Engineer Richard Chychi Discusses The New Dream Theater Album

My guest on this week's Inner Circle Podcast is engineer Richard Chychi, who was on the podcast about a year ago. This time he comes on specifically to tell us about recording the new Dream Theater album, which was pretty spectacular technically.

The album features the band augmented by a full orchestra and multiple choirs, which lead to some songs having more than 500 tracks across 3 Pro Tools rigs.

The story of putting it all together is fascinating (especially the 700 hours of mixing). I'm no longer going to complain when I get a 100 track session in to mix!

In the intro I'll discuss how AM radio is dying both in the US and in other parts of the world, the latest RIAA metric giving 1500 music streams the equivalent of 1 album, and the layoffs over at Avid.

Remember that you can find the podcast at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or either on iTunes, Stitcher and now on Mixcloud and Google Play.

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Rush/Dream Theater Engineer Richard Chycki On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast

This week I'm really pleased to have engineer/mixer Richard Chycki as a guest on my podcast.

Richard has a ton of credits, but those of you into prog rock know that he's worked extensively with both Rush and Dream Theater. 

On the show we discuss miking Neil Peart and Mike Mangini's drum kits (and avoiding phase shift when using 40 mics!), a great guitar recording trick, and surround sound mixing, among other things.

On the intro I'll talk about how 1% of artists make 80% of the money, the introduction of Spotify Touch Preview, the significance of Apple buying Symmetric, as well as the new MIDI HD and the upcoming AVB standards.

Remember that you can find the podcast either at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on iTunes or Stitcher.