We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Dylan Brown. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Dylan below.

Dylan, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

I’d say the most meaningful project to me is an album I engineered and mixed for a band called Eddie Roberts & the Lucky Strokes. Eddie Roberts is the president of the record label I work for called Color Red. He brought in Shelby Kemp, a singer and guitarist from Hattiesburg Mississippi and Ashley and Taylor Galbraith (Ashley is the bassist and Taylor is the drummer) to make an original southern rock record. I have a soft spot for the genre and Shelby’s songwriting is incredible so I was super excited. During the process of making that record I became good friends with the group and we made something that all of us really love and are very proud of. One of the songs, Whiskey Makes me Stronger, is actually out you can hear it on spotify! Honorable mentions would be an album with George Porter Jr that I mixed which recently came out and The New Mastersounds’ Deplar Effect album.

Dylan, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Well I’ll start at the beginning! I started playing guitar at 11 years old. I ended up with a little 4 track recorder and I was absolutely captivated by recording. After high school I studied audio engineering at community colleges but I found out pretty quickly that the classroom was not where I was going to learn. So, I reached out and secured an internship at The Blasting Room Studios in Ft. Collins, CO. I loved that place! I mean I still do. I spent close to 30 hours a week cleaning up and doing intern stuff but, more often then not I was learning from the incredible staff of producers and engineers there. I have to shout out Chris Beeble who to this day is a great mentor to me. Also, Jonathan Luginbill who has taught me so much about studio upkeep and just being a badass in general! Im very thankful for the 2 years I spent there. More recently I began serving as the studio manager and head of production for Denver based record label Color Red. Their studio is especially fun because I get to work on tape. I’m actually developing a sample pack full of really killer sounding drum loops I recorded to tape at Color Red with a local drummer named Braxton Kahn. He’s really rad. He is like a certified J Dilla drummer. He plays tribute shows and all kinds of cool stuff! Mostly though I provide music production services like recording and mixing. Mixing is my real passion in music production. I love sending a mix to a client and they get back to me with “Oh my god! this sounds incredible!” I really do want to help artists make records that they are proud of and that can compete with all the other super high quality productions out there.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

I mean the goal is to be a world class producer/engineer! If I have to be more specific I’d really like to niche down to just mixing. I really admire guys like Tchad Blake and Tom Elmhirst who get called upon to mix what typically become my favorite records. I’d like to set up a nice mixing studio where I live and just spend each day churning out the best sounding records I can! Maybe even the best sounding records in the world? lol!

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

I think it’s probably seeing the pride in the faces of my clients when they share the records I helped them with. I’m a musician as well and growing up I always wanted to be a rockstar. I think most young musicians have those dreams too. So, if I can make them a record that really makes them feel like they were able to make those dreams come true then I did a good job.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.dylanbrownaudio.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dylan.brown.audio/

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