Working Class Audio
Peel back the glamour of the professional recording world. Guests from the world of audio for music, film, games, restoration, and more share their insights on how they made their journey, how they survive, their advice on the real things including wins, losses, working with other people, money, and career advice.
Hosted by audio engineer Matt Boudreau.
The Working Class Audio Podcast - Navigating the World of Recording with a working class perspective.
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WCA #088 with Willie Samuels
Working Class Audio Session #088 with Willie Samuels!!! Willie Samuels is Studio Trilogy’s senior engineer. A recording engineer, producer and musician with some serious studio chops, Willie began his career in his teens by operating a “guerilla style
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WCA #087 with Lolly Lewis
Working Class Audio Session #087 with Lolly Lewis!!! Lolly Lewis studied voice, composition, and electronic music at UC Santa Cruz. While still in college, she was recruited for the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival’s Audio/Recording Institute,
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WCA #086 with Emmit Brooks
Working Class Audio Session #086 with Emmit Brooks!!! Emmit Brooks has run Gold Dust Studios in the same location since 1975 in the Southwest city of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Gold Dust started as a home based studio at a time when very few people had ho.
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WCA #085 with Jeremy Goody
Working Class Audio Session #085 with Jeremy Goody!!! Jeremy Goody is the owner/operator at Megasonic Sound in Oakland, California and a has been a Bay Area audio engineer/producer and performing musician since 1990. After recording school...
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WCA #084 with Brian Hood
Working Class Audio Session #084 with Brian Hood!!! Brian Hood is a rare combination of recording engineer, musician, journeyman studio builder and master carpenter. Brian along with his amazing crew built the new Tiny Telephone Studio Oakland,
77 min
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WCA #083 with Pablo Munguia
Working Class Audio Session #083 with Pablo Munguia!!! Pablo Munguia earned a bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
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WCA #082 with Justin Phelps
Working Class Audio Session #082 with Justin Phelps!!! Justin Phelps is currently the Chief engineer and designer of the Hallowed Halls recording studios located in Portland, Oregon. Justin began his career in 1996 at San Fransisco’s famed Coast Record
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WCA #081 with Drew Bollman
Working Class Audio Session #081 with Drew Bollman!!! Drew Bollman moved to Nashville in 1998 and started interning and assisting at the Sound Kitchen. While Drew worked with many great engineers he happened to meet and work with Justin Niebank (T
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WCA #080 with Jessica Thompson
Working Class Audio Session #080 with Jessica Thompson!!! Jessica Thompson is our featured guest on WCA #080 . Jessica is a Grammy-nominated mastering and restoration engineer as well as an archiving specialist who has digitized,
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WCA #079 with Dave Fridmann
Working Class Audio Session #079 with Dave Fridmann!!! Dave Fridmann is a producer, engineer and musician who has made records with Mercury Rev , The Flaming Lips , Weezer, Sparklehorse, Mogwai, Gemma Hayes, Sleater-Kinney , Clap Your Hands Say Y
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WCA #078 with Chris Dugan
Working Class Audio Session #078 with Chris Dugan!!! Chris Dugan is an American engineer and producer. He is also a drummer, videographer, and photographer. Dugan began his musical pursuits as a drummer. Needing to be resourceful,
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WCA #077 with Andrew Stern
Working Class Audio Session #077 with Andrew Stern!!! Andrew Stern, CBNE, is the Broadcast IT Engineer for the Cumulus San Francisco radio station group (KNBR, KFOG, KGO, KSFO, KSAN, KTCT, sports, news, etc) where he’s worked for the past decade.
58 min
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WCA #076 with Gary Hobish
Working Class Audio Session #076 with Gary Hobish!!! Gary Hobish brings over 30 years of experience as a professional recording engineer/producer to A. Hammer Mastering which he runs out of Secret Studios in San Francisco.
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WCA #075 with Mitch Dane
Working Class Audio Session #075 with Mitch Dane!!! Nashville producer Mitch Dane has managed to cross the lines into almost every genre In his 20+ years of production/engineering experience. Though most of his work can be heard on Rock,
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WCA #074 with Tremaine Williams
Working Class Audio Session #074 with Tremaine WIlliams!!! Tremaine Williams (AKA: “Six7”) was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. He began his musical journey by taking piano & drum lessons while in elementary school,
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WCA #073 with John Schimpf
Working Class Audio Session #073 with John Schimpf!!! John Schimpf got his start in the music industry working in clubs and theatres as a production manager and sound engineer, and working as a recording engineer for the University he was attending whi...
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WCA #072 with Mike Kalajian
Working Class Audio Session #072 with Mike Kalajian!!! Mike Kalajian is the son of an audio technician/audiophile who was exposed to music and recording equipment at a very early age through family including his Uncle’s home recording setup which f
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WCA #071 with Niko Bolas
Working Class Audio Session #071 with Niko Bolas!!! Finding detailed information on Producer/Engineer/Mixer Niko Bolas is a challenge. Niko is not a publicity hound and generally avoids big star studded events.
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WCA #070 with Al Schmitt and Steve Genewick
Working Class Audio Session #070 with Al Schmitt and Steve Genewick!!! What can you say about Al Schmitt that has not been said? The man truly is a legend and complete professional. He has scored a pile of Grammy wins and nominations over the years,
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WCA #069 with Magnus Lindberg
Working Class Audio Session #069 with Magnus Lindberg!!! Magnus Lindberg is a freelance engineer based in Stockholm, Sweden. Despite his young age of 35 he has already been an audio professional for 14 years,
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WCA #068 with John Paterno
Working Class Audio Session #068 with John Paterno!!! John Paterno is an LA-based audio pro. He has worked with a wide range of artists, including Robbie Williams, Soraya, Badly Drawn Boy, Lustra, The Thrills, Tim McGraw, Robben Ford,
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WCA #067 with Matt Wright
Working Class Audio Session #067 with Matt Wright!!! Matt Wright grew up in an extended musical family, of both musicians and aficionados. Every family get together involved extended periods of both playing music and arguing about pop records,
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WCA #066 with Graham Hick - Public Radio, Inter...
My guest is Graham Hick
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WCA #065 with Brad Brooks
Working Class Audio Session #065 with Brad Brooks!!! Brad Brooks is that rare quadruple threat of writer, player, singer, and performer. His songs combine the melodic sensibility of Elvis Costello, the best instincts of Wilco and Brian Wilson,
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WCA #064 with Johnny Sangster
Working Class Audio Session #064 with Johnny Sangster!!! Johnny Sangster is known for his production and engineering work with Mudhoney, Posies, The Supersuckers, Smoosh, and The Makers, and also as guitarist for the Tripwires,
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