Rachel Alina – Mixing Engineer

05/13/19 • 32 min

Meet Rachel Alina, a Brooklyn-based mixing engineer, poet, and instructor at Berklee College of Music. She's been in the studio with Gabriel Garzon-Montano, Katy Perry, King Garbage, Selena Gomez, Greg Wells, Helado Negro, Stephen Marley and others. She's worked in some of today's legendary studios and learned from the best in the music business.

The Question

What role has mentorship played in your development as a professional creative?

In this interview, we talk about Rachel's path from graduation from Berklee up through today, discussing her mentors along the way. Rachel's experience with mentors of all kinds has given her an open approach to receiving and giving mentorship.

Notes and Links:

Visit Rachel Alina's website here: http://www.rachelalina.com/
Preorder her book of poetry, Locals here: http://smarturl.it/locals-ifyouswim
Follow Rachel Alina on Twitter: @rachalina : https://twitter.com/rachalina
And on Instagram: @rach.alina http://instagram.com/rach.alina
Learn about Berklee College of Music at: https://www.berklee.edu/ and https://online.berklee.edu/
You can watch Rivers & Tides, the film Rachel mentions in the interview, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WP2AfqyOsI
Find One Thing Real Quick on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook (@OTRQpodcast for all three)
Subscribe and leave a rating and review at Apple Podcasts (or where ever you like to listen)
Get audiobooks from Libro.fm (use the offer code OTRQ and get three for the price of one)

The Question

What role has mentorship played in your development as a professional creative?

Notes and Links:

Visit Rachel Alina's website here: http://www.rachelalina.com/
Preorder her book of poetry, Locals here: http://smarturl.it/locals-ifyouswim
Follow Rachel Alina on Twitter: @rachalina : https://twitter.com/rachalina
And on Instagram: @rach.alina http://instagram.com/rach.alina
Learn about Berklee College of Music at: https://www.berklee.edu/ and https://online.berklee.edu/
You can watch Rivers & Tides, the film Rachel mentions in the interview, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WP2AfqyOsI
Find One Thing Real Quick on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook (@OTRQpodcast for all three)
Subscribe and leave a rating and review at Apple Podcasts (or where ever you like to listen)
Get audiobooks from Libro.fm (use the offer code OTRQ and get three for the price of one)

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Eric Karjaluoto – Designer & Author

Eric Karjaluoto a Vancouver BC based designer. He’s one of the two guys behind SmashLAB, a small design studio which he co-founded 19 years ago. Clients include Arc’teryx, Saltspring Soapworks, The Nature Conservancy, The Vancouver Aquarium, and a bunch more. He’s written two books, The Design Method and Speak Human. And together with his business partner, Eric Shelkie, he’s built a handful of useful side projects, including Officehours, Campnab, and Emetti, to name a few.

The Question: How do we slow down and focus on what really matters?

I was sent a link to one of Eric’s blog articles, How to Keep Sane, In Faketopia. After reading it, I sent Eric an email and asked him to tell me more about the ideas from his article.

In our conversation we talk about the fakery in social media, the idea that feeding the ‘social media beast’ doesn’t do anything to help our us reach our career goals, and how being real about what’s most important can help us get more out of life and work alike. In short, we’re talking about how to tidy up our list of priorities.

Next Episode

Lex Noteboom of The Deca Tapes (Part 1)

Lex Noteboom is an independent podcast creator from Amsterdam. He’s the creator of an audio drama called The Deca Tapes. It’s a sci-fi-ish dystopian-future mystery show. In March of 2018, Lex quit his job in advertising and spent a year writing, directing and producing the podcast. And then leading up to its March 2019 release, Lex started to promote the show.

The Question

How do you build an audience for a creative work?

This is part one of a two-part audio documentary about Lex’s process of finding (or creating) an audience for The Deca Tapes. We interviewed Lex before, during and after the release of all eight episodes, following his process for about 10 weeks. This episode centers around a conversation we had in the week leading up to the show's debut.

Links and Notes:

Listen to the Deca Tapes: https://fanlink.to/TDT
The Deca Tapes website: https://www.thedecatapes.com/
TDT Social Pages: Twitter & Instagram
The One Thing Real Quick website: http://onethingrealquick.com/
Find @OTRQpodcast on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
Write a review or leave a rating for OTRQ at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-thing-real-quick/id1448979948