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The most disastrous recording of all time

92.9 The Torch | February 28, 2025

Steely Dan’s album Gaucho is sonic perfection. Every note is perfectly arranged, performed, recorded and mixed. But the success of this album is not due to everything going well, this is a tale of many problems and setbacks. The Expanding Dan Substack has lots of great info about Steely Dan […]

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I asked Steely Dan’s engineer what makes a recording sound good

92.9 The Torch | October 28, 2024

Bill’s book: https://amzn.to/45ojfJh My classical guitar course! 🎓 https://skl.sh/3T1wUCi follow me on instagram 🙂 https://www.instagram.com/davidhartley94/ Bill Schnee is known as the engineer’s engineer. He’s won multiple Grammy and Emmy awards and has over 125 gold and platinum records to his name. In this video, I interviewed Bill to speak about […]