RSR313 - Clint Murphy - Mixing Rock Drums, Guitars, and Vocals
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2021
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Clint Murphy a multi-platinum, award-winning producer, engineer, mixer, songwriter, and musician. He has worked on records as diverse as Manic Street Preachers, Enter Shikari, RØMANS, and 50 Cent, racking up hits both in the UK and internationally.
UK chart successes include recording and mixing No.2 album 'Half Way There', for English pop-punk band Busted, mixing No.3 album 'Rip It Up' for hard rock legends Thunder and producing, mixing and writing for upcoming bands such as Keir, Courts, Twin Wild and Youth Club. Most recently, Clint has been working with British rock band Enter Shikari, mixing their critically-acclaimed, UK No.2 album 'Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible'.
Back in his native New Zealand, Clint's work continually tops the charts through artists such as Devilskin, Opshop, Annabel Fay, The Feelers, Kimbra, Junica (Ladyhawke), 8 Foot Sativa and Bic Runga. This has resulted in Clint being recognized as 'Engineer Of The Year' multiple times at the New Zealand Music Awards.
Other international successes include Chinaski's no.1 album 'Rockfield', covering three no.1 singles notching up over 60 million YouTube streams, Codes' multi-award-winning album 'Trees Dream In Algebra' and Melanie C's multi-platinum album, "Beautiful Intentions", which spent nine weeks topping the charts in Europe.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by OWC, Carl Tats Design, JZ microphones, Spectra 1964, and Isotope. |
| 0:11.1 | You're hearing my voice right now through the JZ pop filter on the JZBB29 microphone in a Carl Tats designed room through the Spectra 1964 ST STX-600 mic pre-complimeter and isotope |
| 0:23.4 | RX and ozone, all recorded safely onto an OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD, so get ready to rock. |
| 0:33.4 | Kind of what I mentioned earlier, I try and just start throwing the faders up to mix. |
| 0:37.5 | Once the mixes up, you know, like maybe a pass of the song, |
| 0:40.2 | start working on that vocal. Actually, there's a thing that I do, which I think is kind of cool, |
| 0:44.4 | is I've taught myself never to solo anything. If I want to EQ a guitar, |
| 0:50.0 | rather than soloing it and then getting a great guitar sound on its own, |
| 0:53.1 | and then unsolowing it. |
| 0:54.4 | I always just try and EQ that in the mix. |
| 1:07.0 | Welcome to recording studio rock stars. |
| 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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