AIAIAI – Frederik Jørgensen [Co-Founder & Marketing Director]
AIAIAI’s name might seem like a mouthful to pronounce but it actually sounds just like it looks. The Danish audio manufacturer...
iZotope – Mark Ethier [CEO]
iZotope's influence as a plugins manufacturer extends beyond the music-making world into the land of audio repair, post-production and sound design....
Walden [Artist]
Walden is a teenage producer from Australia who has been making a rise in the world of electronic music, thanks to...
Ubisoft Toronto – Richie Nieto [Audio Lead]
As the third-largest game publisher, with an employee count of 2000+ and titles like "Assassin’s Creed" and "Splinter Cell", Ubisoft is one of the behemoths...
Cakewalk – Michael Hoover [President]
Although Cakewalk's synthesizer plugin, Z3TA+ 2, is a plugin I knew about, their audio workstation, SONAR, was less familiar me. Even though it's...
Petri Alanko [Game Composer]
In the wake of the success of Remedy Entertainment's latest release, "Quantum Break", I was able to chat with the game's BAFTA-nominated...
Corney Mims [Artist]
I first heard about Corney Mims through the release of his sample pack, Corney Mims Bass Pack Vol 1. I then became curious...
Crytek Audio Directors And Composer – Simon Pressey, Florian Füsslin & Borislav Slavov
Crytek is behind some of the most acclaimed games of the last two decades, namely the "Far Cry" and "Crysis" series, and with the...
Image Line – Jean-Marie Cannie [CTO and Co-Founder]
Image-Line is the company responsible for one of the most widely-used DAWs in the world, FL Studio (formerly known as FruityLoops), and their DJ mixing...
Alternate Soundings (AL.SO) – Olivier Bolling [Founder]
Olivier Bolling is a well-known name in the Paris audio scene. He first built his reputation as the Technical Director of La...
Joe Tortorici [Audio Engineer/Mixer]
One of the few pleasures of an otherwise arduous college life was to enroll in Audio I and II classes, which allowed my...
Blue Microphones – John Maier [CEO]
Blue Microphones have been manufacturing some of the most distinctive microphones on the market for over a decade, and have experienced...
Chris Sheldon [Producer/Mixer]
With 30+ years in the music industry, Chris Sheldon’s abilities as a mixer and producer are in demand among rock bands...
Finishing Move Inc – Brian Trifon & Brian White [Founders]
Though Brian Trifon has been featured on Speakhertz before under his Trifonic moniker, my talk with him this time covered different...
Monochrome Productions – Tom Gittins [Mixer/Producer]
Hundreds of producers and engineers make their living by working alongside underground bands that are self-funded and mainly need studio time...
Roswell Pro Audio – Matthew McGlynn [Founder]
Roswell Pro Audio is a relatively new microphone company that has been making a name for itself with a range of...
Daniel Fridell [Artist]
Daniel Fridell is a Swedish musician with a long-standing music career and history of playing with Scandinavian acts like Eric Gadd...
The Daydream Sound [Producer/Beatmaker]
I came across The Daydream Sound (TDS) on Youtube, whilst browsing for videos of sampling equipment. Upon finding out that he...
R8DIO [Producer/Mixer]
After having randomly bumped into him at the Vintage King store in LA, I became acquainted with Troy Johnson, aka R8DIO,...
Greg Archilla [Producer/Mixer]
The alternative rock scene of the late 2000s produced a wave of both commercially and critically successful bands, from Daughtry and The...
Ken Lewis [Producer/Mixer]
Ken Lewis is an all-around production powerhouse whose credits are littered across popular music, from solo acts like Beyoncé, Kanye West, Jay Z and Drake, to...
Dobie [Artist]
After my chat with Sie Medway-Smith, we got to talking about producers in London, and he mentioned that Dobie would be...
Scarbee – Thomas Hansen Scarbye [Founder]
Most producers are familiar with the software behemoth known as Native Instruments, which will have led them to also become acquainted...
Bitwig Studio – Dominik Wilms [Technical Support Manager]
Bitwig Studio is a DAW that caused a stir some years back with rumors of being able to challenge Ableton Live's workflow. The software...