We’ve got a double dose of greatness on this episode, as we’re joined by Lamb of God’s Chris Adler and Machine The Producer.

“I need to see the end game before I start the game.” - Machine

ON THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:

10:00 Nature vs nurture in musical upbringing

16:00 Chris’s family musical upbringing

22:00 Teaching Machine about ‘real’ metal

30:00 The process of learning what a producer actually does from a musician’s standpoint

50:00 How Machine was able to pick out the moments that would resonate with a larger audience

1:00:00 How the producer’s role is like a shrink, and why bands need to be careful with finding the right match when finding producers.

1:14:00 Starting from the idea of a “brutal” version of “Operation: Mindcrime” and using keyboards/psychoacoustics

1:20:00 The learning curve for separating hands/feet, creating a ‘new’ drum sound

1:25:00 Creating the best album sound possible and worrying less about how it will be reconstructed live

1:30:00 Why mixing never stops, you just surrender

1:35:00 Creating tempo maps during pre-production, programming custom click samples

1:45:00 Room mics - using your ears to listen to a room as a microphone would listen to it

1:50:00 The typewriter kick sample, having a signature sound like Meshuggah

1:55:00 Chris Adler and Jason Lekberg’s new management company for Dyscarnate

2:00:00 Chris Adler’s entrepreneurship in and outside of the band

2:10:00 Playing drums out of necessity for the band rather than as a passion

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