Master Your Mix Podcast

Peter Craft is the owner and chief engineer of Boxer Lodge, a destination recording studio in the hills above Napa Valley. A former software engineer and patent-holding tech architect, Craft left that career to build records full time, first from a San Francisco garage and now from a purpose-built studio centered on a 32-channel API 1608 console. He's engineered and mixed for Noelle & The Deserters, New Earth Farmers, and Strange Cities, and in 2024 hosted a session for reunited trip-hop pioneers Halou. A lifelong drummer, Craft often plays on the records he's running the board for.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• Owning a destination studio
• Leaving a successful job to follow your passions
• Taking a chance on yourself to lean into your passions
• The importance of connecting to your community
• The pros and cons of niching down
• The one question he asks before touching a single fader
• Why copying a famous mixer's exact chain rarely works
• What two mixers with completely opposite styles taught him about staying in his lane
• The specific mistake that made his guitars sound thin for years
• Feeling connected to analog gear
• Knowing your genres before tracking
• Having a North Star to follow
• Creating contrast in a mix
• Choosing reverbs for vibe versus filling space
• Why piling on reverb can shrink your mix instead of opening it up
• Being intentional with every decision
• His parallel vocal chain

To learn more about Peter Craft, visit: boxerlodge.com

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Get your copy of my Amazon #1 bestselling books:

• The Recording Mindset: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Pro Recordings From Your Home Studio: https://therecordingmindset.com
• The Mixing Mindset: The Step-By-Step Formula For Creating Professional Rock Mixes From Your Home Studio: https://masteryourmix.com/mixingmindsetbook/

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Chris Collier is a producer, mixer, mastering engineer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Las Vegas, operating as CMC21 Productions. Across nearly three decades in hard rock and metal, he's engineered and produced for Korn, earning a promotion to producer on 2022's Requiem after years behind the board on the band's records, plus Prong, Lynch Mob, KXM, and Whitesnake, whose classic catalog he's remixed. On Mick Mars' 2024 solo debut, The Other Side of Mars, he played bass on every track in addition to mixing and mastering it. He's currently mixing and producing new material for Nonpoint, Society1, and Gunshine.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• Why being a "button pusher" gets you replaced
• The real line between an engineer's input and a producer's input
• Keeping a band's identity intact while still pushing them forward
• What changes in the room the moment a band actually trusts you
• Why quad-tracking guitars usually backfires
• The sidechain trick Chris uses instead of EQ to fix a fighting kick and bass
• Why fewer tracks means fewer decisions later
• Balancing speed vs quality
• A simple pre-record exercise that gets two guitarists playing tight
• How much editing is too much editing on a guitar take

To learn more about Chris Collier, visit: https://www.cmc21productions.com/

Looking for 1-on-1 feedback and training to help you create pro-quality mixes?

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Download your FREE copy of the Ultimate Mixing Blueprint: https://masteryourmix.com/blueprint/

Get your copy of my Amazon #1 bestselling books:

• The Recording Mindset: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Pro Recordings From Your Home Studio: https://therecordingmindset.com
• The Mixing Mindset: The Step-By-Step Formula For Creating Professional Rock Mixes From Your Home Studio: https://masteryourmix.com/mixingmindsetbook/

Get the latest plugins from Carve Audio:

• Smashburger Compressor: https://carveaudio.com/smashburger/
• Busboy: https://carveaudio.com/busboy/
• Slapshot: https://carveaudio.com/slapshot/
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Tim Dolbear is an award-winning mixing and mastering engineer with more than 25 years of professional experience and the owner of Eclectica Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, which he founded in 1999. He specializes in music mixing, mastering, and audio post-production for film, television, podcasts, and streaming, delivering high-resolution stereo, surround, and Dolby Atmos mixes for clients around the world.

Tim’s work has appeared on productions for NBC, Discovery, Prime Video, HBO, Netflix, and YouTube, including projects with millions of views. He has also mixed records for Grammy and Dove Award-winning artists. Through Eclectica Studios, Tim combines decades of experience with modern production techniques to create polished, high-impact audio that translates across everything from theatrical and broadcast environments to streaming platforms and Apple Digital Masters.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• Why moving Eclectica Studios across three cities taught Tim more about client psychology than gear
• The one thing that made clients trust him before he ever proved himself
• How to make good money off of Fiverr
• The unusual gig idea that got him noticed in a flooded market
• What his response time has to do with how many new clients he gets
• What separates a Fiverr gig people actually search for from one that gets lost in the noise
• The pricing mistake Tim says cost him the most early in his career
• Automating the boring parts of your process
• Why "boring" work like corporate video mixing quietly became his most profitable niche
• The line Tim won't cross when a client tries to take a Fiverr relationship off-platform

To learn more about Tim Dolbear, visit: timdolbear.com

Looking for 1-on-1 feedback and training to help you create pro-quality mixes?

Check out my coaching program Amplitude and apply to join: https://masteryourmix.com/amplitude/

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For tips on how to improve your mixes, visit https://masteryourmix.com/

Download your FREE copy of the Ultimate Mixing Blueprint: https://masteryourmix.com/blueprint/

Get your copy of my Amazon #1 bestselling books:

• The Recording Mindset: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Pro Recordings From Your Home Studio: https://therecordingmindset.com
• The Mixing Mindset: The Step-By-Step Formula For Creating Professional Rock Mixes From Your Home Studio: https://masteryourmix.com/mixingmindsetbook/

Get the latest plugins from Carve Audio:

• Smashburger Compressor: https://carveaudio.com/smashburger/
• Busboy: https://carveaudio.com/busboy/
• Slapshot Delay: https://carveaudio.com/slapshot/
• Gas Can Amp: https://carveaudio.com/gas-can-amp/

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Howard Bilerman is a Grammy-nominated musician, sound engineer & record producer who has been recording bands for over 30 years. As co-owner & head engineer of the hotel2tango recording studio in Montreal, Bilerman has enjoyed working with some of Canada’s most talented artists, as well as others from the USA, the UK, France, Italy, Scotland, Africa, Spain, Ireland, Switzerland, Portugal & Australia.

These include Leonard Cohen, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Arcade Fire, Coeur de Pirate, Peter Peter, U.S. Girls, Charlotte Cornfield, The Weather Station, Thalia Zedek, Vic Chesnutt, A Silver Mt. Zion, Basia Bulat, Nap Eyes, Murray Lightburn, Lhasa de Sela, British Sea Power, Bassekou Kouyate, Sam Roberts, Patrick Watson, Adam Cohen, Lou Doillon, The Webb Sisters, The Dears, Wolf Parade, Titus Andronicus, and many more.

He has been credited on over 500 records to date, including as an engineer on Leonard Cohen’s Grammy-winning song “You Want It Darker.” Bilerman has been a regular faculty member at Banff Centre, having helped to create their groundbreaking Indie Residency & Singer Songwriter programs.

Bilerman’s recordings have received international critical praise, and the hotel2tango is seen by many as being at the center of Montreal’s independent musical community.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• Troubleshooting audio for video
• What happens when you record with only 4 tracks instead of 40
• The one job you have as a producer
• How effects can date a record
• What "convenience over sound quality" actually means when picking tools
• When gear selection actually does matter (and when it doesn't)
• Why a track that sounds bad in solo can be exactly right in the mix
• The crowded-room analogy for why too many tracks kill clarity
• Why using the same compressor on everything erases identity instead of building it
• The difference between corrective and artistic effects, and why mixing up the two matters

To learn more about Howard Bilerman, visit: https://howardbilerman.com/

Looking for 1-on-1 feedback and training to help you create pro-quality mixes?

Check out my coaching program Amplitude and apply to join: https://masteryourmix.com/amplitude/

Want additional help with your music productions?

For tips on how to improve your mixes, visit https://masteryourmix.com/

Download your FREE copy of the Ultimate Mixing Blueprint: https://masteryourmix.com/blueprint/

Get your copy of my Amazon #1 bestselling books:

• The Recording Mindset: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Pro Recordings From Your Home Studio: https://therecordingmindset.com
• The Mixing Mindset: The Step-By-Step Formula For Creating Professional Rock Mixes From Your Home Studio: https://masteryourmix.com/mixingmindsetbook/

Get the latest plugins from Carve Audio:

• Smashburger Compressor: https://carveaudio.com/smashburger/
• Busboy: https://carveaudio.com/busboy/
• Slapshot Delay: https://carveaudio.com/slapshot/
• Gas Can Amp: https://carveaudio.com/gas-can-amp/

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Eric Stenman is an LA-based producer, mixer, and engineer whose four-decade credit list runs from Deftones, Thrice, and Weezer to Daniel Caesar's Grammy-nominated Freudian and every AWOLNATION album since 2011's Megalithic Symphony. A decade running Red Bull Studios in Los Angeles gave way to overseeing AWOLNATION's own Malibu studio, where Stenman has helped engineer some of alternative rock's biggest, guitar-built (and famously bass-guitar-free) low end. Most recently, he's stepped from behind the board into the band itself, co-founding the metallic-hardcore project The Barbarians of California with longtime collaborator Aaron Bruno.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• Why "I'll fix it in the mix" usually means more work later, not less
• How Eric commits to compression and tone while tracking, instead of capturing it flat and safe
• What changes once you start picturing the finished mix while you're recording
• Why more experience means fewer decisions get pushed down the road
• How this mindset shift cuts down on retracking and rebuilding sounds from scratch
• How treating a song as a whole (instead of piece by piece) keeps a mix from falling apart
• Why he avoids soloing individual tracks during a mix
• How stepping away from a mix for a week changes what you hear when you come back
• How he decides a mix is done, even when a client keeps sending notes
• How Eric fills low end without ever touching a real bass guitar
• What "translating" actually means across car speakers, earbuds, and Bluetooth speakers

To learn more about Eric Stenman, visit: https://ericstenman.com/

Looking for 1-on-1 feedback and training to help you create pro-quality mixes?

Check out my coaching program Amplitude and apply to join:

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Want additional help with your music productions?

For tips on how to improve your mixes, visit: https://masteryourmix.com/

Download your FREE copy of the Ultimate Mixing Blueprint: https://masteryourmix.com/blueprint/

Get your copy of my Amazon #1 bestselling books:

• The Recording Mindset: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Pro Recordings From Your Home Studio: https://therecordingmindset.com
• The Mixing Mindset: The Step-By-Step Formula For Creating Professional Rock Mixes From Your Home Studio: https://masteryourmix.com/mixingmindsetbook/

Get the latest plugins from Carve Audio:

• Smashburger Compressor: https://carveaudio.com/smashburger/
• Busboy: https://carveaudio.com/busboy/
• Slapshot: https://carveaudio.com/slapshot/
• Gas Can Amp: https://carveaudio.com/gas-can-amp/

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Jon Estes is a Nashville producer, mixing engineer, and multi-instrumentalist who works roughly 200 sessions a year, often as bassist, engineer, and producer on the same record. He's played on Kesha's Grammy-nominated Rainbow and Robyn Hitchcock's self-titled album, and produced and mixed full-length records for Jessie Baylin, Dara Tucker, and Langhorne Slim, most recently engineering and mixing rising country breakout Waylon Wyatt's 2026 debut Dustpiles. He also scores for TV (NBC, HBO, Disney) and video games (Fortnite). Estes runs a hybrid analog/digital studio in Nashville built around a 1" tape machine and a deep collection of vintage instruments.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• The road to becoming a session musician
• The plugin Jon calls his best mixing hack, and it's not an EQ or a compressor
• What it actually means when you cringe listening back to your own mix
• Why sending a mix out too soon has "no reward," even on a deadline
• Why Jon calls some of the most famous mixes in music history "insanely bad," and doesn't mean it as an insult
• Why he sometimes works to make a mix sound worse, on purpose
• How to force objectivity when you’re wearing multiple hats on a project
• The reason a different guitar or a different pick can beat any plugin move

To learn more about Jon Estes, visit: https://jonestes.com/

Looking for 1-on-1 feedback and training to help you create pro-quality mixes?

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Want additional help with your music productions?

For tips on how to improve your mixes, visit: https://masteryourmix.com/

Download your FREE copy of the Ultimate Mixing Blueprint: https://masteryourmix.com/blueprint/

Get your copy of my Amazon #1 bestselling books:

• The Recording Mindset: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Pro Recordings From Your Home Studio: https://therecordingmindset.com
• The Mixing Mindset: The Step-By-Step Formula For Creating Professional Rock Mixes From Your Home Studio: https://masteryourmix.com/mixingmindsetbook/

Get the latest plugins from Carve Audio:

• Smashburger Compressor: https://carveaudio.com/smashburger/
• Busboy: https://carveaudio.com/busboy/
• Slapshot: https://carveaudio.com/slapshot/
• Gas Can Amp: https://carveaudio.com/gas-can-amp/

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Craig Parker Adams is a Los Angeles-based recording and mixing engineer, producer, and guitarist with over 25 years of studio experience at his Hollywood-based Winslow Ct. Studio. He's contributed to 8 Grammy-nominated projects with 2 wins across Blues, Folk, Americana, and Latin Pop, including co-producing and engineering Dave & Phil Alvin's Common Ground and recording Gaby Moreno's ¡Spangled! with Van Dyke Parks. Since 2014, he's served as the exclusive mixing engineer for the Zappa Family Trust, overseeing archival releases drawn from Frank Zappa's legendary Vault, including The Hot Rats Sessions and The Mothers 1971.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• Why he staggers when each band member walks in the door
• The moment a legendary drummer got offended by his notes, and what happened next
• What it's like mixing for a listener who catches every single mistake
• What goes into mixing over a thousand Frank Zappa songs
• Why adding your own take can quietly work against someone else's vision
• The real reason clients send referrals before they've even heard the mix
• Why he had to learn an entirely new recording system in five days

To learn more about Craig Parker Adams, visit: https://craigparkeradams.com/ and http://www.winslowctstudio.com/

Looking for 1-on-1 feedback and training to help you create pro-quality mixes?

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Want additional help with your music productions?

For tips on how to improve your mixes, visit: https://masteryourmix.com/

Download your FREE copy of the Ultimate Mixing Blueprint: https://masteryourmix.com/blueprint/

Get your copy of my Amazon #1 bestselling books:

• The Recording Mindset: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Pro Recordings From Your Home Studio: https://therecordingmindset.com
• The Mixing Mindset: The Step-By-Step Formula For Creating Professional Rock Mixes From Your Home Studio: https://masteryourmix.com/mixingmindsetbook/

Get the latest plugins from Carve Audio:

• Smashburger Compressor: https://carveaudio.com/smashburger/
• Busboy: https://carveaudio.com/busboy/
• Slapshot: https://carveaudio.com/slapshot/
• Gas Can Amp: https://carveaudio.com/gas-can-amp/

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Howie Beck is a Toronto-based mixer and producer whose credits include Feist, Barenaked Ladies, Ron Sexsmith, Walk Off The Earth, and Charlotte Day Wilson, whose breakout single "Work" he mixed and co-produced. Before turning to mixing full-time, Beck built a cult following as a solo artist, writing, performing, and recording every instrument on albums like Hollow and How to Fall Down in Public himself. He's been nominated for three Juno Awards in three separate categories: Album, Recording Engineer, and Producer of the Year, a rare spread that reflects his range. He now runs Studio H, a Dolby-approved Atmos mix room in Toronto's Queen West.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• How four-track and ADAT recording forced him to commit to musical decisions
• Why unlimited tracks can work against the editing process instead of helping it
• The Prince song with no bass on it, and what it says about restraint
• How Howie stays objective when working on his own music
• Why he goes to tape for certain projects and what it changes sonically
• His drums-first mixing workflow and the reasoning behind it
• How he approaches vocal depth and space to make vocals feel forward in a mix
• The tradeoffs of heavy vocal compression (breaths, sibilance, mouth pops)
• Why he pulls up an artist's rough mix before he opens the real session
• How demoitis shows up more today than it used to, and how he talks clients through it
• Training his ears and body to trust his monitoring environment at different volumes

To learn more about Howie Beck, visit: https://www.howiebeck.com/

Looking for 1-on-1 feedback and training to help you create pro-quality mixes?

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Download your FREE copy of the Ultimate Mixing Blueprint: https://masteryourmix.com/blueprint/

Get your copy of my Amazon #1 bestselling books:

• The Recording Mindset: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Pro Recordings From Your Home Studio: https://therecordingmindset.com
• The Mixing Mindset: The Step-By-Step Formula For Creating Professional Rock Mixes From Your Home Studio: https://masteryourmix.com/mixingmindsetbook/

Get the latest plugins from Carve Audio:

• Smashburger Compressor: https://carveaudio.com/smashburger/
• Busboy: https://carveaudio.com/busboy/
• Slapshot: https://carveaudio.com/slapshot/
• Gas Can Amp: https://carveaudio.com/gas-can-amp/

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Brendan Dekora is a Los Angeles-based mixing engineer and producer whose two-decade climb through top studios like EastWest culminated in a full-time engineering post for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, earning him a Grammy for his work on Pixar's Soul score. His credits also include Foo Fighters' Concrete and Gold, Steven Wilson's Hand. Cannot. Erase., Billy Idol, Danzig, Muse, and Deafheaven. He now mixes and produces independently from his home studio, focused on rock and art-rock artists.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• The two questions he asks every client before touching a single fader
• What he does when a client hands him references that contradict each other
• How to pick the right reference tracks
• Why "I don't want to sound like anyone else" is the hardest brief he gets
• How he decides whether to keep a "wrong" sound in a mix or fix it
• Why he considers "putting his own stamp on everything" a mistake, not a selling point
• Working with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on Nine Inch Nails tracks and film scores
• How he balances his own creative instincts against what the artist is actually asking for

To learn more about Brendan Dekora, visit: https://www.brendandekora.com/

Looking for 1-on-1 feedback and training to help you create pro-quality mixes?

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Want additional help with your music productions?

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Download your FREE copy of the Ultimate Mixing Blueprint: https://masteryourmix.com/blueprint/

Get your copy of my Amazon #1 bestselling books:

• The Recording Mindset: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Pro Recordings From Your Home Studio: https://therecordingmindset.com
• The Mixing Mindset: The Step-By-Step Formula For Creating Professional Rock Mixes From Your Home Studio: https://masteryourmix.com/mixingmindsetbook/

Get the latest plugins from Carve Audio:

• Smashburger Compressor: https://carveaudio.com/smashburger/
• Busboy: https://carveaudio.com/busboy/
• Slapshot: https://carveaudio.com/slapshot/
• Gas Can Amp: https://carveaudio.com/gas-can-amp/

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Steven Lee Tracy is the owner, producer, and mixing engineer at Saint Cecilia Studios in Tucson, Arizona. Before he was behind the board, he was on stage: a decade as guitarist and songwriter in Seattle indie-rock band The Myriad, whose single "A Clean Shot" became MTV's most-played video in spring 2008 after the band won MTV2's Dew Circuit Breakout. That artist-first background shapes his mixing today; a self-described "production-style" approach built for records that sound like the artist's favorite albums, not just a polite balance of tracks. At Saint Cecilia, Tracy has worked with acts spanning Seattle indie rock to Tucson's Latin-music scene, including Orkesta Mendoza and the Morrissey tribute act Mexrrissey, alongside sync and commercial work for MTV, Adobe, and Axon.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• Why your 50th listen is lying to you about what's wrong with the mix
• The one thing Steven does in the first 30 seconds of every new song
• Why he builds drums, bass, and vocals in the same order every single time
• What separates a song that needs help from a song you just need to get out of the way of
• The mistake Steven made early on that he'd undo if he could start over
• Why lower overhead led to better work, not less of it
• What changed the moment he stopped saying “yes” to every opportunity

To learn more about Steven Lee Tracy, visit: https://www.saintceciliastudios.com/

Looking for 1-on-1 feedback and training to help you create pro-quality mixes?

Check out my coaching program Amplitude and apply to join: https://masteryourmix.com/amplitude/

Want additional help with your music productions?

For tips on how to improve your mixes, visit https://masteryourmix.com/

Download your FREE copy of the Ultimate Mixing Blueprint: https://masteryourmix.com/blueprint/

Get your copy of my Amazon #1 bestselling books:

• The Recording Mindset: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Pro Recordings From Your Home Studio: https://therecordingmindset.com
• The Mixing Mindset: The Step-By-Step Formula For Creating Professional Rock Mixes From Your Home Studio: https://masteryourmix.com/mixingmindsetbook/

Get the latest plugins from Carve Audio:

• Smashburger Compressor: https://carveaudio.com/smashburger/
• Busboy: https://carveaudio.com/busboy/
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