RSR545 - Josh Frigo - The Art of Atmos Mixing and Creative Collaboration in the Nashville Scene
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 114 minutes
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My guest today is Josh Frigo, a producer, mixer, multi-instrumentalist, and artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, who believes in putting artists and their ideas first. After several years as a touring utility player, Josh shifted his focus full-time to production and mixing, building a creative career shaped by self-learning, collaboration, and curiosity.
Working across pop, singer-songwriter, and alternative genres, he's produced and developed indie artists such as MisterMoon, Sparkbird, and Phùng Khanh Linh, and co-mixed Atmos projects for Niall Horan, NF, Bo Staloch, and more with his mixing partner Alex Dobbert at Movement Mixing.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of RSR is brought to you by Isotope Native Instruments, S-A-E-Institute, Adam Audio, Spectra |
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| 0:50.1 | on YouTube because it's a great way to help support this show. |
| 0:54.0 | Now get ready to rock. So when you collaborate with people, it's a great way to help support this show. Now, get ready to rock. |
| 0:56.4 | So when you collaborate with people, what's a first conversation? Is it like, hey, this is a |
| 1:01.2 | No, but that's a great point, though, because like communication early on in the processes can be |
| 1:05.7 | really helpful and help sort of like mitigate some problems down the road. So I think, and especially in that capacity, just asking, reaching out to someone to be like, hey, like, are you interested in this? I know we're friends, but you don't have to work on this if you don't want to. Do you have time? And I really appreciate if someone says, no, actually, I don't have time. Because I want them to be taking care of themselves as well. So yeah, I'll say, like, |
| 1:28.6 | hey, would you be interested in this? And I try and always just be as like transparent and |
| 1:32.8 | clear as possible. So if I'm initiating something, I'm going to put in that first text or |
| 1:38.1 | phone call my proposal for what it is. |
| 1:57.5 | Yeah. what it is. Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. 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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