LTGuitarist Interviews

How can you get a cleaner mix? How can I sound like a band when I'm just one person? What's the best way to promote new music?

This episode contains 5 tips for bedroom producers. Whether you're just starting out in your musical journey or a seasoned veteran, there will be something here for you.

This episode was originally created for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and broadcast over the 2020 Christmas period.

How can I stay motivated? Is there a smart way to create lots of content at once?

Here are my 5 tips for freelancers working in creative industries. Some of these are adapted from advice I've recieved over the years and others are original ideas that I use day-to-day.

This episode is a collaboration with the Odd Creative YouTube channel - if you think you'd remember these tips better with visual aids then go find the videos on YouTube!

John Wheeler, AKA Barley Scotch, is frontman for comedy covers band who take classic rock tracks and perform them in a bluegrass style. In this interview my good buddy Si Pettit chats with John about touring, spending money and much more besides.

Interview originally posted to YouTube in 2016 for Stabbed Panda's Pro Tips for Independent Bands series.

Martin Keary, AKA Tantacrul, is a composer and YouTuber best known for hillariously pointing out user-interface issues in industry-leading composition software including Sibelius. In this podcast we chat about how YouTube has evolved over the years, for better or *ahem* worse, as well as music creation and much more besides.

Interview originally posted to YouTube in 2019.

Jay Foreman is a musical comedian who has seen success in uploading original music and regualr shows to YouTube. In this interview we talk about Jay's background in performance and comedy, the differences in performing to adult and child audiences, how he got into YouTube and the history of the platform.

Interview originally posted to YouTube in 2019.

Today we're talking about how to become more financially stable as a musician. We're talking about multiple income streams, diversity of income, passive income and much more. I'm giving out a lot of ideas for extra income in this podcast, so you're sure to have a few new ideas by the end of it. 

Although the Coronavirus was the catalyst for this episode it won't be our main focus. Our goal is to keep some income streams flowing regardless of what happens in the wider world. Whether that's a global pandemic or an internet malfunction.

This episode was recorded via livestream on March 21st 2020.

12Tone Videos is a music theory and composition channel on YouTube which aims to explain the intricacies of specific composition techniques and goes into detail about what makes certain songs sound the way they do. In this interview we discuss Cory's background in music, the origins of their YouTube channel and offer advice to emerging composers and songwriters,

Interview originally posted to YouTube in March of 2019.

Dan Le Sac is a beatmaker who rose to fame working with rapper and spoken word artist Scroobius Pip. Dan currently interviews various creators for his podcast, Falling Forward with Dan Le Sac, between uploading musical creations to the net and composing for games.   In this interview we discuss the changing, (or not so changing), music industry, music distribution, future copyright issues, music creation and much more besides.

This is a less-edited version of an interview published to YouTube on Nov 16th 2019.

Who am I and why should you care? 

The LTGuitarist Podcast is a resource for people who want to make a living working with music and audio.  This trailer details this show's content and release schedule as well as my background.