How to make a Hit Record

Guest speaker panel at audioMIDI's 7/26/08 Film & TV Composition Clinic featuring Chris Stone (ASCAP award winner and founder of Audio Impressions), Joel Goldsmith (Stargate SG-1), Kevin Kiner (CSI:Miami) and Walter New (re-recording engineer and producer).

Guest speaker panel at audioMIDI's 7/26/08 Film & TV Composition Clinic featuring Chris Stone (ASCAP award winner and founder of Audio Impressions), Joel Goldsmith (Stargate SG-1), Kevin Kiner (CSI:Miami) and Walter New (re-recording engineer and producer).

Guest speaker panel at audioMIDI's 7/26/08 Film & TV Composition Clinic featuring Chris Stone (ASCAP award winner and founder of Audio Impressions), Joel Goldsmith (Stargate SG-1), Kevin Kiner (CSI:Miami) and Walter New (re-recording engineer and producer).

Guest speaker panel at audioMIDI's 7/26/08 Film & TV Composition Clinic featuring Chris Stone (ASCAP award winner and founder of Audio Impressions), Joel Goldsmith (Stargate SG-1), Kevin Kiner (CSI:Miami) and Walter New (re-recording engineer and producer).

In this interview, Carl Beatty, a veteran engineer and Professor of Production and Engineering at Berklee College of Music, discusses what someone needs to become a good assistant engineer -- and how to remain a good assistant engineer when you start thinking you know everything about recording.