RSR352 - Jon Blass - Grammy Winning Gospel Mixer in Nashville TN
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Jon Blass a GRAMMY award-winning mix engineer based in Nashville. His work has also received 9 other GRAMMY nominations, 6 Dove Awards, a pair of Stellar awards, and frequently lands atop the Billboard Gospel charts (including 13 number 1 Gospel Albums).
Jon's mix credits include India.Arie, Tweet, Marvin Sapp, Donnie McClurkin, Anthony Brown, Jason Nelson, Donald Lawrence, and many others. He currently sits on the Nashville chapter Producers & Engineers Wing committee of the Recording Academy.
Jon is also a former executive committee member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) in Nashville, and is an alum of the Society of Leaders in Development (SOLID).
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| 0:25.1 | so get ready to rock. The most important thing I would tell myself is just ask all the questions. |
| 0:32.7 | Ask the dumb questions. You don't know what you don't know until you start asking questions. If someone is |
| 0:39.2 | showing you the studio and tells you to do something a certain way and you don't know why they're |
| 0:43.9 | telling you to do it that way, you should ask. If you don't know how everything's connected or |
| 0:49.0 | it's working together, like ask. Ask. |
| 1:03.6 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:11.4 | 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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