Nashville, TN (May 2, 2023)—Two of Nashville’s most proficient studio professionals over the previous 30 years, producer/artist Dann Huff and producer/engineer David Leonard, will settle into director’s chairs at Columbia Studio A on Saturday, May 20, and kick off with a free-ranging dialogue on the artwork and enterprise of the still-new audio codecs, moderated by producer/engineer F. Reid Shippen.
The Keynote Conversation, “Immersive Music Production—Art Meets Commerce,” opens the all-day professional audio occasion, which takes place alongside Music Row in the course of the day with a collection of knowledgeable panels and sponsored programming, together with Host Partner Curb Studio, and in Berry Hill at evening, with a social gathering, studio crawl and immersive listening periods beginning at Host Partner Blackbird Studio.
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“Nashville has a ridiculous quantity of studio expertise—engineers, producers, musicians, singers, songwriters—and Dann Huff and David Leonard have earned their spots on the prime of any record that features the phrases ‘recording’ or ‘music,’” says Tom Kenny, co-editor of Mix. “The mixture of Dann’s artist/producer perspective and David’s huge mixing expertise, which incorporates a whole bunch of immersive tracks, is an ideal match for what’s happening in recording right now. Throw within the technical information, inventive sense and enterprise acumen of Reid Shippen guiding the chat, and it guarantees to be a full of life and informative session.”
Dann Huff, a Nashville native, has been one in all nation and rock music’s most in-demand producers and session guitarists since debuting as a member of the band White Heart along with his brother David within the early Eighties, and later within the band Giant. He is a three-time CMA Musician of the Year, in addition to a two-time Academy of Country Music Producer of he Year, working with artists equivalent to Faith Hill, Megadeth, Martina McBride, Rascal Flatts and Lonestar, amongst many others.
Grammy-winning engineer David Leonard has quietly put collectively one of many most interesting recording/mixing resumes of anybody in any metropolis, over the previous 30-plus years, together with the early Prince albums and almost your complete John Mellencamp assortment. Since transferring to Nashville in 1992, he has labored primarily out of East Iris Studios, the place over the previous 5 years, he has combined a whole bunch of Dolby Atmos tracks for Universal Music Group, whereas additionally working along with his personal purchasers on their immersive remixes, together with the Prince property, Mellencamp and lots of different artists, each legacy and new.
Previously, Mix introduced a collection of knowledgeable panels titled “Separate But Equal: The Stereo and Immersive Mixes” and “Monitoring the Mix: Speakers and Headphones,” which may also happen in Columbia Studio A. Panelists embody Jeff Balding, Vance Powell, Matt McClure, Will Kienzle, Pete Lyman, Chuck Ainlay and others to be introduced quickly.
Participating studios on Music Row embody Curb Studio, Columbia Studio A, Starstruck Studios (Gallery, Pond and new immersive combine studio), and Black River Entertainment (Front Stage, Back Stage, new immersive combine studio). Participating studios in Berry Hill embody Blackbird Studio (Studio C, Studio F), Imogen Sound, Sputnik Sound, Addiction Sound Studios, Westlake Pro, and the ADAM Audio showroom.
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