The Albertan has produced and engineered records for Adele, Miley Cyrus, the Killers, Alabama Shakes and more. Welcome to Meet the Producers, a CBC Music series that highlights Canadian producers making waves in their respective genres. Producers are integral to building the backbone of the songs we love: they turn ideas into fully fleshed creations, and because so much of what they do happens behind the scenes, we wanted to shed a light on them.
"There are a million YouTube videos that will tell you the correct way to do anything, including music, but I feel like people get too hung up on the belief that there even is a correct way to do something," Everett said in an interview. "I think that I like exploratory because it opens up a lot of avenues that maybe you wouldn't uncover by doing it the 'correct' way.
Everett remembers first becoming aware of music production at six years old, watching an anthology series about the Beatles that broke down the sonic innovations on the early albums. His list of influences only continued to blossom as he entered his teen years: Chad Blake , DJ Shadow, Brian Eno, Nigel Godrich (Radiohead'sEverett's recording skills were honed over four years at the Banff Centre, which he attended fresh out of high school.
Another common technique for Everett is to blend analog and digital recording methods. He not only likes using tape machines for the tones and texture they provide, but also for the way they force musicians to make music: the energy in a session is different when you can't do a million takes over and over.
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