RSR486 - Brok Mende - Mixing Albini to Atmos at Friends of Friends in Chicago
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 129 minutes
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My guest today is Brok Mende, owner of Friends of Friends Recording, a loft-style studio in Chicago specializing in analog & digital, vintage & modern recording processes, also offering Dolby Atmos mixing and mastering! With over a decade of professional experience alongside some of the largest names in the music industry (Electrical Audio, Audiotree, etc) and within studios all over the US, Brok's work includes KAINA, Sen Morimoto, NNAMDÏ, serpentwithfeet, Madison McFerrin, and Tasha to name a few and in collaboration with designer/community builder (and partner), DeAnna Doersch.
In his own words, Brok is a listener by trade who likes to focus on creating something intentional and honest for the artist. He can take apart most anything involving capacitors and/or transformers and is usually able to put it back together correctly, too.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by atom audio, isotope, native instruments, |
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| 0:36.0 | Now get ready to rock. |
| 0:39.5 | There were a lot of other things that they instilled in me, |
| 0:42.6 | like that holiness of making records, |
| 0:44.5 | that gravity of making records. |
| 0:46.3 | To me, it's like the most important thing. |
| 0:48.1 | I grew up pretty spiritual, |
| 0:50.3 | and I've since left some of that. |
| 0:52.4 | But I do think, like, the thing that I hold very holy |
| 0:55.5 | is that act of creating, you know, people creating things. |
| 0:59.5 | And I think that's an important thing to respect. |
| 1:14.5 | Welcome to recordingording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:22.2 | I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
| 1:39.9 | Adam Audio proudly announces the D3V active desktop monitors and H200 dynamic close-back studio headphones designed in Berlin for pro-level monitoring in home studios. |
| 1:49.1 | The D3V features 3.5-inch woofers with ribbon tweeters for studio quality sound in a compact design ideal for songwriters and producers. |
| 1:56.7 | The D3V includes USBC and balanced analog inputs, a headphone output, and DSP room acoustics. |
| 2:01.9 | The H-200 closed-back headphones feature powerful 32-oan drivers and comfortable earpads |
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