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Progressions: Success in the Music Industry

Conversations exploring creativity, productivity, and career growth in the music industry. Join in each week as Travis sits down with some of the industry’s best and brightest to discuss the mindsets and strategies that they use in their careers every day.

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Nov. 14, 2024

Is Mix Tip YouTube Sabotaging Your Potential?

Travis shares how mixing and recording knowledge is shared today versus when he started and explains why the abundance of information can be both empowering and limiting. 📺 WATCH THE SHOW ON YOUTUBE 📺 https://www.youtube.com/...

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Oct. 23, 2024

Andrew Scheps - A Conversation About the Future of Audio and The Skil…

Andrew Scheps is a Grammy winning engineer and mixer who has worked with Adele, Jay-Z, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, and many more. We chat about the future of audio recording, the implications of AI, the mindsets you nee...

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Oct. 3, 2024

Is Mixing Dead? - A Pro Mixer's Opinion on The Future of AI in Mixing

Following the announcement of Spike AI, Travis discusses his thoughts on the inevitability of the us of AI in mixing and how it might affect the careers of future generations of engineers and mixers. 📺 WATCH THE SHOW ON YOUTU...

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Sept. 18, 2024

Brendan Dekora - Finding the Right Studio Clients and Building a Free…

Brendan Dekora is an engineer and mixer with credits with artists such as Trent Reznor, Foo Fighters, Steven Wilson, and Muse. In this episode, you'll learn about: What You Need to Know as a Freelance Engineer to Align with y...

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Sept. 4, 2024

Sam Fischmann - The TRUTH About Mastering in Modern Music Production …

Sam Fischmann is a cofounder of the audio plugin company Musik Hack. As a software developer and musician he is passionate about demystifying the mastering process and making it accessible to everybody by creating tools that ...

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Aug. 22, 2024

Why Big Credits Won't Change Your Life

Travis discusses the myths that people believe about big credits and how you should actually think of them. 📺 WATCH THE SHOW ON YOUTUBE 📺 https://www.youtube.com/@progressionspod Connect with Me: 📬 Newsletter: https://www.tra...

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Aug. 15, 2024

Nick Broste - Get Work and Stay Relevant as a Recording Engineer in 2…

Nick Broste is Chicago based audio engineer and musician who specializes in recording bands in ensembles in both studio and live settings. The spirit of removing the obstacles of artistic expression for artists is the driving...

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Aug. 1, 2024

Is the Audio Tech Industry a Scam?

Travis talks about the year he spent NOT buying plug-ins and how the recording studio culture fuels the audio tech industry into trying to sell engineers everything. 📺 WATCH THE SHOW ON YOUTUBE 📺 https://www.youtube.com/@prog...

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July 25, 2024

Why Music Producers & Engineers Should Make Content | with Marc Matth…

Marc Matthews is a music producer, mastering engineer and the host of the Inside the Mix Podcast. In this episode, you'll learn about: How Social Media and Content Can Be Networking The Value of Having a Strong Core Group of …

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July 18, 2024

3 Tell-Tale Signs You Need to Be Freelance: Why I Quit Every Staff En…

Travis discusses why he quit every staff engineering gig he had and how to know that you're ready to go freelance as a recording engineer, mixer, or producer. 📺 WATCH THE SHOW ON YOUTUBE 📺 https://www.youtube.com/@progression...

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July 11, 2024

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June 27, 2024

Harper James - Is the “How” of Production Killing the “Why”?

In this episode, you'll learn about: Is Our Musical Taste Nature or Nurture Practicing Minimalism in Process How to Discover Your Sonic Preferences Is Our Musical Tastes Nature or Nurture How to Discover Your Sonic Preference...

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