TWiRT 650 - Recording, Mixing, & Processing for Broadcast with Kirk Yano
Friday, June 30, 2023 at 12:54PM
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Who is Kirk Yano? We’re about to find out on this episode of TWiRT! 

Kirk Yano is a multiple Grammy-winning recording engineer with well over 30 Platinum and Gold records. He has won three Grammys including a Grammy for the last album that Miles Davis recorded. He has worked with Public Enemy, Mariah Carey, Miles Davis, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Placido Domingo and Phoebe Snow, and has toured as a musician with Snow, Savoy Brown, Scott Holt and Texas Scratch.

Kirk was the recording engineer for “Fight the Power’ by Public Enemy which Billboard magazine still lists as one of the most influential recordings.  He was also the engineer on Mariah Carey’s Christmas Album and her Jewel Box album and he worked on History by Michael Jackson.

 

We'll hear about Kirk Yano's first visit to Nashville and his early association with Steve Church and Frank Foti.  And even how Steve Church sometimes stayed at the "Yano Arms Hostel" (my name for it) in NYC in Steve's early phone hybrid days.  Plus we'll hear about WMMS remotes that Kirk worked on with Frank in the late 1970's.

Finally, we'll understand part of the reason that music started to get really processed in the early 2000's, and how Kirk worked to mitigate the craziness in the music industry, or at least turn it into something musical and useful.  Also, what about the production transition from multitrack tape and mixing consoles to digital DAW production? 

Show Notes:
Part of a video on YouTube with a French host describing Kirk Yano’s essential contribution to Hip Hop music in France.

Guest:
Kirk Yano - Award-Winning Musician, Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Engineer

Host:
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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