Earlier this month, the world of recording lost a unique entity when engineer, Steve Albini passed away after suffering a heart attack at his studio, Electrical Audio on 7 May. Once carrying a reputation as outspoken, opinionated, and possibly even curmudgeonly thanks to his refusal to suffer no fools, in later years, the Shellac guitarist, and man who recorded Nirvana, PJ Harvey, The Pixies, Bush and many, many more, frequently opened up about his approach to capturing bands in the studio.
Luckily for us, there’s plenty of footage to devour online, however many of these are short clips from interviews, rather than hands-on, in-the-studio demonstrations. Perhaps the most definitive documentation of Steve Albini’s studio workflow comes in the form of his session with online recording school, Mix with the Masters, and in tribute to Steve Albini, MWTM has now uploaded Albini’s in-depth video walkthrough to YouTube.
