Ady: 0:04

Sometimes I ask a question to a problem that I can't solve before I go to bed and after a while I just woke up and said hey, why not travel and record bands? And this is how it started, with our idea.

Benedikt: 0:16

This is the Self Recording Band Podcast, the show where we help you make exciting records on your own wherever you are DIY style, let's go. Hello and welcome to the Self Recording Band Podcast. I am your host, benedikt Hein. If you are already a listener, welcome back. If you are new to this show, welcome. So glad to have you. Please know that this is both on podcast apps, but also on YouTube. In this case, you might want to check out YouTube because this is us doing live interviews, or a live interview from the Studio Scena event in Hamburg. We just got home from there by the time of this recording and, yeah, it was a phenomenal week. We and when I say we, I mean the team at the Self Recording Band we've spent a week there at a conference, a trade show, and we also did live podcasts on the Studio sofa there. They were live streamed to a bunch of different channels and now we're also sharing them on the podcast. So I think the experience is even better if you watch this on YouTube.

Ady: 1:16

All right.

Benedikt: 1:17

Our guest today for this interview we're sharing on this episode is Addy from, or Addy from Hit the Road Music Studio, and this is, I think, really really cool because it's the perfect kind of DIY case study for many reasons. So, yeah, excited to share this interview with you. As always, I'm here with Malcolm Owen Flutt, my friend and co-host from Canada. How are you, malcolm? Hey, benny, I'm doing great. How are you? I'm doing great as well. Had a long drive back from Hamburg and then spent the Sunday with my kids and then the evening at the sauna. So, yeah, I'm feeling refreshed and excited because of all the things that happened in Hamburg. I have a huge list of things to go through now and hours and hours and hours of content that we filmed and a lot of follow-ups, but yeah, it's just exciting and has been a great time.

Malcom: 2:09

Awesome, awesome. There's one thing I regret about our trip to Hamburg together, and I think we should have made a point of trying to find some live music one night. Oh yeah, you're right we surrounded ourselves with audio stuff All weekend, except for somebody actually playing. Oh yeah, you're totally right. That would have been great Next time. Next time I'm sure we go catch a show Next time.

Benedikt: 2:30

Speaking of next time. Please save the date. Studio St at Hamburg is going to be happening October 22nd to October 24th 2024 in Hamburg. Again, please, like you want to be there. It's been really fantastic this year. It's going to be even better next year. There are master classes, there are workshops, there's different stages, incredible producers there. We can't say anything about next year yet, but this year we had Warren Hewart, we had Jason Chashua, jill Zimmerman was there, purple Disco Machine all kinds of genres, very, very successful people sharing their knowledge, lots of great vendors as well, great gear that you can check out and try. And, yeah, it's going to be even better next year. So you want to be there. It's been a blast and the guys at Studio St did an amazing job organizing all of this. So, yeah, and just so you know what we were doing there, we were there as what they called media partners, so we were capturing as much as we could all the people that we ran into. We interviewed them, we checked out gear, we interviewed the vendors, we did live podcast episodes, five of them at the studio sofa, with people like Addy that we have on the show today, and so, yeah, it's like I don't know dozens of hours of content and very, very blessed and very excited about this whole experience. So, anyway, addy from Hit the Road Studio we had him on the sofa on day two, I think, and it was one of those people that we both, I think, didn't know before but then are now really glad that we got to meet him, because that guy just talking to him he's so positive and so I don't know, there's something about him, a vibe that I really, really enjoy.

Malcom: 4:11

And he's pretty infectious. He's like impossibly positive and inspired and, yeah, he kind of exudes creativity. You can tell as well.

Benedikt: 4:19

Yeah.

Malcom: 4:20

Very fun chatting with him. His whole thing is that he travels to wherever he's going to record and just like makes kind of unique situations happen so they might rent a cool place in a desert and go make a record there. And like he's not bringing people to a studio, he's going to them and creating a studio and just traveling and making it a more of an experience than just a recording session, which is a really fun way to go. He talks about overcoming new instrument cities. Never had this record before, never seen before even, which is really fascinating as well. They really develop your engineering skills when you just get presented with an instrument and maybe a musician who doesn't even speak a language that you're capable of communicating him, and now you got to produce them. It's totally fascinating and, yeah, I think it was a really fun chat.

Benedikt: 5:13

Yeah, it absolutely was. And also he shared like fun stories that would only happen if you record at like some random remote place somewhere you know like you want to hear those very, very cool. Also those stories yeah exactly, Birds are part of the story. And then also what to do the question of what to do with these birds once they got into the studio, but, yeah, it's very, very, absolutely a fun conversation, and also why. What makes it so perfect for our community and for what we're doing here is that he always has to solve problems. Basically, he always has to make it work, because you're not in if you do something like Eddie does, you're not always in a perfect recording studio, perfect environment. You have to deal with background noise, you have to deal with less than ideal you know room, acoustics and, as you said, malcolm, instruments you've never worked with before, so he has to be. Spoke about picking the right gear for the job, how to learn, how to record a completely new instrument that you're not familiar with. Yeah, all of that, basically, which makes it incredibly, incredibly relevant for our DIY audience, I think, and also part of it is turning your passion into a career and how he was able to build relationships over time that led to great business opportunities and new creative endeavors, and how he managed to do this, because he was really starting from nothing, like he mentioned multiple times that he didn't have any money for gear or for other things, but he made it work, he built relationships, he turned it into this business that has now hit the road Music Studio and this is really inspiring and fascinating, so I can't wait to share this with you guys. And one final thing before we finally get to into the episode with Eddie if you are not already a part of our community, it could be the Facebook community, our email list, our coaching, some of it. If you're not a part of any of this, now is a good time to get in, because we met a lot of cool people at Studio Stainless Some people we've known before, others we've just met, but there's going to be really cool collaborations, more value, more add-ons to our programs and to everything we offer at the Start of Recording Band, and you're going to benefit in some way, shape or form from that, and so, if you don't want to miss out, you want to be a part of what we do. So sign up for the email list, download our free things, go to the Facebook community and sign up there. All of it will be in the description below this video or in the podcast show notes, and I can't wait to see you inside. All right, let's get to today's episode. Here is our conversation from Studio Stainless 2023 with Eddie from Hit the Road Music Studio. Enjoy, hello and welcome to the Self-Recording Band podcast. I'm your host, benedict Heijn, and we are again live here from Studio Szene in Hamburg. We are at the Studio Sofa, so the amazing guys and people at Sound and Recording let us use their sofa for these live stream interviews, which is really great. So, yeah, thank you for joining us live. This is also a podcast recording in case you listen later. Thank you, guys for coming live here. We have an audience in front of us, which is very nice, and, yeah, I'm here with my co-host, malcolm Owen Flutt, as always. Hey everyone, hello, and we are joined today by Adi Pajentny, is that correct?

Ady: 8:25

Exactly, wow on the first take, congratulations.

Benedikt: 8:28

Adi Pajentny from Hit the Road Studio, hit the Road Music Studio and it's a very I'm very excited because I have many, many questions. What you're doing is a little bit outside of what most studio people do, I would say, and you've probably got some amazing stories for us. So Adi's traveling the world recording people in like all kinds of places, basically, and also recording all kinds of genres. So I'm really excited to hear those stories and welcome. Thank you for taking the time.

Ady: 8:53

Thank you so much for having me and guys. Thank you so much also to the Studio Szene team for organizing this. There is a lot of work behind it and I'm very grateful to be here. Let's talk a little bit audio.

Benedikt: 9:03

Yeah, exactly, awesome. Alright. So how do we start like maybe you give us a quick backstory of like what Hit the Road Music Studio actually is?

Ady: 9:12

Hit the Road Music Studio. So for the past five years I was traveling in a van with basic equipment. We had the home studio in our car and started to record local artists. Our journey brought us to Morocco and through COVID we were not stuck, but we consciously decided to stay there for two years and support local artists. During this time we created over 50 music videos and singles with local artists, kind of to support them so they can go beyond the borders, get booked for festivals and make a living with the music. On top of that we made the music videos I think over six live shows that were streamed online, for example for the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, and two CDs, two LPs. And after the borders were opened again, we continued our journey and recorded in Albania. In Greece, we worked in refugee camps to bring the music to the people there and a little bit of normality back in their lives. Been to Armenia. There are four documentaries out now and I joined to produce like a pro team with Juan Huart, who kindly called me via Skype after he found our journey and yeah, this journey brought us everywhere.

Benedikt: 10:25

It's incredible. Awesome Sounds, really cool. One question that comes to mind might sound like an odd question, but still I think it's. Some people might be wondering if you do something like that, I assume, like the budgets for those records or those productions are not really big right, probably many cases. So how do you I mean I might totally be wrong, but like, how do you make it work financially so that you can travel for a long time recording cool places with all these people and still kind of get by? you know, it's like yeah in case people are wondering and they want to do something like that themselves how does that work?

Ady: 10:59

I was wondering, too, when we started. And the thing is, at the beginning we were supporting local artists and we had something that went beyond financial security. So I want to tell you that I didn't have any cash at the beginning of the month every month for two or three years started by zero, literally by zero, and I had to see how we get by. The cool thing is and this is what I love in music music is community. So we were living for six months in the desert. We had a place to stay, we were surrounded with our friends making music, we had food and we were safe. Yeah, maybe, maybe our desires were. You know, I couldn't buy the latest plug-in that came up, of course, yeah, but, basics were covered exactly and even more than the basics like it was a really good reset and during this journey later I could learn how to build a business out of it, and now I'm living for music.

Benedikt: 11:55

I'm booked until March, which is great, which I'm really grateful for, and yeah, and it's some important work that you've done there, actually, like you've done those people a service like and you, you know it's like it's very, very cool yeah thank you so much.

Ady: 12:08

I I'm always thinking, you know, when we came back after this journey, I'm always thinking like did we really help the artist, did we really supported the artist? And I'm still looking for new ways how to support them, for example, financially. And the next step, what I think is really helpful, will be the opening of our music production school in Morocco oh where kids will learn how to record. We have a couple of sponsors that gonna send us speakers and interfaces and microphones, but we are still looking for people who want to join us with this and I think this empowerment, this can be really really, really helpful empowerment and education so I have a question about this journey as well, in that most people, when they start a recording business, do so in their hometown, like wherever they live, and they try and find bands in their local music scene.

Malcom: 13:02

That's like the the natural path. What made you not do that and want to just go and find it elsewhere?

Ady: 13:10

I love this question. So actually I'm traveling with my life partner, kasia, for 12 years, even before YouTube, before cameras, and we were just living with everywhere, like in Albania or anywhere, and our travels came to a stop for a while and we lived in Poland. I started to be in bands again actively and booking gigs, but it wasn't the same thing as usual and it didn't make so much fun anymore after a while and I thought when I'm now in a rock band, we will only play rock. But I love also Cynthia and Roma music. I love kumbia. So I will never get to this, to these sounds, when I'm just narrow in one genre. So music production opened to me. So it's at the at the end. It's curiosity. I wanted to learn how does a EQ works now? How does a compressor works now? Oh, what kind of mic is that? And out of this curiosity came a new love, a new fire again, which opened me the possibility to work with more people from any genre and be part of the band. And then I thought, when I open the studio in Poland now, I will be in the basement for at least three years and I really don't want to do that. I'm not the guy for the time is sunshine guy man. So at night really came this. Sometimes I ask a question to a problem that I can't solve before I go to bed and after a while I just woke up and said, hey, why not travel and record bands?

Malcom: 14:37

right, and this is how it started, with idea yeah, so you kind of fused your two loves that's adventurous love and this music love together exactly, and for me also, music is a gateway to any culture.

Ady: 14:51

We can really see the DNA from a culture where the music comes from. What shape the people, and this is the way how I travel. Usually we are living in the cultures in the countries and we are meeting the people, and music is the easiest way for me to connect and understand. Fantastic, really cool.

Benedikt: 15:08

Fantastic. What would you say because this is, I think, relevant for our audience as well is like what are the main takeaways that you got from traveling and recording people in all kinds of places? Like what are the, let's say, a few key takeaways of situations where you record in less than ideal circumstances? Let's say, because I assume the places you rent out for studio spaces or wherever are not purpose-built like high-end studios, of course? So is there a common thing that you have to overcome constantly? Like a few key takeaways for recording in odd places?

Ady: 15:43

I'd say Of course, I learned a lot about location recording, about the techniques and I think the first lesson and don't kill me for that but the most expensive mics doesn't work because the most expensive mics they are built for environment, which is incredibly well-treated, so you get all the nuances. The thing is, when we record it in a Moroccan clay house, I can hear the birds and the neighbors snoring. It wasn't really what we wanted on the record and so I got inspired by Einstein because he had mind experiments, so in his mind he used this imagination for his solutions. So I did the same, like, when I heard the room, I checked how can I position the band that A they can see each other, because this is the core of the music. It's how the band interact with each other. We never played on a click and recorded mainly live. So number one always be in phase. Make sure that the sound comes at the right time, that it sounds good already when you record it. The second thing use the right mics, like mainly, I had dynamic microphones and it's important because I'm in the desert. There is a lot of sand going in between the microphones If you have a Newman with you and it breaks you're gonna cry.

Malcom: 17:09

It's like you don't want it.

Ady: 17:11

So I needed rather robust mics that I can take also in the plane or anywhere and use condenser mics where I really needed them. To understand your mic locker, because when I started I had eight microphones and I shot them all for the half price on eBay and they weren't precious but I knew them. So I knew, okay, I need some top end here from this instrument. I just put it here and then blend it in the next approach. What I learned is you, the mixing stage is completely different, because I don't have every, all the multi tracks like separated from each other and try to put them back together. They were together already and if I wanted, for example, more of the jambi, I had to put up the vocal mic because the jambi was bleeding into the vocal mic.

Malcom: 18:01

All right, yeah, yeah, totally, so it's a completely new approach which kept it fresh.

Ady: 18:04

honestly, I had always a new puzzle in front of me.

Benedikt: 18:07

All right, how did you educate yourself on all these different genres and then how to produce them? Because if you want to be a rock producer or a hip hop producer, whatever there's courses out there, there's a lot of material, a lot of education. But if you want to do world music or a kumbia or any of the things you do, it's probably hard to find education. So all self-taught, trial and error or any resources for that type of stuff.

Ady: 18:26

Trial and error. There is no YouTube video how to record the middle-aged and allusion classic.

Benedikt: 18:31

Yeah yeah, of course, yeah, not yet. Now I made one.

Malcom: 18:35

Yeah, very good.

Ady: 18:37

Yeah, it was trial and error. And when we had our pilot, I just packed the mics, went to Morocco, asked people on the street, hey, who won the record? And there was this band, like half of the band from Israel, half of the band from Morocco. Yeah, we have this one slot where we can just play in the hotel. And it was rather psychological safety. I had, like it's a German book, the Tornmeister. So I had this book in my hands. I was like scared, you know, because my only experience was recording young metal bands in Poland in the basement. So I just read it for psychological safety and said, ok, let's go and see what happens. And it doesn't sound good because I didn't. I had no clue how to put up the mics. Community is again the key because the director, elad Levy, we had 18 revisions because there were instruments I never saw in my life. So the first thing is try to understand where does the sound come from? How does it blend in in this room? Altogether, like, where can I put the mic there and listen to feedback? I said, elad, is this your? Do you like it? He said that's not how our music sounds like, but maybe you can try this and that and through this trial and error and just jump into the water. It wasn't like you have to let go of your ego, in a way, and be ready to learn. You know, empty your. Bruce Lee said it, empty your cup so somebody else can put a tear in.

Benedikt: 19:59

So yeah, Didn't you have like a similar kind of similar experience when you were recording drummers, all? Over the world and with all kinds of different genres and cultures.

Malcom: 20:07

I remember you, I got to work on a drumming documentary and, yeah, we went all over the world recording the drums and the rhythmic instruments of those different cultures and yeah, it was exactly like that. You just get in front of an instrument and be like I don't even know how you play this, like where to start, and first thing I would do is just ask the professional, the person that's actually going to play it, show me it, let me listen, and then tell me what you normally do, right, like if you've ever been recorded before. What did they do? We can start there if that seems to make sense and give that a go. And they always had feedback for me which just got us going in the right direction right away.

Ady: 20:45

I absolutely loved it Exactly. Talk with the artist. They know their instrument the best you know. They've been to a studio, maybe, and know, hey, the other engineer, he put the mic like that. Maybe you try it also. Where can I watch the documentary?

Benedikt: 20:56

It never came out, no no, no, it was a big production and they never released it, right I?

Malcom: 21:00

know the footage is somewhere and hopefully somebody does something with it.

Benedikt: 21:04

It's crazy to think a lot of like a lot went into this.

Malcom: 21:06

So much We'll talk more about it off air.

Benedikt: 21:10

No way man.

Malcom: 21:11

It was an incredible opportunity and I got to learn so much about engineering All sorts of drums and percussion. It was fantastic, and in environments that weren't always studios, you know, like. The first place we did go to was Mumbai and it was a studio. They were easy, we're set up, there's gear, everything I could need, and then the next place was like outside in a jungle and it's like this is totally different. Yeah, very, very different. I don't have a mic locker, I just have what's in my backpack and batteries, you know. So let's go.

Ady: 21:42

Wow.

Malcom: 21:43

It was a very fun experience and, yeah, I'm sure you can relate to that, because it's just different.

Ady: 21:47

Especially with drums, because when you record drums outside you have no reverb. That comes back where the low end really sits. Yeah, so respect.

Malcom: 21:55

Respect to them Very fun Wow.

Benedikt: 21:58

Do you have any tips on, like, how to overcome the problem of being in the same room with the band that you're recording, where you cannot monitor in real time, because that's what most people do in the jam space as well? You don't have a control room and jam and like a live room. You're probably sitting next to the artist you have to record, listen back and like is there any takeaways there for our audience? How do you go about that?

Ady: 22:19

It's the biggest fun because you're really inside the music. You're there with the artist. I had to sit with the band together because I didn't have enough cables so I had to be as close as possible to them and the takeaways. So how did I do it? We made the soundcheck. I said play the song for 30 seconds. They stopped. Then I listened back so I can really hear what's going on. And once I had the sound, I like I said let's go and I took even my headphones off to just hear the music and I was taking more care of the performance than the sound.

Benedikt: 22:53

OK, yeah that's good.

Malcom: 22:54

Yeah, that makes sense. Another question that comes to mind that I've also had to figure out and overcome is when you travel to a new country, you might not speak the same language as who you're recording. Any thoughts on how to communicate when you can't communicate?

Ady: 23:11

verbally. Number one is learn a few words in their language wherever you are, man, because it will break the ice immediately and it will show respect wherever you are. Number two usually, probably, we were lucky that there was always one guy who spoke a little bit English when there was nobody. You don't forget to smile. The smile will show a lot. It's like body language. When you are smiling, people will be open to you. You can always show them with hand and feet. Sit here, just sit down here and play or move on. Yeah, we had usually one translator. The only difficulty was when he was overworked, because you have this one guy in the middle, especially in Morocco. I want the drummer to move his drums there, and then the drummer and the whole band is answering and he had to make sense of what seven people told him put it down into two sentences with a little bit worse English and tell it to me, and then I'm like maybe like this, so make sure to get him a coffee and show him some appreciation, like hey, man, I bought this candy for you, take a rest.

Malcom: 24:24

Yeah, awesome, yeah makes sense.

Benedikt: 24:26

So people's skills again is always yeah, it's always important. So you said the gear is more about being functional, not something that does break easily, something that is not too detailed, maybe because you want to capture what you want to capture, but not everything. Is there any piece of gear that you found here, maybe at this event or just recently heard about, that you're getting excited about? Is gear a thing that gets you excited at all?

Ady: 24:55

I love gear man. Some people think that I'm against gear because I do what I do, but I just didn't have the money to buy it.

Benedikt: 25:05

Yeah, of course, and it's maybe a different type of gear you're looking for. That's why I'm asking specifically for DIY projects like that or less than ideal rooms. That's why I was wondering is there any product that you recently found that got you excited?

Ady: 25:19

It's rather plugins that I love. I think the latest plugin was the God's Particle.

Benedikt: 25:26

It works so well, man, I love it. Jason will be here this afternoon on the sofa, so we're looking forward to that.

Ady: 25:32

He's amazing man, we had also a little bit of conversation yesterday and man, this will be great. I'm going to listen also to his talk with you. Yeah, it's more with plugins and I take care that I upgrade my laptop, my computer, so it's going faster, that I can save rendering time For my gear. I mean, I got used. Now I have the EVO 16. Now it's a tiny interface with eight inputs. That fits in my backpack and it has the auto gain which helps us so quick.

Benedikt: 26:01

Right. It works really well.

Ady: 26:02

Right, it's amazing we recorded with them in Los Angeles. Actually, we transformed the office from Kali Audio, together with Audient, and recorded the Armenian band there and tested the auto gain.

Benedikt: 26:12

You know about that, Malcolm. That's really cool, like the EVO interfaces. No, I haven't seen them, it's like Audient, a certain series of interfaces that they have, and they have like many interfaces off of the auto gain now. But I've tried it with the EVO. It works really well. So you can plug an entire drum kit into it and just say play, and then they play for a few seconds and it automatically does the gain.

Malcom: 26:32

I mean, it's not rocket science, it should be totally possible, and I figured it to be.

Benedikt: 26:36

not only this is not clipping, but it's actually pretty much the perfect headroom, exactly how I would do it, so it works really well.

Ady: 26:41

It's amazing exactly, and oh yeah, now there are two products that I actually like that help me very much because I have to take care of space in the van, especially when we are two people, two creative people, because I have her canvases and her paints and tattoo stuff and whatever and I got my speakers and so on. So, exactly, from audience, there is the SP8. It's a preamp extension so I can just plug it in via via ADED and I think it's ADED.

Benedikt: 27:12

Yeah, probably.

Ady: 27:14

Or USB and they clock immediately. So I have 16 inputs. What I need is the same size so I can have both my backpack and have 16 inputs. And the second is the latest series from Carly Audio.

Benedikt: 27:27

The monitors.

Ady: 27:29

Yeah, these tiny monitors that you. They sound exactly like my big IN8s. But they are small like that, really, yeah, plus a subwoofer. Oh, great it's crazy, so I can have all I need in my backpack.

Benedikt: 27:42

I need to listen to those Carly's at some point, because a lot of people recommended it to me because they seem to be pretty good budget monitors, but I've never. I hear them being recommended all the time, but I've never heard them. So some students of ours use them as well, and they all love them, so they are great.

Ady: 27:59

I mean I just came back from LA and been to East West Studios. They have the full Carly Dolby Atmos series there. We've been to the Village Studios. They have a full Atmos room with Carly's.

Benedikt: 28:10

Oh great.

Ady: 28:11

And, additionally, I love the team, I love the guys. We are like. I just wrote with them yesterday again and we went. We went together with Carly Audio to Armenia and recorded there. They came from LA Really and yeah, we were hanging out together and the tuning rooms and do all the nerdy stuff and all the fun stuff and everything. Yeah, I love this, guys, do you?

Benedikt: 28:30

remember, like one particularly you know, crazy, interesting, funny story or whatever from your travels, like one thing that immediately comes to mind that you want to share One.

Malcom: 28:39

Yeah, of course there's more.

Benedikt: 28:41

Of course there's more, but like yeah, one I had recently.

Ady: 28:46

We're making an album in Morocco. I'm going to fly next week again also to finish the album and I was sitting there recording and the pigeon was hunted by a falcon and they were flying inside the house, both and the pigeon unfortunately crashed at the window and passed away. She was running behind me and the falcony stopped in front of the window, landed on the Vox amp and look at me. I'm like, and the guys you know they just took the falcon on the wings and we're discussing like should we sell him? Because they they said like they had the falcons, they eat gold, so you can sell them for 300 bucks. You know, I'm like man, just let him out.

Malcom: 29:36

Yeah, this was incredible, crazy, yeah, wow.

Ady: 29:39

And we wrote a song about it. Because I'm now back, active musician, our album from Babylon to Timbuktu, together with I Pumana, will come out next week. So, we are talking with BMG this Friday and if the deal is good, we're going to maybe delay it. If the deal is not good, I just pressed a button and it's out.

Malcom: 29:57

Yeah, awesome, so yeah.

Ady: 29:59

And one song is about it called Falcony.

Benedikt: 30:02

Perfect.

Malcom: 30:05

That's a great story. That's a great story.

Benedikt: 30:09

So what would? And then another like one of these questions is like one general piece of advice if you could tell our audience, like the self recording band is what the show is called. So we're talking to DIY musicians who record themselves. Like what's the one piece of advice you would give someone getting into recording with your experience?

Ady: 30:28

Don't block yourself by. Music is creativity, music is love and music evolves through trying. So when we are watching a lot of YouTube and hear from people like you can't do this, you can't do that. It's very limiting. So don't limit yourself and Take, get as soon as possible out there hands on and do the mistakes. Don't be afraid of mistakes. Mistakes are beautiful. Mistakes are beautiful and there are challenges. You will grow through these challenges. Question things and ask people who also do the same thing for advice. Don't ask somebody who have a day job like, hey, should I be a creative musician? They will tell you no man. Go to the office and pay your rent.

Benedikt: 31:21

That's what they're going to tell you.

Ady: 31:23

And it's all right because people will give you advice from their perspective and your closest friends will give you advice because they love you. They don't want that you do any mistakes or that you end up broke or whatever. But anyway, try to ask people who did it and always be curious. Just be curious Again. Bruce Lee, empty your cup, listen. This is what I love about engineering. This is why I love to be here. Also, because we have this community, we can talk about compressors again. Again that we talk about again and we have this community, who lost it for the next three days again, and always be curious.

Benedikt: 32:09

See what else can you learn? That's very advice. Another interesting question that I sometimes ask people is if you could travel anywhere you wanted, because you travel a lot. But let's say you could travel anywhere you wanted and also time travel is allowed. Who would you want to meet and record Like? Who would that be? It doesn't have to be alive anymore. Time travel is totally allowed.

Ady: 32:33

Joe's drummer. I'm a huge clash fan.

Benedikt: 32:35

I didn't expect that one.

Ady: 32:38

I grew up with punk work. I got the tattoo here from the clash. It was made in Kosovo. Actually it was a crazy story also, but it's another day. No, it would be Joe's drummer. I love his period, I love the music. You know, I had just been to London like the second time this year and I made this Joe's drummer city walk and just hearing the stories, like when I grew up, where they were squatting, where they were living, and from this aliveness this music came up, from being together, putting reggae together with punk and doing something completely different. Because, yeah, the first albums they were like right, right, okay, but London's calling they are mixing stuff and this is beautiful. I would love to pick his brain and see and you know the philosophy Like he was in his heart, like a warm hearted man. He wanted people to be together, especially after the clash, you know, and he went through this path like becoming a star and then apparently being ignored again. Yeah like going up there, falling down here and then coming back with Joe's drummer and the mescaloris, which I love. I'm still listening to it. It was in the 90s or in the 2000s when they made it. It's incredible. So, yeah, joe's drummer, good answer. Yeah, very, thank you Awesome.

Benedikt: 34:01

Where should we send people if they want to learn more about Hit the Road music studio and about you? You're traveling like. I assume they can hire you for mixing, mastering you know, your courses, like give us a rundown, like where should we send people, when should they go?

Ady: 34:15

The best way is usually Instagram. I'm checking it every day so you can write me if you have questions or if you have ideas. Instagram at Hit the Road music. Then our YouTube channel, hit the Road music studio, and there is a playlist with over 92 songs that we now produced. There are subtitles to the songs, most of them in German, english and Polish. So the Hit the Road music studio YouTube channel with the Hit the Road music studio playlist it's a long name I have. I think I have also the longest email in the world through this. Then hit the road music studiocom. There you can find more work that we did, you know. I mean we even hit the charts lately and with number 10 in the world music European blah, blah, blah, congratulations. So you can listen to the mix and to the mixes that we did. Facebook, yeah all these platforms?

Benedikt: 35:11

Perfect, and I have a member correctly on your website. There was a link to ProMix Academy as well with your courses and that sort of stuff.

Ady: 35:17

Exactly when you go to ProMixAcademycom. I have my own site, even my own section, promixacademycom, and then there will be a submenu Hit the Road, music, and there are inexpensive courses that help us to, you know, keep up with the project, to make more of these projects, there are tutorials up to five hours long and they cost 29 bucks. So yeah, yeah.

Benedikt: 35:41

Awesome. And now, final thing, and I want to do this on air, so to be able to tell you accountable later.

Ady: 35:47

All right, all right.

Benedikt: 35:48

We have a coaching community at the surf recording band and I sometimes bring in guests for, like you know, guest master classes or workshops or just a group call or whatever. Would you be open to doing that, maybe with us at some point, because we have people in the group I know for sure they are interested in genres that I don't know much about, but you do, and so I would love to just bring you in there and introduce you to the group and then see what happens from there.

Ady: 36:09

I'm absolutely open for it. You know, I'm actually I'm also a private coach, so I'm helping people to finish their songs, showing them systems and guide them through this process.

Benedikt: 36:18

Exactly what we do, but, like I love experts in certain things that I'm not necessarily specializing in, so yeah, that's wonderful.

Ady: 36:24

I'm absolutely up for it.

Benedikt: 36:25

So you heard it guys, adi's going to come to the community. Yeah, it brings the sunshine, you know, bring empowerment to you and awesome, yeah, awesome, love that.

Ady: 36:34

Thank you, thank you so much.

Benedikt: 36:35

I really appreciate it. All right, thank you for taking the time again. Thank you, guys, for listening, thank you for coming live. This is always great to have people in front of us when we do this and thank you, mark, and the guys at Sound Recording and Studio Scene for having us All right. See you in the afternoon with Jason Joshua. Now a big round of applause for Adi.

Ady: 36:54

And for you guys for all the work you're putting in the consistency and, yeah, thank you. Thank you so much for the invitation.