Gail chats with lofi producer Valeska Sain-Jacques @sainsailofi about her journey into music production. They break down one of her tracks and there is much nerdery about cool synths, automation levels, composition, and more. 

Shoutout to

Mixing with mike https://www.youtube.com/@mixingwithmike

Connect with valeska at

https://www.youtube.com/@SaintSaiLoFi

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Gail chats with Arizona based singer-songwriter, producer and “certified Pro Tools professional” Mishy Katz @mishy katz about her production journey. They deep dive on a cover song arrangement of “Runaway” by Harry  Nilsson as well as talk about the creation of her new song “You and Me.” 

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https://mishykatz.com/

https://www.instagram.com/mishy.katz/

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Gail sits down with Chicago musician Sunflower Summit to talk about their journey to music production, their growth as a songwriter, and to unpack the mix of their beautiful and haunting track “Snow Queers.”

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https://bio.site/sunflowersummit

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Gail chats with Pittsburgh- based singer- songwriter and producer Julianne Wright about her production journey. They deep dive on her new song Rain on Me that she wrote in a co-write with Cinder Shine. 

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Gail chats with fellow Chicago comedy musician and producer Jake Dewar about his music production journey. Jake shares a preview of his new EDM comedy song “Minimal Risk” 

Connect with jake- https://linktr.ee/jakedewarcomedy

Jake’s recommendation- Check out @REAPERMania for more Reaper Deep Dives 

https://www.youtube.com/@REAPERMania

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I chat with singer songwriter Carleen about her music tech journey and how she uses production in her songwriting. 

For video version of this episode head to: https://youtu.be/h4u_EA6LIPw

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https://carleenmusic.com/

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Watch the music video for the mask

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twsYZq9aJCo

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Gail chats with “nerdy flute player” Katie Shesko about her journey with music tech, live looping, and the magic of the glissando flute joint.

Book mentioned: The Electric Flute by Melissa Keeling 

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The DAWk Show- s1e1-Mike Bankhead

The DAWk Show is a podcast about music production, the creative process, and deep dives on Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs)

Today’s guest is Mike Bankhead, Gail and Mike talk about:

-what the term producer means now versus what it used to mean

-Mike’s previous projects Hold the Wick and For Misty

-how Mike uses his DAW (reaper) in the songwriting process

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www.mikebankheadmusic.com

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