Master Your Mix Podcast

Jeff Kolhede is a producer, audio engineer, and artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Having participated in multiple Grammy-nominated records, he operates primarily out of 25th Street Recording, the SF Bay Area’s premier recording facility, where he helps emerging and established artists.

Jeff’s composing work for film and advertisements has been featured for leading brands, including the trailer music for the Academy Award-w...

Angel Marcloid is a fearless, genre-melting musician, producer, and mixing/mastering engineer based outside Chicago, IL. She creates under a broad constellation of aliases, with Fire-Toolz as her flagship solo project and No Joy as her most recent collaborative venture. 

Angel Hair Audio is her full-service audio production studio for artists whose work already leans leftfield or quietly wants to. She draws from a lifetime of l...

Kurt Ballou is an American musician, producer, and recording engineer best known as the guitarist and founding member of the influential hardcore band Converge. Based in Salem, Massachusetts, he is also the owner and chief engineer of GodCity Studio, a world-renowned recording facility that has become a cornerstone of modern heavy music production. With a background in both engineering and performance, Ballou bridges the gap betwee...

Mark Lewis is a Nashville-based record producer, engineer, and mixer best known for shaping the sound of modern heavy metal and hard rock. He cut his teeth under producer Jason Suecof at Audiohammer Studios in Orlando. Over the years, he’s become a go-to name in the metal scene, working with genre-defining bands such as Trivium, The Black Dahlia Murder, DevilDriver, Whitechapel, and many others. His credits span production, mixing,...

Jack Emblem is a GRAMMY-nominated mix engineer known for his versatility and ability to elevate every project he touches. Working seamlessly across all genres, Jack has established himself as a go-to mixer in today’s market.

In 2024, Jack received a GRAMMY nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.

His clients include Snoh Aaelgra, Lauren Spencer Smith, Charlotte Day Wilson, DEAN, Wild Rivers, Katie Tupper, Aaron Paris, Jes...

Scott Wiley is a music producer, engineer, musician, and owner of June Audio Recording Studio with over 2.1 billion streams. Scott studied music recording at USC and got to learn from some of the best producers and engineers in the industry during his years working in great Los Angeles studios like Sound Factory, Sunset Sound, Cello, and Conway Recording Studios. As an engineer and/or producer for the last 30 years, Scott has worke...

John Paterno is a Grammy-winning producer, mixer, composer, engineer, mastering engineer, teacher, and musician who has worked with a diverse range of artists including Gov’t Mule, Robbie Williams, Steve Gadd Band, Soraya, Michael Landau, Band of Other Brothers, Robben Ford, Eros Ramazzotti, the Thrills, Tim McGraw, Bonnie Raitt, and Badly Drawn Boy, in his 30-plus-year career. 

Paterno moved to Los Angeles two weeks after grad...

Anthony Gravino is a Grammy-nominated producer, recording, mixing and mastering engineer with over 20 years of experience as a professional engineer and musician, who has worked on hundreds of albums in various capacities. Some of the artists he has worked with include Peter Erskine, Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter, Nate Smith, Marquis Hill, Davy Knowles, Ari Hest, Tobin Sprout.

His private studio, High Cross Sound, is equipped with an ...

With over 16 years supporting award-winning games and culturally-recognized franchises, Steve Pardo composes and directs emotional and expansive music and audio for linear and interactive media. He is co-founder of game music & audio production house SkewSound, Composer/Music Manager at ProbablyMonsters, founder/game developer at The Pardo Brothers, and an active saxophone/woodwind recording and performing artist in Nashville, ...

Craig Alvin is an award-winning audio engineer based in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. With a career spanning three decades, Alvin has worked with a roster of well-known artists spanning various genres. His recording credits include Hanson, Little Big Town, Amy Grant, Vanessa Carlton, Will Hoge, Andrew Belle, Brittany Howard and many more. Alvin won two Grammys for his engineering on Kacey Musgraves‘ Golden Hour album in 2019, and has con...

David Glasser is the founder and chief engineer of Airshow Mastering in Boulder, CO. He is a 3 time Grammy nominee and two-time Grammy winner, and has mastered around 100 Grammy-nominated and winning projects. Recent projects and clients include Grateful Dead (Blues For

Allah 50th Anniversary, Enjoying the Ride box set), Jim Lauderdale, Sturgill Simpson, Del McCoury, The Third Mind, Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Darrell Scott,...

Ryan Williams began his recording journey playing guitar in bands and pursuing formal studies in recording at Georgia State University. After school, he earned a position at Southern Tracks Recording Studio in Atlanta, where he contributed to major projects for artists like Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Rage Against the Machine, and Outkast. In 2001, he relocated to Los Angeles and expanded his portfolio, working with Velvet Revo...

Ronan Chris Murphy is a multi-genre record producer and engineer that works around the world and splits his time between the United States and Italy. His diverse album credits include Gwar, King Crimson (several albums), Aurora, Terry Bozzio, Steve Morse, Ulver, Pete Teo, Jamie Walters and hundreds more. Some of his video game credits include Assasin’s Creed Brotherhood, Yoku’s Island Express and Mafia III. He mastered the score al...

Spencer Hoad is a versatile songwriter, producer, and engineer whose work spans pop, rock, and alternative genres. With a career rooted in both major-label and independent projects, Spencer has collaborated with an impressive roster of artists, including Avril Lavigne, Sia, Blink-182, Korn, Neon Trees, The Used, and Fifth Harmony. Known for his ability to take songs from concept to final master, Spencer often handles vocal producti...

Chris Selim is the musician, music producer, and mixing/mastering engineer behind Mixdown Online. With a passion for music that knows no bounds, Chris has dedicated himself to helping home studio owners and musicians worldwide enhance their music production, recording, and mixing skills.

As the creator of Mixdown Online, Chris has built a thriving community of over 129K subscribers on YouTube, with more than 15 million views across ...

Jonathan O’Brien is a producer, mix engineer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Idyllwild, California, where he operates The Music Box—a hybrid recording studio and creative retreat tucked in the San Jacinto Mountains. Known for his immersive, emotionally rich mixes and collaborative approach, Jonathan has worked with artists including Gal Musette, Young the Giant, Coma Culture, and Andrew Goldring, often wearing multiple hats as ...

Matt Colton is a Grammy Award–winning mastering engineer whose career has spanned over two decades at the forefront of the music industry. Known for his meticulous ear and versatility across formats, he has mastered projects for some of the world’s most celebrated artists, including Peter Gabriel, Arctic Monkeys, Aphex Twin, James Blake, and Depeche Mode. Beginning his journey in the late 1990s at Porky’s Mastering in London, Colto...

Vance Powell is an American six-time Grammy Award-winning record producer, engineer, and mixer. His credits include Phish, Chris Stapleton, Jack White, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, The White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, Wolfmother, Deadly Apples, Seasick Steve, Black Prairie, The Revivalists, Tinariwen, JEFF the Brotherhood, Daniel Ellsworth & The Great Lakes, and Martina McBride, among many o...

Ken Sluiter is a Grammy‑nominated recording engineer, producer, and mixer whose career spans from Chicago’s indie scene to major Los Angeles studios. He has worked with a diverse roster of artists, including Weezer (Red Album), Morrissey, James Blunt, Heart, OK Go, Jerry Lee Lewis, Andra Day, The Mekons, and Flogging Molly. After establishing himself at Chicago’s Kingsize Sound Labs, Ken moved to LA in 2003, where he assisted legen...