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Producers talking shop, tangents and blunt advice included.
Producers, engineers and touring pros sit down for loose, technical conversations about how records actually get made. Credits get compared, workflow gets picked apart, and the money question keeps coming back to skills and relationships first.
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The Unstoppable Recording Machine Podcast is a weekly conversation about the working reality of music production. Its 400-plus episode run has been built on a single format: get a producer, engineer or industry professional on the line and let them talk. The opening question is usually some version of how did you get started. What follows spools out at length, braiding technical specifics into career lessons into stories about clients who were impossible to please. Eyal Levi and Joel Wanasek share hosting duties across episodes. The guest list skews heavy and modern. Joey Doherty has worked on Call of Duty and Sonic the Hedgehog alongside records for I Prevail, Falling in Reverse and Amorosa. Hiram Hernandez brings credits with Bless the Fall, Bad Omens and The Word Alive. Curt Martin, described as one of the hardest-working newer names in the rock world, has worked with Echo and Fix, Call Me Charisma, Ryan Oaks and Catch Your Breath. Mastering engineer Maor Appelbaum returns for the kind of long technical detours the hosts have renamed from rabbit holes to bear caves. The show is not purely technical. A large share of every episode is about people. How do you tell a vocalist a take was bad without wrecking their day? Which artists want the blunt version and which need the diplomatic one? Guests keep circling back to the same conclusion — read the person in front of you, then choose your tone. Money comes up constantly and the answer is consistent: focus on it directly and you are thinking short term. The industry gets discussed without much varnish. Even at the top, guests say, everyone has days where they feel like they are falling off. One host recalls a story about the decade of parking lots and demo tapes that preceded a band's breakout single. That grind is treated as the baseline, not an exception. The show also strays outside the control room. Tank the Tech, who works in touring rather than production, appears to discuss the less glamorous parts of life on the road and how people actually get hired. There are Discord Q and A episodes, including one recorded with Mick Gordon. Tonally it is friendly but unsentimental, with strong language throughout and plenty of teasing between host and guest. Promotion for the associated academy is woven through, and the host is candid about the trade — the show stays free, and the ask is a share and a review. It sounds lived-in rather than produced.
Made for: Working and aspiring producers, mixers, mastering engineers and studio owners who want the client-facing and business side of the job, not just plugin settings. Also suits musicians curious about what happens on the other side of the glass.
What sets it apart: Guest credits are the starting point, not the destination — most of the runtime goes to psychology, money, and how to survive in the industry, in unfiltered language that studio shows usually sand down. Rotating hosts and the occasional non-producer guest keep it from becoming a gear catalogue.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Studio technique meets client psychology, career judgment and candid producer conversation in a show attentive to how records actually come together.
Unstoppable Recording Machine Podcast turns studio work into frank, detailed conversation about how records get made and how production careers develop.
A client can name 0.7 dB on the snare or just say 'it's not there.' Familiar?
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A candid producer story about self-recording, relationships, and steady creative work.
Joey Daugherty's path into production begins with a guitar around age 10, then winds through work tied to Call of Duty, I Prevail, Falling in Reverse, Amorosa, and Sonic the Hedgehog.
A candid studio conversation about pressure, blunt feedback, and learning how to read the musician in the room.
On the URM Podcast, Hiram Hernandez gets into the instincts behind a heavy stretch of studio work, including Bless the Fall and Bad Omens. The strongest thread is not the resume, but the question underneath it: when does pressure make a performance better, and when does it…
A grounded look at Kurt Martin's writer-producer workflow, with a useful reminder about the work behind momentum.
Kurt Martin's Unstoppable Recording Machine Podcast appearance frames his recent run as a useful snapshot of the writer-producer's growing role in modern records.
A shop-talk episode on training the ear, handling feedback, and improving through real client work.
Maor Applebaum's conversation with Joel Wanasek treats listening as a working discipline. Plugin choices, compressor behavior, and the line between summing and non-summing setups only become useful when a sharper ear can point to what matters.
A useful look at how careful feedback protects momentum when a recording session starts to wobble.
Levy and his guest focus on the delicate craft of keeping a recording session moving when a take is not quite working. The guest describes steering away from negative phrasing, shifting to another part, and returning once the room has steadied; Levy tightens that into a clear…
A live-minded mixing Q&A turns fizz, low-end and tired ears into practical problems worth diagnosing.
Technical questions set the shape of the episode, bringing gain staging, mastering, low-end choices and high-gain guitar tones into one practical conversation.
Two studio owners test compression, latency, and guitar signal chains on real gear.
Brian Funk talks Ableton workflows, mastering, and songwriting with working musicians.
Real drum-recording talk from working players.
Music craft, from studio floor to screen.
Music craft, traced back to its source.
Studio craft, argued in practical detail.
Eyal Levi hosts a Discord Q&A session with producer George Lever, answering questions from the URM community.
Eyal Levi interviews producer Zach Jones on the Unstoppable Recording Machine Podcast.
Eyal Levi hosts a Q&A session with producer Mick Gordon, discussing music production and answering listener questions.
Eyal Levi introduces the podcast, thanks listeners, and previews an interview with touring industry professional Tank the Tech.
Eyal Levi hosts a Q&A session with producer Will Yip, discussing recording and production techniques.
Joel Wanasek of the URM Podcast interviews 29-year-old producer Joey Doherty, whose credits include music production for Call of Duty, Sonic the Hedgehog, I Prevail's 'True Power' album, and Falling in Reverse.
Joel Wanasek of the URM Podcast interviews Hiram Hernandez, a rock and metal producer whose credits include Bad Omens, Bless the Fall, and The Word Alive, about his path from a borrowed M-Box in Virginia to becoming an established LA-based producer.
Curt Martin says modern artists need “a self-marketing genius” because “a good song” is no longer enough.
Maor Applebaum says beginners should chase quantity for the first five years, not perfection.
Phil Pluskota recommends starting at the dust-cap glue line, then moving the microphone for darker or brighter guitar tones.
Eyal Levi introduces the podcast, thanks listeners, and previews an interview with touring industry professional Tank the Tech.