RSR355 - Chad Copelin - Tape, Synths, and Samples Oh My!
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 132 minutes
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My guest today is Chad Copelin an American producer, audio engineer, musician, and songwriter from Norman, Oklahoma. He's best known for his production work with Broncho, Sports, Wilderado, LANY, Ben Rector, Andrew Belle, Sufjan Stevens, Third Eye Blind and engineering for pop artists Christina Perri, Kelly Clarkson, Sasha Sloan and Avril Lavigne.
Chad engineered Christina Perri's Top 40 song "A Thousand Years" which went 10x platinum. He also was nominated for a grammy for producing and engineering All Sons And Daughter's record "Poets & Saints." He works out of his Norman, OK based studio, Blackwatch, as well as spending time in Nashville, LA, and Sonic Ranch outside of El Paso, TX.
I play synth and have amassed quite a collection of vintage synths, have an obsession with short scale guitars, and play bass on a lot of records as well. I'm always trying to find a new creative process to breathe life into a recording. Which we will talk about
Thanks to Ryan Hewitt for making our introduction.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by OWC, Spectra-1964, |
| 0:06.5 | Sampley, Isotope, Sonar Works, and API. |
| 0:10.4 | In fact, you're hearing my voice right now on the Spectra-1964 STX-100 mic-pre |
| 0:16.1 | in an API lunchbox mixed carefully through isotope RX and ozone, all recorded safely onto an OWCSSSD, |
| 0:25.2 | so get ready to rock. And I remember before that, I never bounced things. I never wanted to hear it outside |
| 0:31.3 | of the studio. And every night, he would burn a CD and pass it around to everybody and just say, |
| 0:35.7 | hey, check this out tonight. If you have anything that you feel about it or whatever, just let me know tomorrow. |
| 0:40.3 | And I think those are the moments you can think like, oh man, we recorded it too slow, |
| 0:43.5 | or we have too much stuff going on, or these drums sound awesome, or they're not right. |
| 0:48.0 | It allows you to kind of hear the song as a listener would hear it. |
| 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. |
| 1:28.8 | In my studio, I've got the Mac Mini M1 paired up with the OWC Mini-Stack SDK SDX Thunderbolt 4 certified storage and hub expansion solution to connect to all my dedicated audio drives, |
| 1:31.1 | sample libraries, and backup drives. |
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| 2:02.6 | The C610 includes the famous Spectra 101 amplifier used in legendary studios like Stacks, Arden, and Record Plant. |
| 2:09.6 | I love using my C610s for drums, vocals, guitars, and especially bass, which now sounds bigger than anything I've ever recorded before. |
| 2:18.5 | Make your mixes rock at spectra-1964.com. |
| 2:27.7 | Howdy Rockstars, it's your host, Lidge Shaw, and welcome back to recording studio rockstars, |
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