RSR305 - Julian Dreyer - Chief Engineer at Echo Mountain Studios Asheville NC
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
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🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Julian Dreyer who grew up in a small artist community in the mountains of western North Carolina and after a 3 year stint as a sound engineer at a large music venue in Asheville, NC he became the staff assistant engineer at the newly built Echo Mountain Recording.
He has worked there for the last 15 years and been the chief engineer for the last 8 years. In 2017 he won a Grammy with Secret agent 23 Skidoo for engineering and mixing the "Best Children's Album." He has worked on hundreds of albums in every capacity from assisting to engineering and mixing to producing or all of these things at once.
Since working at Echo Mountain he has worked on albums with The Avett Brothers, Steve Martin, Jerry Douglas, The Steep Canyon Rangers, Mandolin Orange, Band of Horses, Zac Brown, Jim Lauderdale and Rising Appalachia to name a few. He also regularly engineers the PBS television show "Echo Sessions" which is shot in Echo Mountain Recording.
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| 0:33.5 | A lot of times the bathrooms get used for, you know, guitar amps. I use them for guitar amps a lot. |
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| 0:41.3 | but it's not overwhelming because the guitar amps are loud. |
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| 0:47.3 | I did a record with 2 Bob Crew. |
| 0:49.3 | So that album, TK2, I did all of the CORA happened in the tiled shower in the API room. |
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| 1:10.0 | 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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