RSR445 - Ken Sluiter - Tips for Production , Mixing, and Atmos
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
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🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 144 minutes
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My guest today is Ken Sluiter, a Grammy-nominated recording engineer/producer/mixer who has been on the podcast before for episodes RSR111 and RSR194 when we talked about his background and shared some awesome mixing tips for the studio. Ken's credits include artists such as Morrissey, Flogging Molly, Andra Day, Divine Fits, Heart, Jerry Lee Lewis, James Blunt, Weezer, the Mekons, The Jesus Lizard and Ok Go to name a few. He has worked with many audio greats like Joe Chiccarelli, Jim Scott, and Andrew Scheps.
It has been a few years since we've chatted with Ken so today we will be focusing on what's new at his studio and surely sharing some more thoughts on mixing in stereo and immersive audio.
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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 through Is isotope, RX, ozone, neutron, and nectar, |
| 0:26.2 | all on atom audio monitors. |
| 0:28.6 | Please check out our awesome sponsors using the link in the show notes below. |
| 0:32.7 | It's a great way to help support this show. |
| 0:34.8 | And there's some great deals waiting for you there. |
| 0:37.0 | Now get ready to rock. |
| 0:41.1 | What's funny is the acoustic guitar sound in general is two of the guys playing acoustic guitar |
| 0:46.7 | on a figure eight pattern against each other playing the exact same shapes and the exact same |
| 0:51.6 | part. And we would really hyper focus on making sure that their acoustic cadence and everything |
| 0:57.0 | was as closely matched as possible. |
| 0:59.0 | And that's what you hear on the record. |
| 1:01.0 | We were just going for this very specific sound performance. 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. |
| 1:33.0 | I've got a secret to tell you. |
| 1:34.5 | Want to know how I get a consistent sound |
| 1:36.7 | mixing over a thousand hours of recording studio rock stars? |
| 1:40.8 | Well, my secret is using isotope, RX ozone neutron and nectar to make this podcast sound |
| 1:48.6 | great. Right now, you are hearing RX breath control, declick, declip, D-S, de-plosive, voice |
| 1:56.7 | denoise, ozone multi-band compression, Neutron EQ, and Limiting. |
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