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Celebrating Nashville Music: Inside Blue Sky Studios with Myles Mancuso on Takin’ A Walk Nashville · Takin’ A Walk Nashville

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  Speaker 1: Taking a Walk Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: Hey listeners, it's Sarah Harrelson, your host of the Taking
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  Speaker 2: a Walk Nashville podcast. Take a walk with me today
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  Speaker 2: over to Hermitage, Tennessee. I am heading to Blue Sky Studios,
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  Speaker 2: a boutique recording and production studio in Hermitage just outside
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  Speaker 2: of Nashville. It's officially announcing its public launch following a
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  Speaker 2: quiet opening in December of 2025. Founded by Eric Patron
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  Speaker 2: and Miles Mancuso, the studio operates inside the former Watershed Studios,
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  Speaker 2: which was a historic Nashville recording space connected to sessions
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  Speaker 2: involving legendary artists such as Dolly Parton and Miranda Lambert.
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  Speaker 2: Blending the timeless spirit of classic Nashville recording with modern,
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  Speaker 2: creative environment, Blue Sky Studios was built for today's artists, songwriters, producers,
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  Speaker 2: and creators. Join me today as I talk about the
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  Speaker 2: transformation of Watershed Studios into now Blue Sky Studios.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Takin' a Walk Nashville with your host, singer-songwriter
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Harrelson.
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  Speaker 2: Hi listeners, this is Sarah Harrelson, your host of the Takin'
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  Speaker 2: a Walk Nashville podcast. I am joining you today from Hermitage,
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee at Blue Sky Studios. The studio just opened this year,
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  Speaker 2: taking space of the former Watershed Studios. Eric Patron and
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  Speaker 2: Myles Mancuso are the co-founders of Blue Sky Studios, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy to be here in the studio with Myles
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  Speaker 2: today to talk about it. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Good. Thank you for coming. Thanks for having me on
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  Speaker 3: your show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for having me. So tell me about
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  Speaker 2: how you found this space. Was Watershed Studios for sale,
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  Speaker 2: and you were just looking for a studio at the time? Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Well, um, we found it on a Facebook marketplace or
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  Speaker 3: some sort of Facebook post. We were working with a realtor, um,
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  Speaker 3: and we were, you know, checking out all different spots in,
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  Speaker 3: in town. And, uh, this was kind of a last
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  Speaker 3: minute find. Um, we found it through, um, just a,
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  Speaker 3: just a Facebook post of someone that, you know, has
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  Speaker 3: been in the music scene and they saw that this place,
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  Speaker 3: you know, was, was available. And, um, We came in
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  Speaker 3: here and we were like, this is a perfect fit.
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  Speaker 3: There's no build-out needed. Everything came as is. So it
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  Speaker 3: was a perfect fit for what we were looking for.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, I didn't even know you could find studios
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  Speaker 2: for sale or houses for sale on Facebook Marketplace.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it was fake. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if it was Marketplace, but it was definitely on Facebook.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 3: It was just, you know, it's just, you know, a perfect,
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  Speaker 3: perfect find.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's great.
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  Speaker 3: Blessing for sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And this room has such great history connected to it,
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  Speaker 2: tied to Dolly Parton and Miranda Lambert. Tell me more
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  Speaker 2: about the history of the studio and what makes the
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  Speaker 2: studio so special.
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  Speaker 3: Mark, uh, Mark, Mark Birchfield and Wanda Vick. Um, uh,
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  Speaker 3: Wanda's in the Opry house, house band. And, uh, Mark has,
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  Speaker 3: has been in the Opry band. Um, and they've been
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  Speaker 3: a part of the music scene, uh, in the city
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  Speaker 3: of Nashville for decades. Um, so they've had all these
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  Speaker 3: connections to people that, um, you know, started coming up
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  Speaker 3: in the session scene. Um, So they kind of built
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  Speaker 3: this studio out in, I think, the late 80s. But
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  Speaker 3: they were some of the integral members of the initial
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  Speaker 3: early 90s country music session scene. So they had stars
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  Speaker 3: like Dolly Parton and Miranda Lambert and all these people
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  Speaker 3: come in here when it was when the session scene
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  Speaker 3: wasn't as corporate as it is now. So they've, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they came up with, you know, making some of the
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  Speaker 3: most integral nineties pop country stuff, you know? So, um,
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  Speaker 3: it was, it was, it was great to have their
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  Speaker 3: history and their mark left on this, on this, on
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  Speaker 3: this building.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember any of the records or songs that
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  Speaker 2: were recorded in Watershed?
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  Speaker 3: Miranda Lambert's first album was recorded here.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I forget something. I think the album was Applejack
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  Speaker 3: that it was called, that Dolly Parton was on here.
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  Speaker 2: Very cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a pretty decently sized studio.
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  Speaker 3: It is, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Beyond the um console room that we're in there's a
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  Speaker 2: tracking room uh you can track drums and hear vocals
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  Speaker 2: and then uh even another room i guess if you
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  Speaker 2: had extra band members and needed to record in yeah
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  Speaker 2: the podcast room.
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  Speaker 3: We did a we did a session recently for like
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  Speaker 3: a six or seven piece band and put amps and
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  Speaker 3: you know there's all different types of you know things
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  Speaker 3: where you could there's all different parts of the of
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  Speaker 3: of the studio here where you could expand and have
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  Speaker 3: a Large group if you need it, you know, and then,
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  Speaker 3: you know, have a lounge or do a podcast or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great use of space.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that you guys have a podcast room too.
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  Speaker 2: It's very cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So tell me more about how you and your partner,
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  Speaker 2: Eric Patron, got connected. I know you both also are
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  Speaker 2: musicians in addition to being producers. So did you connect
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  Speaker 2: through performing?
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  Speaker 3: No, we met, Eric was on vacation down in Key
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  Speaker 3: West and I used to live in Key West, Florida
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  Speaker 3: for many years. And then after I moved, I would
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  Speaker 3: go back periodically and um, to just do some gigs,
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  Speaker 3: you know, some one-off gigs, some road gigs. And, uh,
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  Speaker 3: he was on vacation and saw me playing and, um,
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  Speaker 3: he loved my, my set list and things that I
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  Speaker 3: was playing. And we connected over, you know, just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he just hung, hung out and we ended up talking
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  Speaker 3: and we became really good friends. And then on the
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  Speaker 3: flight back to the New York area, we were on
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  Speaker 3: the same flight. So we were like, Hey, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I just saw you at the bar the other night. Um,
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  Speaker 3: and then we just stayed in touch and, um, we
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  Speaker 3: just kind of, our relationship grew, our friendship grew just from,
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  Speaker 3: you know, sharing our love of the same music and everything.
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  Speaker 3: And then we were like, you know, the Nashville scene
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  Speaker 3: is so happening now that, you know, we were interested
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  Speaker 3: in starting this business venture, you know? So that's how,
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  Speaker 3: you know, after about a year of being, being friends,
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  Speaker 3: we were like, you know, we should explore this and
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  Speaker 3: see where this goes. Nice.
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  Speaker 2: So when someone books a session here, are you both
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  Speaker 2: co-engineering the session, or how does that work working with
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  Speaker 2: Eric in the studio?
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  Speaker 3: Eric doesn't live in the Nashville area, so I'm basically
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  Speaker 3: running the session for anyone that's here. Sometimes he'll come down,
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  Speaker 3: but a lot of the times it's just me playing
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  Speaker 3: and engineering things. One of our most recent artists that
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  Speaker 3: we've been working with, I've just been kind of building
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  Speaker 3: tracks because I'm a drummer first and then I'm a
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  Speaker 3: guitar player and I play bass and keys. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: able to kind of build out tracks and work with
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  Speaker 3: someone one-on-one if that's what they wanted to do. And
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  Speaker 3: that's something that's fun for me too.
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  Speaker 2: And it's such a great addition for a producer to
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  Speaker 2: be able to play all those instruments, especially if you
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  Speaker 2: here's something, maybe you don't have that person in the
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  Speaker 2: room to play the part so you can go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and track it.
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  Speaker 3: It definitely saves a lot of time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: So since this studio is from the 80s, when you
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  Speaker 2: took it over, did you have to do a lot
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  Speaker 2: of restoring to it, or what had to change when
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  Speaker 2: Blue Sky took over?
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  Speaker 3: We did some, I mean, that was kind of the
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  Speaker 3: reason why we didn't open up immediately, other than getting
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  Speaker 3: all the gear in here and getting everything wired up. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it really didn't take a lot of maintenance
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  Speaker 3: to get it up and running. Mark and Wanda, you know,
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  Speaker 3: did a great job of getting the best wires and
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  Speaker 3: everything that really lasted, you know, decades. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: everything works just like it always has, I think, you know.
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  Speaker 2: That's so essential. You know, you can always buy houses
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  Speaker 2: and buildings in Nashville that have, you know, unfinished basements
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  Speaker 2: or rooms, but there's always a lot of home studios
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  Speaker 2: that are for sale that have the soundproofing already done,
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  Speaker 2: which is great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, everything is in perfect working condition, which is amazing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for a For how old and how much
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  Speaker 3: history the place has, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's incredible. So tell me about all the gear
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  Speaker 2: you have in the studio. What's your go-to instruments and
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  Speaker 2: recording equipment in here?
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  Speaker 3: I love SSL and especially Chandler preamps just because of
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  Speaker 3: the color that they have and the amount of saturation
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  Speaker 3: that you can get out of them or not get out. But, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we have Neve stuff. We have SSL, we have API,
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  Speaker 3: we have, I, I opted to go for that stuff
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  Speaker 3: rather than have a console because I feel like you
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  Speaker 3: could get more of a variety of different sounds and, uh,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of, you know, people mix in, in the
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  Speaker 3: box now anyway. So it's not really like you're, um,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you need a console anymore. I mean, if
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  Speaker 3: I was tracking to tape, then I probably would, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm not really, you know, I don't really know. I'm
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  Speaker 3: a little too young to know how to cut tape. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know? Yeah. Some people kind of like want to
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  Speaker 2: go back to tracking on tape just to, for the
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  Speaker 2: heck of it, but it's so much work.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're trying to pump out stuff in a
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  Speaker 3: certain timeframe, it's just, You know, it's just hard to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just, it's also better having more space instead
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  Speaker 2: of having a big console with, you know, 50 channels
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  Speaker 2: on it when that's not really needed anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Right, right, yeah. Yeah, so I love having the different
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  Speaker 3: options of different preamps, and they're all, you know... popular names,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so you can get the SSL sound or
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  Speaker 3: the Neve sound or whatever you're looking for here. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we got it all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very cool. What about, are all of the
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  Speaker 2: instruments in here yours? What about the drums and the
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  Speaker 2: guitars in here?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we just keep the drum set set up, ready
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  Speaker 3: for tracking at all times. It's a DW Pro kit.
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  Speaker 3: I love DW stuff for recording. You know, they're just,
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  Speaker 3: you know, some of the highest quality drums that you
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  Speaker 3: can get. the guitar selection, all of the guitars that I've,
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  Speaker 3: you know, have, have had throughout my life wound up here. Plus,
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  Speaker 3: plus a few new additions. There's, you know, acoustics, 12 strings,
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  Speaker 3: nylon strings, steel strings, um, a little banjo, uh, It's
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  Speaker 3: not an actual banjo. It's just a six string so
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  Speaker 3: you could get the sound. Like a gitjo?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Without knowing how to play the banjo because that seems
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  Speaker 3: a little complicated.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Very cool. Yeah. Everything is here at Blue Sky Studios.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about some of the most memorable sessions you
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  Speaker 2: have had so far since Blue Sky opened doors.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, well, one of the most memorable sessions that, um,
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  Speaker 3: that we've had was we brought all of the, uh,
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  Speaker 3: we brought Mark and Wanda in to do this, this
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  Speaker 3: session that we were working on and Brent Mason, who's
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  Speaker 3: been on, you know, Shania Twain stuff and George Strait and,
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  Speaker 3: Billy Thomas, who plays drums for Vince Gill and the
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  Speaker 3: Time Jumpers, and Scotty Sanders on Pedal Steel, who was
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  Speaker 3: on Zach Top's last stuff, and all different types of,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So we kind of brought, and they all
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  Speaker 3: used to work together here when they were just all
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  Speaker 3: starting out. Oh, wow. Like in town. So that was
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  Speaker 3: a really cool experience to get everyone together in the
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  Speaker 3: same building that they used to record stuff with when
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  Speaker 3: they were just starting out, you know, and they're all
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  Speaker 3: You know, and, you know, they're in their prime and they,
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  Speaker 3: and they have, you know, had so many experiences of
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  Speaker 3: the legendary stuff that they've recorded on. Um, it was just,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it was a trip down memory lane for them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's really special. I love that you have preserved
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  Speaker 2: the history in here while, you know, making it a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more modern. So there's a lot of country
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  Speaker 2: history in here. Have there been a lot of other
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  Speaker 2: sessions that have been other genres recorded besides country? Or
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  Speaker 2: what do you usually record here?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't discriminate as to what I work on.
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  Speaker 3: We've had some R & B sessions here. We've had
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  Speaker 3: some rock sessions. We've had some indie sessions. Folk stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, I love working on all on
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  Speaker 3: on all styles of music. And we've done a lot here,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in in all genres. So it's not really
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  Speaker 3: like a, you know, this is the country studio or anything. Right.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're we're open to doing anything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, what I love about Nashville,
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  Speaker 2: even though it's sad that a lot of studios on
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  Speaker 2: Music Row have closed, there's so many great home recording studios. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just driving down the road in Hermitage, you
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't think that a studio would be, you know, around
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  Speaker 2: the corner over here. So it's yeah, it's nice and homey.
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  Speaker 2: And when you were putting the layout together, did you
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  Speaker 2: want to record your own music in here? Has Eric
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  Speaker 2: recorded any of his music in here?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we've been working on... I've released one album that
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  Speaker 3: I made here so far.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, cool.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm always working on stuff that I'm writing, either
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  Speaker 3: for myself or just stuff that I could present to
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  Speaker 3: other songwriters that come in, too. At this point, we've
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  Speaker 3: only put out one album of my own, of our own,
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  Speaker 3: that we put out here. But, I mean, we hope
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  Speaker 3: to put out some more personal music that's recorded in
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  Speaker 3: this space. That's cool.
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  Speaker 2: And you mixed and engineered all of your songs. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So is the album under your name, Miles Mancuso?
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  Speaker 3: It is. Yeah, it's called Blue Sky Sessions. Okay, cool. Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Well, listeners can check that out. So I imagine while
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  Speaker 2: you were recording, Eric kind of had to be the
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  Speaker 2: engineer to hit record while you were talking.
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  Speaker 3: How did that work? We actually had a great tracking engineer, Kyle,
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  Speaker 3: that works with Mark and Wanda at their... Current Watershed Studio.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, cool.
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  Speaker 3: That they have down, I think it's in South Nashville,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah. Okay, great. Yeah, but he's a phenomenal tracking
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  Speaker 3: engineer here.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. So if artists are in town or coming
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  Speaker 2: to Nashville, they're trying to figure out where to record
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  Speaker 2: their songs, tell us about all of the recording services
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  Speaker 2: that you offer here if someone's interested in recording.
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  Speaker 3: We do half days, we do full, full days. We do,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we could, um, I have a great little
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  Speaker 3: black book of session players that we could get on
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  Speaker 3: any of your stuff, or we could work one-on-one of
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  Speaker 3: me playing stuff and working stuff out on the spot.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you wanted to have a more hands-on experience, um, So,
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  Speaker 3: and then we also do podcasting. We do, you could
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  Speaker 3: rent the room and bring your own, you know, mixing
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  Speaker 3: engineer and, you know, not even use my services at all.
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  Speaker 3: We have one-on-one podcasts. We have group podcast areas. We have,
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  Speaker 3: you know, anything, if someone just wants to track drums,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we have that option. Someone just wants to
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  Speaker 3: track vocals. We have the ISO booth. We have anything,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that Any services that someone would need.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. Where can people get in touch with you?
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  Speaker 2: What's your studio website?
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  Speaker 3: It's blueskymusicstudios.com.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And then you can find us on Instagram, blueskystudiosnashville.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, great. People can get connected with you there. So
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  Speaker 2: just going back to the start of your career with production,
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  Speaker 2: were you a musician first or did you along the
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  Speaker 2: way want to learn more about audio? How did that
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  Speaker 2: take place?
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  Speaker 3: I've always been a musician first. I started playing drums
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  Speaker 3: because my dad was a touring drummer. So there was
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  Speaker 3: always a kid in the house. So I started playing
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  Speaker 3: drums and I was like four. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he was like, if you're going to do this, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that he wanted to give me piano lessons because he
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  Speaker 3: knows as a drummer, if you have no you know,
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  Speaker 3: chordal knowledge or knowledge of any other kind of music,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it might be a little difficult. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: him and my mom got, they got me into piano
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  Speaker 3: lessons and doing classical stuff when I was younger. And
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  Speaker 3: then I wanted to play the guitar. So they were like,
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  Speaker 3: maybe start him on bass. So he has some sort
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  Speaker 3: of understanding of something that's simpler than the guitar. They
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  Speaker 3: did a great job of, you know, they understand music.
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  Speaker 3: So they knew, you know, the path that they should
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  Speaker 3: have taken, you know, to, um, help their selves better than,
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  Speaker 3: you know, than they turned out, I guess, you know? So, um, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so I've, I've always been a multi-instrumentalist and then, um, just,
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  Speaker 3: you know, out of the, you know, need of putting
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: music out, that's when I started to learn audio stuff.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I didn't go to school for it or anything. I just,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: you know, when I started putting albums out when I
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: was 16 or 17, I was like, I gotta learn
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  Speaker 3: how to, mix and engineer and master and all and
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: all that stuff so a culmination of you know 15
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: years of doing uh independent study on it i guess
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  Speaker 3: i kind of learned the skill set needed to Do
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: something involving engineering, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. And I think, you know, you said you
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: didn't go to school for it. Maybe back in the
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: day when you were recording on analog or recording on tape,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: it would be necessary to maybe be in a school
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: or classroom setting for that. But now with everything, you know,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: in the box, it's so easy to just learn it
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  Speaker 2: yourself or learn it from other producers. Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, everyone, the community here in, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Nashville is so welcoming and opening, you know, and open,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to sharing their tricks and, you know, being friendly.
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  Speaker 3: And so I've, I've learned a lot from working with,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: you know, excellent studio musicians and engineers here too. That's great.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It must be so wonderful to have your own
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: studio and be doing sessions for your own music and
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: for others.
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  Speaker 3: It is. It's a blessing, yeah. Yeah.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: So I have one last question for you today, Miles. Sure.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: We are on Taking a Walk Nashville, and I want
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: to know, if you could spend a day recording any
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: artist in the studio of your choice, who would you pick?
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  Speaker 3: Any artist of my choice? I would probably say Prince,
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  Speaker 3: just because I'm not on the same level as Prince,
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  Speaker 3: but two multi-instrumentalists in the studio, I feel like could
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: get a lot of work done. I feel like that
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: would be fun. Just to see how he works, too.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: That would be amazing. I'm sure he was pretty picky
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  Speaker 2: in the studio if I had to guess. So I'm
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: sure it could be a little bit frustrating with him,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: but I'm sure it would be an amazing session.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he seems like the king of creating stuff by yourself,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: which is... where I would like to be, you know.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: That's awesome, yeah.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: That's an amazing experience.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: That's a great answer, great pick. Thanks. Miles, thank you
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: so much for being on Taking a Walk Nashville today.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Beth.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: You can listen to your album, Blue Sky Sessions, Miles Mancuso,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: on all listening platforms. And check out the new studio,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Blue Sky Studios in Hermitage, Tennessee. Thank you.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 21:06
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• 21:09
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• 21:12
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