Unstoppable Recording Machine Podcast

Grammy nominated producer, Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Loma Prieta) joins the podcast to discuss the critical importance of creating repeat clients, why producers need to be involved in their community, and how NOT to promote yourself and your work. “When I’m tracking a band, I would say 80 plus percent of the processing on the recording is happening on capture. So like EQ and compression, often times distortion, like whatever it might be, that’s all happening as part of the capture. Which I think always sounds better.” - Jack Shirley ON THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT: 4:07 - What got Jack Shirley into recording 7:15 - Production styles for various genres hadn’t landed yet when Jack first started recording 10:30 - Jack Shirley’s dealings with black metal 13:19 - The high quality production with Deafheaven still being able to sound raw and if that poses any challenges 14:28 - What point computers come in during the process of making an album 18:38 - What happens when a band wants to sound a certain way, but d