Master Your Mix Podcast
Through interviews and Q&A episodes, Mike Indovina shares recording tips and techniques to help engineers, artists, and producers improve the quality of their recordings and mixes (even from a home studio).
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Check out previous episodes below:
EP 325: Alex Allinson – Reading Artists (and Yourself) in the Studio
Alex Allinson is a recording and mixing engineer and co-owner of The Bridge Sound & Stage in Cambridge, Massachusetts: a studio built inside the former home of the legendary Fort Apache Studios, where Radiohead and Dinosaur Jr. once recorded. Alex started out as an intern and worked his way up to partner, and now runs sessions that swing from shoegaze and noise rock to a Charles Mingus tribute record for a Berklee jazz professor, often in the same week. Genre-agnostic by philosophy, he brings the same story-first, dynamics-forward mixing approach to whatever walks through the door and has become one of the most active advocates for Boston’s independent music scene along the way.
EP 324: Ed Donnelly – Capturing Authenticity
Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer, record producer, and activist from Pioneertown, CA. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Matchbox Twenty, The Cult, Gladys Knight, Willie Nelson, Smashing Pumpkins, Del McCoury, Nathan Jacques, OK Go, Exodus, Tom Morello, O.A.R., Madness, The Crystal Method, Deadmau5, Cole Gallagher, Zac Brown, Crowded House, Marc Cohn, CrysP Tyger, Bighead Todd and the Monsters, Jake Shimabukuro, Barenaked Ladies, Tsar, Killola and more. Donnelly regularly performs with Little Silver Hearts and records with GhostsDream. Little known fact: He previously held Top Secret Security Clearance with the Department of State and Q Clearance from the Department of Energy.
EP 323: Neal Cappellino: Know What You’re Solving For
Originally from Rochester, NY, producer/engineer Neal Cappellino is the owner of The Doghouse Studio in Nashville, TN. A lifelong musician, he completed his formal education with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (’87).
Neal is a 5-time Grammy® Award recipient with a discography that includes Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Robert Plant, Vince Gill, T Bone Burnett, Avicii, and Kygo. He is a member of The Recording Academy, the Audio Engineering Society, and Leadership Music Class of ’15.
EP 322: Damian Taylor – Structure, Self-Doubt, and Finishing Music
Damian Taylor is a Grammy-nominated producer, mixer, programmer and songwriter who spent six years as Björk’s personal engineer and programmer, working on Volta and Biophilia and touring the world with her on stage. His credits include The Prodigy’s Invaders Must Die, The Killers’ Battle Born, Arcade Fire, The Temper Trap, Odette, Bomba Estéreo’s Grammy-nominated Deja, and Dizzy’s Juno-winning Baby Teeth. Known for a hand-built approach to editing and sound design that was years ahead of standard workflows, he now teaches producers through The Complete Producer Network and his Mix Accelerator Process.
EP 321: Peter Craft – Intentionality is Everything
Peter Craft is the owner and chief engineer of Boxer Lodge, a destination recording studio in the hills above Napa Valley. A former software engineer and patent-holding tech architect, Craft left that career to build records full time, first from a San Francisco garage and now from a purpose-built studio centered on a 32-channel API 1608 console. He’s engineered and mixed for Noelle & The Deserters, New Earth Farmers, and Strange Cities, and in 2024 hosted a session for reunited trip-hop pioneers Halou. A lifelong drummer, Craft often plays on the records he’s running the board for.
EP 320: Chris Collier – Earning Creative Freedom
Chris Collier is a producer, mixer, mastering engineer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Las Vegas, operating as CMC21 Productions. Across nearly three decades in hard rock and metal, he’s engineered and produced for Korn, earning a promotion to producer on 2022’s Requiem after years behind the board on the band’s records, plus Prong, Lynch Mob, KXM, and Whitesnake, whose classic catalog he’s remixed. On Mick Mars’ 2024 solo debut, The Other Side of Mars, he played bass on every track in addition to mixing and mastering it. He’s currently mixing and producing new material for Nonpoint, Society1, and Gunshine.
EP 319: Tim Dolbear – Building a Remote Mixing Business
Tim Dolbear is an award-winning mixing and mastering engineer with more than 25 years of professional experience and the owner of Eclectica Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, which he founded in 1999. He specializes in music mixing, mastering, and audio post-production for film, television, podcasts, and streaming, delivering high-resolution stereo, surround, and Dolby Atmos mixes for clients around the world.
EP 318: Howard Bilerman – Not Letting Production Hide the Song
Howard Bilerman is a Grammy-nominated musician, sound engineer & record producer who has been recording bands for over 30 years. As co-owner & head engineer of the hotel2tango recording studio in Montreal, Bilerman has enjoyed working with some of Canada’s most talented artists, as well as others from the USA, the UK, France, Italy, Scotland, Africa, Spain, Ireland, Switzerland, Portugal & Australia.
EP 317: Eric Stenman – Having an “always mixing” approach to production
Eric Stenman is an LA-based producer, mixer, and engineer whose four-decade credit list runs from Deftones, Thrice, and Weezer to Daniel Caesar’s Grammy-nominated Freudian and every AWOLNATION album since 2011’s Megalithic Symphony. A decade running Red Bull Studios in Los Angeles gave way to overseeing AWOLNATION’s own Malibu studio, where Stenman has helped engineer some of alternative rock’s biggest, guitar-built (and famously bass-guitar-free) low end. Most recently, he’s stepped from behind the board into the band itself, co-founding the metallic-hardcore project The Barbarians of California with longtime collaborator Aaron Bruno.
EP 316: Jon Estes – Working to make the song succeed
Jon Estes is a Nashville producer, mixing engineer, and multi-instrumentalist who works roughly 200 sessions a year, often as bassist, engineer, and producer on the same record. He’s played on Kesha’s Grammy-nominated Rainbow and Robyn Hitchcock’s self-titled album, and produced and mixed full-length records for Jessie Baylin, Dara Tucker, and Langhorne Slim, most recently engineering and mixing rising country breakout Waylon Wyatt’s 2026 debut Dustpiles. He also scores for TV (NBC, HBO, Disney) and video games (Fortnite). Estes runs a hybrid analog/digital studio in Nashville built around a 1″ tape machine and a deep collection of vintage instruments.
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