I got a chance to work with Prince for several years and that was amazing.”Īfter working with Tool on the band’s Opiate EP and full-length debut Undertow, her career began to take off, and she quickly forged a reputation for her creativity in the studio. “But on the other hand, there’s beautiful country music, roots music. The more extreme the better,” Massy says. It was at the now-defunct record store that she met lots of ambitious up-and-coming musicians, including members of what ultimately became the prog metal band Tool. “In the meantime, while I was struggling, I took a bunch of entry-level jobs and one was a retail job at Tower Records, and that actually was the best thing I could do.” She then moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career but couldn’t immediately find a job at a studio. Leaving commercial radio to become a studio engineer, Massy’s first break came in San Francisco when she collaborated with Metallica’s guitarist Kirk Hammet to co-produce a demo by the sleaze metal band Sea Hags. In the podcast, Massy discusses how she got started in the music industry, what she does to inspire artists in the studio and why she has a penchant for running audio signals through cheese. Now based at her own studio in southern Oregon, Massy travels extensively each year, taking her unique production and engineering talents on the road. She is famous for her unorthodox methods, such as recording in an abandoned nuclear cooling tower, demolishing pianos and hanging singers upside down. Massy has worked with an incredible collection of artists over the years, including Johnny Cash, Prince, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Tool. For the latest episode, we sat down with the producer Sylvia Massy at the Famous Gold Watch studio in Berlin to talk about her creative approach to recording.
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