' One Way to Do It'- Music Professionals chat about their skills.
Presented by Paul Brewer of Genius Move Audio Academy.
' One Way to Do It' is a podcast where I explore the skills of music professionals in the form of an informal chat .
The goal of this podcast, apart for whiling away quite a few hours with interesting people, is to explore 'music jobs' within the industry.
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Check for a new episode every 3 weeks (approx).
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Episodes
22 episodes
John Webber - Mastering Engineer based at AIR Studios in London.
John Webber is a mastering engineer at AIR Studio where he works on all types of music mastered for all media, including vinyl. In 2014 he was the cutting engineer on AIR Studio’s first ever direct to disc recording – Vivaldi’s Four Se...
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34:27
Leo Pearson - a Media Music Maker-Upper who worked with U2 and whose first client ever was The Corrs!
Leo Pearson is a multi-instrumentalist producer engineer based in Kilkenny . His ‘dayjob’ is writing music for Ads , Nike and Mercedes being clients . He’s always in some sort of electronic band too !
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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40:28
Roger Bechirian - Legendary producer and ex Bell-X1 Manager
Nick Lowe, Paul Carrack, Elvis Costello,
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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36:06
Alastair McMillan - U2's Studio and Monitor Engineer speaking from The Sphere, Las Vegas
Welcome to the 2nd season of Podcasts! In this one I interview Alastair McMillan who works for U2. He's one of 3 live monitor engineers . He's also the bands Atmos mixer in his own studio in Belfast.
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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36:41
Vince Webb - Library Music and Games Music Composer based in London
Vince is a London based composer who has a YouTube Channel, which is where I came across him. After a quick intro email he accepted my idea of a Podcast ! Here's the vid - https://youtu.be/5vwedqv56cA?si=m6d4gKznIpyJv63d
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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43:46
Charlot Henzen - Head of 'Sync', Domino Publishing, London
I met Charlot when she was recording in The Nutshed Studio in Clara, Co.Offaly, Ireland with her band 'I kissed Charles' back in the Noughties. The were energetic and full of fun. I thought they may well 'make it'. Charlot has 'made i...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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29:15
Phil Hayes - Front of House Engineer for the band 'Picture This'.
Apologies for the delay, caused by Covid (2nd Dose !). Irish engineer Phil Hayes talks about being on tour with 'Picture This', his 20 year relationship with Bell X1, both in studio and on the road - and how it all began.&nbs...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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36:12
Simon Saywood - Hand built Fairchild clones.
The owner of www.AnalogueTube.com , explains the magic of a Fairchild 660/670 in this episode . As a builder of Fairchild clones (amongst other units) he speaks about getting new, the...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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43:52
Andy Jackson - SSL Product Manager
Andy is a Product Manager for Solid State Logic. In this episode we chat about his influence on the 'SSL Fusion' (amongst other units), building gear in China and the puff of blue smoke from Real World studios console !
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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34:41
Nialler9 - An independent music journalist based in Dublin.
Niall Byrne (otherwise known by the nickname Nialler9) is an Irish music journalist who runs the Nialler9.com website. Here I speak to him about what makes his work , in my opinion, very individual.
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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39:07
Jape - Richie Egan and life as a solo performer.
Is Jape, Richie Egan or is Richie Egan, solo recording and performing artist, Jape ? These and many other questions are answered in this free wheeling interview with the bass player from math rock band 'The Redneck Manifesto'...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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40:40
Rupert Cobb - 'Live at Abbey Road' and much more...
Rupert Cobb is a force of nature ... I first met him when he was recording and mixing (with Engineer Graham Bonnet) the audio for the 'Live at Abbey Road' TV series. He's an exciting musician, playing trumpet and keys for .....
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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49:12
Ray Harman - composing for TV/Film
Ray is a composer of Tv and Film . He started his music career in 90s band ‘Something Happens’ - though that wasn’t always an advantage when he moved in to TV music … all is revealed in the podcast !
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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35:45
Aidan Cunningham - Mixing Engineer
Aidan Cunningham is a great mixer, in my opinion. He’s taught me a lot over the 10 + years I’ve known him . Learn some of his techniques and perhaps more importantly, how he thinks about mixing in this podcast.
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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28:04
Damian O'Neill - The Undertones guitar player and co-writer
Damian must have a ‘Dorian Grey’ like statue in his attic because he hasn’t aged much at all in the 30+ years since I first met him . The writer (and guitar player) of such hits as ‘My perfect cousin ‘ tells of the good times and the n...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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32:44
Tomás Mulcahy - T.U.S. Limerick Lecturer
Tomás was a very thoughtful interviewee. His ideas with regard to teaching made me think I’d like to be in his class !For me , a very informative podcast .
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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51:41
Chris Walls - Level Acoustic Design, about studio design.
Chris Walls works as an acoustician .He's designed studios for Abbey Road - which is kind of all you need to know ! We sat down to talk recently - him in his office and me in my studio, where we talked about applying...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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42:43
Micheal Barkley - Ribbon mic manufacturer.
The opportunity to chat to Michael arose because he was visiting Grouse Lodge studio, otherwise this would be a 'Zoom' interview. Barkley mics is currently a ribbon mic producer, but will extend the product range to condenser mics ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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44:12
Keith Anderson - Tour Manager for Tori Amos.
Tori Amos is very lucky to have Keith Anderson managing her tour. I met him in his hotel room on the morning of Tori's second (of 2) gigs in the Olympia, Dublin in 2023. He graciously made space in his busy schedule fo...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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49:34
James Blennerhassett - session bass player.
Joining me today, the legend of the low end , 'The Blen' !Blen has worked with a lot of people from the Rolling Stones to Christie Hennessy , to his current gig working in Derek Ryan's band. Over the years he's picked up some ti...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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23:37