RSR299 - Piper Payne - How To Setup Your Home Studio Monitors, Turntables, and Master for Vinyl
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Piper Payne a mastering engineer based out of Nashville, TN, where she works on albums for independent artists and major labels. In Spring of 2019 Piper joined the famed Infrasonic Mastering team, merging her successful Oakland studio, Neato Mastering, with the Nashville based company, owned by Pete Lyman.
Piper is a Trustee of the Recording Academy and she is Co-Chair of the P&E Wing Steering Committee. She is a Governor of the Audio Engineering Society and she is the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the AES's Diversity & Inclusion Committee as well as an active member of Women's Audio Mission and she serves on the Board of SoundGirls.org.
In addition, Piper is a keeper of Vinyl Quality Control and a consultant for vinyl record pressing plants and is opening her own vinyl manufacturing plant in Nashville in mid-2021. She has been an audio professor and guest lectures often about mastering and recording. Piper began her career with a BFA in Audio from The University of Michigan, continuing her graduate education in Audio at the University of Stavanger in Norway.
Piper has a diverse background in musical styles. As a drummer, she knows that the best outcome of every project is that it has to feel good. As an engineer, Piper is focused on technical quality and correctness. But, at the end of the day, mastering is about format conversion and quality control so the project gets just what it needs.
Piper has mastered a wide variety of music including nationally renowned artists Third Eye Blind, LeAnn Rimes, The Go-Go's, Madame Gandhi, Geographer, The Steven Universe Soundtrack composers Aivi and Steven, Basement, Hundredth, Elettrodomestico (Jane Wiedlin/Go-Go's), Blithe, ANIIML, Shamir, Betsy, Between You & Me, and Fritz Montana to name a few.
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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 |
| 0:25.2 | isotope RX and ozone, all recorded safely onto an OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD. So get ready to rock. |
| 0:36.1 | If you get comments back constantly that you have too much 200 hertz in your mix, that will probably mean that you don't have enough 200 hertz in your room. |
| 0:44.3 | So you're adding extra to make it feel equalized on your system. |
| 0:48.2 | Just walk it back one step. |
| 0:49.6 | Don't put so much 200 hertz in. |
| 0:51.4 | Learn to listen through it being a little bit uncomfortable, feeling |
| 0:54.4 | a little bit 200 hertz light, and your mix will probably be just fine. It'll probably translate |
| 0:58.9 | really well outside of the room. |
| 1:10.5 | 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. |
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