RSR488 - Joe Carrell - Behind the Board: Mixing, Production, and the Studio Life
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 130 minutes
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My guest today is Joe Carrell, a Nashville-based producer, mixer, and recording engineer. Over his 20+ year career, Joe has mixed and recorded 12 Grammy-nominated albums, worked on Dove Award-winning songs, and contributed to over 38 charting number-one hits, with Billboard top tens in multiple categories, all the while producing pop artists and mixing everything from rock, country, jazz, gospel, bluegrass, etc. He currently works from the historic Treasure Isle Recorders in Nashville TN.
Joe Carrell began his journey in the professional music world as an assistant engineer for a member of Nashville's legendary Bradley family. With a strong background as a musician and a deep love for recording, Joe quickly became a sought-after expert in the industry. Today, he shares his passion and expertise on his YouTube channel, In The Mix with Joe Carrell, and in collaboration with platforms like Produce Like A Pro, Warm Audio, and SSL. Joe produces hands-on tutorials for both beginners and seasoned engineers, covering essential mixing and production techniques such as vocal mixing, managing multiple vocal tracks, adding depth to mixes, and insights into his hybrid workflow. He also offers tips on using EQ, stereo widening, automation, subgroups, balancing low-end frequencies, mixing orchestral elements, and crafting commercial-ready tracks across a variety of genres.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Isotope, native instruments, |
| 0:06.9 | Roswell Pro Audio, and Atom Audio. You're hearing my voice right now through the beautiful |
| 0:12.6 | Roswell Pro Audio Aztec Tube microphone, mixed through isotope, ozone, RX, and Neutron, |
| 0:20.5 | all on atom audio monitors and headphones. |
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| 0:31.6 | you to help support this show. |
| 0:33.5 | Now get ready to rock. |
| 0:35.4 | Here's where I'm different than some of my peers. |
| 0:39.3 | And as I came up underneath an established veteran that did things the hard way back in the old days, |
| 0:46.3 | which meant hands on a fader, you know, like BCA, you know, not even moving faders or anything like that. |
| 0:51.3 | Hands on a fader making sure, because he didn't want to over compress it, but he wanted it to be perfect at all time. So he got a lyric sheet |
| 0:57.4 | and slid it in a sheet protector. And then he got a grease pencil and uh paper towels. He was sat there and listened to the vocal and write arrows up or down. And then he would put his finger on the fader and let it play back and do whatever the arrows were telling him to do. |
| 1:20.9 | Welcome to recording studio rock stars. |
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