Show Notes EP 12 Johnny Bregar

 

Welcome back to The Truth about Recording & Mixing

 

In this episode we speak to Johnny Bregar about his recording studio “The Brickyard” on Bainbridge Island.

 

01:00 Listener question about Steve Turner’s guitar setup on the recording of The Warning.

06:00 Listener question about podcast aggregating. 

09:30 Welcome Johnny Bregar

11:00 Early days - getting into recording. “Buy Osmonics”.

15:00 Making the switch to full time recording.

17:00 The local “regular” studio owner. Who’s coming in. The job of the producer.

24:30 Getting it wrong, making it right.

28:40 Producing, capturing someone else’s vision while being the one stop shop.

35:45 How do you know when you’re the right or wrong person for the job.

43:30 More on the Brickyard Studio. The “no control room” layout.

51:00 A dead space, adding ambiance using UAD’s Ocean Way processing and other reverbs to compensate.

55:00 Getting performances.

01:05:00 Changing chords, changing lyrics with the goal of improving the song as a producer.

01:10:40 Listener question about home recording and capturing acoustic guitars.

01:20:00 What about recording books?

01:25:00 Go to acoustic guitars signal path.

01:31:00 How about micing up your upright piano?

01:38:00 New discoveries in sound, boundary mics, tuning pianos and other studio ownership joys. DUST!

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