RSR465 - Dan Millice - Grammy Winning Mastering Hip Hop and Rock on Laptop & Headphone Studio
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 141 minutes
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My guest today is Dan Millice, a mastering engineer located in NYC with over 13 years of experience. During his career, Dan has been credited for mastering 11 Grammy-nominated projects. He recently mastered Terri Lyne Carrington's album "New Standards, Vol. 1," which secured a Grammy win for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Adam Audio, isotope, native instruments, and grace design. |
| 0:10.7 | You're hearing my voice right now through the Grace Design M201 Mark 2 mic preamp into the Empirical |
| 0:17.4 | Labs' EL8X Distressor mixed through isotope RX, ozone, neutron, and nectar, |
| 0:25.3 | all on atom audio monitors. |
| 0:28.1 | Please check out our awesome sponsors using the links in the show notes. |
| 0:32.1 | It's a great way to help support this show, and we really appreciate it. |
| 0:35.6 | Now, get ready to rock. |
| 0:39.1 | Sometimes the job is just communicating with the client and just talking to them on the phone. |
| 0:45.1 | Get them on the phone. Chat with them. Find out where they're from and what their favorite |
| 0:49.5 | sports team is. It doesn't even have anything to do with the song. And then you come back to the |
| 0:53.8 | song and you're like, hey man, by the way, like, feel good about the shape of this thing. You know, whatever the puzzle might be, it's really based in communicating. |
| 1:01.8 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:14.9 | I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
| 1:27.3 | Hey, rock stars. |
| 1:28.9 | Yeah, you, I've got a secret to tell you. |
| 1:31.3 | Want to know how I get a consistent sound mixing over a thousand hours of recording studio rock stars? |
| 1:37.5 | My secret is using isotope, RX, ozone, neutron, Assistant, and Nectar to make sure every episode of this podcast |
| 1:47.1 | sounds great. Right now, you are hearing RX breath control, declick, de-clip, D-Clip, D-S, |
| 1:54.3 | de-Dplosive, voice de-noise, ozone-multiband compression, Neutron EQ, VEA, and limiting, all from Isotope. |
| 2:04.2 | Use the secret code, Rock 10, to get 10% off or pick up the new trash light, |
| 2:10.2 | along with many of the other free cool plugins over at Isotope.com. |
| 2:18.5 | Are you struggling to make your mixes sound professional? |
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