Mike Kennerty: Building Confidence as an Audio Engineer

Mike Kennerty has been playing guitar for the All-American Rejects for more than a couple decades at this point. When he's not doing that he's busy working as a producer/mixer/engineer for bands such as Screeching Weasel, Masked Intruder, The Copyrights, Red City Radio, Direct Hit, Geoff Palmer, etc... He lives in Oklahoma and actually quite enjoys it!

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• Building confidence as an audio engineer
• Taking chances to land clients
• Working with and learning from producers such as Howard Benson, Matt Squire, and Eric Valentine
• Shaping songs in pre-production
• Writing “hit” songs
• Refining a band’s sound
• Seeing your limitations as a superpower
• Incorporating templates into your process
• Using room samples vs reverbs
• His workflow for working with programmed drums
• Keeping guitar tracking simple
• Using room tracks with guitars

To learn more about Mike Kennerty, visit: https://www.instagram.com/mikeaar/

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