Production Expert Podcast
Practical advice for working audio professionals - mix engineers, music producers, post-production specialists and studio owners. Every episode covers real workflow decisions, craft technique, industry analysis and the tools that actually matter in professional sessions. Hosted by the Production Expert team, with guests including credited engineers, producers and industry specialists. Topics include mixing, music production, post-production, immersive audio, Atmos, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Studio One, DAW workflow, compression, EQ, session management, and the business of professional audio.
Episodes
358 episodes
Rock and Roll Scientists: Flow Studio,Pre-Production Planning, Modern Music Production, AI & Education. (Part 2)
In this podcast episode Ashea is joined by Todd Urban, General Manager at Softube, educator at Passaic County Community College, and creator of the Urban Sound Studio YouTube channel. With over 30 years of experience in audio production, Todd d...
Krotos CEO Orfeas Boteas Addresses Community Backlash: Why Video to Sound Released for Adobe, Not DAWs, Misleading Marketing, Social Media Backlash & How the Company Plans to Support Audio Professionals in 2026
In this Production Expert Podcast Special Edition, Mike Thornton, co-founder of Production Expert invites Orfeas Boteas, founder and CEO of Krotos, and Matthew Collins, head of product, to address significant community concerns following the re...
Rock and Roll Scientists: Softube's Todd Urban on Pre-Production Intention, Philosophy & Facilitated Creative Momentum for Tracking and Mixing (Part 1).
In this podcast episode Ashea is joined by Todd Urban, General Manager at Softube, educator at Passaic County Community College, and creator of the Urban Sound Studio YouTube channel. With over 30 years of experience in audio production, Todd d...
From Tomorrowland to Broadcast: Pieter Doms & Mark Gittins on Building the AREAL SR1 Headphones, Upmix Algorithms & Why Binaural HRTFs Are Limiting
In this podcast episode Ashea is joined by Mark Gittins, immersive audio engineer and owner of SenSound studios, currently working on broadcast for a major international football tournament, and Pieter Doms, co-founder of AREAL Technologies fro...
QUIZ TIME: How Well Do You Know Your World Cup Music?
Quiz Time! In this podcast episode, immersive audio engineer Mark Gittins joins Ashea from Kansas City to go head-to-head with AREAL co-founder and audio engineer Pieter Doms for our World Cup Music Quiz.England vs Belgium just took on ...
How AI is Ruining Dialogue Production: Award-Winning Producers on Descript, Pacing Loss & Preserving Audio Craft
In this podcast episode Ashea is joined by Eloise Whitmore and Tony Churnside, award-winning sound designers and co-founders of Naked Productions, for a frank discussion on how AI tools like Descript are fundamentally changing audio production—...
Radio Drama Production & Sound Design: Award-Winning Producers Eloise Whitmore & Tony Churnside on Location Recording, BBC Dramas & The Skewer
In this podcast episode Ashea is joined by Eloise Whitmore and Tony Chernside, co-founders of Naked Productions, an award-winning sound design and audio production company specializing in BBC radio dramas and acclaimed audio content. Eloise won...
No More Labels. Grammy Winning Mixer & Producer Matt Lawrence On The Music Industry For Studios, Artists & Labels In 2026 Part 2
In this podcast episode Ashea is joined by Matt Lawrence, a Grammy Award-winning mixer, producer, and engineer who has worked on some of the most influential records of the past 20 years. In this first part of a two-part conversation, Ma...
No More Labels. Grammy Winning Mixer & Producer Matt Lawrence On The Music Industry For Studios, Artists & Labels In 2026
In this podcast episode Ashea is joined by Matt Lawrence, a Grammy Award-winning mixer, producer, and engineer who has worked on some of the most influential records of the past 20 years. In this first part of a two-part conversation, Ma...
Smash Hit- Recording Adele's 'Hello' & Tony Visconti/Toontrack's 'Drumopolis' at Metropolis.
"Behind some of the world's greatest hits lies a great question: does constraint breed genius? In this Podcast Edition, Drummer Steven Gilchrist (Graham Coxon, The Damned, and Boney M) and Grammy winning engineer Liam Nolan (Rihanna, Stormzy, t...
Women In Audio: Why The Numbers Are Falling, With Nana Ayebi-Kwakye
The number of women working as audio engineers and music producers is falling, not rising. Ashea is joined by British-Ghanaian producer, rapper and author Nana Ayebi-Kwakye to discuss why the gap is widening, where the signs of hope are, and th...
Not Just For Guitarists! The Fender Studio Rebrand & The Future Of DAWs (With Fender/PreSonus)
DescriptionIn this podcast episode Ashea is joined by Arnd Kaiser, Product Designer Strategist at Fender Musical Instruments, and Tony Carridi, Global Revenue and Go-To-Market Executive at Fender PreSonus. Togeth...
How Well Do You Really Know Your Guitars/Synths? Quiz Time
In this episode Ashea is joined by Arnd Kaiser and Tony Cariddi of Presonus/Fender for a tense guitar and synth quiz designed to really test your abilities. If you fail it's worth thinking long and hard about your career choice because you're l...
The Lord Of The Strings- Emmy Winning Composers Discuss Composing For Film & TV (Part 2)
DescriptionIn this podcast episode Ashea is joined by Stephen Gallagher, an Emmy Award-winning composer and music editor with credits on major film and television productions, and Tilman Sillescu, creative direct...
The Lord Of The Strings- Emmy Winning Composers Discuss Composing For Film & TV (Part 1)
DescriptionIn this podcast episode Ashea is joined by Stephen Gallagher, an Emmy Award-winning composer and music editor with credits on major film and television productions, and Tilman Sillescu, creative director, co-foun...
Producer Lunch Talk: Compressors, Mix Translation & Working Backwards with Chic's Richard Hilton & Steve DeMott"
DescriptionIn this podcast episode Ashea is joined by Richard Hilton, an award-winning producer and engineer who has worked extensively with Nile Rodgers and Chic, and Steve DeMott, Grammy-nominated producer and engineer from ...
How Well Do You Really Know Your Compressors? Quiz Time
Today on the Production Expert Podcast, Ashea puts Richard Hilton and Steve De -Mott's compression trivia knowledge to the test.So how did you do you? Let us know.About Our Guests:Steve DeMott: Producer, engin...
Professional Mixing in Stereo & Atmos: Grammy-Winning Mixer Andrew Scheps on Workflow, Impostor Syndrome & Industry Insights (Part 2)
DescriptionIn this podcast episode Ashea is joined by Andrew Scheps, a three-time Grammy Award-winning mixer and producer, for Part 2 of their in-depth conversation about professional mixing in the era of immersive audi...
Professional Mixing in Stereo & Atmos: Grammy-Winning Mixer Andrew Scheps on Workflow, Impostor Syndrome & Industry Insights (Part 1)
DescriptionIn this podcast episode Ashea is joined by Andrew Scheps, a three-time Grammy Award-winning mixer and producer renowned for his work with iconic artists and his expertise in both stereo and immersive audio mi...
The Science of Listening: Psychoacoustics & Immersive Audio Explained (Part Two).
In this week’s episode, Ashea is joined by Hyunkook Lee (Professor of Psychoacoustics and APL founder), Emre Ramazanoglu and Mark Gittins, for part two of The Science Of Listening, where they discuss Psychoaco...
The Science of Listening: Psychoacoustics & Immersive Audio Explained" (Part One).
For 25 years, Professor Hyunkook Lee has been researching surround sound and immersive audio. Since 2010, his focus has been on height perception—specifically, how we perceive and localize sounds coming from above. His discoveries have fundamen...
Windmill Lane Recording Studio Dublin: Inside the Most Legendary Studio in Ireland
Windmill Lane Recording Studios has hosted some of the most significant recordings in music history. But what is it about this legendary Dublin facility that keeps world-class artists and producers returning? In this episode, Tony Perry takes u...
Creating A 'Now' Moment With Sync DNA
In this edition Ashea is joined by Mat Pataki and Andreas Pohl from remote collaboration platform Sync DNA. Where they discuss how, Sync DNA is helping audio professionals and artists get in the zone without being in the room together aka...