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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…
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.tr…
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/@pro…
July 18, 2024

3 Tell-Tale Signs You Need to Be Freelance: Why I Quit Every Staff Engineer Gig I Had

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/@progressio…
June 20, 2024

5 Habits that Will Put You Ahead of 99% of the Music Industry

In this episode Travis breaks down the five productivity tips that help him find work life balance and still deliver on a high level for his clients. 📺 WATCH THE SHOW ON YOUTUBE 📺 https://www.youtube.com/@progressionspod Con…
May 30, 2024

18 Years of Music Career Advice in 18 Minutes

From making coffee and sweeping floors to credits with Taylor Swift, Imagine Dragons, and Ariana Grande... Travis breaks down the mindsets that have helped his career so far. In this episode, you'll learn about: The Engineer…
April 3, 2024

Beating Burnout: How I Save My Music Career

Everybody in the music industry expects to overwork and burnout at some point, but what if you didn't have to? What if you could avoid burnout altogether? It took getting to the point of hating every session I did to realize…
Feb. 28, 2024

Streamline Your Mixing: A Guided Workflow Audit

In this episode,Travis Ference, a Grammy nominated recording engineer, examines his own mixing process through a detailed workflow audit. Follow along and analyze your own process in what is meant to be an interactive guide …
Feb. 14, 2024

How to Set Your Rate: Defining Your Value as a Music Freelancer

Knowing what to charge is one of the hardest parts of working as a freelancer. In this episode Travis discusses how tracking his time for the last five years has helped him confidently define his rates and shares tips for ho…
Jan. 31, 2024

Spotify Royalty Outrage: What it ACTUALLY Tell Us About the Music Industry

This week we talk about how Spotify's royalty changes will affect artists in 2024 and what the resulting outrage says about the false narrative much of the industry is living. In this episode, you'll learn about: Spotify's R…
Jan. 17, 2024

The Super Mario Effect: Level Up Your Music Career with Science

In this episode we’re exploring the “Super Mario Effect” and how it can be used to level up in the music industry. Drawing from former NASA engineer Mark Rober’s experiment, we discover how reframing our approach to failure …
Oct. 4, 2023

Redefining Success: Three Years of Progressions

After reflecting on three years of podcasts I realized that I was making this show for myself as much as I was for others. In this episode I explore where Progressions came from, the story behind the closing questions, and …
Sept. 20, 2023

What's the Problem? The Importance of Solution-Oriented Thinking in Music

Great recording studios have always been built on the idea of providing solutions for their clients. Problem solving is a key skill for any engineer, mixer, or music producer. In this episode Travis explores the importance…
Aug. 30, 2023

Music School Survival Guide: 5 Tips for a Successful Journey

Want to get the most out of your music school experience? Set yourself up for success this fall (and for the rest of your career) with these five tips. This episode was originally post on the Progressions YouTube Channel . …
Aug. 23, 2023

Beyond 10,000 Hours: Navigating Your Music Career

After you reach 10,000 hours of practice do you magically become the greatest music producer in the world or the most successful songwriter that ever lived? Most likely not. Travis explores the idea that mastering your cr…