Ep 4: On Building A Career with Ed Brooks

The Truth About Recording & Mixing

Welcome to the third episode of the Truth About Recording & Mixing, hosted by Crackle & Pop!'s Johnny Sangster. This week, we explore the career of Ed Brooks who has worked in most all facets of professional audio and now runs Resonant Mastering.

Some of the topics discussed on this episode: 1:40 Listener Comment on Omni Sound Project - resource for women engineers.2:45 Johnny demo on figure of 8 microphones13:00 Interview with Ed Brooks - starting with his path into audio.14:45 Working for Tapco & doing live sound18:45 Moving into tech work with Matt Sutton22:00 Kaye Smith / Lawson Sound & what studios where happening in town.24:20 recording & mixing REM 1992 Automatic For The People29:50 moving to freelance engineering and eventually to mastering.33:30 Mastering Botch - We are the Romans34:55 - What is mastering?41:10 - Listener question Why mix in a control room?52:25 - Listener question - what’s the difference between dynamics compression and bitrate / codec compression.60:00 - what’s more important sample rate or bit depth?62:40 - Let’s talk about acoustics! What is a room mode?67:00 - Things to do when designing a space77:20 - Ed’s pedal steel guitar solo record.

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The Truth About Recording & Mixing is a bi-weekly podcast produced by the Fretboard Journal magazine, loosely based on our Truth About Vintage Amps Q&A podcast.

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