Signal Path by Shure

Tim Kinsella is a musician, author, and film director from Chicago. He has been a member of many influential bands, including Cap’n Jazz, Joan of Arc, Make Believe & Owls.

In this episode, he talks about his creative life, process and commitment.

dodie is an English singer-songwriter, author, and YouTube personality. She has toured the world extensively, and has amassed over 1.7 million subscribers to her channel.

In this episode dodie talks about everything from diary entries, to embarrassing moments on stage, while offering some advice to musicians on YouTube.

Tarik Barri is a Dutch artist, composer and programmer creating immersive audiovisual installations and performances. We spoke to him about his collaboration with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke for the Hexadome – a 360-degree structure that completely surrounds an audience with sights and sounds.

Sylvia Massy is an American producer and engineer known for her work with Johnny Cash, Prince, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Tool, as well as her unorthodox recording techniques. We invited her to The Famous Gold Watch studio in Berlin to talk about her unique experiences, which include recording in an abandoned nuclear cooling tower and using vegetables or cheese to filter audio signals.

Paul Cheese is an artist, sound recordist and cyclist. In today’s episode, Paul talks about his epic cycle rides (his last album was recorded during a 6000km cycle ride), turning the sound of a moped into a violin, creating a track with 700 samples, and making a drum beat from throwing a deck chair down a flight of stairs.

This episode was recorded using two MOTIV MV51 microphones.

Steve Hogarth is the lead singer of British rock band Marillion. Despite selling over 15 million albums since forming way back in the early 80’s, they will likely be best remembered for one decision the band made in 1997. Short of money and wanting to embark on a North American Tour, the band turned to their loyal fans to fund their trip, raising the £39,000 required, and unintentionally becoming the pioneers of what we know today as crowdfunding.

Andrew Huang is a Canadian musician, video producer, and YouTube personality. The incredibly entertaining videos he’s created, taking viewers behind the scenes of his original music, coupled with his prolific output (over 2000 tracks to date), has led to well over 1.3 million subscribers on his YouTube channel.

In this episode Andrew Huang talks about everything from his early music education and how he made viral videos before YouTube existed, to overcoming perfectionism.

Omar Al Marzooqi is an Emirati singer and songwriter. In 2015, after several years of performing, he quit his job (without telling any of his family), spent a year recording his debut album, and in turn signed a professional recording contract. In this interview, Omar speaks with Lucas Dirty & Myers about everything from khaleeji music & career milestones, to why he refuses to be pigeon-holed.

Steph Marziano is a record producer, mixer, writer & engineer. Since graduating from LIPA (Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts) in 2013 she has worked in various capacities for the likes of The Prodigy, Sam Smith, FKA Twigs & Kasabian. In 2018 she was shortlisted in the ‘Breakthrough Engineer of The Year’ category at The Music Producers Guild Awards.

In this interview Steph talks about following her dreams, her definition of various studio roles, turning elephant sounds into a drum kit, & studio jokes.

Jerry Bryant, namesake of Chicago music TV institution JBTV, has captured thousands of performances from both emerging and established artists, since founding the show in 1984.

In this interview Jerry talks about the early days, and how he has managed to keep it going all these years, while constantly adjusting to changes in technology and format.