RSR471 - Nick Krill - How To Create a Pro Mix Template from a Platinum Producer, Mixer, and Engineer
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
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🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 129 minutes
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My guest today is Nick Krill, an indie rock producer, mixer, and engineer. Nick's interest in the studio began as a teenager when he would spend weekends in a basement 4-track studio with his band, The Spinto Band.
Nick spent the first part of his career simultaneously playing in bands and recording and mixing other artists in the studio. In the early 2000s, The Spinto Band gained notoriety and went on to release 4 LPs and tour extensively in North America and Europe. After the Spinto Band went on hiatus, Nick spent four years touring and recording with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. In 2018 Nick decided to focus solely on the studio side of his work, and now produces, mixes, and engineers indie rock full time. Some highlights of his recording work include:
- Recording and mixing two volumes of "A Philly Special Christmas" (Which went on to chart on in the top 10 on various Billboard charts and had a No.1 iTunes single),
- Producing and mixing the "I Can't Handle Change" EP by Roar (This EP now has over 700 million Spotify streams, and the song "Christmas Kids" charted in the UK last year)
- Working as a recording engineer on the last two War On Drugs Lps ("A Deeper Understanding" and "I Don't Live Here Anymore")
- Producing and mixing the most recent Generationals LP "Heatherhead."
Nick has been a guest on the show before for episode RSR128 where you can hear more about his backstory. Today we will talk about new records and how to make an award-winning record! Thank you to The Sin City Band and also Robin Eaton for the introduction!
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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. |
| 0:35.5 | Now, get ready to rock. |
| 0:40.9 | Working in this field and being a solo freelancer, running your own small business, I don't know how to describe it. It's so many |
| 0:45.8 | interlocking facets of life. And to kind of get perspective on all of those, I think you need to |
| 0:51.4 | have outside people say, hey, did you ever think about this? |
| 0:54.3 | You really love your mixed template, but hey man, did you look over here at this thing? |
| 0:58.3 | This is kind of important too. |
| 0:59.3 | It's like that kind of thing. |
| 1:00.9 | This is really valuable. 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? |
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