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Recording Studio Rockstars

RSR555 - Matt Boudreau - From Stereo to Atmos: Revolutionizing Audio Mixing

Recording Studio Rockstars

Lij Shaw

Music

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

What if your mix engineer secretly backed up every session in triplicate just so your grandkids could remix your demo in 2085?

In this episode, I’m joined by my brother from another podcast, Matt Boudreau - veteran mixer, Atmos trailblazer, and the host of Working Class Audio. Matt’s credits include immersive mixes for Green Day, Alanis Morissette, and the theme for Real Time with Bill Maher, plus stereo magic on artists like Deafheaven.

We kick things off recapping our AES Long Beach hang - complete with acai bowl addiction, barefoot sandbox airport vibes, and panels on everything from Japanese air-traffic AI to studio fire insurance. Matt shares how a late-night HBO downmix request accidentally birthed his simultaneous stereo/Atmos workflow, and why he now mixes midrange balance on tiny single-cone speakers before touching highs or lows.

We dive into the art of collaboration: why you should wait 48 hours before sending mix notes, how to handle clients who keep salting the same sandwich, and the spreadsheet revision system that’s saving everyone’s sanity.

Matt drops hard-earned wisdom on trusting your gut with red-flag clients, charging retrieval fees for 20-year-old sessions, and why “if it doesn’t exist in three places, it doesn’t exist.” We geek out over plugins (Gullfoss, Sonible Smart EQ, the return of Echo Farm), archiving nightmares, and why AI is great for laundry but still can’t feel heartbreak like a human. Whether you’re mixing in a bedroom or a living-room Atmos rig, this chat is pure gold for anyone who wants their tracks to outlive the hard drive.

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1:22.3

Grab my free mixing course at mixmasterbundle.com and remember to like this video and subscribe on YouTube because it's a great way to help

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support this show.

1:32.6

Now, get ready to rock.

1:35.3

And I'm sure the rock stars go through this a lot themselves is that, you know, I can open

1:40.0

a pro-trial session no matter what time frame it is and look at it and go, oh, okay, I remember

1:45.4

that era of doing it that way. Routing or choice of plug-ins. I opened up a session the other day

1:53.5

of the podcast, actually. And just taking a look at the plug-in choices and how it was done,

2:00.5

I was like, wow, I don't do that anymore. That's really changed.

2:04.6

So, you know, you grow and you change and you refine. And I think that not sticking to the same thing year after year, I think is important.

2:15.6

I think even once you think you found the thing that works, like I'm on what I think is a great

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