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You are a guitar player, you are a
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singer, but uh but how did you master
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the sound engineering thing? Uh did did
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you did you went on some courses or it
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>> No. And and remember there was no
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YouTube back then. You know, now you can
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learn everything that you ever want to
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>> Um for me it was, you know, luckily I
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had, you know, I I I knew about
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recording, you know, when we were making
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the first Tricks record when we got our
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deal. Uh my managers bought me like a
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little small fourtrack recording setup
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to make all the demos that wound up
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being the songs for the first album. And
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so I knew a little bit, but when I built
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this studio and I bought a, you know, a
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big 24 track Mackie board and I had
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these TSM digital 88 machines, it was a
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big learning process and it was, you
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know, calling everybody I knew that were
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engineers to come over and help me. And
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then it just was trial and error, man.
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It's like anything else. You just keep
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going until you get it right. And
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believe me, I blew up a bunch of sets
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you of speakers and made all the
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mistakes that everybody makes. But
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again, it was, you know, one of the
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greatest educations, you know, it was me
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going to, you know, sort of going to
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college, man. And and I will say, you
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know, uh 30 plus years later of being an
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engineer and producer, every day I learn
