RSR501 - Colt Capperrune - Redesigning a Studio: The Atmos Experience
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 132 minutes
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My guest today is Colt Capperrune, a producer, mix engineer, and mastering engineer with 21 years of experience in the music industry. Colt is also a talented session guitarist, and passionate advocate for artist development. In recent years, he's gained recognition as a social media influencer, sharing invaluable insights and tutorials through his popular YouTube channel.
Colt produced his first record at 19 and has since achieved Top 40 on Billboard, multiple #1s on iTunes and Amazon charts, and has worked with countless artists to turn raw ideas into polished, professional productions. His expertise extends to Dolby Atmos mixing, and he's recently built a state-of-the-art Atmos-equipped studio to deliver immersive audio experiences, taking his productions to the next level.
Beyond the studio, Colt is committed to empowering artists, often showcasing his process of transforming simple worktapes into chart-worthy productions on his website and YouTube.
You can hear Colt's previous interview and backstory at RSR209.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Isotope, Native Instruments, |
| 0:06.5 | Adam Audio, and S-A-E Institute, Nashville. |
| 0:10.4 | You're hearing my voice right now mixed through Isotope, R-X, Ozone, and Neutron on atom-audio monitors and headphones. |
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| 0:27.8 | It's a great way for you to help support this show. |
| 0:30.3 | Now get ready to rock. |
| 0:32.1 | What does it mean the magic is in the mid-range? |
| 0:37.3 | It is something that I stole from Jack Joseph Pugg. |
| 0:40.7 | Love it. |
| 0:41.3 | I saw him, and I've talked about this on the channel. |
| 0:44.0 | I talked about earlier in this episode where hitting F-12 was the most mentorship I ever had. |
| 0:49.6 | That was really until Pinsato's Place came out. |
| 0:51.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.4 | Those early episodes of Pinsato's Place, that was such a life-changing thing for me, because |
| 0:58.0 | then you got to actually hear what these dudes that you idolized, what they were actually |
| 1:02.0 | doing, the gear they were actually using, how they actually miced something up. |
| 1:06.0 | Jack Joseph Quigg, he broke my brain in that episode back then, talking about compression, talking about the |
| 1:12.5 | mid-range, just, I had to watch, I must have watched that episode 15 times before I felt |
| 1:18.0 | like I was starting to understand everything that he said. |
| 1:33.4 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:41.2 | 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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