Welcome to the sixth episode of the Truth About Recording & Mixing, hosted by Crackle & Pop!'s Johnny Sangster. This week we talk to Andrew Joslyn, violinist and orchestral arranger for people like Macklemore and Michael Bolton about a range of projects from creating huge sounding arrangements from his home studio to writing orchestrations for the Seattle Symphony.

1:40 - Another Mid-Side Demo4:45 - Listener Question about recording distorted vocals11:10 - Listener question about vocal mics & 3 Dimensional sound.15:45 - Welcome to Andrew Joslyn20:00 - Curating & scoring a series of concerts with the Seattle Symphony24:00 - the one man symphony in a box and coming up in classical.28:00 - getting into improvising and playing rock music.32:00 - breaking into the Seattle scene and deciding to get a Music Business Degree from Berklee.35:00 - meeting and beginning to work with Macklemore.37:30 - about asking for songwriter credits when providing arrangements.42:00 - Andrew’s solo album.50:30 - Andrew’s studio and creating the one man orchestra.01:04:40 - working with the Seattle Symphony and larger orchestras.01:17:30 - Andrew’s favorite arrangers & composers & the holy grails of string recording studios.01:22:30 - Remote Orchestral recording with Musiversal 1:26:50 - recording and reamping a string quartet in a gutted tugboat!

 

People mentioned - Macklemore, Martin Feveyear, Mark Lanegan, Jack Endino, Bronwynne Brent, Ivan & Alyosha, No Star, Danny Baker, Seattle Symphony, Barb Hunter, Michael Bolton, Duff McKagen, Shelby Earl, Eric Anderson, London Bridge Recording, David Axelrod, Jeff Saltzman, Eli Weinberger, Eric Eagle, Whitney Monge, Nelson Riddle Vince Mendoza, Melody Gardot, Dave Cambell, Rob Mathis, Paul Buckmeister, Leslie Odum Jr., Skywalker Ranch, Jesse Butterworth, Musiversal, Ben Hazlewood, Network, 

 

Gear mentioned - AKG C422, Electrovoice 665, Spectra Sonics, Empirical Labs Distressor, Drawmer 1961 EQ, ProCo Rat Distortion Pedal, Ampeg B-12 amp, SoundToys Decapitator, SansAmp Plugin, Shure SM57, Shure Vocal Master PA, Radial Reamp Boxes, Apple Computer, Hackintosh, Celemony Melodyne, Apple Logic, Avid Protools, Vicoustic Acoustic Treatment, UAD Apollo Quad, Coles 4038, Grace M501, Neumann TLM103, Advanced Audio Mics, QL Spaces, LA Scoring Studio, UAD Ocean Way Plugin, iZotope RX, Decca Tree,

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The Truth About Recording & Mixing is a bi-weekly podcast produced by the Fretboard Journal magazine, loosely based on our Truth About Vintage Amps Q&A podcast.

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