John Vanderslice is the music producer and owner of Tiny Telephone, a recording studio in SF that’s worked with some great indie artists such as Spoon, The Mountain Goats, The Magnetic Fields, Sleater-Kinney, Death Cab for Cutie, Explosions in the Sky and many more. The studio is analog, recording on tape instead of recording digitally. Most studios opt for digital audio workstations to mix music.

John Vanderslice recently spoke with Mina Kim on KQED’s Forum to talk about his studio, recording albums, and recording on analog. He also talked about the role of studios in an era when it’s so easy for new bands to record digitally at home.

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