#01 - Steve Albini | The Aural Tradition Of Mentoring

This is the genesis of how the podcast came to be. Call it the pilot episode. So it's only fitting we include this conversation with Steve Albini at the number one spot on the episode list. For those of you who are curious, Steve Albini is an American musician, record producer, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman and Flour, and is a member of Shellac. He is the founder, owner and principal engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex in Chicago. 

Albini is also known for his outspoken and controversial views on the music industry, having stated repeatedly that it financially exploits artists and homogenizes their sound. Nearly alone among well-known producers and musicians, Albini refuses to take ongoing royalties from album sales, feeling that a producer's job is to record the music to the band's desires, and that paying a producer as if they had contributed artistically to an album is unethical.

In this episode we discuss his time spent working with Mix With The Masters, his microphone techniques, guitar effects such as the harmonic peculator, and who Steve aspires to model a career after.   

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