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.

Music Interviews
Music Commentary
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WCA #109 With Justin Pizzoferrato
Working Class Audio Interview #109 with Justin Pizzoferrato
39 min
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WCA #108 with Chris Montgomery
WCA #108 with Chris Montgomery
59 min
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WCA #107 with Chris Graham
WCA #107 with Chris Graham
59 min
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WCA #106 with Don Zientara
WCA #106 with Don Zientara
84 min
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WCA #105 with Michael Ashby
WCA #105 with Michael Ashby
59 min
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WCA #104 with Andy Deguara
WCA #104 with Andy Deguara
53 min
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WCA #103 with Pat Patten
WCA #103 with Pat Patten
68 min
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WCA #102 with Frank McDonough
WCA #102 with Frank McDonough
54 min
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WCA #101 with Leff Lefferts
Working Class Audio Session #101 with Leff Lefferts!!! Leff Lefferts has spent the his career working in audio for  music and film. He graduated from Berklee college and music with a degree in Music Production & Engineering in 1997 and...
76 min
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WCA #100 with Stephen Hart and Cookie Marenco
Working Class Audio Session #100 with Stephen Hart and Cookie Marenco!!! Well here it is,  WCA #100! This was recorded at 25th Street Recording in Oakland, California on Friday, November 18th in front of a live audience. This episode features...
98 min
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WCA #099 with Rob Schnapf
Working Class Audio Session #099 with Rob Schnapf!!! Rob Schnapf has been making critically-acclaimed records for the past two decades. He first gained recognition by producing (with his then-partner Tom Rothrock) Beck's debut album, "Mellow Gold,"...
47 min
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WCA #098 with Stewart Cararas
Working Class Audio Session #098 with Stewart Cararas!!! Stewart Cararas is a producer, engineer, writer and musician currently based out of Los Angeles who works on a wide variety of music projects. SOme of his clients include  Nick Lachey,...
61 min
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WCA #097 with Matt Ross-Spang
Working Class Audio Session #097 with Matt Ross-Spang!!! Matt Ross-Spang , born in Memphis, began working at the Legendary Sun Studio when he was just 16, working his way up from intern to the Chief Engineer. He championed to bring the recording...
59 min
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WCA #096 with J.J. Blair
Working Class Audio Session #096 with J.J. Blair J.J. Blair is a producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who hails from Chicago, and moved to Los Angeles in 1990 to get into the music business. He has worked on albums with some legendary...
77 min
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WCA #095 with Brad Wood
Working Class Audio Session #095 with Brad Wood!!! Brad Wood grew up in Rockford, Illinois, the home of Cheap Trick- the greatest band alive. He played the saxophone well enough to go to college and study jazz performance. When Brad moved to...
86 min
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WCA #094 with Scott Wiley
Working Class Audio Session #094 with Scott Wiley!!! Scott Wiley is a music producer, engineer, musician and owner of June Audio Recording Studios in Provo, Utah.  Scott studied music recording at USC and got to learn from some of the best producers an..
70 min
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WCA #093 with David Barbe
Working Class Audio Session #093 with David Barbe!!! David Barbe has a two pronged career. He has been the Director of the University of Georgia Music Business Program since 2010.   On the creative side, he has worked on hundreds of recording projects .
64 min
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WCA #092 with Chuck Zwicky
Working Class Audio Session #092 with Chuck Zwicky!!! Chuck Zwicky is a Manhattan based mixing engineer who has earned several gold and platinum records in his 30+ year career, working with artists as diverse as Prince, Jeff Beck, Soul Asylum,
68 min
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WCA #091 with Camden Stoddard
  Working Class Audio Session #091 with Camden Stoddard!!! Camden Stoddard got his start in sound shortly after moving to the Bay Area by interning with B. Z. Lewis at Studio 132 followed by studying at Pyramind in San Francisco.
52 min
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WCA #090 with Lij Shaw
Working Class Audio Session #090 with Lij Shaw!!! Lij Shaw is an award winning music and podcast producer who has made records for 25 years. His studio, The Toy Box Studio is located East Nashville, Tennessee.
69 min
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WCA #089 with Ben Hirschfield and Scott Goodrich
Working Class Audio Session #089 with Ben Hirschfield and Scott Goodrich!!! Ben Hirschfield and Scott Goodrich are studio partners at Nu-Tone Studios. If you have followed my conversations with Chris Dugan and/or Willie Samuels  you’ll recognize their
45 min
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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
61 min
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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,
72 min
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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.
68 min
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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...
75 min