RSR459 - Greg Norman - Recording Rock Bands in Chicago (Steve Albini, Electrical Audio)
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
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🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 140 minutes
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My guest today is Greg Norman, a recording producer/engineer and studio technician based out of Chicago, IL. In 1996, he started working at Electrical Audio, initially aiding in the design and construction of the two-studio complex in the north side of Chicago. A few years later, he built his own studio to keep up with the demands of recording projects outside of Electrical.
Over the years, he has recorded over a hundred records as a staff member of Electrical Audio and traveled abroad as a freelance producer/engineer. Greg has also designed, consulted, and installed several studios in Chicago, throughout the states, and Canada. He has unique expertise in analog tape machine and console design and maintenance, which has become a dying art. He also designs, and manufactures custom recording studio equipment.
Greg has been a guest on the podcast before for episode RSR014 so please check that out and listen to his discography with the link below.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, rock stars, this is Lidge. And I record these interviews well in advance. And so occasionally, |
| 0:07.5 | when they come out, we sadly lose some people that we really love and some people that are important |
| 0:13.0 | to us. And so before I do this interview with Greg Norman, who I met at Electrical Audio, |
| 0:18.5 | when I was up there working with Steve Albini in Studio A and Studio B. |
| 0:23.5 | We've sadly lost Steve recently. And so I want to dedicate this episode to Steve Albini and |
| 0:31.9 | to his family and friends and to all the folks up at Electrical Audio. Steve was a huge |
| 0:37.3 | influence on me in my career, |
| 0:39.2 | and many of us, in fact, his interviews here on this podcast are the highest listens of any |
| 0:44.9 | interview that we have. So I'll include those links as well in the show notes if you want to go |
| 0:49.5 | check out some of the interviews with Steve after hearing this one with Greg. I hope you enjoy this episode |
| 0:54.5 | with Greg. We do talk about Steve and electrical audio some. This episode is dedicated to you, |
| 0:59.6 | Steve. Thanks so much for everything you've done for us. Cheers. This episode of Recording Studio |
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| 1:42.2 | Now get ready to rock. |
| 1:48.5 | Back to the digital versus analog thing, |
| 1:54.0 | I've noticed that when drummers are playing with the mindset that we're piecing this together to make a whole song, there's much less intensity and more like going through the motions and less |
| 1:58.8 | like I'm playing the song. I want to play it as good as I can play it |
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