Recording Studio Rockstars | RSR447 - Steve Genewick - The Beatles & Mixing Miles Davis in Atmos @RecordingStudioRockstars | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Make mine a phantom center! Steve talked about the birth of mixing in Atmos, recording strings for the last Beatles song, Now And Then, how to record immersively, building a home mixing studio, mics for strings, object bed mixing, and the LFE sub. Get access to FREE mixing mini-course: MixMasterBundle.com
My guest today is Steve Genewick a Grammy-nominated recording engineer with 30 years of experience, both as a studio and live recording and mix engineer. Steve has had the pleasure of working at iconic recording studios around the world such as United Recording, East West Studios, Sunset Sound and Village Recorders in Los Angeles, Abbey Road and Angel studios in London and La Fabrique Studios in France.
For 20 years, Steve had the great honor of working alongside the legendary 23-time Grammy award-winning producer and engineer, Al Schmitt. They worked with artists such as Diana Krall, Chris Botti, Gladys Knight, Neil Young, George Benson, Quincy Jones, Burt Bacharach and Paul McCartney. Steve also joined Al for “Mix With The Masters” seminars for nine years in the south of France, in addition to collaborating on their instructional film “The Art of Recording a Big Band”.
Steve worked primarily out of the famed Capitol Studios in Hollywood as a staff engineer from 1994 to 2022. At Capitol, he worked with countless renowned artists such as Elton John, Bastille and Trisha Yearwood. Steve was among the first studio mixers to begin mixing music in Dolby Atmos, working on projects with Beck, Gregory Porter, LL Cool J, Sam Smith and Niall Horan, and on the popular video game Apex Legends.
In 2017, Steve received the Pensado Award for Best Recording Engineer. He was also a part of the Universal Audio and Capitol Studios team that won a 2020 TEC Award for their Capitol Chambers plugin.
Check out Steve’s earlier episode on RSR231. Thanks to Matt BOUDREAU at the Working Class Audio podcast for making our introduction!
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Make mine a phantom center! Steve talked about the birth of mixing in Atmos, recording strings for the last Beatles song, Now And Then, how to record immersively, building a home mixing studio, mics for strings, object bed mixing, and the LFE sub. Get access to FREE mixing mini-course: MixMasterBundle.com
My guest today is Steve Genewick a Grammy-nominated recording engineer with 30 years of experience, both as a studio and live recording and mix engineer. Steve has had the pleasure of working at iconic recording studios around the world such as United Recording, East West Studios, Sunset Sound and Village Recorders in Los Angeles, Abbey Road and Angel studios in London and La Fabrique Studios in France.
For 20 years, Steve had the great honor of working alongside the legendary 23-time Grammy award-winning producer and engineer, Al Schmitt. They worked with artists such as Diana Krall, Chris Botti, Gladys Knight, Neil Young, George Benson, Quincy Jones, Burt Bacharach and Paul McCartney. Steve also joined Al for “Mix With The Masters” seminars for nine years in the south of France, in addition to collaborating on their instructional film “The Art of Recording a Big Band”.
Steve worked primarily out of the famed Capitol Studios in Hollywood as a staff engineer from 1994 to 2022. At Capitol, he worked with countless renowned artists such as Elton John, Bastille and Trisha Yearwood. Steve was among the first studio mixers to begin mixing music in Dolby Atmos, working on projects with Beck, Gregory Porter, LL Cool J, Sam Smith and Niall Horan, and on the popular video game Apex Legends.
In 2017, Steve received the Pensado Award for Best Recording Engineer. He was also a part of the Universal Audio and Capitol Studios team that won a 2020 TEC Award for their Capitol Chambers plugin.
Check out Steve’s earlier episode on RSR231. Thanks to Matt BOUDREAU at the Working Class Audio podcast for making our introduction!
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS!
UltimateMixingMasterclass.com
gracedesign.com
native-instruments.com use code ROCK10 to get 10% off!
lewitt.link/rockstars
iZotope.com use code ROCK10 to get 10% off!
adam-audio.com
RecordingStudioRockstars.com/Academy
thetoyboxstudio.com
Listen to this guest's discography on Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/playlist/steve-genewick-atmos-mixes/pl.u-76oNkrMF1JKbp
If you love the podcast, then please leave a review: RSRockstars.com/Review
CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE SHOW NOTES AT: RSRockstars.com/447
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Join us to listen to our new record Porcupine by Sean McGovern recorded at The Toy Box Studio and mixed at Relay Recording by Jon Fintel and Lij Shaw. A collective of friends make up the band: Dave Melson (bass), Mathew Korbfort (drums), Peter Brooks (guitar), Lij Shaw (bv, guitar), Andrew Royal (guitar), Jon Rich (keys), Sean McGovern (vocals), and Chris King (lyrics). Much thanks to Meghan Gohil at Hollywood Recording Studio Records and Chris Hessian assistant engineer.
Liner Notes by Chris King:
Porcupine by Sean McGovern
Porcupine by Sean McGovern is a bold rejuvenation of 20th century rock & roll, from the classic rock he and his collaborators grew up on to the post-punk grunge of their own musical youth in the 1990s. McGovern leads a nervy, agile band through songs that evoke mid-period electric Dylan, vintage Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Big Star at their most cryptic and acoustic, Nirvana at their most brash and pop.
This is not to say Porcupine is derivative. These reference points are indications for what listeners would enjoy this music rather than blatant name-that-riff inspirations or melodic rip-offs. At the mic, McGovern embraces a wide range of moods - lusty, questioning, wounded, apprehensive, prophetic, jubilant, scared, swaggering - while remaining recognizably the same man, the same voice.
The band on Porcupine is a refreshing mix of older (McGovern, producer and bandleader Lij Shaw and bassist David Melson are in their mid-50s), younger (lead guitarist Peter Brooks and multi-instrumentalist Jon Richardson are in their early 30s) and even younger (drummer Matthew Korbfort is in his early 20s) musicians. This makes for a complex mix of depth and energy, urgency and perspective. Its a thinking-persons rock & roll.
Lyrically, Porcupine presents a man on the edge but trying to hang on and connect. The record opens with a cautionary tale about pain (pain is a wild horse until you break it but it will try to kill if you try to break it) and ends on pure caution: come back tomorrow - now is not good. In between, we have love and loss and not a little hilarity. Space Aliens in Spanish is the definitive send-up of white boys trying to pass as a little less blindingly white (that is his dancing face - thats the best hes got) whereas I Saw Seven cracks wise in the face of the Apocalypse itself: the notorious horsemen report for apocalyptic duty piled on top of the same sagging nag - its the Apocalypse as clown car.
Porcupine was produced at The Toy Box Studio in East Nashville, Tennessee, by Lij Shaw, who is better known to many as producer of the Recording Studio Rock Stars podcast (nearing three million downloads as of September 2023) and leader of the successful effort to decriminalize home recording studios in Nashville. He makes it rock! McGoverns lyricist (and lifelong friend from Granite City, Illinois) Chris King served as executive producer.")
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