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- Episode 13 – The Great Matt Wallace – Part IIThe Great Matt Wallace Part IIWe continue with Matt Wallace as he discusses his work with The Replacements, Train and Maroon 5.Thanks for listening!!!!Kenny Gioia - Kenny's Website - Kenny's FacebookMatt Hennessy - Matt's WebsiteWill Kennedy - Will's Website - Will's FacebookMarc Lacuesta - Marc's WebsiteRichard Furch - Richard's WebsitePhil Dubnick - Phil's Website58 min
- Episode 12 – The Great Matt Wallace – Part IThe Great Matt Wallace Part IMatt Wallace joins the podcast and we discuss his early start, meeting and working with Faith No More leading up to his work with the Replacements.Thanks for listening!!!!Kenny Gioia - Kenny's Website - Kenny's FacebookMatt Hennessy - Matt's WebsiteWill Kennedy - Will's Website - Will's FacebookMarc Lacuesta - Marc's WebsiteRichard Furch - Richard's WebsitePhil Dubnick - Phil's Website1 hr 3 min
- Episode 11 – Piracy and Digital Consumption of MusicPiracy and Digital Consumption of MusicWe start off talking about the movie "Downloaded" which is the story of Napster and Kenny describes what he thinks piracy did to the business and how it cut out mid-level bands.Will adds on to the same theme where budgets were dropped and how the audience doesn't see any value in music and especially downloaded music and the rationalizations that go with it.Phil also brings up the same idea that bands need to reach out to the fans and let them know what's happening and how we've spiraled down.Thanks for listening!!!!Kenny Gioia - Kenny's Website - Kenny's FacebookMatt Hennessy - Matt's WebsiteWill Kennedy - Will's Website - Will's FacebookMarc Lacuesta - Marc's WebsiteRichard Furch - Richard's WebsitePhil Dubnick - Phil's Website1 hr 19 min
- Episode 10 – Major Market vs Big Fish – Little PondMajor Market vs Big Fish - Little PondThanks for listening!!!!Kenny Gioia - Kenny's Website - Kenny's FacebookMatt Hennessy - Matt's WebsiteWill Kennedy - Will's Website - Will's FacebookMarc Lacuesta - Marc's WebsiteRichard Furch - Richard's WebsitePhil Dubnick - Phil's Website1 hr 2 min
- Episode 9 – Producing vs. Songwriting – Turning in MastersProducing vs. Songwriting Turning in MastersWe start by taking a reader's question regarding producing a record and going over to the side of songwriting and how to deal with the discussion of taking that credit and figuring out splits.Kenny talks about splitting everything equally when doing songwriting sessions.Will brings up the Wrecking Crew movie http://www.wreckingcrewfilm.com and how session players can sometimes write parts that could be considered songwriting.Richard brings up how musicians are hired to come up with parts as well and how to deal with that.Matt explains that in general, this is work for hire.Will brings up the concept of bands sharing songwriting even when it's not the way the writing happens. For the sake and success of the band.Matt brings up the importance of pre-production and that's the time to be writing.We then shift gears and discuss handing in Masters to labels and artists and whether or not to share your settings and plugins.Thanks for listening!!!!Kenny Gioia - Kenny's Website - Kenny's FacebookMatt Hennessy - Matt's WebsiteWill Kennedy - Will's Website - Will's FacebookMarc Lacuesta - Marc's WebsiteRichard Furch - Richard's WebsitePhil Dubnick - Phil's Website51 min
- Episode 8 – Spec Mixes – Working for FreeSpec Mixes or Working for FreeWe start by bringing up the idea of doing spec mixes or spec anything and what that means.Marc talks about not doing alot of these because he was taught early on to always be paid for doing gigs.Matt goes on to talk about working at a studio where he couldn't do spec work. Later on when he got his own studio, he was able to start getting spec work where he takes a piece of the artist.Kenny goes on to describe shootouts by major labels and the issues with them.Richard joins us from his German submarine and points out how politics become a bigger issue with shootouts more so than the actual mix.Marc talks about how to adjust his invoices to allow discounts for clients.Matt goes on to discuss contracts for spec work.Kenny discusses a few more horror stories.Thanks for listening!!!!Kenny Gioia - Kenny's Website - Kenny's FacebookMatt Hennessy - Matt's WebsiteWill Kennedy - Will's Website - Will's FacebookMarc Lacuesta - Marc's WebsiteRichard Furch - Richard's WebsitePhil Dubnick - Phil's Website53 min
- Episode 7 – Risk Management – Great Music vs. Getting PaidRisk Management Great Music vs. Getting PaidWe start by reading a question involving the balance of dealing with choosing the music we work with based on budget vs. how good the music is and what are the repercussions of each.Kenny brings up how hard it is to build a career recording music that just isn’t very good. Even if the money is there.We then talk about how much to charge and the positives and negatives that go with being expensive vs. being the “budget guy”.Matt brings up “vanity” projects that never seem to end. And cost you more in the long run.Kenny brings up the idea that if you’re stuck in a rut of recording bad music, you can’t expect to keep moving forward.Kenny talks about production costs and being able to charge a flat fee vs. a day rate.Thanks for listening!!!!Kenny Gioia - Kenny's Website - Kenny's FacebookMatt Hennessy - Matt's WebsiteWill Kennedy - Will's Website - Will's FacebookMarc Lacuesta - Marc's WebsiteRichard Furch - Richard's WebsitePhil Dubnick - Phil's Website59 min
- Episode 6 – Signal to Noise Ratio on Forums and FB GroupsSignal to Noise Ratio on Forums and FB GroupsWe start by talking about the not so informed discussions on gear forums and facebook groups and the echo chamber created.Kenny brings up the idea that room treatment has become a lot more important to novices than most professional.Will brings up the idea that people are getting focused on small things and completely missing some big ones.Then Kenny brings up the over-importance of Mastering Engineers and how mixing is taking a back seat. And how Mastering engineers are being required to fix bad mixes.Kenny then also brings up what a Mastering engineer is supposed to be.Matt also brings up how much more sense it makes to make a 3 or 4 song EP instead of making full records. That's all folks.Kenny Gioia - Kenny's Website - Kenny's FacebookMatt Hennessy - Matt's WebsiteWill Kennedy - Will's Website - Will's FacebookMarc Lacuesta - Marc's WebsiteRichard Furch - Richard's WebsitePhil Dubnick - Phil's Website57 min
- Episode 5 – Mixer’s Job – Create the Vision or Take DirectionMixer’s Job Create the Vision or Take DirectionWe start by reading a listener’s comment:“This whole obsession with you guys having to match what is on the radio to me means you have bought in to this arbitrary standard that usually sounds worse. Why not set the parameters and standards for what is actually good? Because people under 21 only listen to stuff in a crappy format that sounds like shit, why not nudge them in another direction instead of accepting what sounds bad?”Matt explains that this is a service business and that we can only do what the client wants. Our job is to make a great mix that the client is looking for.We discuss the days where taste makers decided what music should sound like. As opposed to today where it’s about creating what the listener wants. The fans create the demand.Next we talk about smashing masters again and where in the process this should take place and whether it should or not.Phil then fights with everyone over the idea that people can hear a 1 dB difference.Kenny then brings it back to content. Smashed or not. People like loud music but it’s still about the song.We then say ByE!!!!Kenny Gioia - Kenny's Website - Kenny's FacebookMatt Hennessy - Matt's WebsiteWill Kennedy - Will's Website - Will's FacebookMarc Lacuesta - Marc's WebsiteRichard Furch - Richard's WebsitePhil Dubnick - Phil's Website47 min
- Episode 4 – Recording Schools – To go, or not?Recording Schools To go, or not?We start by mentioning we have a Facebook page and group. Please sign up.We then start talking about recording schools with Matt talking about how import mentoring and internships are.Will talks about having less studios with less upward mobility.Kenny brings up the inflated curriculums of recording schools to appeal to students or parents to entice enrollment.We then bring up Berklee and the famous Berklee “bell” that becomes a staple of this episode.Kenny discusses the importance of you vs. your gear.We then discuss our studios and whether they are personal or open to the pubic.Somewhere in the middle we begin our unpaid advertisement for Berklee School of Music. LOL.We then talk about how to get from being an assistant or a runner into becoming a recording engineer.Kenny brings up the importance of being able to get clients by putting yourself in a scene and bring artists to recording studios so you can learn how to produce by making those recordings with the studio. Creating a position in the process.Kenny Gioia - Kenny's Website - Kenny's FacebookMatt Hennessy - Matt's WebsiteWill Kennedy - Will's Website - Will's FacebookMarc Lacuesta - Marc's WebsiteRichard Furch - Richard's WebsitePhil Dubnick - Phil's Website1 hr 4 min
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Platinum Producer/Engineer/Mixer Kenny Gioia is joined by Pro Engineers, Richard Furch, Will Kennedy, Matt Hennessy, Marc Lacuesta and Phil Dubnick.