Hosted by Chris Selim & Steve Dierkens · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 49 episodes
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The Studio Stuff Podcast is your go-to home studio hangout, where music production, mixing, recording, and mastering meet real talk, practical advice, and the occasional lousy jokes. Hosted by Chris Selim and Steve Dierkens, this isn’t a dry, technical lecture—it’s a laid-back, no-BS conversation about making great music with the gear you actually have.Expect real-world insights, gear, and technique debates, plugin obsessions, and plenty of laughs along the way. Plus, we love hearing from you! Send in your questions, and let’s figure this whole studio stuff thing out together.
Chris Selim & Steve Dierkens hosts Studio Stuff, a music show with 49 episodes published.
The Great Preamp War: Why Both Sides of This Viral Video Drama Are Actually Right So a video dropped last week and the whole audio world lost its mind. You know the one. A long, seriously impressive comparison of cheap i
Your drums sound massive on their own, then they hit the mix bus and the limiter starts fighting back. In this episode we tackle a great listener question about keeping kick and snare transients under control so they don
Studio Stuff Podcast #47 | Staying Sharp in the Studio: Sleep, Food, Panning, and Everything In Between It started with Chris being half asleep on a phone call. And somehow that turned into one of our more useful convers
Studio Stuff Podcast #45 | Your Phone Knows Your Mix Has a Problem. Do You? We get into three listener questions this episode, and at least one of them might change how you check your mixes going forward. The first quest
Studio Stuff Podcast #44 | Mic Shootouts, Genre Comfort Zones, and the Music We Love Mixing You've got two mics, one singer, and a session to run. Which one do you reach for? In this episode, we dig into that exact scena
Studio Stuff Podcast #43 The Da Vinci Problem: Knowing When to Let Go of Your Mix You've been in the mix for hours. It sounds pretty good. You think it sounds pretty good. But you keep going back in, tweaking, adjusting,
Studio Stuff Podcast #42 | Mixing, Mastering, and the Mindset That Separates Them You finish the mix, you're happy with it, you slap Ozone on the master bus... and now what? Do you keep tweaking? Do you bounce and walk a
Studio Stuff Podcast #41 | NS10 Translation in 2026: Emotion, Mixing, and What Actually Works What does emotion in music actually mean? And does your mix have to make someone cry to count as art? We got a comment on our
Studio Stuff Podcast #40 | The Omelet Crisis and How Many Reverbs You Actually Need Alright, the steak omelets are gone and the vibes are… fragile. But despite the breakfast tragedy, we’re digging into a topic that separ
Studio Stuff Podcast #39 | The Band That Broke the Internet (And What It Means for You) We lost the Denny's steak omelet. But we found hope for music. There's a band from Quebec called Angine de Poitrine, that stopped us
Studio Stuff Podcast #38 | Mixing With Your Eyes: Visual Tools, Meters, and the Mix Bus Limiter Debate Can you actually mix with your eyes? Should you? We're diving into one of those conversations that sounds like it has
Studio Stuff Podcast #37 | Third-Party Plugins vs Tim Tams: Which Actually Improves Your Mix? Do you really need third-party plugins to make a professional mix… or are stock plugins already doing more than enough? In thi
Studio Stuff Podcast #36 | Headphones vs Speakers: What We Trust for Better Mix Decisions Is mixing on headphones actually reliable? Are speakers still the gold standard? In this episode, we get into the real-world pros
Vintage gear is everywhere again… except most of it isn’t gear anymore. It’s emulations. It’s GUIs. It’s “1176” written on a screen with knobs that make our brains feel safe. In this episode, we dig into why producers in
Home studios have never been more powerful. Cheap gear is better than ever, plugins are ridiculous, and you can make real records on a laptop. But commercial studios still have something you can’t always fake: space, aco
You know that moment where your mix feels great… until you look at the master bus and it’s basically a nuclear explosion? Yeah. This episode is all about avoiding that trap while you’re mixing—so mastering doesn’t turn i
Studio Stuff Podcast | Back Then vs Now: Did We Lose “Pro” Recordings? Everyone loves the idea that “back in the day” recordings were more professional. Big studios, serious engineers, real consoles, musicians who rehear
We started this episode the way all professional audio conversations begin… by accidentally starting a mini civil war at breakfast over hash browns. Then we pivot into two really solid listener questions: one about wheth
AI is no longer a “someday” conversation. It’s already baked into tools we use, workflows we rely on, and decisions we’re making in the home studio, whether we call it AI or not. In this episode, we break the whole thing
Alright… let’s talk about the question we hear constantly: “How many plugins do you use on a vocal chain?” Because the real answer isn’t a number. It’s a mindset. In this episode, we zoom out and talk about the categorie
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Studio Stuff is hosted by Chris Selim & Steve Dierkens. The show is categorised under music (arts) and has published 49 episodes.
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