This week, I chat with Nashville’s own Zach Allen - a multi‑Grammy-winning recording engineer, producer, and mix engineer whose credits span Americana, blues, rock, country, and beyond. With nearly 20 years in the music industry, Zach brings a rare blend of technical mastery, creative sensitivity, and a studio presence that helps artists realize their vision￼.

Some highlights of our conversation include:
	•	His journey from graduating Full Sail University and interning at The Tracking Room and eventually becoming the head engineer of the studio.
	•	Working on award-winning projects including engineering Grammy-winning albums for legends like Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal, Buddy Guy, and Christone Kingfish Ingram
	•	Philosophy on vocal production
	•	Thoughts on AI in the music industry
	•	Helpful tips for recording a live show

Whether you’re an aspiring artist, indie producer, or just music-curious, this episode offers a rare inside look at the mind and methods of someone who’s helped shape some of the most compelling recordings coming out of Nashville.

If you enjoy the podcast, please let others know, subscribe, or write a review!

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Guest Links:
https://zachallenaudio.com/

Episode Music:
Original music by Andy Sydow

Contact me: middleclassrockstar@gmail.com (or) andysydowmusic@gmail.com

Middle Class Rock Star

144. Grammy Award Winning Engineer and Producer Zach Allen

A super special edition to celebrate the one thousandth episode hosted of Bruce Wawrzyniak’s podcasting career. In this special release, there are excerpts from all of the shows he has hosted over the years: Now Hear This Entertainment, Catholic Sports Radio, TASCAM Talkback, Capture Your Art, and the PBLA Podcast. Below are links for easy access to go hear any one or more of either the specific interviews featured here or just the podcast(s) in general. It took over eleven-and-a-half years to get to this point, but this is indeed a truly special milestone worth commemorating in this way.

NHTE 605 Celebrating 1000 Career Episodes

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Stack It Up

This episode is sponsored by Turner.

Blanca Diaz, vice president and construction executive at Turner, and Leah Turner-Jenkins, special projects division manager at Turner, started in the same university engineering program — but their careers took sharply different paths.

In conversation with host Sam East, Blanca and Leah reflect on the pivotal teachers who steered them toward engineering, their experiences navigating massive construction projects, and how Turner supports women in the field.

Hear what it takes to thrive in an industry that demands both technical expertise and people-centered leadership, and what they each learned along the way about leading change. 

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Ep 334: Women Leading Change in Construction With Turner

prod. aaron basquiat, rec @ wynterszn home studio on september 21st, 2025.

https://genius.com/Wynterszn-where-its-at-lyrics

where it's at (prod. aaron basquiat)

This is a multitrack cover of "Up The Junction' by Squeeze recorded, mixed and mastered onto 1/4' tape by me as part of a project in my second year studying Music Technology at Kingston University. Please reach out via the email in my bio if you would like to work with me.

Up The Junction by Squeeze - Multitrack Cover

This is an original track written, produced, mixed and mastered by me in Logic-Pro. This my the first proper attempt at making drum and bass. I hope you enjoy!  Please reach out via the email in my bio if you would like to work with me.

Ominous

This is a track called "Heart of Cheese" written, produced, mixed and mastered by me in logic-pro. I wanted to experiment with the use of guitars and synths with an acoustic drum track somewhat like Radiohead. This track was written for my girlfriend and I am quite proud of it. I hope you enjoy! Please reach out via the email in my bio if you would like to work with me.

Heart Of Cheese

This track was made using a guitar sample and logic drummer along with effects pedals and logic's bass player. I wanted to experiment with the grunge aesthetic mixed with a psychedelic sound taking a lot of inspiration from SoundGarden's "Black Hole Sun". I hope you enjoy! Please reach out via the email in my bio if you would like to work with me.

PsycheGrunge

rec @ wynterszn home studio on september 27th 2025

prod. noerlabeuher

lately (prod. noerlabeuher)

TytillidieXXollin - Teleport Mixdown

Follow up single from last album "Generation Expendable" Produced by Will Francis 2025

Incoming

Audiotech Podcast // 2025, Set #4 by one of our best producers Null aka Kazuo Ohmori from Kanagawa - Japan, with his live set where he used his own original tracks and remix tracks which he mixed. We are very proud of his first DJ Mix after years of producing and we hope you like his live set as we do! Follow Null here @mori-san on SoundCloud.

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ATSS213 - Null (Live) ► 暗い未来

CREATED A MONSTER!

atmospheric journeys, intoxication and redemption.

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🎧 Producer | Mixer | Engineer
Welcome to my audio portfolio – a space for original productions, multitrack covers, and mixes I’ve crafted in Logic Pro and Pro Tools. Every track here is either produced, mixed, or mastered by me.

Whether you're here to explore creative ideas, find a collaborator, or hear what I can bring to a project – thanks for listening.

📩 Contact for collaborations or mixing/mastering work.

Email: kwinnmaw@gmail.com

Welcome to Diverse, a podcast by the Society of Women Engineers. SWE gives women engineers a unique place and voice within the engineering community. On Diverse, we highlight incredible thought leaders and personalities in the STEM community and discover who they are at home, at work and in between.

I am a Sound Engineer based out of Lennox Island, PEI, Canada. 
I specialize in recording, mixing, and live sound and been in the game for over 10 years now.  
 Worked and taught by some of the best engineers in the industry like, Nik Kenec, Rob Sanzo, Ben Ewing, Brent Chaisson, Lamounde Moore, Stephen Baughman, Focus.  Here you will find my practice mixes, and music i have been apart of.  If interested in getting me for your work, my email is lnustudioofficial@gmail.com

Bio - Artist - Will Francis
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtIXxv_jbADyOEx1q9NzRiw?view_as=subscriber

Will Francis is a music artist from Raleigh, NC USA. He does original rock, singer/songwriter,  hip hop  and death metal music. Currently, he is releasing singles, building a catalog and rehearsing a live set that includes original and some cover material. His latest releases have been a series of death metal tracks for an album “Generation Expendable” that is set for release 09/2025.
His music has been receiving regular rotation on radio and social media. Furthermore,, he's been getting feedback and critique from curators, influencers, labels and sync supervisors for promotion and placements. Will's music has been featured on radio, blogs, playlists and TV. His music is available worldwide. Will tries to focus on quality and creativity His music is real, straight up, loud, smooth, energetic and composed.

At some point, Will began to evolve as a composer with emphasis on lyric writing and song structure. This was the beginning of his journey or process of becoming a songwriter and finding his true voice. He discovered that the craft of songwriting, producing and engineering is ongoing. Furthermore, he believes that music has a way of re-inventing itself.
Will Francis has been writing and performing rmusic for about 11 years in North Carolina.  His musical influences are quite eclectic from the world’s of hard rock, hip hop, singer/songwriter and death metal…Napalm Death, Slayer, Pantera, Sepultura and Cannibal Corpse. 
What makes Will’s music unique and interesting, is his musical themes, deep voice, lyrical composition and song structure.

Artist
FTown NJ
Contact vindaciofficial@gmail.com

Producer & Audio Engineer
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music artist / 18 / 503 📍 
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server: https://discord.gg/zjRqtTTY3c

a lot of my songs are soundcloud n youtube exclusive rn, working on gettin stuff released to all plats tho !

Now Hear This is a Tampa, Florida-based agency specializing in management, publicity, and related services.  The company president, Bruce Wawrzyniak, hosts a weekly podcast called "Now Hear This Entertainment," featuring interviews with guests who are having success in entertainment (primarily music), with the content presented in a way that not only entertains fans of that guest and fans of good music (interviews) in general, but in a manner that educates musicians, singers, songwriters – entertainers who want to learn from those who are being interviewed.  The guests come from a wide array of genres and locales.

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