Dana Nielsen is a Grammy-nominated mixer, engineer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He's worked with artists like SZA, Rihanna, Adele, Post Malone, The Smashing Pumpkins, Neil Young, Justin Timberlake, Weezer, Bob Dylan, and Kanye West. He's also worked with Rick Rubin on projects for Justin Timberlake and Red Hot Chili Peppers, and he even ap…

Phil Servati is a film composer who has written music for brands like Genesis, Titleist, Pearl Vision, Verizon, Colgate, Kraft, Nikon, and ExxonMobil. His scores have also been featured in films like Chasing Faster, For The Team, and Marriage Retreat, as well as short films. In this conversation, we talk about how you can get into film composing, h…

Thor Fienberg is an Emmy-winning recording and mixing engineer who works mainly in the film and TV scoring world. He started out producing and songwriting under a publishing deal with producer John Shanks. And he started his engineering career at Blake Neely's Cow on the Wall Studios in 2016, where he found a passion for engineering and mixing. Som…

Aaron Espe is a Nashville-based songwriter-artist whose songs have been on ABC, CMT, and in TV shows like Grey's Anatomy, Orange is the New Black, and Ricky Gervais' After Life. One of his EPs reached #7 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart, and Taylor Swift even caught wind of his song "Making All Things New," adding it to her playlist Songs Tayl…

Jason LaRocca is a Grammy-nominated engineer and mixer who's also known as the former singer and guitarist of the acclaimed punk band, The Briggs. He's worked with major movie studios, recording and mixing music for huge films like Bad Boys for Life, Paddington, Aquaman, The Flash, and the Oscar-winning documentary Icarus. He's also mixed music for…

Judy Collins is an award-winning singer-songwriter whose career dates back to the 1960s. Her iconic version of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and she won Song of the Year at the 1975 Grammy Awards for her cover of Stephen Sondheim's "Send In the Clowns." She's had several top 10 hits and has released sev…

In this episode, we have Gordon Raphael, an engineer, musician, and producer. He discovered The Strokes and recorded their first EP and subsequent first two albums, he also produced Regina Spektor's album, Soviet Kitch. On top of these accolades, he's recorded 20 albums of his own music, produced over 200 bands, and wrote a book called The World Is…