Dangerous Liaisons

In this special episode of Dangerous Liaisons, Sylvia Massy turns the microphone on Marek Stycos. Marek talks about music, retail, Guitar Center, brand building, working with companies like Manley Labs and Dangerous Music, teaching salespeople and customers why converters matter, and how Dangerous Music helped change the conversation around summing, monitoring, and professional studio infrastructu...

Mastering engineer Rob Viso joins Marek Stycos from Lucerne, Switzerland for a conversation about rooms, monitoring, analog workflow, vinyl, and the details that define mastering. Rob talks about rebuilding a difficult room, learning through measurement and listening, choosing 88.2 kHz by feel, digitizing rare vinyl collections, restoration, and using the Dangerous Music CONVERT-AD+ across differe...

Grammy-nominated mixer, mastering engineer, and Studio DMI founder Luca Pretolesi joins Marek Stycos for Dangerous Liaisons. Luca talks about modern dance music, global records, translation, objectivity, loudness, converter clipping, and the difference between making something louder and making it feel more emotionally present. He also breaks down how he uses the Dangerous Music CONVERT-AD+ not ju...

Matt Wallace returns for Part 2 of Dangerous Liaisons with Marek Stycos. This episode goes deep into Faith No More, early garage recordings, eight-track limitations, creative problem solving, the value of commitment, and why mistakes can be essential to the emotional life of a record. Matt also talks about immersive audio, Atmos, and what happens when familiar songs open up in a way that makes lis...

Producer, mixer, engineer, author, artist, and microphone champion Sylvia Massy joins Marek Stycos for Dangerous Liaisons. Sylvia talks about growing up around music and technology, early radio experiments, moving through the San Francisco and Los Angeles scenes, working with artists including Tool, Johnny Cash, System of a Down, Prince, and Jason Isbell, and building a creative life around fearle...

Producer, mixer, and engineer Matt Wallace joins Marek Stycos for a conversation about creativity, risk, and the hidden work of producing records. In Part 1, Matt talks about early experiments with sound, arranging, pre-production, working with artists, and the delicate psychology of helping a band change direction without taking ownership away from them. He also digs into the making of Maroon 5&#...

Front-of-house engineer Logan Beaver joins marek stycos for a conversation about the reality of live sound. Logan talks about his path from self-taught studio work to touring, the pressure of mixing shows in real time, the difference between studio and live workflows, and what it takes to solve problems when every venue, PA, and night brings a new challenge. He also talks about taking Dangerous Mu...

In Part 2 of marek's conversation with Jack Joseph Puig, the discussion turns outward: record labels, artist development, streaming, AI, listening culture, and the way technology changes both music and the people who make it. Jack brings the perspective of a producer, mixer, engineer, and A&R executive to a conversation about where music has been, where it may be going, and what can't...

In the first episode of Dangerous Liaisons, marek stycos sits down with legendary producer, mixer, engineer, and A&R executive Jack Joseph Puig. Jack talks about his early life in music, moving from musician to engineer, the lessons he learned from mentors like Arif Mardin, Bill Schnee, and Glyn Johns, and why balance is still one of the most important skills in record making. This is a conver...

Dangerous Liaisons is a new long-form interview podcast from Dangerous Music, hosted by Marek Stycos. Each episode goes deep with the producers, mixers, engineers, artists, and studio minds behind the records you love — exploring craft, process, career-defining moments, studio philosophy, and the tools that shape great sound. Watch full video episodes on YouTube, or listen on Spotify and Apple Pod...