Aug 26, 2026 · 36 min · 16 segments
Connecticut-native Shawn Speno, AKA "Dieabeats," opens up about his background in DJ'ing and how he creates the music he's now releasing.
One little piece of information I did want to say is originally when I started my college path, I did not start in engineering.
Just after various internal conversations and talking with my dad, he's really a big influence too.
so all of this time the two worlds are separate but they're kind of working for one another because if you're going to be good at mixing you should understand the science of it and the science behind it is basically engineering so how do those two worlds meld together you've got two totally different interests but they're similar
yeah and it's funny i've I really didn't understand the overlap until I started pursuing some of these college courses for engineering specifically, one of which was physics two.
And to be honest, when I started physics two, I was learning the content and I was questioning it.
I was almost wondering how this applied in the real world because there were certain topics like optics Um, and, uh, sound waves essentially.
And really to me at that time, earlier on in my college career, it didn't resonate with me.
But then as I started learning about the production side of things and the science aspect to it, I started to understand how resonant frequencies played an effect on, let's just say even from the engineering perspective, designing parts, right? You got to understand certain parts and how certain vibrations are going to affect them.
And then on the other hand, obviously sound waves are huge within music production and At this point, I'm to the level of being able to produce and synthesize my own sound.
Last night, one of my buddies, one of my colleagues, DJed a wedding.
Are you doing events like that, or are you looking more now to create music that will be played at weddings?
So I would say I'm more specific now in terms of what I'm making in terms of the shows I'm playing, you know, we all have to start somewhere.
I can't say that I haven't done anything, um, along those lines, but now it's more focused to, let's say the electronic music shows and festivals that, um, you know, people are hosting these days.
One little piece of information I did want to say is originally when I started my college path, I did not start in engineering.
Just after various internal conversations and talking with my dad, he's really a big influence too.
so all of this time the two worlds are separate but they're kind of working for one another because if you're going to be good at mixing you should understand the science of it and the science behind it is basically engineering so how do those two worlds meld together you've got two totally different interests but they're similar
yeah and it's funny i've I really didn't understand the overlap until I started pursuing some of these college courses for engineering specifically, one of which was physics two.
And to be honest, when I started physics two, I was learning the content and I was questioning it.
I was almost wondering how this applied in the real world because there were certain topics like optics Um, and, uh, sound waves essentially.
And really to me at that time, earlier on in my college career, it didn't resonate with me.
But then as I started learning about the production side of things and the science aspect to it, I started to understand how resonant frequencies played an effect on, let's just say even from the engineering perspective, designing parts, right? You got to understand certain parts and how certain vibrations are going to affect them.
And then on the other hand, obviously sound waves are huge within music production and At this point, I'm to the level of being able to produce and synthesize my own sound.
Last night, one of my buddies, one of my colleagues, DJed a wedding.
Are you doing events like that, or are you looking more now to create music that will be played at weddings?
So I would say I'm more specific now in terms of what I'm making in terms of the shows I'm playing, you know, we all have to start somewhere.
I can't say that I haven't done anything, um, along those lines, but now it's more focused to, let's say the electronic music shows and festivals that, um, you know, people are hosting these days.
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