Songwriting For Guitar Podcast
Aug 28, 2026 · 59 min · 11 segments
In this one, Grace and I get into what it's actually like producing in a 96% male industry, the comments that tell her the mix is wrong before anyone's even heard the whole song, and why she leans…
Mike MeiersHost4% of producers are women.
dudes.
It's kind of crazy.
I don't know what's up with YouTube shorts, but I'll get comments to be like, oh, the kick wasn't right on that, or the snare was at this deep beat.
I'm just like, you know what? I liked it.
And you try writing, producing, mixing, mastering the whole song
It's like we kind of have to be a one-stop shop now, but I think it's essential.
not just something that we should just be like, oh, I don't know anything about this.
Someone already knows more than me.
maybe.
Like you don't just like get linked up with the best producer in town and then you're set.
Like that's not... how it works at all anymore you kind of have to have that edge and create that for yourself i feel like four percent of producers are women
it's kind of crazy and it's just like i don't want to feel like whenever i'm like submitting something for a project or producing my own stuff i don't want to feel like oh i always have to say i'm a female producer but I kind of do have to lean into that because it is a niche.
And so I'm trying to lean into that, even though I hate the stigma.
But if you are in a niche and you didn't know how you got there, you know, you kind of have to roll with it.
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4% of producers are women.
dudes.
It's kind of crazy.
I don't know what's up with YouTube shorts, but I'll get comments to be like, oh, the kick wasn't right on that, or the snare was at this deep beat.
I'm just like, you know what? I liked it.
And you try writing, producing, mixing, mastering the whole song
It's like we kind of have to be a one-stop shop now, but I think it's essential.
not just something that we should just be like, oh, I don't know anything about this.
Someone already knows more than me.
maybe.
Like you don't just like get linked up with the best producer in town and then you're set.
Like that's not... how it works at all anymore you kind of have to have that edge and create that for yourself i feel like four percent of producers are women
it's kind of crazy and it's just like i don't want to feel like whenever i'm like submitting something for a project or producing my own stuff i don't want to feel like oh i always have to say i'm a female producer but I kind of do have to lean into that because it is a niche.
And so I'm trying to lean into that, even though I hate the stigma.
But if you are in a niche and you didn't know how you got there, you know, you kind of have to roll with it.
