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iTunes Spotify Youtube Trace Davis is the owner and founder of Voodoo Amps, one of the premiere, boutique amplifier companies of it’s kind. Driven by an unrelenting quest for the perfect guitar tone, Trace seeks to free his artists from distraction by “crafting more flexible and reliable ways to achieve great tone with vintage tones as well as high gain while always maintaining articulation and definition at all times.” A native of Ithaca, NY, Trace has well over two decades of experience as an engineer, a session player, and a producer. These are just some of the artists who use and endorse Voodoo Amps: Aerosmith, AC/DC, Ani DiFranco, Blackberry Smoke, Danzig, Dinosaur Jr., Five Finger Death, Guns N' Roses, Joe Bonamassa, Whitesnake, Widespread Panic, and ZZ Top. Today’s episode is sponsored by Showprobeardco.com. Use the CODE: roadie for a 20% discount on your entire order!  

Gil Craig is an Audio Engineer and a Sound Designer based out of Wellington New Zealand. As a Monitor Engineer she has mixed for the Phoenix Foundation with the New Zealand Symphony, The Pink Floyd Experience, as well as many other Symphony orchestra productions and concerts. She is also an accomplished record mixer, with several award-winning albums to her credit including: Trouble on the Waterfront, by the Waterfront Collective, and Circus of Fleas, by Fleabite. Gil is also a partner at Western Audio, a well-respected and Audio production house. When she is not mixing FOH, Monitors, or doing Sound Design, she most likely can be found following her other passion, photography. Special Mentions: Lagond Music School – Live!,Western Audio, Paul McCartney – The Life, Philip Norman, The Beatles White Album 6CD set, Tom Petty – American Treasure – 4CD, Michael Bloomfield: An Oral History – Jan Mark Wolkin, AES NYC 2018, George Kao - Authentic Content Marketing: Build An Engaged Audience For Your Personal Brand Thro

I'm so sorry to the cities of Pittsburgh and Los Angeles for the recent tragedies that have taken place. Please, show a little extra empathy and love towards people today.

It’s good to be back from AES and in the studio! This week’s guest comes to us all the way from Newcastle Upon Tyne, in the U.K. Kim Watson is a freelance sound engineer who’s been focused as a systems tech, monitor engineer, and Front of House engineer since she was in high school. She’s moved quickly up the ranks, earning the respect of her peers. As the house engineer for Newcastle’s O2 Academy, she works with an incredible selection of artists. Her client list includes The Subways, Blondie, Tom Jones, Shane Filan, UB40, and Emilio Sande. Today’s episode is sponsored by Audible.com.

Good ‘ole fashioned heart mixing. Zen mixing. Mixing a band with your soul and some faders. That’s what we have here today my friends, and our guest this week is a disciple of all of these schools of mixing. For the last eight years Bruce Reiter has been mixing Front of House for the hard-hitting band, Five Finger Death Punch. With a deep knowledge base of both the analog side and the digital side, Bruce has honed his skills and reputation with such artists as Megadeath, Social Distortion, Static-X, Fear Factory, Limp Bizkit, Rancid, and Powerman 5000. I caught-up with Bruce while he was enjoying a short break before his next tour with Five Finger Death Punch starts up again. Happy Columbus Day friends! Today’s episode is sponsored by Audible.com and ShowPro Beard Co. 

It’s an honor to be celebrating my 105th episode this week with our guest, Monitor Engineer Bruce Danz. For the last 25 years Bruce has mixed monitors for some of Rock’s hardest hitting artists including Anthrax, Testament, Alice Cooper, Death Angel, and Buckcherry. He endured a sixteen-year run with Marilyn Manson while simultaneously mixing for Avenge Sevenfold, a gig that has lasted almost eighteen years. But life for Danz wasn’t always behind the desk. The Michigan native also spent his twenties as a successful touring bass player. Come hang with Bruce and I, as we dissect his career in the industry and how he’s found a way to keep rockin’ after all these years. Thanks for listening! Today’s episode is sponsored by Audible.com and ShowPro Beard Co.

It’s an honor to have 3-time Grammy Award winning engineer, producer, mixer, sound designer and front of house engineer Marc Urselli on the show this week! I caught up with Marc at this years AES convention at the Javit’s Center and we had an incredible chat about his life, work ethic, and of course, his insatiable appetite for all things music-related. As a 5-time Grammy Award nominee, he has worked with U2, Foo Fighters, Sting, Lou Reed, Keith Richards, Kesha, Jeff Beck, Les Paul, Buddy Guy, Luther Vandross, Nick Cave, Børns, The Black Crowes, Joss Stone, Mike Patton, John Zorn, Jack DeJohnette, Esperanza Spalding, John Patitucci, Laurie Anderson and scores of artists performing rock, pop, metal, jazz, experimental/avantgarde/new music, urban and electronica and classical. Today’s episode is sponsored by Gig-Gear.com. Use the CODE: roadie for a 15% discount on your entire order!

In this Q&A episode we breakdown whether or not going to school for your career is worth it or not.

As a thank you to all of you I'm doing a quick giveaway today! The first two people to leave a comment or send me an email to info@roadiefreeradio.com will receive a copy of this Legendary Licks book about Michael Bloomfield and his incredible guitar skills.

Subscribe on iTunes Grace Under Pressure. I think that is the best summation of Sarah Huyck’s character that I can come up with after spending time with her during our interview. Throughout her short career, Sarah has risen to every challenge thrown her way. Starting with her mentor’s in college, to her real-world training in Denver, and finally on the mean streets of New York, Sarah’s tenacity and confidence have not only kept her working, but have helped to push this young Lighting Designer in ways that she could never have imagined. Check out her story and be inspired!  Special Mentions: Blue man Group, The Gramercy Theater NYC, Metropolitan State University of Denver, George Kao - Authentic Content Marketing: Build An Engaged Audience For Your Personal Brand Through Integrity & Generosity, Michael Bloomfield – From His Head, to His Heart, to His Hands, AES NYC 2018, Lagond Music School – Live!, Nathan Lively – Sound Design Live, Tour:Smart: And Break the Band – Martin Atkins, Dave Ramsey: Total Mon

Sometimes you gotta go with your great idea and make it happen! Hit me up with your questions: info@roadiefreeradio.com.

Subscribe on iTunes This week’s guest is used to wearing many hats. Not only is he a longtime Sound Designer and working engineer, but Nathan Lively is also the host and mastermind behind the incredibly successful podcast and audio training resource. As a sound engineer, Lively has worked with John McLaughlin and the Ringling Bros. Circus and has toured as far as Macau. As a sound designer he has been recognized by the San Francisco Theatre Critics Circle with Excellence In Theatre Sound Design. As a musician, he has performed at SXSW with the internationally acclaimed musical group Zé Dos Frangos. Nathan Lively – Sound Design Live, Nathan’s new book - Get On Tour, George Kao - Authentic Content Marketing: Build An Engaged Audience For Your Personal Brand Through Integrity & Generosity, Michael Bloomfield – From His Head, to His Heart, to His Hands, AES NYC 2018, Lagond Music School – Live!, Tour:Smart: And Break the Band – Martin Atkins, Dave Ramsey: Total Money Makeover, Airturn GoStand, Telefunken M

This week's Q&A is about finding a community of like-minded folks to help share your ideas. Get out and start one!

Subscribe on iTunes How does a Memphis Gospel singer find her way to Chicago to become an Opera singer, only decide the spotlight isn’t for her, and ultimately forge a career as the successful FOH Engineer for Janelle Monáe? It’s these questions and more that I explore with the amazing and talented Amanda Davis.  Frustrated by the constraints of her classical training, and realizing the spotlight wasn’t where she was most comfortable, Amanda found a path into the world of live audio production where she has made a name for herself as one of the most solid Engineers on the road today. Special Mentions:  Janelle Monae – Tour, AES NYC 2018, Lagond Music School – Live!, Nathan Lively – Sound Design Live, Tour:Smart: And Break the Band – Martin Atkins, Dave Ramsey: Total Money Makeover, Airturn GoStand, Telefunken M80 Dynamic Microphone. 

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Youtube Happy Labor Day friends! It’s great to be back and celebrating 101 episodes. My summer hiatus was perfect but I’m very excited to get back on the mic and start up a whole new season of episodes and continue to share these amazing and inspiring stories with you. To start us off on the right foot our first guest is Drum Tech and Stage Manager Lorne Wheaton. Not only does this award-wining tech have the respect of his peers, he’s also been in the industry long enough to have worked with some of the most revered drummers of our time.  A longtime resident Canadian, Lorne spent over a decade as the tech and confidant to Neil Peart, legendary drummer for Rush. The list of other notable clients includes Steve Smith (Journey), Joey Kramer (Aerosmith), Mickey Curry (Bryan Adams), Alex Van Halen (Van Halen), Matt Frenette (Loverboy), and many more. Special Mentions: Magpie Salute Tour video, Lagond Music School, Tour:Smart: And Break the Band – Martin Atkins, Airturn GoStand,

I'm still here my friends! How the hell is your Summer going? It's been a crazy one for me and I wanted to touch base with you all and let you know what's been happening and definitely what is coming up. We will be back with all new episodes September 7, 2018, so mark your calendars. Thanks for all of your kind emails, can't wait to rock it with you in a few weeks!

Well, this is IT! The big 100! Thank you so much for tuning-in and joining me on this epic journey of bringing you the stories behind the men and women who make the music and film industry tick day after day, night after night, mile after mile. A dreamer, an innovator, and a self-proclaimed procrastinator, Steve Remote doubled-down on his career, and at the age of eighteen years old, knew his destiny lay in following his own path, and forging a career for himself in the audio industry. He reasoned that the money he would spend on school would serve him better if spent on recording equipment to capture some of New York’s most daring bands of the 1970’s. Since that time Steve has built a formidable fleet of mobile recording trucks and has captured artists ranging from The Band Called Fuse, Dropkick Murphy’s, Blink 182, Wilco, New York Dolls, and many more. Today’s episode is sponsored by Airturn, ShowPro Beard Co., and Gig-Gear.

Thank you for joining me this week for our 99th episode, my guest is Jason Sprinzen, author of the forthcoming book about legendary sound and lighting company, SHOWCO. A native New Yorker, vintage guitar expert, and vintage t-shirt collector, Jason has always been fascinated by the 1970's Rock 'n' Roll scene. He was still in grade school when he first laid eyes on the SHOWCO logo. Over the years, he would see it again and again in photos worn on the t-shirts of his favorite rock stars. Already an avid collector of vintage rock t-shirts, Jason soon discovered that some of the most coveted rock tees around are SHOWCO shirts from the 1970's. By 2007, Jason's curiosity as to just what role this mysterious company had played in the concert tours of his favorite classic rock bands had become insatiable. Discovering that little-known SHOWCO was the premier sound and lighting company for most of the major touring bands throughout the 1970's immediately led to a desire to learn more, and ultimately suggested that he w

Like so many of my guests, Rich Nesin started his career with a passion for music and a desire to learn everything he could about the industry. But as we know all too well, a successful career also comes down to right place, right time. After starting out as a bass player in local New York bands, Rich quickly found himself working at S.I.R studios in midtown Manhattan, servicing clients like Todd Rundgren, The Dictators, Jim Carroll, and Blue Oyster Cult. His big break came at the start of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, where Nesin got his first real taste of life as a touring professional, making $250 a week as the tour's backline tech. Focusing on his strengths and natural abilities as Tour Manager and Production Manager, Rich has worked with a who's who of industry heavyweights, including his long tenure with Reggae superstars, Steel Pulse. Today’s episode is sponsored by ALL OF YOU!!

Our guest this week is Lighting Tech Pierce Scott. At the ripe young age of fourteen Pierce found his calling at his local church and starting volunteering in the A/V department. His first love was video, but he soon ended up learning all aspects of production including lighting. After working in the Cincinnati area for free just to gain experience, he finally dropped out of college, moved to Nashville, and started working for Glow Motion Technologies. Since then, he has worked on numerous live shows and events, with barely a break over the last few years. From Journey to Drake, Tom Petty and Beyonce, Pierce is proof that passion, desire, and an unwavering focus on your goals will lead to success. Today's episode is sponsored by ShowPro Beard Co. & Airturn.