RSR530 - David Streit - Pro Recording Techniques, Acoustic Music, and Teaching Sound Engineering
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
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🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 117 minutes
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What do drum mics, bluegrass, and Pro Tools have in common? Find out as David Streit shares 35+ years of studio wisdom, from Quad Studios to acoustic sessions, and why trusting musicians might be your best mic technique yet.
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My guest today is David Streit, a recording engineer, producer, mixer, and live sound engineer based in Portland, Oregon. With over 35 years of experience, he started mixing live shows in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, before refining his recording skills in Nashville. He later freelanced in Nashville and Santa Cruz before settling in the Pacific Northwest.
David holds a recording degree from Middle Tennessee State University and interned at The Aspen Music Festival, learning classical mic'ing techniques. His career spans assisting at Quad Studios, teaching multi-track recording, and working in location sound.
Thanks to MTSU for the introduction where we were both students!
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| 0:44.0 | Now, get ready to rock. |
| 0:47.2 | What are some of your favorite ways to record acoustics and mandolins? |
| 0:51.2 | Tell us about that session. |
| 0:52.8 | Yeah, that was a really fun group to work with. So acoustic guitar, broadly speaking, two approaches that I might take to acoustic guitar. I might mic it in mono or I might mic it in stereo, and it might depend upon the arrangement of the song. So in a situation where acoustic guitar is going to be like the main instrument, like maybe it's a singer-songwriter, kind of thing, there's an acoustic guitar and a voice and maybe a few other |
| 1:14.0 | things, then I want the acoustic guitar to take up more space in the mix and I'm probably |
| 1:18.2 | going to mic it in stereo. |
| 1:20.1 | And versus if I have an acoustic guitar that's just part of a rock track that has a bunch |
| 1:25.1 | of stuff going on, I probably don't necessarily want to take up |
| 1:29.3 | a lot of real estate in the mix with it and maybe I'll just mic it in stereo and I'm going |
| 1:33.1 | to pan it off to one side somewhere or something like that. |
| 1:48.1 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:55.9 | 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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