RSR524 - Mitch Rose - DIY Microphones, Analog Gear, and Home Studio Hacks from Newcastle
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 125 minutes
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My guest today is Mitch Rose, a recording and mixing engineer from Newcastle, Australia. Mitch is passionate about all things DIY—building his own mics, preamps, EQs, compressors, and even studio furniture and acoustic treatment for home studio spaces.
He's been teaching music and audio production for over a decade at technical colleges across Australia, covering everything from recording and live sound to composing in Ableton. Mitch is also a multi-instrumentalist who plays drums, guitar, bass, and all kinds of percussion—especially the Cajon.
These days, he spends most of his time recording and mixing other artists from his DIY home studio, and sharing what he learns online. He runs a popular YouTube channel called The DIY Recording Studio, where he teaches other producers and engineers how to start their own DIY studio journey—with hands-on build tutorials for companies like MicParts, DIYRE, CAPI, and Sound Skulptor.
Mitch recently flew to the US for NAMM 2025 to work with Z&H Designs and connect with artists, producers, and creators from around the world where I got to shoot a couple of fun videos with him at the booth.
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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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| 0:26.9 | And please like and subscribe to this YouTube channel |
| 0:30.1 | because it's a great way to help support this show. |
| 0:32.6 | Now, get ready to rock. |
| 0:34.7 | The most important part with microphones that most people kind of forget about is the actual |
| 0:39.1 | capsule, the diaphragm and stuff itself, that is what the sound source comes into contact |
| 0:44.0 | with first, so it's going to have the biggest effect. |
| 0:47.3 | So all the circuitry, the tubes, the transformers and all that do make an impact on the sound, |
| 0:51.8 | but the capsule first and foremost is going to have the most |
| 0:54.5 | drastic change to the incoming sound source. |
| 0:58.0 | So you get that right? |
| 0:59.2 | It's like choosing your instrument, right? |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | The capsule is the thing that creates the sound. |
| 1:04.3 | Everything else is trying to get the sound from the capsule to your ear. |
| 1:07.6 | Absolutely, right. |
| 1:19.3 | Yeah. to your ear. Absolutely, right. Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:22.4 | 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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