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 #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...
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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...
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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...
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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..
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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 .
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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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