Piper Payne: Mastering Engineer at Infrasonic Sound | Interview - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Piper Payne is a mastering engineer, educator, and active member of the audio community based in Oakland, CA and Nashville, TN. She's the founder of her own Neato Mastering in Oakland, which recently merged with the famed Infrasonic Sound mastering house!
Piper has mastered music across a wide range of genres, including Third Eye Blind, Madame Gandhi, Geographer, Elettrodomestico (Jane Wiedlin/Go-Go’s), Shamir, Between You & Me, David Messier, and Fritz Montana. Naturally, she's also worked with Bay Area artists like Kat Robichaud, ANML, Sioux City Kid, The She’s, Emily Afton, Abbot Kinney, Travis Hayes, Kendra McKinley, Van Goat, and Diana Gameros!
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Who do you want to hear from next? Let me know below!
it would be super cool to try and connect with Michael "Elvis" Baskette! he produced the "World on Fire" & "Living the Dream" albums by Slash ft Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators!
David M. Allen would be awesome. Thanks for asking.
Tchad Blake !!!!!!!!!! Please Warren
Chris Blackwell (Bob Marley).
Hi Combination Demo amazing idea my friend!!
What an amazing and enlightening interview! What an amazing career Piper is having! Thank you Piper and thank you Warren!
Thanks ever so much my friend! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!!
Enjoyed the interview. Thank you Piper and Warren! 🙏😊
Hi The Feel Button thanks ever so much!!
Great interview! Piper seems like a great person to sit down and have a couple beers with. It was particularly interesting to hear about all the vinyl stuff. Very cool to see it making a comeback!
Hi Dustin Thiessen yes, Piper really knows what’s Mastering inside and out! I learned a lot from our conversation!
IDK how I missed this one... Piper is incredibly talented and has a vast wealth of knowledge! Much love, Piper ~ (Same to you Warren for getting her on here!) Cheers ~
Wonderful interview and so interesting. One of the things I get out of each of your interviews and really, most of your videos is the sense that this is a wonderful time to be in the music biz. Thank you both for the inspiration.
Thanks ever so much David! You Rock my friend!!
Long Live Vinyl Lp's! Awesome convo as always!
Leightnite! Thanks ever so much my friend!
Loved this, so many people think mastering is simply putting some magic plugin on the output buss. The reality is...Well, here to be seen and heard.
Agreed 100% Paul!!
Thanks again warren!! Please get Sylvia Massy and Linda Perry on your awesome channel!!
ahhh, thank you for a wonderful interview. you let your guess tell their story. she has a great story. her love for recording jumps out .
Agreed! That is what sets the best apart from the rest! Hard work combined with a love of what you do!
That looks like Reaper in the background! Great content as always. Cheers Warren!
Hey, Piper! Nice to see you getting ahead in the world! :-)
Cheers from Marius from grad school in Norway! ;-)
Thanks Marius! Miss ya, dude!
Nice to see the Norway connection!!
Piper Payne nice! Norway in da house! Gee I really am not hip at all! Haha
Worked with Dave at Infrasonic for releases of client's of mine and couldn't recommend them enough. Piper is clearly incredibly knowledgeable, so thank you for a great interview! I do have a question... How does Piper maintain a balance between her work and personal life?
Hi terrancereevesmusic that’s a great question that is huge for all of us! All I can say for myself is it’s a constantly evolving thing! All of us that truly work in music have a massive love and passion for what we do that creates very long hours and the secret is find the right person who understands us and what we do!!
Awesome interview. Great conversation, very interesting. Thank you Piper and Warren.
Thanks ever so much Marc!! You Rock!!
I'd love to hear more from her in the future.
Hi Soundclass I agree 109% my friend!!
What a warm personality.
Absolutely!
@@tommibjork marvellous to hear! Huge part of being successful is being a good person!!
Hi@@HerrNox agreed!! Thanks ever so much!!
yay REAPER
Haha I noticed that too, thought the same thing.
Leo Burgos haha yes indeed!
Circaninetysix haha indeed!
She is awesome.
For those of you who are interested, Piper Payne is using the LCS_refraction skin in Reaper.
As a child of the sixties I love my memories of LPs and 45s but these days it seems crazy to buy, store and maintain heavy stacks of plastic discs. I suppose some people find the charm of an LP worth producing as a marketing aid or a keepsake item. I would like to make a red or blue record someday just for fun...or maybe transparent caramel colored!
That is a very interesting interview. I can relate to many things Piper said. And electrical presses are too slow compared to steam-driven devices? That sounds like a challenge.
Jürgen Schuler thanks ever so much my friend! Yes, I learned a lot from interviewing Piper as well!
That was awesome , she was lovely and you were your usual host with the most and those speakers 🔊🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤 ✌️💚☯️
Working in a DAW and I still say " print" and/or "tape". Talking about an artist's recording and still say "record", "album" etc. Not that I'm cool or retro or whatever, it's just that's what I grew up with. Kind of like a dialect, if you will. I still call Cds "albums" and even Cds are passe now in the download/MP3 world. Nothing to say that it's better or worse, just that it's what's comfortable. Kinda like that old bath robe or favorite pair of jeans....
whaleblueprs haha it’s ok! We all do that my friend!
any chance to see you visiting the Blasting Room in Colorado or the Orange Whip in S.Barbara, California?
Hi myroomstudios that sounds wonderful to me!
How about Brendan O'brien and Andy Wallace (Way too obvious) or Jed Lieber and a tour of Nightbird at the Sunset Marquis.
Sabra Bösewicht marvellous ideas!!
I wonder what Piper thinks of Landr mid roll adverts on this video xD
Thanks for the great video!
Paul Daly the way advertising works on UA-cam is its targeted to the person watching! I’ve never seen a Landr Ad but I’ve seen tons of health insurance commercials haha
Indeed!!
Loved that video, especially the vinyl talk. I wish I could afford her ears and talent. (sad starving artist face)
Hi Herr Nox I agree! Piper is a huge talent!
Most bought cassettes sounded awful. the real cassette afficionado would record at home him(her)self (from their own or friend's Vinyl or CDs); you would find out the sweet spot of your particular tape material (always chrome) on your deck (I had an Akai GX F-71, which was awesome) and then hit the +4db (or whatever it was) to get that sweet tape compression. When I listened to 20 year old tapes I was amazed how good they still sounded (the trick was to record with Dolby B and then play without it years later to make up for the lost high end). We never liked Dolby C much it did something to the compression to make it sound "artificial".
Realraven2000 thanks ever so much for sharing your experiences my friend!!
@@Producelikeapro my pleasure!
Hi Realraven2000 you’re very welcome!
Oh dear. The puns. The Michigan is strong with this one *smh/lol* Well, I guess keep that flame alight, sister, and greetings from a Westsider 👉🏻✋🏻😜😄❤️
And thanks always, Warren!
Haha yes! Puntastic!!
There is a Valhalla update Warren/Everybody, check your email...Vintage Verb has a new add and a fix in Valhalla delay...
Great video btw, thumbs up for Piper and Warren and team!!! And... Tomorrow I will have my Lewitt 040s for overheads, I,m curious like a little child in the candystore..:)
@@drummerjeroensimons thanks ever so much my friend! Let us know how you get on with the new Lewitt's!
@@Producelikeapro I will man, thanks!!!!!!!
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Hi Audrey Sims thanks ever so much my friend!
There's no doubt in my mind this young lady can turn some knobs and picked up some great info from Mr. Katz and in every school / grad year she's been on. No matter where really. A lot of practical stuff and from right sources/people is of outmost importance. But, speaking of same gear, same rooms, same this or that and suddenly... Rooms are not the same, gear is not the same, converters are not the same... Come on! Again, nothing against anyone or anything but please. Anyway, best of luck and everything else both to Miss. Piper payne and to you too Warren!
loved the dad jokes you guys...enjoyed the interview too
Haha thanks ever so much Kip! You Rock!!
What a wonderful interview! Would love to watch her work on a project. Would be great to see her creativity. Could learn so much. Thanks to both of you for sharing your valuable time and priceless wisdom.
That's a marvellous idea Michael! I'll definitely see what else we can do with Piper isn the future! I feel blessed we were able too get some time to talk Mastering and Career!!
Warren working at WEA Mfg (Warner/Elektra/Atlantic) (Specialty Records Corp), we used to press about 350,000 12-inch (albums) per day. We also did 7-inch (45's), and 10-inch. I think there were 40 presses on the press floor. My first job was working underneath them. It was pretty much a sauna. We use to recycle the vinyl trims and such, so you have virgin runs, and recycled runs (cheaper price). They sold it CinRam which eventually sold it and they just liquidated the place, right before the vinyl resurgence. :) We are laughing, because all the execs are probably kicking themselves for selling those presses years ago. If you look at a lot of the CDs, and albums made up until 2003, you'll see the Specialty logo on the header track. It was really cool to hear about vinyl coming back strong. :) I miss working there. It was a fun place.
Wow! Thanks ever so much for sharing your experiences with us!! That sounds like an amazing life/job and career you've had my friend!!
Hey Warren you should make a video with Mandy Parnell! She is also a mastering engineer!
Marvellous idea my friend!!
@@Producelikeapro YES! she also amazing!
Most if not all of your conversations with mastering engineers are great. But I particularly loved this one, for content, Piper's personality and sheer knowledge.
I'd love to see you talk to more younger mastering engineers in addition to all the typical "been there since the 60s and invented this" males.
And how about chatting to Mandy Parnell when in London?
Hi Psychonautilus I agree 100%! Piper was definitely a favourite of mine!
Seems those PMCs sound marvelously well! :)
Hi Артур Рахматулин yes!! They sound amazingly good!
What a great interview. A wonderful insight into the business side of mastering. Oh... and yay REAPER!
MrAlFuture yes! I learned a lot from Piper! You can tell Piper has been immersed in music and it really shows how much knowledge they have to give! We are blessed to be able to talk to true industry leaders!
Frustrating video. You think you will get some nice mastering tips but no, it is just about how she got to where she is.
Really? This time not going to watch it then, thanks for your comment
Paul Brian Bell, sorry to hear your frustration about the content of this video. Warren asked me to do this first one as a chat on business and career things as many engineers like me have lots of younger engineers asking about how we got where we are (obvious hint hint - hard work, discipline, mentors, and a good reputation) and musicians asking how they can afford mastering and professional production.
Imagine my dismay when I was told that Produce Like A Pro isn’t about how to pick out groceries! ;)
In all seriousness, though, feel free to look around the internet for some other actual tutorial videos from me, including some mastering tips and tricks.
Also, come find me at the many seminars and presentations I do at AES and NAMM where I’m always slinging info on practical things I’ve learned in mastering.
@@PiperPayneMastering thanks for your wonderful comment! I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and time with us all!
I just noticed the Bose blue tooth Pete is using. I always say, if it doesn't sound good on a blue tooth speaker, it's not properly mastered. We love you Piper!!!
Great interview! Lots of good bits in there, thx😎👍
Glad to have Piper in the biz also. Lots to contribute to the industry so thx for the passion you put into what you do.
Hi Michael Scott agreed! I am happy to be able to showcase the best in the business on our channel!
i fell in love
Hi Curtis Chip, yes, Piper is amazingly talented!
Yes,you are your own person. Congrats!! Great show. Waiting for your Great Big Book Of Puns!
Haha maybe Piper can find time to co author a Big Book Of Puns with me? That's if I can find time as well! Haha
@@Producelikeapro I wait with baited Master Card!
5:10, Would like to see and hear more about this. Low- and high passing the reverbs might not be as easy as you thought?
Maybe you can talk more about it Warren?
corner liston marvellous idea my friend!
@@Producelikeapro Looking forward! : )
corner liston thanks very much!!
Norway! Nice synchronicity: I'm currently reading a book with a story playing in the late 19th century, around Edvard Grieg and his 'Peer Gynt' Suite :-)) Anyway, on with the video...
Marvellous! I love Peer Gynt! Such a beautiful piece of music!!
@@Producelikeapro - I've yet to hear it in its entirety! I only know 'Morning Mood' and 'In The Hall Of The Mountain King' :-) By the way, nice to see you in Mary Spender's 'Thomann' video! ;-)) Greetings from Wellington, NZ! :-)
@@mightyV444 Wow! I'll have to check out Mary's video!!
Catching up on some older PLAPs that came before I was a 'watcher' of the show. Love that it's Reaper up on the monitor.
New Sterling Sound Nashville?
Another interesting video! After hiring top-notch mastering engineers on all my previous albums, I took the plunge and mastered my new album. I had no choice, as I ran out of money and couldn't see having the money in the near future to hire an ME. I demoed several limiter plugins, including Oxford, Xenon, UAD Precision, Brainworx, Eventide Newfangled, DMG Limitless and I even rented a Cranesong STC-8 (non-mastering addition) for a couple of days. Thankfully, I was happy with my mixes, so I only really needed some very minor tweaks for my taste and loudness adjustments. I spent several weeks trying these limiters and I ended up loving the DMG Limitless and used it on every track. What a superb plug in!
Daniel Glen Timms thanks ever so much for sharing your experiences my friend!!
@@Producelikeapro Thank you Warren for all of your great content! I am so impressed that you can continually provide such engaging videos. Whenever, I feel bored and need a break or distraction, I can always count on tuning into your channel for something to feed my thirst for musical knowledge. But that DMG Limitless plugin is really something special. Cheers my friend!
Daniel Glen Timms great stuff! I’ll have to check out the plug in!! Thanks for the tip!
Loved this interview. Thank you both so much for this. 🙏🏾🌞
Thanks ever so much Greg!!
Such a smart worker
Absolutely! Agreed 100%!!
It would be great a track analysis of the Use your Illusion I or II by Guns and Roses with the producer. Like you did with black hole sun or the mechanical animals.
Beto Noxs17 that’s a marvellous idea my friend!!
@@Producelikeapro Thanks... I love your videos and lessons,. Thanks for sharing.
What a wonderful. well rounded individual She is,,,
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Thanks ever so much my friend!!
Thanks ever so much Piper and Warren-great interview!! 👍 I'd love to see more. 😉
Hi Frank Zimmermann thanks ever so much! Yes, definitely! Would love to do more!!
He's one of the best next generation Mastering engineers no doubt about it,
When are you going to interview engineers of colour? (color)
So great to have - one - a youngster and - two - a female being interviewed! Thanks Warren
Hi Pascal! Our criteria is to interview the best in the business and bring them to our community! Piper is one of the best Mastering Engineers in the world!
@@Producelikeapro That's even greater! She sounds smart and very capable.
Pascal Deshayes yes, blessed to be able to interview the best in our business my friend!
Fantastic interview! Why would anyone give it a thumbs down?
Thanks ever so much! Haha that's ok! It's the Internet after all!
She's very engaging but I would have liked more dad jokes 😊
Haha I'm full of 'Dad Jokes'! Haha
Yo , i would like to know what are the dimensions of Pipers mastering studio rooms , front to back , left to right , floor to ceiling ect. and Warren what are "the best" dimensions for home studio room only for mixing and mastering , not recording , in your opinion ? Thanks
That's a wonderful question! Let's see if Piper can let us know the basic dimensions! I'm not personally aware of the perfect size of a room, I've always just made it work with the rooms I've had, some of been fairly big, others quite small indeed! Haha
@@Producelikeapro well in my situation my room is 4 by 4.5 by 2.5 meters , so its not the size that i am concerned about but the shape , my room is almost like a perfect cube and in many tutorials on youtube i saw they say that cube is the worst kind of room for studio :(
I've met her and she is really a great nice and smart person.
Yes, Piper is very talented and shares great information! Very inspiring indeed!!
What a great talent : ) Thanks for the video, Warren.
Hi SHE STUDIOS [Sheila] Thanks ever so much Sheila! I really appreciate all of your amazing input and support in our community!
What a great interview, thank you both for that
Hi Dan Allen thank you ever so much my friend!
Great interview! Pipers a bad ass!
Hi Eric Gonzalez thanks! Yes they are!!
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Amazing info
ASHVILLE BEATS tanks ever so much my friend!
Why is so strange to go to Norway ;-)
Hi laskholt it’s not at all! Especially if you’re from Europe, like myself! I was there last month for instance, albeit briefly! However there are not the same Educational links between the US and Europe, so it’s not strange but it’s fairly unusual!
Such a lovely interview!
Thanks ever so much my friend!!
You buy the album, which is the collection of recordings. The medium could be vinyl (LP), cassette, 8-track, digital, whatever. Still an 'album' of music. :)
Another "marvelous" video, Warren. I'm still wildly curious how those mastering engineers utilize their black magic to round off our mixes, though. TELL US YOUR SECRETS, PRIESTESS! 😂
Very cool!
Thanks very much!
so nice to see ladies in the industry, when i went to CRAS there was 1 girl in the entire school during that time.. right before I graduated a class came in with 2 girls in one class (around 12 kids) thats awesome! hopefully more and more come in because college being a sausage party was no fun, we had to go hang out with the ASU kids
Seems strange to cut vinyl from digital files . . . .
It's amazing to hear a mastering engineer properly denegrate vinyl as a playback medium due to the myriad shortcomings of the medium yet hold an entrepreneurial position in the vinyl pressing industry. Seemingly there is no desire to inform those foolish enough to spend their money on an inferior product that the entire professional audio establishment, including the mastering engineer being interviewed here understands to be inferior to digital media. There are character question needing answers here. What would Bob Katz think?
Hi Mix In The Cloud, can I get your name? I’m not used to having a serious conversation with a channel name! Haha my name is Warren Huart you can find me on www.allmusic.com of your like to check out a selection of my credits. Piper’s position is the same as every Mastering Engineer I’ve interviewed. If you want to go through my interviews with Mastering Engineers I would definitely suggest it! Vinyl has a place, albeit a small place, however it occupies a wonderful niche market for enthusiasts and super fans who want a next level to show both appreciation to the artists they love, experience real artwork, or obviously to play back music on a medium they enjoy! All Mastering engineers realised they were reducing the bandwidth and dynamics of the music by putting it on this medium, however we loved it and continue to love it for many reasons!
Mix In The Cloud P.S I’m excited to talk to Bob Katz! I’ll be sure to bring our conversation and your opinion!
@@Producelikeapro Warren, thank you for your reply. That was unexpected. My name is Adam Kessler and it is an honor to make your acquaintance. I studied with Bob Katz and Al Grundy at IAR in the late 70's. If I were to suggest future interviews, I would include Bob Katz. In my comments I was trying to voice my frustrations with the academy of cohorts who insist on the superiority of vinyl and analogue. And while there are values to the analogue argument, vinyl is truly a fallacy and seems to be perpetuated for no other reason than significant misinformation and a spirited desire to suck up dollars from those who bury their heads in vinyl sands. There are so many reasons why the vinyl medium is so flawed, starting with the RIAA curve all the way to imperfect transducers (MC/MM) and tone arm paths which never follow the arc the lathes used when cutting the lacquers. That we, as professional, would perpetuate this myth seems misguided and even more so if it only affords the vinyl buyer to hold a 12" album cover in their hands just for the album notes and artwork. To say in this day and age that alternatives to that cannot be found, is just turning a blind eye to the realities of our age. Anyway, I appreciate being able to express my opinion here. I have been following your posts for a while now and have enjoyed your interviews of the people and characters which make up the professional audio industry. There is so much to tell and time running out on the telling of the stories of those who established the industry. Thanks for your efforts in the telling.
@@Producelikeapro I would be very interested in Bob's take on the values of vinyl in an ever improving digital age. If you do speak with Bob, he will remember my name, but I'm not sure for all the right reasons. We all have our stories...
@@mixinthecloud3338 thanks for the response. Yes, it's interesting that all the Mastering Engineers I know agree that Vinyl was a compromise and yet purists insist it's better! However, it doesn't stop me loving Vinyl! I have an affinity for the way it sounds and mainly of course the artwork!
Mandy Parnell, you're gonna have pop back across the pond, though. But, it'd be great to see the talents of more women in the industry, revealed. An industry - which like so many others - has been a bit of a boys club. Especially when you can showcase talents and skills like Piper's to a broader audience. It's a community, after all :-)
Absolutely our aim is to focus on the best people in the business!! We feel blessed to be able get amazing mastering Engineers like Piper on our channel!!
Great interview Warren, thanks! I'd be interested to know if Piper has any preference when it comes to mastering a track from a stereo mix or from a few sub-group mixes within the track.
Anastasi Mavrides marvellous question!! Let’s see if we can get Piper on that one!
Hi there, I do prefer to master from a stereo mix - unless it’s an emergency or we need more flexibility.