RSR436 - Nathan Yarborough - Heavy Rock and Metal Recording [Korn, Mastadon, Code Orange, Rise Against]
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 155 minutes
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My guest today is Nathan Yarborough, a heavy rock and metal music producer, engineer, and mixer who started out in North Carolina with a Tascam 4 track studying recording in college and finding his way to Nashville to intern at Sony/Tree and Blackbird Studios where he worked for eight years with some of the greatest engineers like Vance Powell, Niko Bolas, George Massenburg, Joe Chiccarelli and many others.
He then went on to engineer records for producer Nick Raskulinecz for 10 years and now he works with a variety of bands at all different levels to make great recordings here in Nashville.
I met Nathan recently at the 25th Annual AudioMasters Benefit Golf Tournament when we stopped at hole. That was sponsored by the Nashville Recording Supply Company. I came home with a crappy golf score but a new role of black galf tape for the studio and an amazing playlist of Nathan's discography of hard rock and metal albums including artists like Korn, Mastadon, Glasswalker, Code Orange, and Evanescense. So please give a listen to that in the show notes below.
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| 0:36.6 | you there. |
| 0:37.0 | Now get ready to rock. |
| 0:41.2 | Most of the time when I like to record heavy, big, modern, high gain stuff, I don't use |
| 0:45.6 | a lot of compression or any at all on the guitars. |
| 0:49.0 | Even in the mixed stage, I won't put it on there because I don't feel like it needs it. |
| 0:53.4 | Sometimes I'll use a compressor just for a tonal thing. Like it might not even be doing any game reduction, but it's adding some sort of character, like in 1176 or LA2A or something like that. that. Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:18.7 | I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
| 1:30.5 | Hey, rock star, come on over here. |
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