Aug 21, 2026 · 43 min · 13 segments
Lincoln Grounds joins Julian Rodgers to discuss guerrilla recording techniques, exploring how a focus on authentic performances, unconventional spaces and adaptability can matter more than technology…
Lincoln GroundsGuest
Julian RodgersHost
What you say about some drawing stuff out too much, this is a little bit like if we get a new capability, then we'll always go too far with it before we pull back and find the right level.
I've made jokes at my own expense before about the first time I got access to a digital reverb.
And I think some of those tails are still reverberating somewhere right the way back from the early 90s.
And I listened to stuff where I first got access to Pro Tools on a computer that could handle more tracks than I was used to, shall we say.
And rather than having a rack with, I don't know, like eight channels of compression in it at the studio, I had as many compressors as I wanted.
In the same way, I chased an ideal in those sort of early days of getting perfect isolation between tracks.
Do you have a similar kind of example of the kind of thing that... perhaps you know once you've indulged you you want to reverse from to find a sweet spot
yeah i think i mean again i mean starting from you know cassette four tracks being that age um when i first you know got my hands on pro tools it was ridiculous and then the moment when you get you know first got your hands on beat detective and suddenly you're moving snare snare beats a millisecond to the left and thinking that you're doing yourself a favor um everyone has to go we all go through that process and then you end up And then you sort of sit back maybe a couple of weeks later and listen to it back and you think, what on earth was I doing? Not only have I kind of not made it better, I've probably made it worse and I've wasted a lot of time doing it.
What you say about some drawing stuff out too much, this is a little bit like if we get a new capability, then we'll always go too far with it before we pull back and find the right level.
I've made jokes at my own expense before about the first time I got access to a digital reverb.
And I think some of those tails are still reverberating somewhere right the way back from the early 90s.
And I listened to stuff where I first got access to Pro Tools on a computer that could handle more tracks than I was used to, shall we say.
And rather than having a rack with, I don't know, like eight channels of compression in it at the studio, I had as many compressors as I wanted.
In the same way, I chased an ideal in those sort of early days of getting perfect isolation between tracks.
Do you have a similar kind of example of the kind of thing that... perhaps you know once you've indulged you you want to reverse from to find a sweet spot
yeah i think i mean again i mean starting from you know cassette four tracks being that age um when i first you know got my hands on pro tools it was ridiculous and then the moment when you get you know first got your hands on beat detective and suddenly you're moving snare snare beats a millisecond to the left and thinking that you're doing yourself a favor um everyone has to go we all go through that process and then you end up And then you sort of sit back maybe a couple of weeks later and listen to it back and you think, what on earth was I doing? Not only have I kind of not made it better, I've probably made it worse and I've wasted a lot of time doing it.
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