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Nick Krill at the Helios

RSR128 – Nick Krill – The Spinto Band, Grammy winning War On Drugs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tchad Blake, and Dave Fridmann

Nick talked about recording with Grammy winners, War On Drugs, keeping your old DAW alive, ditching your template for creativity, and the importance of going after sounds you hear in your in your head..

My guest today is Nick Krill, a brilliant song writer, producer, and engineer who lives and works in Philadelphia and New York City professionally as both a musician and producer / mixer.

He has since toured the globe as a member of various bands including The Spinto Band, Teen Men, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. And on the control room side of the studio glass Nick has worked as a Producer Engineer or Mixer for band such as,  The Dove and the Wolf, The Teeth, Jesse Hale Moore, Nightlands, Eliza Hardy Jones, and he also worked on the Grammy winning album, A Deeper Understanding, by The War on Drugs.

Nick Krill's Website: www.nickkrill.com

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Tegeler Audio Manufaktur - Tegeler Audio Manufaktur has the mission of bringing the highest quailty analog audio gear to musicians and producers everywhere at an affordable price. The founder Michael Krusch has taken a unique approach by designing hi quality analog gear that you can control digitally from within your DAW. Check out the complete line of compressors, eqs, and fx processors all remote controllable by your DAW plugin: "By musicians for musicians!"

“Try to be efficient with your wackiness.” Nick Krill on staying creative @teen_men

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RSR127 – 5 Big Mixing Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making – Jason Moss from Behind The Speakers

Jason joins us from Los Angeles, and is going to help you make your best record ever by showing you how you can avoid 5 Big Mixing Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making In your Studio.

My guest today is Jason Moss, a mixer, producer, and engineer focusing on the pop, EDM, hip­hop, folk, and indie rock.

Jason is a graduate of New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, where he honed his skills through mentorships with Grammy­ winning music makers like Bob Power, Kevin Killen, and Jim Anderson.

By putting his own spin on tried­ and ­true techniques, Jason likes to create records that are a meeting of classic and modern sounds. His clients include artists signed to labels like Disney, Hollywood Records, Glassnote, and many more.

As a music educator Jason is the founder of BehindTheSpeakers.com, and frequently lectures on mixing at NYU. His how­ to articles have been featured in leading industry publications by Berklee, TuneCore, SonicScoop, The Pro Audio Files, and Disc Makers.

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Tegeler Audio Manufaktur - Tegeler Audio Manufaktur has the mission of bringing the highest quailty analog audio gear to musicians and producers everywhere at an affordable price. The founder Michael Krusch has taken a unique approach by designing hi quality analog gear that you can control digitally from within your DAW. Check out the complete line of compressors, eqs, and fx processors all remote controllable by your DAW plugin: "By musicians for musicians!"

“People are listneing to more music today than ever before!” - Jason Moss Behind The Speakers

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RSR125 – Lior Goldenberg – Recording With Rick Rubin, Michael Beinhorn, Allen Stone, Allanis Morisette, And Marylin Manson

Lior talks about working with Michael Beinhorn, Rick Rubin, and how to make a great record! He also shares advice on how to be a successful intern.

My guest today is Lior Goldenberg a producer and mixer based in Los Angeles. He has been making records in LA since the early 90s starting out as a runner at the Record Plant and then as s second engineer for producers like Rick Rubin, Michael Beinhorn, Robert Margouleff and Manny Marroquin.

Lior’s clients include Stone Temple Pilots, Ziggy Marley, Rancid, Fuel, Macy Gray, Sheryl Crow, Vanessa Carlton, Marilyn Manson, Andrew W.K., Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Alanis Morissette, MxPx, Allen Stone, and many more. He has even mixed songs for Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder. And he recently produced and mixed a record for Grant Ganzer, a finalist on 'the voice'.

Lior has worked at Conway Studios and Scream Studios before going completely independent at his Calabasas facility in 2006. And He is currently building a studio in Woodland Hills.

“There’s only one way to find out...” #LiorGoldenberg quoting #MichaelBeinhorn on trying an idea

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Lior has put together this Intern Checklist to help you get the most out of your internship, and avoid the most common mistakes that new interns and assistants make on pro sessions.

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Chris Graham Mastering - Chris Graham has mastered thousands of songs and has charted on Billboard in multiple genres. Every mastering project includes a free video mix consultation because he knows that the better a mix sounds before mastering, the better it will sound after mastering. Go to RSRockstars.com/FreeMasteringSample today and get your free sample started and your record finally finished!

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RSR124 – Mike Senior- The Tao Of Facepalm – Important Failures You are making In Your Home Studio And How To Turn Into Big Wins

Mike talks about the importance of mistakes in the studio, and shares some great tips for recording drums, bass, guitars, and vocals!

My guest today is Mike Senior, a professional recording and mixing engineer, who has worked with artists such as The Charlatans, Reef, Therapy, Nigel Kennedy, and Wet Wet Wet.

In October 1999, he joined the editorial department of Sound On Sound magazine as the Reviews Editor for six years and also launched both the popular 'Studio SOS' and 'Mix Rescue' columns.

Since turning freelance, he has specialised in project-studio production and become one of Sound On Sound's most prolific contributors, performing more than 50 Mix Rescue remixes, launching the regular Session Notes recording-technique feature, and critiquing more than 350 commercial releases in his monthly Mix Review column. 

In 2011 he published the best-selling book 'Mixing Secrets For The Small Studio', and its sequel 'Recording Secrets For The Small Studio' followed in 2014. Alongside his audio and writing work, Mike also hosts the well-known Cambridge-MT educational resources website, which includes the web's largest free multitrack download library as well as thousands of recording and mixing audio demonstrations.

Today Mike is going to talk about the power of mistakes in the studio, and just how valuable they can be as out teachers and guides. He is also going to teach us 4 important mistakes that you are probably making in the studio, and how to turn those from big failures into bigger wins.

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"If it sounds good. It is good!" #MikeSenior

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Chris Graham Mastering - Chris Graham has mastered thousands of songs and has charted on Billboard in multiple genres. Every mastering project includes a free video mix consultation because he knows that the better a mix sounds before mastering, the better it will sound after mastering. Go to RSRockstars.com/FreeMasteringSample today and get your free sample started and your record finally finished!

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More bonus stuff from Mike...

Mike's Wild Stereo Mic Test:

All my Mix Review critiques or commercial productions are freely available to read online. Here's a full listing of them all with links: http://cambridge-mt.com/MikeSeniorFull.htm#MixReview

And, specifically, here are a few of those specific critiques where I discuss tracks which I suspect contain engineering mistakes: Hilary Hahn: Christos Hatzis 'Coming To' (check out the strange stereo imaging artefacts) http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan16/articles/mix-review-0116.htm#para1

Rudimental (featuring John Newman): 'Feel The Love' (odd mono-incompatible low end) https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/mix-review-10#para1

Labrinth (featuring Emeli Sandé): 'Beneath Your Beautiful' (sounds suspiciously like the CD album version was mastered from an MP3) https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/mix-review-6#para3

Classic Mix: Bing Crosby: 'White Christmas' (was the balance engineer napping during Bing's opening phrase?) http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec13/articles/themixreview-1213.htm#para4

Classic Mix: The Police: 'Roxanne' (Sting sits on the piano keyboard and there's some clunky editing)

For the business questions, there's one book that's really influenced me with regards to the positive power of mistakes: Matthew Syed's 'Black Box Thinking'. If you want a flavour of what he has to say, check out his TEDX talk at the London Business School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmVCYqs3mko

My own personal recommendations for project-studio loudspeakers and headphones for mixing:

http://www.cambridge-mt.com/ms-ch1.htm#links

http://www.cambridge-mt.com/ms-ch2.htm#links

This one I'll illustrate by talking about my struggles with stereo recording technique. In the end, the guy who I most trust these days on the subject is called Helmut Wittek, who has an excellent resources website here: http://www.hauptmikrofon.de/us/helmut-wittek

In particular, he has developed an app for Schopes called IMA3 which provides really useful guidance on how to set up all manner of stereo microphone techniques, as well as information about their unique sonic characteristics: http://www.ima.schoeps.de/

My favourite book on the subject of perceptual bias is Thaler & Sunstein's classic 'Nudge' -- in just 20 pages, the first chapter lists a half-dozen peceptual biases that I struggle with all the time, both in and out of the studio.

The other killer bias in studios is, of course, loudness bias, and here are three situations you have to be really careful about it: - When parallel compressing: it's really easy to end up making an instrument louder if you're adding the compressed signal via a separate mixer channel.

- When multimiking any instrument: add in any extra microphone, and it'll make the resulting sound louder.

- When EQing: if you use a lot of boosts, you'll make the sound louder in addition to adjusting its tone.

DRUMS - In dry-sounding rooms, try using more than two overheads. Here's a free web article (with audio files) about a session where I used two pairs of overheads rather than one: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr13/articles/session-notes-0413.htm

RECORDING ACOUSTIC GUITARS - demonstrates (with audio files) how good they can sound: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan16/articles/session-notes-0116.htm

Here's that audio example I mentioned of a figure-eight guitar mic two feet from the singer (http://audio.cambridge-mt.com/CMTWorkshops/PSE_RecordingMistakes/AES0306_Figure8GuitarSeparation.mp3)

ELECTRIC GUITARS - Multimiking. Here's another free web article with audio demonstrations of that technique in practice: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug13/articles/session-notes-0813.htm

VOCAL RECORDING - Try speaker foldback. Here are some audio examples that demonstrate the effectiveness of various different foldback-spill-reduction techniques: http://www.cambridge-mt.com/rs-ch5.htm#audio

MIXING - Mix referencing is the king of all small-studio mixing techniques. Here's an article about choosing and using mix references: https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/creating-your-own-reference-cd



RSR123 – George Massenburg – Multi Grammy Winning Producer And Inventor Of The Parametric EQ

George Massenburg tells us about choosing great mics, designing the parametric EQ, Blackbird studio C, recording Little Feat, Earth Wind & Fire, and much more.

My guest today is George Massenburg, a multi Grammy award winning producer, engineer, mixer, and award winning audio designer legendary for having invented the parametric equalizer in 1972. George has participated in over four hundred records over the past 45 years. His work includes recordings of Earth, Wind & Fire, Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, Lyle Lovett, Aaron Neville, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Herbie Hancock, Arlo Guthrie, Billy Joel, the Dixie Chicks and many more.

"My recording style if it can be reduced to something is that you can hear all the instruments" -GM

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Chris Graham Mastering - Chris Graham has mastered thousands of songs and has charted on Billboard in multiple genres. Every mastering project includes a free video mix consultation because he knows that the better a mix sounds before mastering, the better it will sound after mastering. Go to RSRockstars.com/FreeMasteringSample today and get your free sample started and your record finally finished!

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Eric Bazilion

RSR122 – Eric Bazilian – Writing And Recording The Hooters, Joan Osborne, And Cyndi Lauper

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Get the real story about recording “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” with Cyndi Lauper, and other great studio stories, and recording tips!

My guest today is Eric Bazilian, Founder of The Hooters, and part of the band on Cyndi Lauper’s “She’s So Unusual”, as well as Joan Osborne’s “Relish”, for which Bazilian wrote the Grammy-nominated “One Of Us’ one night in his dining room.

He then went on to write for and produce artists as varied as Busted, The Scorpions, Ricky Martin, Robbie Williams, Amanda Marshall, Jonatha Brooke, Billie Meyers, Leanne Rymes, and many more he can’t remember at the moment. His proudest moment as a producer in recent history is the album he produced with William Wittman for Dave Hause, “Bury Me In Philly”.

"It’s Just About Making Music." #EricBazilian

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"Smile. Relax. Have fun. That’s why we do this!" #EricBazilian

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Chris Graham Mastering - Chris Graham has mastered thousands of songs and has charted on Billboard in multiple genres. Every mastering project includes a free video mix consultation because he knows that the better a mix sounds before mastering, the better it will sound after mastering. Go to RSRockstars.com/FreeMasteringSample today and get your free sample started and your record finally finished!

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RSR121 – Joe Chiccarelli – 10x Grammy Winner Talks About Recording Frank Zappa, Jack White, Tori Amos, My Morning Jacket, Jason Mraz, The Strokes, and Morrissey

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Joe Chiccarelli talks about recording killer drums, guitars, and vocals among other things...

My guest today is Joe Chiccarelli a ten time Grammy Award-Winning Producer/Engineer & Mixer who has been making great records for more than 3 decades. Joe’s credits include such artists as Tori Amos, Beck, The Strokes, The Killers, U2, Elton John, My Morning Jacket, Spoon, The Shins, The White Stripes, Morrissey, Christina Perri, Alanis Morrisette, Jason Mraz, Cafe Tacuba, and The Raconteurs for which he received his eighth Grammy award, for Best Engineered Album of 2008 for "Consolers of The Lonely." Joe got his first big break with one of my favorite artists, Frank Zappa, in 1979 recording Sheik Yerbouti, Joe’s Garage Acts I&II, Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar, and Tinsel Town Rebellion.

When asked about recording the sound of the Central Scrutinizer with Frank Zappa, Joe said: “Frank was a gentleman and a total visionary. An absolute pleasure to work with on all occasions. The Central Scrutinizer was simply Frank speaking into a megaphone off axis on a Neumann M 49. UMRK was great. Initially a Harrison console and later a Neve. Designed by Rudy Bruer with a really great sounding live echo chamber.” JC

Listen to Joes Records on my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQYpF2pCkLI&list=PLbJhbD1bWQszVJ_gDWpb5YnOzwvTkkK33

Joe’s Dicography:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/147534-Joe-Chiccarelli?filter_anv=0&type=Credits

You can find Joe here: http://nextwavemanagement.com/index.php

Or email to: Adam@NextWaveManagement.com

"The Central Scrutinizer was Frank speaking into a megaphone off axis..." #JoeChiccarelli

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Chris Graham Mastering - Chris Graham has mastered thousands of songs and has charted on Billboard in multiple genres. Every mastering project includes a free video mix consultation because he knows that the better a mix sounds before mastering, the better it will sound after mastering. Go to RSRockstars.com/FreeMasteringSample today and get your free sample started and your record finally finished!

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RSR120 – Jim Scott – Recording with Rick Rubin, Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wilco, Johnny Cash & Tedeschi Trucks Band

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Jim Scott returns to dig deeper into his story, talk about recording Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and give tips on miking up drums.

Multiple Grammy-winning producer/engineer/mixer, Jim Scott, has worked with many artists since his start with Sting's Dream of the Blue Turtles three decades ago. His discography lists over 200 credits on his website including Dixie Chicks, Tom Petty, the Rolling Stones, Roger Daltrey, Crowded House, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ron Sexsmith, Dweezil Zappa, Styx, Foo Fighters, Johnny Cash, Rage Against The Machine, Santana, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Nikka Costa, Weezer, and Audioslave. So many great records I had to stop writing them down.

Jim has recorded and mixed records with Rick Rubin and also with our previous guest on the podcast Richard Dodd on Tom Petty’s Wildflowers. In 2006, he built Plyrz Studio in Valencia, CA. An inviting space to make music with a classic Neve 8048 recording console, walls of colorful tapestries adorning rooms full of vintage instruments.

We are going to dive into questions about many of these classic albums that Jim has produced, engineered, and mixed, and just how he got such wonderful sounds.

"Things will sound natural if you allow them that opportunity." #JimScott #AudioEngineer #MusicProducer

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Chris Graham Mastering - Chris Graham has mastered thousands of songs and has charted on Billboard in multiple genres. Every mastering project includes a free video mix consultation because he knows that the better a mix sounds before mastering, the better it will sound after mastering. Go to RSRockstars.com/FreeMasteringSample today and get your free sample started and your record finally finished!

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RSR119 – Jim Scott – Multi Grammy Winning Producer, Engineer, Mixer

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Jim Scott talks about his entry into the music industry and working with iconic artists such as Wilco, Sting, and Tom Petty.

Multiple Grammy-winning producer/engineer/mixer, Jim Scott, has worked with many artists since his start with Sting's Dream of the Blue Turtles three decades ago. His discography lists over 200 credits on his website including Dixie Chicks, Tom Petty, the Rolling Stones, Roger Daltrey, Crowded House, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ron Sexsmith, Dweezil Zappa, Styx, Foo Fighters, Johnny Cash, Rage Against The Machine, Santana, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Nikka Costa, Weezer, and Audioslave. So many great records I had to stop writing them down.

Jim has recorded and mixed records with Rick Rubin and also with our previous guest on the podcast Richard Dodd on Tom Petty’s Wildflowers. In 2006, he built Plyrz Studio in Valencia, CA. An inviting space to make music with a classic Neve 8048 recording console, walls of colorful tapestries adorning rooms full of vintage instruments.

We are going to dive into questions about many of these classic albums that Jim has produced, engineered, and mixed, and just how he got such wonderful sounds.

"I kinda liked having no place to hide." #TomPetty 

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Chris Graham Mastering - Chris Graham has mastered thousands of songs and has charted on Billboard in multiple genres. Every mastering project includes a free video mix consultation because he knows that the better a mix sounds before mastering, the better it will sound after mastering. Go to RSRockstars.com/FreeMasteringSample today and get your free sample started and your record finally finished!

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Music City Declares War On Home Studios? with Lij Shaw, Björgvin Benediktsson, and Chris Graham – RSR118

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We interrupt the regular podcast schedule to bring you a breaking news story about how Music City is bringing the hammer down on working home studios!

My name is Lij Shaw and I have a Grammy awarded home studio in East Nashville TN called The Toy Box Studio where I have been peacefully recording local musicians for nearly 20 years. Until recently that is...

In 2015 (right about the time I started Recording Studio Rockstars) I received a letter from the Nashville Metro Codes Dept.It said:  

CEASE AND DESIST THE USE OF THIS PROPERTY WHICH IS ZONED RS6 (RESIDENTIAL) AS A RECORDING STUDIO (THETOYBOXSTUDIO)

Apparently in Nashville TN, you can't have a home business that allows customers to come over to your house. So that kind of rules out making a living recording musicians playing together in my home studio. Hmm...

As you can imagine that scared the piss out of me, and I couldn't sleep for a week! After all, I have invested a lifetime career into creating my home studio and building a business that allows me to support my family (I am a single dad with a middle school daughter), pay my mortgage, and bills, and put food on the table.

I have spent 25 years becoming part of the Nashville music recording community, and invested everything into my home studio as way of life.So after I was finally able to get some sleep again, and think about what I should do next, I decided that I would NOT GO QUIETLY.

In fact I knew that I was not the only home studio owner affected by this. Nashville (aka Music City) is teeming with people who record from their home studios professionally. And we all have families to feed, bills to pay, and homes to keep. It's hard enough to make a living as it is in music without having the very city that claims our music as it's heritage come crashing down on us for recording in our homes.

Not only that but a home studio provides an affordable recording option for independent musicians that don't have a large recording budget (like the good 'ole days). Most independent artists can't afford to spend a thousand plus dollars a day on a recording studio for a big commercial facility. The presence of home studios is what allows for music to thrive on a local level, and ultimately grow into the bigger name artists that become household names. I knew I needed to do something.

So I spoke to friends. I spoke to lawyers. I spoke to the press. And finally I found two amazing law firms whose mission it is to defend our constitutional rights as citizens and home owners: The Institute For Justice, and The Beacon Center. These guys are passionate, and driven about helping us as a music community but also as individuals. They understand that this restriction affects all home businesses in NashvilleSo together with the help of IJ and BC we (myself and a retired hair dresser who simply wants to put a salon chair in her garage) filed a law suit against the city of Nashville for infringing on our constitutional rights to make a peaceful living from our homes.

This week I have been talking to local TV stations, radio, and newspapers, and frankly it's been breaking the internet around here! (scroll down for a list of articles) So I thought would create this emergency broadcast webinar just for you Rockstars to fill in the rest of the story.

Joining me are a couple of familiar home studio owners:

Chris Graham (http://RSRockstars.com/FreeMasteringS...)

Björgvin Benediktsson (http://Audio-Issues.com)

We talked about the deeper issues involved, and you get to hear the longer version of my story too. I hope you enjoy!

Cheers and thanks for all your support,

Lij Shaw

Nashville Declares War On Home Studios? #FightForYourRightToRecord #MutedInMusicCity #HomeStudio @IJ @BeaconTN

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More Articles about Lij Shaw's #FightForYourRightToRecord:

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/home-business-lawsuit-to-be-filed-in-nashville

http://www.wsmv.com/story/37012549/musician-sues-city-after-being-ordered-to-shut-down-home-recording-studio

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2017/12/04/lawsuit-challenge-nashville-home-business-ban-including-recording-studios/918866001/

http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/libertarian-legal-groups-challenge-nashvilles-lingering-home-business-ban#stream/0

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Chris Graham Mastering - Chris Graham has mastered thousands of songs and has charted on Billboard in multiple genres. Every mastering project includes a free video mix consultation because he knows that the better a mix sounds before mastering, the better it will sound after mastering. Go to RSRockstars.com/FreeMasteringSample today and get your free sample started and your record finally finished!

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Free mix training with Lij at MixMasterBundle.com – ebreet yourself a T-shirt at: RSRockstars.com/Tshirt  – Theme music: SkadooshMusic.com – Join the Rockstar Facebook group! RSRockstars.com/FB

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