RSR466 - Steven Lee Tracy - Producing & Mixing at St Cecelia Studios in Tuscon AZ
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 129 minutes
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My guest today is Steven Lee Tracy, a writer, musician, producer, mixer and owner of Saint Cecilia Studios in Tucson, Arizona. Steven works with a variety of artists from electronic pop with big modern vocals to indie rock bands to Americana acoustic music. So I look forward to learning more about the ways he can interact with different artists to bring out their best work.
This episode is particularly interesting to me because Saint Cecilia is also the patron saint of music. And Cecilia is the name that I gave to my one of a kind, famous MCI console, originally from Criteria Studio C in Miami, that I had here in my studio, The Toy Box Studio, for 15 years. This is the console that recorded hotel California for the Eagles, the Bee Gees staying alive and Saturday night fever, Margaritaville, We're An American Band, and the Grease soundtrack to name just a few.
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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. |
| 0:40.0 | To me, the most creatively crippling thing is the concept that anything goes. Oh, well, what are we? Are we an Americana |
| 0:45.7 | band? Are we a synth-pop band? Or we a folk band? We are a rock band? That kind of stuff needs to happen |
| 0:50.3 | before mics are put up. I love that, and I think it forces everybody to really kind of double down on the decision |
| 0:56.2 | that there are worlds and that anything goes really |
| 0:59.0 | is just going to be chasing your tail over and over and over again. |
| 1:06.0 | 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. |
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| 2:11.5 | Are you struggling to make your mixes sound professional? |
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