RSR538 - Toby Lloyd - From Punk to Producer - Tiny Triumphs over Mindset, Workflow & Vibe
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 143 minutes
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What does a rooftop studio, a cold plunge, and a punk rock heart have in common? Producer Toby Lloyd shares how surrender, discipline, and creative flow helped him build Tiny Triumph Recordings and rediscover joy in making music.
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Howdy Rockstars, my guest today is Toby Lloyd, a music producer, studio engineer, and mixing engineer who runs Tiny Triumph Recordings, a boutique rooftop recording studio in Wellington, New Zealand. Toby has worked with artists like Shapeshifter, Hollie Smith, Stan Walker, and Nightmares on Wax, and he's contributed to major film projects including Avatar 2, The Hobbit Trilogy, Mortal Engines, and Hunt for the Wilderpeople, as well as mixing scores for acclaimed films such as Savage, Stylebender, and Ka Whawhai Tonu (pronounced Car Far Fie Toe Nu). In addition to his studio and film work, Toby is also making new music as an artist himself. Big thanks to Matt Boudreau from Working Class Audio for making today's introduction!
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| 0:47.0 | But I think sometimes in the studio people get so just caught up on a single idea that it just |
| 0:52.5 | completely slows down the process, right? |
| 0:55.1 | You know, and you could spend 30 minutes debating about the merits of a single idea, |
| 0:59.7 | or you could just spend 30 minutes just moving on to the next thing, |
| 1:03.0 | knowing that you've got the power of the mute button. |
| 1:04.9 | You know, the mute button is your friend. |
| 1:06.3 | I love that idea that a song isn't finished when you can't add anything more, but it's a song is finished when you can't take away anything else, you know, before it completely pulls apart. You know, the power of the mute button is so underappreciated. And I think, you know, you see that with like Chad Blake a lot, right, where he just goes through and he's just like, no, muting the drums here, muting the bass line just for this like one bar. man, that's how you make a really dynamic record is actually like playing the silences, playing the gaps, |
| 1:32.5 | rather than just filling in every single moment of the song. |
| 1:39.3 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:48.4 | 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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