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Darius Papak
Melbourne-based recording/mix engineer and music producer who runs Mudbrick Studio in Lower Plenty, specialising in indie-pop rock, rock and pop-folk; also fronts the project Dilly.
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Sep 29, 2026
Mudbrick Studio: The New Home of What's That Sound (with Darius Papak) | What's That Sound? Ep 71
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26:14Darius PapakGUEST
Yeah, well, because it's, you know, sort of... because everything is all in here at once, you know, there's not necessarily a lot of storage, so we can't, like, pack the drums down and move them out, you know.
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26:30Darius PapakGUEST
When we first built the space, the whole mix desk and everything was actually over here, and the couch was, you know, in that corner kind of thing.
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26:39Darius PapakGUEST
eventually we just sort of moved everything around until it's in the current format that it is and i'm sure it'll change you know slightly from time to time but um one of the big things of that was to go all right we want the drum kit set up all the time and all the mics to be ready to go so um so and and that was able to be done after you know quite a while of tracking drums in different spaces in the room and testing different mic setups and stuff like that um now now we're able to sort of dedicate those mics to that they're just always set up ready to go you know maybe i'll pull like the u47 i use as a kick out often so i'll pull that off if i'm doing acoustics or whatever but otherwise everything's generally there and um the process of the mics and, like, the preamps that they go through, whether it's the 1073s or the Harrisons, you know, has just sort of been worked out over time and what I felt was best and I know what I can achieve with the sound now.
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27:40Darius PapakGUEST
And, I mean, you know, there's some great quality mics, obviously, like we've got the 4038s as overheads that we were testing when you came in.
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Stu WattsHOST
and so that's kind of how it goes with all the artists what about if you've already been working with an artist for you know Already worked with them on, you know, five, six, ten songs, you