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iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Brian Rashap is a Production Manager, Tour Manager, bass tech and bass player, currently handling PM and Tech duties for Phil Lesh, as well as playing bass in the Mother Hips. A musician since his formative years in Southern California, it was a last minute jam with the bass that forever changed Brian's focus from guitar to bass. Even tho...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Jason "Zito" Zito is an award-winning Production Manager with over 20 years of experience as a touring professional. With almost eighty countries under his belt, extensive vendor relationships, an attention to detail and open communications amongst his crew and artists, he's operating at the top of his game and able to juggle multiple art...

  iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Arica Rust is a live sound engineer specializing in Front-Of-House systems engineering based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her expertise lies in designing, deploying, and optimizing sound reinforcement systems tailored to the client's or artist's needs. She is an expert in L-Acoustics and advanced user in d&b audiotechnik systems. She...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Chip Auchincloss is a Monitor Engineer and Backline Tech based in Brooklyn, N.Y., who's spent the last 20 years living his dream of working in the live sound industry. I met with Chip at his Brooklyn studio where we dove deep into his upbringing in Philadelphia, his obsession with concerts, and the crazy coincidence of our family connecti...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Mark Agnesi is General Manager of Norman's Rare Guitars, located in the heart of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. Mark is an expert on Fender, Gibson, Rickenbacker, Gretsch and Martin guitars, making him one of the youngest authorities on vintage guitars in the world. Since starting at Norman's in 2009, he has sold guitars to every...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Charles Twilling is an industry veteran with over twenty-five year's of experience as a touring professional. He's been a Tour Manager, Production Manager, Stage Manager, Systems Tech, venue owner, artist liaison, and more. His zero-tolerance policy for bullying, sexism, racism, or negativity of any kind on his tours has not only earned h...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Heather Bey is a Monitor Engineer and tech from Long Island who currently works at the Space at Westbury Theatre, mixing a range of events from concerts, MMA tournaments, and more. A graduate from SUNY New Paltz with a degree in Audio and Digital Media Production, Heather was inspired to follow her passion for audio and upon graduating, a...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Chris Selim is a Musician, Producer, Engineer, and educator based just outside Montreal. He is also the founder of one of the web's best recording resources; Mixdown-Online, where he shares tips, tricks and guides giving you the upper-hand on your recordings. His popular Youtube channel also serves to share his experience and provide the...

iTunes Spotify Youtube Justin "Henny Tha Bizness" Henderson , is a Grammy award-winning, multi-platinum, producer, songwriter, and beat maker. Henny's story is truly inspiring, from his rise as an in-demand producer in Atlanta, to finding his calling as an educator and youtube personality, he has re-invented himself many times, and allowed his faith to remain constant and true. He has produced num...

iTunes   Spotify   Youtube Leo Beattie was at the epicenter of the Detroit rock scene of the late 1960's, early 1970's. After leaving his parents house just a year or two prior, and narrowly missing the draft for Vietnam, his first professional job in the industry was as a roadie for the hard-hitting band, the MC5.         When opportunity knocked to join the road crew of Iggy and the Stooges, Leo...

iTunes Spotify Youtube Ace Piva is not only an experienced Tour Manager, Sound Engineer, and Production Manager, but most recently he founded the non-profit organization Over The Bridge. Ace's exposure to the local music scene in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, followed by an extensive touring background ultimately lead to his desire to help those on the road battling addictions and mental illn...

iTunes  Spotify Youtube PEEKING BEHIND THE CURTAIN: ROCK 'N' ROLL LIFE ON THE ROAD Join me as I take the stage with legendary Audio Engineer, Robert "Nite Bob" Czaykowski , and veteran Tour Manager Rich Nesin, as we take a look at two extraordinary careers in the music business spanning the last fifty years. Both Rich and Nite Bob have deep roots in the industry that start against the backdrop of...

Dani Seggewiss is a Monitor Engineer originally from Cologne, Germany, who currently resides in Leeds, in the U.K. At thirteen years old Dani went with her mom to see a concert, and upon seeing the monitor and FOH engineers in action, she knew that that was what she wanted to pursue. Not that she had any idea of how to do it or how to start, or even what they were doing, but she knew that whatever...

Juno Black is an audio and video production engineer currently living in her adopted home of Austin, TX. Originally from Columbia, South America, Juno's love of music started with the piano, which has remained her first love since the age of nine. From there, she moved on to playing bass guitar, and eventually started playing no local bands, where she also became interested in live sound. An oppor...

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iTunes Spotify Youtube Trace Davis is the owner and founder of Voodoo Amps , one of the premiere, boutique amplifier companies of it's kind. Driven by an unrelenting quest for the perfect guitar tone, Trace seeks to free his artists from distraction by "crafting more flexible and reliable ways to achieve great tone with vintage tones as well as high gain while always maintaining articulation and d...

Gil Craig is an Audio Engineer and a Sound Designer based out of Wellington New Zealand. As a Monitor Engineer she has mixed for the Phoenix Foundation with the New Zealand Symphony, The Pink Floyd Experience, as well as many other Symphony orchestra productions and concerts. She is also an accomplished record mixer, with several award-winning albums to her credit including: Trouble on the Waterfr...

I'm so sorry to the cities of Pittsburgh and Los Angeles for the recent tragedies that have taken place. Please, show a little extra empathy and love towards people today.

It's good to be back from AES and in the studio! This week's guest comes to us all the way from Newcastle Upon Tyne, in the U.K. Kim Watson is a freelance sound engineer who's been focused as a systems tech, monitor engineer, and Front of House engineer since she was in high school. She's moved quickly up the ranks, earning the respect of her peers. As the house engineer for Newcastle's O2 Academy...

Good 'ole fashioned heart mixing. Zen mixing. Mixing a band with your soul and some faders. That's what we have here today my friends, and our guest this week is a disciple of all of these schools of mixing. For the last eight years Bruce Reiter has been mixing Front of House for the hard-hitting band, Five Finger Death Punch. With a deep knowledge base of both the analog side and the digital side...

It's an honor to be celebrating my 105th episode this week with our guest, Monitor Engineer Bruce Danz. For the last 25 years Bruce has mixed monitors for some of Rock's hardest hitting artists including Anthrax, Testament, Alice Cooper, Death Angel, and Buckcherry. He endured a sixteen-year run with Marilyn Manson while simultaneously mixing for Avenge Sevenfold, a gig that has lasted almost eigh...

It's an honor to have 3-time Grammy Award winning engineer, producer, mixer, sound designer and front of house engineer Marc Urselli on the show this week! I caught up with Marc at this years AES convention at the Javit's Center and we had an incredible chat about his life, work ethic, and of course, his insatiable appetite for all things music-related. As a 5-time Grammy Award nominee, he has wor...

In this Q&A episode we breakdown whether or not going to school for your career is worth it or not.

Subscribe on iTunes Grace Under Pressure. I think that is the best summation of Sarah Huyck's character that I can come up with after spending time with her during our interview. Throughout her short career, Sarah has risen to every challenge thrown her way. Starting with her mentor's in college, to her real-world training in Denver, and finally on the mean streets of New York, Sarah's tenacity an...