This week’s guest is two time Grammy winning recording engineer and mixer Fernando Lodeiro. Fernando is a New York based engineer who came up through Avatar studios. His credits include Esperanza Spaulding, Vampire Weekend, Lady GaGa, and Sir Paul McCartney. We talk about his passion for working with musicians together in a room, the importance of maintaining relationships, big studio vs small studio vibes, and how learning all the gear in the room got him ahead early in his career.
In this episode, we'll dig in on...
Building your own vocabulary as an engineer
Over delivering for clients
Pandemic engineering
Gear manuals
The importance of keeping in touch
Freelance engineering in New York City
Knowing when it's time to move on to the next thing

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Credits:
Guest: Fernando Lodeiro
Host: Travis Ference
Editor: Travis Ference
Theme Music: inter.ference