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Neel, Mike, and Phil

How to run a youTube channel with Creative Sauce’s Mike Enjo

Mike Enjo is an Australian Singer Songwriter and Producer. He is the founder of the YouTube channel ‘Creative Sauce’ which has over 140,000 subscribers, and endeavours to open up the world of home recording to old and new musicians alike.

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Neel and Phil

Happy New Year 2024!

Happy New Year to our listeners! For this post-hangover episode, we kept it simple by catching up on our holiday shenanigans, music activities, and other stuff.

We talked about:

  • Phil’s Christmas miracle with his new neighbours
  • Neel’s working on demo recordings for his band Beige Shelter
  • The new Apple Vision
  • How we post and distribute our songs online – Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Routenote
  • Online mastering services
  • Phil’s theme of 2024 to get projects finished
  • Neel’s new collaboration with Don Thompson (our old tech person when we did the podcast live)
  • For our Toronto listeners, the open mic at Function Bar is really cool
  • Our songwriting challenge for 2024 sneak preview

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Don, Neel, and Phil

Home Recording Series: Mixing and Mastering Tips

For our ongoing series of episodes helping you with your home recording studios, our audio engineer from the before times, Don Thompson, joined us to talk about mixing and mastering tips.

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Mike, Neel, Phil, and AV

Songs with a social stance with Ann Vriend

The two-time Maple Blues Award songwriting recipient and two-time Edmonton Music Award recipient is an internationally recognized musician known for her soaring vocals, socially conscious lyrics, and outstanding musicianship. With a vintage sound reminiscent of the Roots/Blues style of Stax Records and Muscle Shoals recordings, singles from the album have already found their way onto international commercial radio charts where the empowering and truthful lyrics of social commentary are poignantly current.… Read the rest

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