RSR336 - Nick Broste - Creative Improvisation, Folk, and New Music Forms in Chicago
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Nick Broste, an audio engineer and musician who works in a wide variety of musical situations, ranging from creative improvisation to popular, folk and new music forms. He has engineered hundreds of recordings and performed all over the world, from tiny clubs to huge festivals and live television.
Having spent much of his youth obsessed with music but in a small midwestern town, Nick moved to Chicago in 1996, where he attended music school and began performing around the city and on the road, all the while soaking up any new sounds he could find. Touring with bands led to performing in the recording studio, where he began to get interested in the capture, manipulation and reproduction of audio.
In 2005 Nick moved into the Shape Shoppe, an underground music, art and living space with a 16 track analog studio, where he was able to experiment and teach himself how to record, eventually re-designing and completely rebuilding the space in 2008. At the same time Nick began mixing bands live in venues, trying to give both the musicians and audiences the best experience possible. This spirit of removing the obstacles of artistic expression for artists is the driving force for Nick's work to this day, no matter which side of the microphone he is on.
Nick can currently be found working freelance in studios such as Electrical Audio, Shirk, Palisade, Narwhal and Jamdek in Chicago, around the world and wherever interesting sounds are being made. And his clients include Wilco, TV on the Radio, Broken Social Scene, The Walkmen, Cursive, Mucca Pazza, Head of Femur, Calexico/Iron & Wine, and Afghan Whigs to name just a few.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of recording studio rock stars is brought to you by OWC, Spectra-1964, Sampley, Carl Tat's design, and isotope. |
| 0:10.6 | In fact, you're hearing my voice right now through isotope RX and ozone, all recorded safely onto an OWC SSD. |
| 0:18.6 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:21.4 | For me, it's like, you know, the warmth of a nice tube mic or any kind of nice condenser |
| 0:26.3 | mic. It doesn't even really need to be a tube mic. Like, you get a lot of detail out of it. |
| 0:30.5 | You can get a lot of detail out of a ribbon mic too, but really it's about controlling the harshness, |
| 0:35.9 | like especially on like the alto saxophone. |
| 0:37.6 | Some players have a really, really bright sound, and that kind of needs to be maintained. |
| 0:42.1 | But it's hard to do that with the condenser, because it'll just be, like, way too bright. |
| 0:58.3 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
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