On today’s show, we have not just 1 but 3 guests.

On a first for Your Audio Solutions, we have a roundtable interview, and I’m very thrilled to welcome Phil Naish, Dave Martin and Bobby Dellarocco from Sweetwater Studios.

Phil Naish is a grammy award-winning producer and keyboardist from his work with Steven Curtis Chapman and who is now serving as the executive producer of Sweetwater Studios.

Dave Martin is a bass player with 40+ years of experience and has worked with artists such as Bootsy Collins, Dweezil Zappa and Eric Johnson. Dave is now a producer, engineer and bassist at Sweetwater Studios.

Bobby Dellarocco is Sweetwaters audio engineer and if he is not working on his various sample packs, he can be found engineering projects for bands and working closely with Phil and Dave.

It was a real pleasure talking to these guys and I think you will love the interview too!

As you can imagine with us all being connected through Skype you might find some lags but I think you will be able to enjoy it anyway.

In this interview, we spoke about:

• How they all ended up at Sweetwater Studios and what they did before

• How to run a profitable recording studio like Sweetwater Studios

• How they find clients and market Sweetwater Studios

• How to realise the potential of a song

• What your role as a producer and engineer is

• What they have learned from working with each other

• If they have been in any musical situations where they didn’t know what they are doing but how they made it work

• Using the Nashville Number System

• The importance of listening and being able to know where you fit in, in a musical situation

• And much more

Check out Sweetwater Studios here: https://sweetwaterstudios.com/

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It’s a pleasure to welcome back Ethan Winer to Your Audio Solutions! Ethan is back to further bust audio myths that can help you save money and to not succumb to placebo effects in your studio or in your favourite listening position (e.i., audiophiles).

This interview is partly a continuation of our previous and very popular interview which you can find here: Ethan Winer - Busting Audio Myths And Why Dave Pensado Was Tricked

Ethan Winer is well known in the audio industry with his many articles for major sound magazines as well as with his book The Audio Expert (Check it Here). Ethan has also been active at AES with, for example, his popular Audio Myths presentation (Check it Here).

In this interview, we spoke about:

- If you can tell the difference in the quality of converters by running them hot or clipping them

- If recording in a higher sample-rate improves the antialiasing filtering in converters

- If you need to “burn-in” your new speakers or headphones

- How you can null-test plugins such as EQ’s in your daw and if it’s possible to null-test sample rates

- Why the emotional impact of using, for example, different sample rates as suggested by Mixerman should not be included in scientific testing

- If Paul McGowan from PS Audio is correct by saying that Ethan’s null-test is fallible

- What Synergy is and if it, in fact, has an impact in audio

- If you should worry about using 16bit over 24bit resolution for your recordings

And much more

Other resources mentioned in the interview:

Monty Montgomery - D/A and A/D

Ethan’s Null Tester Demonstration

How To Do A Proper Listening Test

All digital equalizers are the same

Sound On Sound article: Do Expensive Mic Preamps Make A Difference?

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Steve Ouimette is a music composer and has worked on games such as Guitar Hero, Ghost Recon Corrido, The Crew 2, Just Dance, Call Of Duty Modern Warfare and many others.

Steve also made the popular cover of The Devil Went Down To Georgia by The Charlie Daniels Band which was one of the end-battles in Guitar Hero 3. His cover has over 10 million views on YouTube.

Steve has also developed a very cool recording technique he calls forensic re-recording. This is where he digs deep into how a song was recorded by finding out what gear and what instruments were used in the original recording.

Check out one of his forensic re-recordings of Earth Wind & Fire’s - Let’s Groove below. It’s killer and it sounds almost identical! Link below.

In this interview, we spoke about:

- How Steve started out in the industry and how Guitar Hero was the first game he worked on

- The forensic re-recording technique that Steve developed to re-record authentic covers for the video game Just Dance

- Tempo-mapping songs that are recorded without a click and how you can use this trick to enhance your own songs

- Which song he found most difficult to re-create

- The biggest difference between older and modern songs

- The pain of using Pro Tools

- If a $25 dollar pick is better or just different than your normal pick

- How his speakers from Amphion has improved his studio and why he uses 4 subwoofers

And much more

Music Examples By Steve Ouimette:

Guitar Hero 3 - The Devil Went Down To Georgia

Just Dance - Earth Wind & Fire - Let’s Groove

Just Dance - Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack

Ubisoft - The Crew 2

Activision - Zombies In Spaceland Trailer

Connect With Steve At:

http://www.steveouimette.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/SteveOuimette

https://twitter.com/steveouimette

https://www.instagram.com/steve_ouimette/

Don’t Sound Like Everyone Else. Sound Like You! - www.niclasjeppsson.com

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On the show today we have the number one lady in guitar shredding, Mrs Smith.

If you don’t know who she is, she was kidnapped by a Norwegian death metal band and it was in her captivity that she developed her fierce guitar skills.

Also, not that long ago, she battled Metallica’s lead guitarist, Kirk Hammett, in a Wah-off for the title of the biggest wah-wah abuser. I must say, with Mrs Smith’s operating 4 wah-wah’s at once Kirk didn’t stand a chance.

It was a pleasure talking to Mrs Smith and I hope you will like this interview too!

In this interview we spoke about:

- Guitar shredding

- Guitar players such as Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen

- Her beloved cat, Carlyle who has been missing since last Tuesday

- Tiger King and why she thinks it’s a disgraceful show

- Being kidnapped by the Norwegian death metal band and how she got rescued

- Battling Kirk Hammett in a wha-off and how Sweetwater helped her build the 4-in-one wah-wah pedal

- How she recorded her EP, Introducing Mrs Smith, at home

- Using amp-simulators vs real amps

- She also shared some details about her new up-and-coming album and much more

You can also watch this interview on YouTube

Connect with Mrs Smith on:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/smithcatmrs

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SmithCatMrs

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5xJt7MdN0osQAtCXPi7lzw

Official Website - https://www.worldofsmith.com/

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Don’t Sound Like Everyone Else. Sound Like You! - https://www.niclasjeppsson.com/

In this episode, we will look at how you can develop your studio’s unique selling point.

The reason I want to show you this is that in a crowded marketplace, just like the music industry and with so many home studios around competing for business, it’s important to separate yourself and stand out.

That’s why you want to offer your clients’ a result or an advantage that is superior to your competition.

I will show you an exercise you can do to start developing your unique selling point and start separating yourself from your competition.

You can watch this video on YouTube!

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Björgvin Benediktsson is the founder of the very popular, recording and mixing, website audio-issues.com. He is also a best-selling author of books such as Step By Step Mixing: How To Create Great Mixes Using Only 5 Plug-ins and many others.

In this interview, we spoke about:

- Björgvin’s journey from Iceland to Spain and to Tucson, Arizona, where he now lives

- Meeting Tim Ferriss in Spain and the impact he has had on Björgvin’s business and personal life

- Why you should change your mindset to be about how you can help others rather than yourself

- Why the mindset of a musician who thinks they deserve to play live is wrong

- What you need to have in place in your business before you start running ads on social media

- Why Björgvin’s philosophy of using ads is different from people like Ramith Sethi and Graham Cochrane

- Is an add annoying when it shows up in your feed?

And much, much more

Watch it above or listen to it on Apple Podcast or Spotify.

Connect with Björgvin and Audio-Issues on:

www.audio-issues.com

YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/theaudioissues

Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/audioissues/?hl=ur

Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/audioissues

Get more clients for your home studio here: https://www.youraudiosolutions.com/3-tested-ways-to-increase-your-client-base

In this 5 part mini-series, we will look at how you can increase your client base for your home studio and/or freelance career.

The topics that will be discussed are:

1. How to get clients online

2. How to get your foot in the door of the music industry by shadowing other professionals

3. Diversifying

4. The importance of relationships

5. How to get clients coming back for more

You can also watch this mini-series on YouTube (full series available on Friday)

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As producer or engineers, we usually tend to look at how other producer or engineers out there are advertising themselves and how they run their businesses.

But there are so many other businesses you can look at for inspiration.

This way you can create something unique that will set you apart from your competition.

In this episode, we will look at what you can learn from companies like Uber, Kapten, Bolt and how you can implement some of their strategies when advertising your own business.

The goal with this video is that I want to encourage you to keep your eyes open and look at how other businesses are operating beyond your own industry.

Don’t limit yourself to only looking at other studios, look at as many businesses you can.

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Do you want more clients for your home studio or freelance business? Is it not working and you have no idea why?

Are you making any of the following 3 mistakes:

- Being Desperate

- Not Working On Your Business

- Making It All About Yourself

Watch the full video to learn why you need to avoid these mistakes!

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On the show today, we have the revered guitarist Tomo Fujita. Tomo is a professor at Berklee College of Music and has taught some now-famous musicians. For example, John Mayer and Eric Krasno.

I had a blast talking to Tomo and he is a fantastic teacher and his approach to teaching guitar really resonated with me, as you will see in the interview, and I hope it does the same for you!

In this interview we talked about:

- The super funky opening of his song “Crossing” and the similarities to John Frusciante’s guitar lesson back in 2006

- His approach to using different guitars while recording

- Different guitar neck profiles

- Tomo’s unique approach to teaching the guitar

- The importance of understanding and learning intervals to be a good musician

- Why you need to be able to listen before you play

- Being stuck in various shapes or boxes

-What you need to do before he takes you on as a private student

- What it means to “get the blues”

And much, much more

Check out Tomo’s website here: https://tomojustfunky.com/

Follow Tomo on Instagram

Check out his guitar lessons at his YouTube channel

And his Guitar Wisdom where you can become a member today!

Get more clients for your home studio here: https://www.youraudiosolutions.com/3-tested-ways-to-increase-your-client-base