{"id":1306,"date":"2021-02-24T10:24:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T09:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/trapezev7\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2024-01-25T16:37:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T15:37:32","slug":"joe-vegna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/joe-vegna\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Vegna"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Joe has worked on hundreds of live shows and studio recording with artists including Land of Trees, Clara Alm, Dion Isaiah or Mary Mi. He owns a mastering studio outside of Stockholm, Sweden.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Interview<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Joe, how would you define your profession?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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It has evolved over the years. I\u2019ve worked with live sound for the most part of my life going back to when I was 12 years old and took charge over school discos. Then doing live shows and tours all over as a sound engineer. For the last 7 years or so, I lean more and more towards studio work. I\u2019ve been doing both recording and mixing but ultimately found my place in mastering. Earlier this year I made a total makeover of my own studio and finally got it to where I wanted it. Then the pandemic came which forced me to do more or less only mastering work. And I really enjoy it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What role does listening to music play in your life?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Listening to music IS life. It\u2019s all that I am. If I don\u2019t actually listen to music there is still music playing in my head. When I work intensely with a song it plays so loud in my head that it wakes me up at night. And working with mastering really suits my passion for music. I get to work with a lot of music and it\u2019s never boring. I get to listen to incredible new music every day, it\u2019s just super duper!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t

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“I wanted something simple but powerful and transparent. Audirv\u0101na met all the criterias so I bought it. And wow! All music kind of came to life. Not in a hyped way, just in a very natural way. From that day it changed my way of listening.”<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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How much attention do you pay to sound quality?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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You know, I\u2019ve been struggling with that one. I\u2019ve been deep down in the rabbit hole of 192kHz vs 44.kHz vs 24BIT vs headphones vs Spotify vs Tidal vs whatever \u2026 And my conclusion is: It depends. And the easiest way to explain it might be to divide it into \u201chearing\u201d music and \u201clistening\u201d to music. When hearing music it might be in your earbuds on the bus or on the bluetooth speaker in the kitchen or in a caf\u00e9. In those cases sound quality is not a big factor. Just about anything will do. But when \u201clistening\u201d to music sound quality makes all the difference. This is of course my opinion, not a universal fact.<\/p>

When I really want to listen and truly experience music it has to be good sound quality, there\u2019s no way around it. For me lossless is absolutely good enough. It doesn\u2019t have to be 192kHz. Some of the best stuff I\u2019ve ever heard is 44.1kHz. And it of course has to be well played, recorded mixed and mastered as well.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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How long have you been using Audirv\u0101na? What did you think when you discovered it?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I\u2019ve been using it for about 2-3 years or so. It all started when I was listening to my mixes using Windows Media Player. It never sounded as good as it did in my Digital Audio Workstation. So I started to look around for a better player and quickly found that it was kind of expensive. But it\u2019s a funny thing, when you have identified a sound you cannot unhear it. So I started to hear the \u201cMedia Player sound\u201d in everything and it drove me crazy. So I started to look around for players again. I wanted something simple but powerful and transparent. Audirv\u0101na met all the criterias so I bought it. And wow! All music kind of came to life. Not in a hyped way, just in a very natural way. From that day it changed my way of listening. Now (and this is kind of silly) I can wait to start it up until it gets dark and the house gets quiet. Then I turn down the lights, make a cup of coffee and sit down in my armchair with my headphones. It\u2019s a whole procedure. And then I select an album that fits my mood and just disappear into the music. It\u2019s like meditation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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How do you rate listening from your computer with Audirv\u0101na compared with other equipment? <\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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For me it\u2019s different things. Going back to hearing or listening to music. I have a lot of different devices that play music. But all of those are for hearing music. When I\u2019m listening to music it\u2019s from the computer with Audirv\u0101na, my nice DAC and preferably headphones. So it\u2019s like comparing apples and fish tanks, two different things.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Do you talk to people about it?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I try not to! hahaha. I think anyone who knows me knows what an audio nerd I am and most of them might be afraid to talk to me about it because I can go on for hours or days. So for the sake of being invited to the next gathering I try to find other things to talk about. But whenever it comes up I love talking to people about it and I always recommend people to upgrade their listening environment. It\u2019s just more enjoyable when it sounds good.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What are your passions outside of music?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I love photography. It\u2019s in many ways similar to music in creating compositions and editing the image to express the feeling I\u2019m after. For me it\u2019s the perfect combination to music because it\u2019s quiet. I can still be creative and make stuff I really like, but also rest my ears. And being quite new to photography I have so much to learn which is very inspiring. It feels like I learn new stuff for every picture I take. When thinking about it I learn new stuff for every song I master as well, even though I\u2019ve been working with sound for 30 years. And I guess that\u2019s the beauty of it all. There\u2019s always more to learn, if you\u2019re open to it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sound and Mastering Engineer and Music Producer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":122,"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26579,"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/26579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}