My guest is Los Angeles-based mastering engineer Nick Townsend. Nick loves cutting Lacquers and has worked on releases by Cheap Trick, Weezer, Iron Maiden, Bad Religion, Garbage, Dr. Dre, 2Pac, Grimes, and more. Nick works at Infrasonic Sound.

In this episode, we discuss:

Musical Household

Stoner Rock Uncle

Drums at Grandmas House

Punk Rock Bands

Catching the Recording Bug

Community College Recording Program

Pete Lyman

Mechanical Side of the Brain

Fishing

Clay Shooting

Outdoors Activities

Interning

Cutting Lacquers

Cutter Heads

Freelance Mastering

Infrasonic

Apollo Lacquers Fire


Matt's Rant: Audio Degrees

Links and Show Notes

Infrasonic Sound

WCA #306 with Dan Baccigalupi

WCA #261 with Dave Gardner 

WCA #199 with Pete Lyman

WCA #251 with Piper Payne

Download 15 Tips to Help you Survive as an Audio Pro



Credits

Guest: Nick Townsend

Host: Matt Boudreau

Engineer: Matt Boudreau

Producer: Matt Boudreau

Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau 

WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell 

Announcer: Chuck Smith