RSR441 - Brandon Highfill - Neotek Consoles, UAD Luna, and Guitar Pedals!
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 129 minutes
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My guest today is Brandon Highfill, head engineer at Schematic Studios and the owner of Eastside Music Supply here in Nashville, TN. Originally from Jacksonville, FL Brandon moved here in 2009 and with his friend and bandmate Blair, started Eastside Music Supply in 2014.
Brandon played guitar in bands since high school and was always fascinated with the recording process but didn't really catch the "bug" until he set out to build a practice space for himself in 2016 which morphed into a full-blown studio as he became obsessed with making the room sound good and building it right the first time. This quickly led to sell more than half of his pedal collection to invest in a small handful of microphones, an interface, his first analog mixer and a Tascam 388.
Brandon was hooked and gone were the days of making music in his bedroom as it became less about recording his own music and more about recording anything at all. "I just wanted practice and it became like a drug honestly".
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Adam Audio, Isotope, native instruments, |
| 0:08.8 | Luit, and Grace Design. You're hearing my voice right now on the Luit, Pure Tube microphone, |
| 0:16.4 | through the Grace Design M201 Mark Tube micprie, mixed mixed through isotope, RX, ozone, neutron, and nectar, |
| 0:26.2 | all on atom audio monitors. |
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| 0:37.0 | Now get ready to rock. |
| 0:40.9 | I go wild with Optionitis if we record everything sterile and then do everything in mix, |
| 0:46.3 | because when the artist comes in to listen to it, it sounds like dog shit. |
| 0:48.9 | And you're like, just use your imagination. |
| 0:50.7 | That's not fun. |
| 0:51.7 | They can do that at home. |
| 0:52.7 | Why are you coming into a studio to record |
| 0:54.7 | everything super clean and not have any character or even a balance for that matter? And I found |
| 1:00.2 | early on that that's, that's more like work to me and it's not fun and it's not creative. Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:18.6 | 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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