How do you deal with giving the right amount of attention to every project that you agree to? The State of Saturation in Record Making. How much are you solo’ing? What do you do when you’re stuck on a production? How many different speakers do you test mixes on? Favorite breakfast place in LA and New York?

Kendrick Lamar’s New Record. Mixing Tate McCrae - What Would You Do. How do you leverage success to get more work? Have you ever turned down a good opportunity, or do you take every one? How do you handle editing on the fly in a session?

Mixing St. Vincent’s ‘Daddys Home’. What do you think is the skill or attribute most responsible for winning a Grammy? What do you consider a well-recorded vocal? How much are you treating your mix buss and your group busses vs. your individual tracks? Live Bass Guitar. Undertone Audio Hardware. How do you manage mix revisions?

Mixing for Atmos. Mixing records with a sample. What’s something you wish you’d known earlier in your career? When did you experience the most rapid period of growth in your career? Any tips on forecasting the timelines of projects? How do you think about mix moves translating live?

Differences between Nashville and LA writing sessions. Is the mix buss important for making great mixes? What things have you not done yet that you still want to do (music or otherwise)? General philosophies on tuning vocals?

Where are the best producers getting their samples from? Changing Your Plugin Defaults. Underrated Plugins. How to think about and control the envelope of low end.

Special live roundtable discussion #1 w/ Jon Castelli, Cian Riordan, Bainz, Teezio, and Matt Beckley

Finding work/life balance. Being comfortable with self-promotion. Chair/seating recommendations. What was the first song of yours that felt competitive? Matt Rad’s mix buss.

Mixing orchestral instruments. Good books about music? Kick drum in the key of the song?

My recording setup. Acoustic guitars and mic’ing. Pedals.

Any updates on the new clipper you were excited about 2 weeks ago? How do you make people want to work with you in the early stages of your career? How do you make a comfortable space for clients? How do you know when to take on a project that’s out of your comfort zone in order to grow? How do you learn to hear compression? Lead vocal treatment vs. background vocals?

What makes a good tracking room? What is your personal mix room like? Monitors. Getting paid by clients.

Tips for making routine when creativity is always on a whim? Have you ever encountered somebody who discouraged your intense work ethic? Mixing the Verité record. What creative thing would you do if it wasn’t music? What do you do when stems don’t match the production?

When to use subtractive vs. additive EQ. Printing Stems/multitracks. Printing autotune as you track vocals. How loud to deliver mixes to mastering.

Networking, seeking opportunities, and self-promotion. Holidays. Leaving a project due to creative differences. The Weeknd’s new album, Dawn FM. Discrete vs. shared reverbs.

What motivates you to work all of the time? How much of a 15 hr session is actually recording? What is your monitoring template? How do you deal with extra noise in vocal recordings? What’s your monitoring setup? Tinnitus and hearing loss.