RSR506 - Tim Lauer - Synth Pop, Rock Strings, and AI (Cheap Trick, Smashing Pumpkins, Nashville)
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 142 minutes
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My guest today is Tim Lauer, a versatile musician, producer, and arranger. He has played on albums by Taylor Swift, The Civil Wars, Cheap Trick, Joan Baez, and more, and arranged strings for Dolly Parton, Smashing Pumpkins, and Shawn Mendes. Tim has produced cast recordings for shows like Nashville, Greenleaf, Big Sky, and Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist. Recently, he worked on Amazon's The Bondsman, Sony's Patsy and Loretta, and Netflix's Country Comfort.
He's also part of the dream pop band Bien, with millions of streams and 1.5 million monthly listeners, and serves as musical director for NPR's No Small Endeavor. Tim first joined us on RSR172.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Isotope, Native Instruments, |
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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. |
| 0:31.8 | I know how to orchestrate and write and everything, but when you're dealing with really |
| 0:35.5 | creative people and having to communicate with them, |
| 0:37.8 | the music part is just part of it. |
| 0:41.8 | The other part is communicating with people. |
| 0:43.8 | Trying to listen to what people say, trying to define their vision, |
| 0:48.3 | to find the difference in what Josh Stone would want on her Christmas record and what |
| 0:56.2 | Billy Corgan would want on his rock song is like they're different. |
| 1:00.6 | They talk, speak. |
| 1:02.0 | It's just different. |
| 1:03.2 | There's a different vibe. |
| 1:04.6 | You know, it just goes down. |
| 1:07.1 | Or, you know, Robin Zander's singing a French horn partner. |
| 1:09.6 | I mean, it's just that you have to |
| 1:11.4 | sort of just adjust to how people will do stuff yeah so you have to you have to be quite a bit of a |
| 1:16.6 | chameleon welcome to recording studio rock stars i'm lyd shaw Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
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