by Justin Douglas | Nov 26, 2019 | Blog, Featured |
Or: How I learned to stop chasing popularity and (mostly) love my job When I was an assistant engineer at a prominent studio—back when those two things existed—I worked a short stint with a well-known rock producer. After a long first day that featured band...
by Justin Douglas | Aug 13, 2019 | Blog, Featured |
All you need to know to start making recordings at home that don’t suck. I’m going to lay out a ton of very basic information on you about recording, gear, and a little personal philosophy at the end. You can go in depth with anything written below with a...
by Justin Douglas | Nov 29, 2018 | Blog, Featured |
Audio engineers are translators. We translate ideas into sounds. Creative descriptions into technical decisions. Drunken late-night texts into mix revisions. That’s the secret to this job: we manage personalities and egos, insecurities and interpersonal dynamics, and...
by Justin Douglas | May 11, 2017 | Featured |
I love gear, I love great music, but I don’t think you should record with someone just because they’ve got an amazing rare vintage analog warm fat tube tape thingamabob, or because they worked with a semi-famous band years ago. Any engineer worth his or her salt has...
