Featured Interview
Teezio
On Speed, Trust, and Making the Leap to Full-Time
Teezio spent the better part of a decade as a recording engineer, most of it in the room with Chris Brown, before stepping out on his own as a full-time mix engineer. In that time, he mixed Jack Harlow's "First Class" and Lil Nas X's "Indus…
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Progressions Podcast
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