new music row with over 20 recording studios in a 3 mile radius.
I am honoured to be here at Sputnik Sound for this episode of Recording Studio Rockstars.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Sound Porter Mastering, |
| 0:06.1 | OWC, Adam Audio, API Audio, JZ microphones, Spectra-1964, and Isotope. |
| 0:13.8 | In fact, you're hearing my voice right now through the J-Z pop filter on the J-ZB-29 microphone, |
| 0:20.0 | through the Spectra-1964 STX-600 mic pre-complimeter and |
| 0:25.3 | isotope RX and ozone, all recorded safely onto an OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD. So get ready to rock. |
| 0:36.6 | RCA had these big voice of the theaters out in the room. |
| 0:40.0 | I had a room mic out there. |
| 0:41.3 | And when no one was around, when they were eating dinner, |
| 0:44.0 | when people were bullshitting, I don't know, you know, doing things. |
| 0:47.0 | After hours or before I got there, |
| 0:49.3 | I blasted the drums back into the room and re-recorded that |
| 0:53.6 | and used the sound of RCAAA 30 feet away |
| 0:57.7 | from those voices of theaters and put that back in. |
| 1:10.3 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
| 1:25.3 | Whether you're in the studio or working remotely, the Envoy Pro FX from OWC lets you record from anywhere with confidence, |
| 1:33.4 | pushing USB technology bandwidth to the max of 2,800 megabytes per second over Thunderbolt. |
| 1:39.4 | Transfer tracks in seconds and take your sessions with you anywhere you go. |
| 1:43.9 | Built for the road, the OWC |
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| 2:10.6 | The JZ pop filter uses a unique waveguide design that prevents closives from getting through to the mic while allowing important |
| 2:17.9 | high frequencies for clarity. Plus, it looks super cool and you're hearing my voice on it right now. |
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