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WCA #457 with David Davis

WCA #457 with David Davis – Fuzzy Sharks, The Fantasy World of LA, Hipster Sleep Noise, Headbangers Ball, and Mountain Dew

My guest is Grammy-winning producer/mixer David Davis, who has worked on projects for PWNT, Izzy Bizu, Miguel, and The War on Drugs.

In this episode, we discuss

  • East Tennesee Upbringing
  • Headbangers Ball and Mountain Dew
  • Chicago Metal Shows
  • Running from The Law
  • White Zombie
  • Hour Drive to School
  • Going to CRAS
  • LA Internships
  • Roaches
  • Moms Passing
  • The Fantasy World of LA
  • Being Grateful
  • Great Radio
  • Ocean Studios
  • Runner Positions
  • East West
  • Climbing the Ladder
  • Leaving East West
  • Maintaining a Home Studio
  • Fuzzy Sharks
  • Fried Chicken 
  • Fireman
  • Hipster Sleep Noise
  • Creating Home Base
  • Work/Life
  • Production
  • Not Getting Credit

Matt’s Rant: Audio Grownups

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Credits

  • Guest: David Davis
  • Host: Matt Boudreau
  • Engineer: Matt Boudreau
  • Producer: Matt Boudreau
  • Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau 
  • WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell 
  • Announcer: Chuck Smith 

WCA #456 with Ryan Hewitt

WCA #456 with Ryan Hewitt – Taking Care of Business, Solution-Oriented Thinking, Infinite Possibilities, Spare Mics, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers

My guest is Producer/Mixer/Engineer Ryan Hewitt, known for his work with The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blink-182, and Noah Kahan, among many others. Ryan last appeared on WCA in 2015 on WCA #023. 

In this episode, we discuss

  • Reflecting on the Past
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Keeping Things Fresh
  • Enthusiasm for ATMOS
  • Being Solution Oriented
  • Management Decisions
  • Taking Care of Business
  • The Point System
  • Lawyers
  • Working During Covid
  • Los Angeles
  • Revisiting Analog
  • Letting Go
  • Upleveling
  • The Optimist View
  • Staying Focused
  • Discipline
  • Awareness
  • Solution Oriented Thinking
  • Infinite Possibilities
  • Spare Mics

Matt’s Rant: The In-Between Moments

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Credits

  • Guest: Ryan Hewitt
  • Host: Matt Boudreau
  • Engineer: Matt Boudreau
  • Producer: Matt Boudreau
  • Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau 
  • WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell 
  • Announcer: Chuck Smith 

WCA #455 with Josh Garcia

WCA #455 with Josh Garcia – SoCal Upbringing, Straight to Chaos Life, Audio Parenting, Dealing with Life, and The Wretching Crew

My guest is Record Producer/Mixing Engineer/Front of House Engineer Josh Garcia. Josh has worked with Depeche Mode, Leftover Crack, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, and Uke Hunt.

In this episode, we discuss

  • SoCal Upbringing
  • Behavioral Issues
  • Remo Drums
  • Recording to 4 Tracks
  • Internship in LA
  • Robin, The Yeller
  • Moving to Santa Cruz
  • The Banana Slugs
  • Internship in San Jose
  • Straight to Chaos Life
  • Interning at The Plant
  • Getting Fired
  • Joining Hyde Street
  • Studio in Chico
  • Audio Parenting
  • Front of House
  • Depeche Mode
  • Santa Barbara
  • SF Soundworks
  • Self Promotion
  • Dealing with Life
  • The Wretching Crew

Matt’s Rant: Remote Recording

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Credits

  • Guest: Josh Garcia
  • Host: Matt Boudreau
  • Engineer: Matt Boudreau
  • Producer: Matt Boudreau
  • Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau 
  • WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell 
  • Announcer: Chuck Smith 

WCA #454 with Jeff Powell

WCA #454 with Jeff Powell – Cutting Lacquer, not Vinyl, Daily Fed Ex Visits, Fathers, Mothers, Stampers, Charlie Brown Christmas, and 1950’s Technology

My guest is Vinyl Mastering Engineer Jeff Powell, based in Memphis, Tennessee. Jeff has worked with Jackson Browne, Allison Kraus, and Robert Plant, Bob Dylan, Randy Newman, Dusty Springfield, Afghan Whigs, T-Bone Burnett, Al Green, Elvis Presley, and The Black Keys.

In this episode, we discuss

  • Focus on Laquer Cutting
  • Cutting Lacquer, not Vinyl
  • Daily Fed Ex Visits
  • Sam Phillips 
  • Chip and Swarf
  • Apollo/Transco Fire
  • MDC Lacquers
  • Keeping the Line Moving
  • Curing, Ditches, Halos, 
  • Blowing a Cutter Head 
  • 3 Step Plating
  • Fathers, Mothers, and Stampers
  • Charlie Brown Christmas
  • Humidity 
  • T-Bone Burnett
  • Chris Muth
  • Larry Nix
  • HD Vinyl
  • Culture of Vinyl
  • Backlog of Work
  • 1950’s Technology
  • Business Planning
  • Last Minute Loans
  • Credits
  • Preview Deck
  • Elliptical EQ

Matt’s Rant: Revisiting Backing Up

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Credits

  • Guest: Jeff Powell
  • Host: Matt Boudreau
  • Engineer: Matt Boudreau
  • Producer: Matt Boudreau
  • Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau 
  • WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell 
  • Announcer: Chuck Smith 

WCA #453 with Jason Kick

WCA #453 with Jason Kick – Basketball Band, Working at Radio Shack, The Tascam 388, Playing in Bands as Exercise, and Black Magic

My guest is Producer/Audio Engineer Jason Kick, who is the chief engineer at Santo Recording in Oakland. Jason has worked with Mild High Club (Gold-certified), Marinero, Sonny & the Sunsets, Abracadabra, Maus Haus, Healing Potpourri, Mustard Service, Mae Powell, and Body Double.

In this episode, we discuss

  • Basketball Band
  • Garage Band
  • Music Theory
  • Positive Studio Experience
  • The Tascam 388
  • Live Sound
  • Adobe Audition on PC
  • Daytrotter Sessions
  • San Francisco Studios
  • Santo Recording
  • Surviving
  • Stage Hand Work
  • Working at Radio Shack
  • Being Frugal
  • Studio Economics
  • LA living
  • Finding Work
  • Playing in Bands as Exercise
  • David Lynch
  • Transcendental Mediation
  • Unfocused Bands
  • Tracking vs. Mixing
  • Black Magic

Matt’s Rant: To Self-Promote or Not

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Credits

  • Guest: Jason Kick
  • Host: Matt Boudreau
  • Engineer: Matt Boudreau
  • Producer: Matt Boudreau
  • Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau 
  • WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell 
  • Announcer: Chuck Smith 

WCA #452 with Steven Lee Tracy

WCA #452 with Steven Lee Tracy – The Worst Intern, The Biggest Roaches, Strict Upbringing, Stories of the Saints, and Finding Solace in Music

My guest is producer/engineer Steven Lee Tracy who has written music for MTV, Adobe, Axon, and many others. He wrote, produced, and toured with Seattle indie band The Myriad for a decade. Worked on records for Besides Daniel, Orkesta Mendoza, and Mexrrissey,

In this episode, we discuss

  • Commercial Studio in Tucson
  • Strict Upbringing
  • Moving Out
  • Selling His Car for Gear
  • The Fostex R8 
  • Mental Health
  • Fathers Approval
  • Writing Horrible Songs
  • Machines of Loving Grace
  • Harvey Mason Jr.
  • The Biggest Roaches
  • Seattle Studio Internship
  • Tucson Good
  • The Myriad
  • Michael Ilbert
  • Hansa Studios
  • The Worst Intern 
  • Record Deal
  • Matt Goldman
  • Real Estate Taxes
  • Atlanta
  • Divorce
  • Projects That Make You Hate Music
  • Recording in Albuquerque
  • Stories of the Saints
  • Hotel Mini Studio
  • Advice to Small Studios
  • Finding Solace in Music

Matt’s Rant: The Sale of Avid

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Credits

  • Guest: Steven Lee Tracy
  • Host: Matt Boudreau
  • Engineer: Matt Boudreau
  • Producer: Matt Boudreau
  • Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau 
  • WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell 
  • Announcer: Chuck Smith 

WCA #451 with Justin Gray

WCA #451 with Justin Gray – Playing Bass, Transition to Audio, ATMOS, Competing with Yourself, Being Challenged, and Having Nerdy Friends

My guest is Producer, Mixer & Mastering Engineer Justin Gray. Based in Toronto, Canada, Justin has worked on projects for Snoop Dogg, Brandy, Nicky Youre, Mother Mother, Arkells, Jamie Fine, Lola Brooke, Upsahl, and The Sheepdogs.

In this episode, we discuss

  • Listing to Music with Dad
  • Playing Bass
  • Transition to Audio
  • Getting to the Other Side of the Glass
  • Immersive Audio
  • ATMOS
  • SACD
  • Wedding Bands
  • Film Music
  • Having Nerdy Friends
  • Canadian Funding
  • Competing with Yourself
  • Getting Paid
  • Inspiration
  • Health
  • Musical Project
  • Being Challenged
  • Movement of Players 

Matt’s Rant: Getting Paid

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Credits

  • Guest: Justin Gray
  • Host: Matt Boudreau
  • Engineer: Matt Boudreau
  • Producer: Matt Boudreau
  • Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau 
  • WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell 
  • Announcer: Chuck Smith 

WCA #450 with Vance Powell

WCA #450 with Vance Powell – Getting Along, Being In Control, Too Rogue, Diversification, and an Unnatural Fear of Failure

My guest is seven-time Grammy award-winning producer, engineer, and mixer Vance Powell. Vance’s list of credits includes Chris Stapleton, Elle King, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, The White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, Wolfmother, Seasick Steve, Black Prairie, Tinariwe, and Jeff The Brotherhood, among many others.

In this episode, we discuss

  • Grammy’s and Dog Shit
  • Jealousy
  • Unnatural Fear of Failure
  • Fresh Produce
  • Getting Along
  • Taking Responsibility
  • Being In Control
  • Diversification
  • Phish
  • The Complexity of Live Sound
  • Too Rogue
  • Jack and Chris
  • Looking to the Future
  • Leaving Nashville
  • Nashville Resources
  •  ATMOS

Matt’s Rant: Reflecting On 450 episodes

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Credits

  • Guest: Vance Powell
  • Host: Matt Boudreau
  • Engineer: Matt Boudreau
  • Producer: Matt Boudreau
  • Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau 
  • WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell 
  • Announcer: Chuck Smith 

WCA #449 with A.J. Hicks

WCA #449 with A.J.Hicks – Wearing Many Hats, Flotation Tanks, Panic Attacks, Music as a Tool, and the Panasonic Cassette Recorder

My guest is Producer/Engineer Musician A.J. (Austin James) Hicks. A.J. has worked with Powerhouse, Fang, Suede Razors, Ultra Sect, Camellia Boutros, and Scott Erdy. A’J’ has also worked with some of the best Bay Area musicians and producers, including Michael Rosen, Michael Urbano, Jim Bogios, Jeff Campitelli, Uriah Duffey, James DePrato, Jerry Becker, Vicki Randle, and Vooo.

In this episode, we discuss

  • Wearing Many Hats
  • Panasonic Cassette
  • Alzheimer’s 
  • Music as a tool
  • Music and the Brain
  • Panic Attacks
  • Flotation Tanks
  • Pandemic Recording
  • Chabot College
  • Michael Rosen

Matt’s Rant: Audio Personalities

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Credits

  • Guest: A.J.Hicks
  • Host: Matt Boudreau
  • Engineer: Matt Boudreau
  • Producer: Matt Boudreau
  • Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau 
  • WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell 
  • Announcer: Chuck Smith