217: Dan Korneff & Luke DeLalio (Korneff Audio, Pierce the Veil, Paramore, Papa Roach, Breaking Benjamin, Sleeping With Sirens, My Chemical Romance)

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Episode show notes:

Dan Korneff is a producer, mixer & engineer.

His credit list includes some of the biggest names in new rock. Like Pierce the Veil, Paramore, Papa Roach, Breaking Benjamin, Sleeping With Sirens, or My Chemical Romance. 

And Dan not only has the creative and music skills, but also a deep technical understanding of the electronics of the equipment.

He started his journey towards plug-in development by repairing and modifying his own gear, rebuilding consoles and vintage compressors and equalizers, designing circuits and eventually making custom outboard equipment. This led naturally to the design of plug-ins.

If you've seen any of my mixing tutorials, courses, or playbooks inside our coaching program, you've probably also seen Korneff plugins. Especially the Amplified Instruments Processor has been one of my absolute go-tos for years now.

So Korneff Audio plug-ins are basically taking Dan's workflows, solutions and ideas developed on real-world projects and tuning them into software tools.

 

Luke DeLalio has an extensive background in just about anything to do with creativity.

He started in music as a guitarist, then moved into engineering and production, working on records in multiple genres through the late 80s into the mid 90s.

Then he pivoted into theatre, directing plays and musicals, teaching acting and somehow becoming a sought-after photographer.

Ever fleeing boredom and the same old thing, Luke took up design and fine art, and now spends his time with Dan developing all things Korneff, writing on all things cultural, consulting on marketing and web projects, and coaching creative people who are sick of it all and want to change things up.

Luke and Dan met almost 30 years ago, when Luke was freelance engineering and took on Dan as an assistant. Now Dan is the master and Luke is the padawan. How cool is that!

 

Dan, Luke and Benedikt met for the first time at NAMM 2024 in LA and they had an amazing chat which just needed to be continued on this show.

As always, we want to feature only the products that we use and love ourselves, tell the inspiring stories of engineers and producers that we admire and the people behind the products are just as important to us as the products themselves.

So here are Dan Korneff and Luke DeLalio - Enjoy!

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