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Rick Allen “When you’re 7 miles out remotely gathering sounds, if you forget a cable, it’s over”
Robert Carranza “They have their talent, I have my talent. I’m a facilitator at any cost.”
Julie Tan “Live sound is where people are still making money. There are jobs you don’t even know about”
Suzy Shinn “I will never shoot down an idea, even if I think there’s no way it’s gonna work”
Chilitos Valenzuela “I didn’t come here to play with electronics. I wanted to be in the studio”
Jeff Greenberg “The bottom line is, people like being with other people.”
Bruce Robb “We ran tracks recorded in Pro Tools through the A Range. The difference was astounding”
Ace Baker “It was the last bastion of heavy metal. Bands were trying to be more artistic”
Erik Zobler “Some people use noise to shoot the room. I can’t do that. I have to listen to music”
Dale Krevens “We never take it for granted. There’s a certain spirit and excitement we all have”
Mark Needham “For me it’s made things a little easier that I don’t have to please an A&R person”
Charles Dayton “The show didn’t get cancelled, the whole network got cancelled.”
Kevin Churko “Am I more Steely Dan than Sex Pistols? Yeah, I’m Steely Dan all the way”
Matt Wallace “Our job is always to honor the original artist”
Dusty Wakeman “Royer decided to produce a kit for $350 and you could modify your own $99 Marshall”
Craig Anderton “So I pitched Guitar Player mag on doing a headphone amp but they were afraid of being sued”
Wes Maebe “She’s hired this piano virtuoso and then she shows up with a Prophet and a Nord”
Dave Carlock “Challenge yourself to get out of the room and in amongst people in a bigger room”
Michelle Moog-Koussa “It’s meant to be accessible to all knowledge levels, not just the synth geek”
Sam Berkow “I learned this from you. How can you be asking me that?”
Ross Hogarth “I created a company called Desiring Productions. Because I was desiring productions”
Robert Scovill “You really have to have the band on in-ears to play the Sphere.”
Bill Smith “Perfection is inherently boring. Things that are a little whacked, that’s what makes them unique”
Susan Rogers “Analysis during the making of records would make that record a hell of a lot worse”
Rick Allen “Listen to what this sounds like pitched four octaves down.”
David Morgan “When the Venue came out I went completely in the box. Because it was a challenge.”
Josh Rogosin “Post Malone comes into Tiny Desk with his band and they have to figure out how to fit”
Bob Clearmountain “They asked me to remix “Cahoots” in Atmos so I had to quickly upgrade the room.”
Paula Salvatore “Like Tom Petty said, you’re trying to catch lightning in a bottle.”
Thaddeus Corea “Or you can be fully present with the intention of getting everyone’s head bopping”
Michael Beinhorn “I’ve been on a lot of sessions but I’ve never experienced anything like that before or since”
Charles Dayton “The show’s producers liked the girls so much they kept bringing them back under other names”
Malcolm Toft “What a lot of people don’t remember is that Abbey Road was very, very structured.”
John Cuniberti “One camera is my proof that it’s a single live one-mic recording”
Chris Cox “Once I got into digital audio I basically just sat in front of a computer for the next 2 decades”
Fred Paragano “I always recommend that while they’re in school they also work in an actual facility”
Tom Camuso “In Les Paul’s archives you’d find 50 different versions of every song. Never the same.”
Craig Bauer “If you care about your career there’s not a single gig you can do a half-ass job on”
Anthony Marinelli “I don’t save any sounds. I never wanted to get the same sound twice.”
Karol Urban “I had a disability that became the best ability and opportunity of my life”
Kathleen Wirt “I love artists. I know a lot more crazy people than sane ones”
Bruce Robb “Rock and roll is here to stay, the talent is out there, and it’s going to surface”
Robert Scovill “If you’re out performing live, you need to be recording it.”
Steven Miller “I needed to find a way to make it sound like what I heard in my head”
Michelle Moog-Koussa “I’m not doing this for my father, I’m doing this for future generations”
Leslie Ann Jones: “You learned as you got more responsibility, and if you raised your hand because you wanted more”
Dave Rossum “Rather than Creative Labs making us conform to their systems, they adopted EMU’s”
Roger Linn “How do we get the least number of impediments between thinking the music and hearing it”
Michael Bradford “So the real question to ask yourself is, what do you really want? And be honest, ’cause there’s nobody here but you”
Lee Brenkman “How important is it to you that the audience understand the words?”
George Petersen “The tools are out there. Go out and learn how to use them.”
Michael Frondelli “You’re not going to motivate an artist by talking about budget”
Joey Stuckey “I think one’s limitations are just as profoundly useful as one’s abilities”
Jeff Rona “If you write a piece of music that’s just at 11 the whole time people will tune out”
Mr Bonzai “Record Plant was so f’cking legendary, it was like a mystery place.”
Jay Pocknell “There are companies already doing some good work by way of making products accessible”
Morris Hayes “MIDI really changed the game for me, and allowed me to play my whole rig live”
Michael Beinhorn “There need to be alternatives for people who don’t have access to production”
Steve Genewick “Learning to work in the analog domain, you learned a lot about signal flow”
Suzy Shinn “The answer ‘no’ keeps you safe because nothing changes. Saying yes is taking a chance.”
Dave Shadoan “We talked about technology but if you really want to excel in this business just treat people nicely and don’t be a d!ck”
David Morgan “That was the key to my success in mixing Whitney Houston.”
Mick Guzauski “I never liked to be in any one bag for too long. I like all music if it’s done well”
Sylvia Massy “I say to the students, number one thing – you gotta learn to listen!”
Jeri Palumbo “Fail to prepare, or prepare to fail. And sometimes your backup plans fail too”
Mark Gander “That was my forte – interfacing with the engineers and the studio owners”
Phill Scholes “I really enjoy mixing on a console. I know where everything is & I don’t have to think about it.”
Robert Margouleff “Malcolm Cecil created the pitch bender so Stevie could play in the cracks”
Rick Allen “I was creating sounds that were atonal enough to move the action forward but still get your attention”
Robert Carranza “I looked at Steve Albini as the purest form of making records”
Julie Tan “There are jobs out there, you just don’t know they exist.”
Suzy Shinn “I love to learn. And I love the human brain.”
Chilitos Valenzuela “I would ask people, ‘what sound would you like?’ and then burn my own eproms”
Jeff Greenberg “You now can prompt AI to have all the people you want in whatever room you want”
Adam Moseley “We had a Trident Flex-Mix sidecar, which we referred to as a ‘Trident F your mix'”
Ace Baker “Bands like Nirvana, Chili Peppers, Jane’s Addiction, they were an alternative to all the heavy metal”
Drew Schlesinger “Of all the synths I’ve done, the two things I’m best known for are effects.”
Kevin Churko “I always try to be the 5th Beatle. But I’m not George Martin & the bands aren’t the Beatles”
David Morgan “I mixed Paul Simon for 750k people in Central Park and I was scared to death”
Dave Carlock “Sometimes having every choice available just doesn’t get you where you want to go”
Michelle Moog-Koussa “I think he saw himself as part of a much larger ecosystem of people connecting through music”
Sam Berkow “And I’m like, ‘Guys! Measure it! It’s either right, or it’s wrong.'”
Ross Hogarth “There weren’t lucky breaks, I just said yes to a lot of hard work”
Robert Scovill “I spend a lot of time checking sound on the edges making sure everyone sounds like they’re playing in the same band”
Bill Smith “Don’t spend your whole life chasing money & status and miss your whole life.”
Susan Rogers “Then and now, it’s a steep climb for a woman to get into an engineering position”
Rick Allen “I always thought the harder I hit an object the bigger the sound. It’s the opposite.”
Bill Smith “What’s the definition of success? Is it how many steaks you have in the freezer?
Josh Rogosin “Post Malone comes to Tiny Desk with his large band & they have to figure out how to do it without monitors and without all the tech”
David Morgan “I’ve never tried to EQ the PA based on the previous night’s show.”
Bob Clearmountain “Bryan Adams would do his vocal phrase by phrase, and we’d use a second track”
Paula Salvatore “That’s what I tell students: get the feel of it and then see what clicks for you”
Thaddeus Corea “There’s a certain thing about practice that’s a little bit meditative”
Michael Beinhorn “We were so proud that we’d done what we’d set out to do, which was to create something no one had ever heard before”
Whitney O’Malley “If you aren’t taking care of yourself on your off time, it’s probably going to be a challenge on the road”
Charles Dayton “Director said ‘we have a Pro Tools system, do you think you could do it?’ I said ‘sure!’ I had never used Pro Tools”
Malcolm Toft “It’s a mix of art and technology, and sometimes the technology takes over too much”
Chris Cox “I finally realized, if something goes wrong and I get embarrassed, it’ll last how long?”
Fred Paragano “I always recommend that while they’re in school they work in an actual facility.”
Tom Camuso “In Les’ archives you’d find like 50 different versions of songs, never the same”
Craig Bauer “Never did an ounce of homework in college. When I say it was written the second I heard that reverb, I’m not kidding”
Anthony Marinelli “I had 9 days to do Young Guns, and I had a 103 degree fever, but I still said yes.”
Karol Urban “Post-production, as opposed to music, gives me a very large, changing narrative that I’m asked to interpret”
Matt Wallace “Over time the stereo mix will become the ‘bonus track’ and ATMOS will be the standard”
Kathleen Wirt “Computers have made perfection very cheap and ordinary.” SmartAsk 174
Martin Porter “Was Record Plant the inspiration for Hotel California. There are too many similarities to ignore.”
Ross Hogarth “Don’t ever say you know how to do something to someone who knows you don’t know”
Joey Stuckey Jay Pocknell “It can be overwhelming for companies how to even begin to make something accessible”
Julie Tan “Music is personal. Sometimes it’s the things we don’t expect that really touch us”
Steve Genewick “People say ‘he doesn’t really produce, he just creates a vibe’ and I’m like, ‘no, he’s producing.'”
Suzy Shinn “If you say yes you have to figure it out. That’s how you learn.” SmartAsk 193
Dave Shadoan “My favorite employees came from nightclubs. Because they had to make it work. Every night”
David Morgan “I’m out here because James Taylor tells me I’m essential to his show”
Mick Guzauski “I went to college for about a year but I really just wanted to record music.”
Sylvia Massy “Prince would play the drum machine with one hand and a synth bassline with the other”
Robert Scovill “It’s time for another old saying: ‘Be careful whose toes you step on, because…'”
Mark Gander “It was a joy to know I was solving problems but also creating and expanding markets” SmartAsk 207
SmartAsk 202 – Robert Margouleff & Malcolm Cecil introducing TONTO with Billy Preston
Phill Scholes “The people I see who are successful have common traits.” SmartAsk 201
Rick Allen “There isn’t something I walk by that I don’t think, ‘I wonder what that would sound like.'”
Julie Tan “The people who are mainly transactional and don’t value relationships, you don’t see a lot of them remain in the biz”
Robert Carranza “I’d have said to myself, ‘slow down, you’re moving too fast, enjoy yourself.'”
Chilitos Valenzuela “My mission now is to fulfill dreams for people who dream like I did about working in music” SmartAsk 198
Suzy Shinn “So many amazing songs were written in the shower or while someone was driving” SmartAsk 190
Jeff Greenberg “Everyone said ‘Fleetwood Mac? Stones? That’s our parents music!’ I said we’re toast”
Adam Moseley “The turnover was so quick on those punk records, the band already had a different name by the time they came out” SmartAsk 176
Ace Baker “Rage played to 300 people and everybody in the room, their jaws were on the ground” SmartAsk 169
Drew Schlesinger “Randomization, to me, is what makes electronic sounds breathe and live” SmartAsk 116
Jim Messina “I told Clive I wanted to leave Poco and work as a producer” SmartAsk 127
SmartAsk 168 Kevin Churko “I’m always trying to be George Martin. But I’m not him, and the bands aren’t the Beatles”
Bruce Robb “People were saying ‘we’ve never sounded like this, we’ve never made a record like this'” SmartAsk 196
Rafa Sardina “You need to always have the mindset of ‘Okay, I’m going to figure this out'”
Dave Carlock “Find that sweet spot so you can say yes and be challenged.” SmartAsk 214
Michelle Moog-Koussa “You’ve got to keep trying. Every time you try, you’re getting closer.”
Sam Berkow “People are looking for reasons not to invest. They’re not looking for reasons to invest”
“Kellgren got a custom plate for his Rolls that read ‘Greed.’ Stone’s Mercedes plate read ‘Deduct.'” Mr. Bonzai. SmartAsk 194
Michael Beinhorn “New York City back then was Disneyland for Adults on Acid” SmartAsk 115
Leslie Ann Jones “I’m self-taught at everything I’ve done, and there’s a certain amount of fear in all of that”
Robert Scovill “The biggest challenge is keeping the tonality of the PA normalized in the different humidity settings”
Rick Allen “When I have people looking over my shoulder, I do better work” SmartAsk 203
Susan Rogers “Simple rhythms, accessible lyrics, melodies with a fairly common contour – they work for people”
Daniel Keller “We do this because we want to create something that’s going to touch other people”
Josh Rogosin “The stereo sound gathering techniques I learned at radio informed what I did with Tiny Desk Concerts and Global Sound Concerts” SmartAsk 185
Bob Clearmountain “It’s tricky producing and engineering. I’m thinking about sounds when I should be thinking about performance.” SmartAsk 179
Paula Salvatore “I had no record company experience. I was a seamstress.” SmartAsk 171
Thaddeus Corea “It’s hard to overstate how much being in my dad’s orbit was part of my musical growth”
SmartAsk 138 David 5-1 Norman “We have to be on 24/7. You do your best but you can’t make everyone happy”
Charles Dayton: “He told the guy ‘you’re fired’ and turned to me and said ‘figure it out'”
He Used to Play Bad Music on Purpose — Just to Empty the Club and Get to Class – Grammy winner Chris Cox on living a dual life
SmartAsk 201 Phill Scholes “Music can elevate people. Our role is to elevate the art that people are creating”
SmartAsk 117 Steven Miller “The engineering part, for me, has always been secondary”
SmartAsk 14 Rick Allen “It came from a background of wanting to develop sounds that captured people’s attention”
SmartAsk 217 Tom Camuso “A little of how great they were as musicians gets lost in the production”
SmartAsk 197 Julie Tan “I’m gonna take a couple of years off and I’m gonna make that album.”
SmartAsk 198 Chilitos Valenzuela “I said, ‘Mom, Dad, I know exactly what I want to do when I grow up!'”
SmartAsk 190 Suzy Shinn “Who do you want to be when you grow up? I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix”
SmartAsk 187 Jeff Greenberg “When Geordie Hormel bought the building, it had been the headquarters for the Maharishi, doing transcendental meditation”
SmartAsk 196 Adam Moseley “The minute I got in there I just felt like this is where I’m meant to be”
SmartAsk 180 Peter Doell “When I came to LA it was a great opportunity to learn from the best”
SmartAsk 169 Ace Baker “It was a one-way ticket. I came here to become a rock star”
SmartAsk 116 Charles Maynes “We look at challenges and figure out the best ways to get through them”
SmartAsk 155 Niko Bolas “If I hadn’t cut the track, I wouldn’t know something was wrong”
SmartAsk 127 Jim Messina “Poco were too country for rock stations and too rock for country stations”
SmartAsk 77 Matt Wallace “Biggest plus in digital is the time and stress it saves in editing multitrack”
SmartAsk 206 Erik Zobler “You have to be sort of monk-like. It all rolls downhill.”
SmartAsk 168 Kevin Churko “Sometimes it’s a conversation rather than me being at the mixing console”
SmartAsk 137 Adam Moseley “They still need the expertise to help them achieve what’s in their head”
SmartAsk 146 Rafa Sardina “It may be important, but maybe it’s not important right now”
SmartAsk 214 Dave Carlock “You can be inspired by others but you can’t help but make it your own”
SmartAsk 80 Michelle Moog-Koussa “Beyond the process of discovery is creative thinking, thinking outside the box”
SmartAsk 175 Sam Berkow “In those days there was sort of an anti-intellectualism around audio”
SmartAsk 115 Michael Beinhorn “They had no f*cking idea what was coming”
SmartAsk 68 Michelle Sabolchick “I guess the road’s gonna be a little different than I expected”
SmartAsk 193 Leslie Ann Jones “You have to have some confidence that you can figure it out”
SmartAsk 178 Robert Scovill “There’s something really, really right about this”
SmartAsk 203 Rick Allen “Curiosity drives us. I think when you stop becoming curious, you dry up”
SmartAsk 186 Susan Rogers “When different archetypes get together, that’s when you have your best chance for success”
SmartAsk 185 Josh Rogosin “The musicians really have to pay attention to how they sound in relation to each other”
SmartAsk 179 Bob Clearmountain “I’m fairly musical but unfortunately I never really learned to play piano properly”
SmartAsk 171 Paula Salvatore “I always said when I worked there, this sh*t should be a sitcom”
SmartAsk 173 Benny Rietveld “Part of the job of being an artist is you’re gonna get criticized”
SmartAsk 167 Thaddeus Corea “Getting the artist in the head space right now ’cause here’s the mic, we’re gonna record”
SmartAsk 15 Dale Krevens “We keep trying to figure out ways to improve things”
SmartAsk 138 David “5-1” Norman “Just come talk to me. We’ll figure it out.”
SmartAsk 131 Brian Kehew “Alesis came out with this 8 track ADAT and it changed the world for so many people”
SmartAsk 122 Jeff Rona “When I started I was mainly programming for producers and film composers”
SmartAsk 213 Charles Dayton “If it’s your path, it will make itself evident to you”
SmartAsk 177 Malcolm Toft “I built the first A-Range on the 3rd floor at Trident and we couldn’t get it down the stairs”
SmartAsk 165 Chris Cox “It seemed like remixing was a marriage of being a musician and the DJ world”
SmartAsk 212 Craig Bauer “Was the pain of it all and the sacrifice worth the end result?”
SmartAsk 176 Adam Moseley “I got hired to do construction & cooking, 9am-3am 6 days a week, 20 quid a week. I thought, ‘wow, I get paid?'”
SmartAsk 164 Ken Caillat “I was hoping to just be a fly on the wall but they had other ideas for me”
SmartAsk 189 Steve Genewick “Capitol will be back. I’m confident those rooms will be back”
SmartAsk 211 Karol Urban “If I’m not a little uncomfortable you’re likely not going to get my best work”
SmartAsk 174 Kathleen Wirt “I don’t know how I’d have gotten through adolescence without writing”
SmartAsk 121 Will Kennedy “They have an emotional investment. Our job is to honor their intentions”
SmartAsk 182 David Morgan “You have to have a strong streak of OCD to be able to keep all this together”
SmartAsk 194 Mr Bonzai “Every day Bill Szymczyk & Joe Walsh would mix so loud they blew up monitors”
SmartAsk 135 Joey Stuckey “Is a product really accessible if it costs much more to make it so?”
SmartAsk 203 Michael Beinhorn “Think of music as a delivery system for a series of emotions”
SmartAsk 189 Steve Genewick “I grew up 3 miles from the Capitol Records building, never been inside”
SmartAsk 193 Ross Hogarth “I feel so auto-didactic right about now”
SmartAsk 183 Mick Guzauski “I went to college for less than a year and said, ‘I don’t like this. I want to record.'”
SmartAsk 209 Sylvia Massy “Advice to 15-year-olds: learn to talk to your digital AI life partners”
SmartAsk 206 Jeri Palumbo “I live by the mantra ‘fail to prepare, prepare to fail.'”
SmartAsk 207 Mark Gander “A lot of people knew me as the guy on the phone at JBL in the ’80s”
SmartAsk 201 Phill Scholes “You shouldn’t really have to think about hardware products when you use them”
SmartAsk 117 Steven Miller “If I’d realized how long it was gonna take I never would have done it”
SmartAsk 14 Rick Allen “Early is on time, on time is late, and late is fired”
SmartAsk 197 Julie Tan “Figure out where your passion lies, learn the craft of servicing that passion”
SmartAsk 210 Robert Carranza “I was sculpting everything. It was the perfect mix. But it wasn’t.”
SmartAsk 198 Chilitos Valenzuela “What if we don’t let you go? Then I’ll give you 2 weeks notice”
SmartAsk 190 Suzy Shinn “I had Logic, but my uneducated pre-YouTube brain couldn’t comprehend Logic”
SmartAsk 187 Jeff Greenberg “We’re all in the business of being ready to capture that golden moment”
SmartAsk 196 Bruce Robb “Putting anything through the A Range and you’re in a much better place”
SmartAsk 180 Peter Doell “In a mastering session it sounds odd unless you’re in the one good seat”
SmartAsk 169 Ace Baker “Rage Against the Machine got up and played, no sound check, and everybody’s jaws were on the ground”
SmartAsk 79 Tina Morris “We love what we do, and we’re always looking to pass that down to others”
SmartAsk 155 Niko Bolas “You’re only as good as the weakest link and right now that’s how the consumer gets it”
SmartAsk 116 Drew Schlesinger “With all the synths I’ve done, what I’m most known for are happy accidents”
SmartAsk 127 Jim Messina “Clive said to me, ‘you know, it sounds to me like you’re on this record a lot'”
SmartAsk 77 Matt Wallace “I miss the days when you could run into people in the halls of a studio”
SmartAsk 146 Rafa Sardina “Half of what I’ve done in my life I’ve forgotten already.”
SmartAsk 204 – Daniella Peters “Dave Rat had a slogan: ‘No problems, Only Solutions'”
SmartAsk 15 Dale Krevens “It used all my skills that I had acquired in my pinball machine career”
SmartAsk 168 Kevin Churko “If you wanna do new age songs about aliens with a 70s folk bent, you can probably find that now”
SmartAsk 164 Rafa Sardina “Stop worrying about other people’s definition of failure.”
SmartAsk 175 Sam Berkow “Saturdays we play for the crowd. Sunday and Monday, we play for us”
SmartAsk 194 Mr Bonzai “The post office really didn’t like people mailing bricks”
SmartAsk 115 Michael Beinhorn “Herbie’s last record for Columbia. It was time for a hail mary”
SmartAsk 50 Buford Jones “I spent 11 months on the road that first year”
SmartAsk 68 Michelle Sabolchick “I was just so focused, and nothing was going to get in my way”
SmartAsk 193 Kathleen Wirt “Opportunities happen when somebody else goes home”
SmartAsk 178 Robert Scovill “It was startling to me just how well it worked”
SmartAsk 203 Rick Allen “I thought we’d lost some of that spontaneity but now with tools like Audiomovers and Sessionwire, we’re getting it back”
SmartAsk 186 Susan Rogers “Music is communication. Young people are sick of working alone.”
SmartAsk 185 Josh Rogosin “Using my ear to make it sound as hyper realistic as possible.”
SmartAsk 179 Bob Clearmountain “If it’s my rought mix, then I just have to outdo it.”
SmartAsk 171 Paula Salvatore “It’s about not being overreactive to everything and keeping your cool”
SmartAsk 173 Benny Rietveld “Some people are not gonna like your shit, sorry”
SmartAsk 167 Thaddeus Corea “We’re in a world where, well, what is the value of art?”
SmartAsk 138 Jodi Milstein “Are you eating well? Are you sleeping well? Is it balanced?
SmartAsk 206 Robert Scovill “Rule number five is ‘Harden the f*ck up, things will get challenging'”
SmartAsk 134 Ken Caillat “The art of becoming a great producer is knowing who to produce”
SmartAsk 122 Jeff Rona “There’s far more variability in composing for games than film or TV”
SmartAsk 177 Malcolm Toft “I cannot design a circuit from the ground up”
SmartAsk 165 Chris Cox “Sometimes I feel like a Beverly Hills surgeon. I know everyone’s secrets”
SmartAsk 135 Joey Stuckey “It can be overwhelming, how to even begin to make something accessible”
SmartAsk 189 Steve Genewick “Every engineer wanted to be Bob Clearmountain & mix the Rolling Stones”
SmartAsk 174 Kathleen Wirt “….the guy with the saw who threatened to saw the piano in half…”
SmartAsk 121 Will Kennedy “Almost universally, the reaction is, ‘oh my god, how am I supposed to go back to listening in stereo?'”
SmartAsk 192 David Morgan “Not only am I artistically opposed to a big kick drum, I’m physically opposed to it”
SmartAsk 194 Marty Porter “Chris Stone said ‘I’ll let you tell the story if Bonzai’s involved'”
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SmartAsk 24 Ross Hogarth “If I’m in the moment and willing to set aside some preconceptions I might hear something I don’t expect”
SmartAsk 14 Rick Allen “You can change a viewer’s reaction with sound, amazingly so”
SmartAsk 87 David Royer “I was trying to build the best microphone I could at the most reasonable price possible”
SmartAsk 193 Leslie Ann Jones “I know enough to surround myself with people who know more than I do”
SmartAsk 160 John Cuniberti “If it’s one continuous camera that’s my proof that it’s a fully live performance”
SmartAsk 193 Ross Hogarth “It’s important not to fill the cup so full that you have nothing left”
SmartAsk 204 Daniella Peters “You can’t look back. You gotta keep looking forward”
SmartAsk 3 Harmoni Kelley “They can play this complex sheet music but take it away and they’re lost”
SmartAsk 199 Dave Shadoan “We painted the speaker cabs with truck bed liner and they stuck together”
SmartAsk 146 Rafa Sardina “I fix things using my ears. People concentrate too much on putting it on the grid”
SmartAsk 183 Mick Guzauski “Massenberg heard my mix and called me into the label office”
SmartAsk 209 Sylvia Massy “I always thought you were a kindred soul because of your sense of humor”
SmartAsk 206 Robert Scovill “Experience is what you get right after you needed it”
SmartAsk 207 Mark Gander “If you can listen, and not just assume you know what’s going on”
SmartAsk 201 Phill Scholes “It’s not just about making tools, it’s about making tools that are familiar to people”
SmartAsk 86 Mark Rubel “James Jamerson could play so beautifully & melodically & was so supportive”
SmartAsk 138 Wayne Pauley “There’s always a solution. It can’t hurt to ask.”
SmartAsk 79 Tina Morris “We’re here to help and create and we have people who can help and create”
SmartAsk 197 Julie Tan “A lot of kids coming out of school now think it’s just about sitting in the big chair”
SmartAsk 198 Chilitos Valenzuela “I used to come to the studios, sample the sounds and burn my own eproms”
SmartAsk 190 Suzy Shinn “I was forcing people in my grade to be in my band and then firing them”
SmartAsk 187 Jeff Greenberg “You’ll be okay if you understand the world you’re working in”
SmartAsk 196 Bruce Robb “We’ve never sounded like this, we’ve never made a record like this”
SmartAsk 180 Peter Doell “Learn your craft but cover your bases”
SmartAsk 11 Morris Hayes “At Wembly they charged us $10k for every 10 minutes we played over. Prince said we’ll pay it!”
SmartAsk 169 Ace Baker “Musicians are very interesting people, even when they’re down to earth”
SmartAsk 77 Matt Wallace “How fast do you want to take it and where do you want to take it to?”
SmartAsk 115 Michael Beinhorn “It was the kind of thing where you just couldn’t f*ck it up”
SmartAsk 106 Marcus Ryle “There’s still an intrinsic human need to see other live performers”
SmartAsk 85 Erik Zobler “In a studio you don’t mess with room EQ. In live sound it’s first thing”
SmartAsk 186 Susan Rogers “When I produce artists I’m clear about what I can and can’t do for them”
SmartAsk 15 Dale Krevens “I said I’d come in and help out for a couple of weeks. That was in 1991”
SmartAsk 168 Kevin Churko “Sometimes it’s a conversation rather than me at the mixing console”
SmartAsk 175 Sam Berkow “Use the technology to create better art. There are no rules.”
SmartAsk 116 Drew Schlesinger “Now with plug-ins and synths there’s far too many descriptors”
SmartAsk 14 Rick Allen “Teaching has rejuvenated my interest in learning”
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