Season 5: The Michael Newton Show

Listeners, This one is extra special for us as Micheal is our very own sound designer and editor! What an honor to have him on and share his work and journey with you all!

Inside this episode with your host, Mitch Hampton:

"One of the things I appreciate most about our show, and it is deliberatively by design, is how different spans of geography and culture can nevertheless contain interesting commonality.

Michael Newton, the guest of this episode is a wizard or engineer par excellence the virtues of which aids our show tremendously.

Yet like my late father, he is from Indiana and I have always felt myself to be an honorary "hoosier".

Also as one of his fields of expertise is audio and sound, I found his account of the intricacies of these matters in this episode most interesting. I throughly enjoyed this episode and I do hope that our audience perhaps gains some increased interest in all matters audiophile as well.

More about Michael: 

Michael Newton was born and raised in the small Central Indiana town of Rushville. 

He attended school there until moving to Muncie to attend Ball State University, and would go on to acquire a bachelor's degree in Digital Audio Production in 2014. 

During college and ever since, Michael has been involved in studio recording, post production, and live sound in and around Indiana. 

Most recently Michael has been recording and producing his own podcast, Michael's Mixdown, where he discusses and breaks down recorded songs, and interviews musicians and audio professionals. 

He is also the audio editor and mixer of the Journey of and Aesthete podcast. 

Michael has also been the live sound engineer for the Gabriel Harley Band since 2018. 

In his free time, Michael enjoys video games and board games, listening to progressive rock music, and spending time with his two dogs, Skipper and Ryder.

Link to his podcast: https://anchor.fm/michaelsmixdown

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