{"id":64124,"date":"2025-12-08T14:53:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/?p=64124"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:53:36","slug":"from-diy-paint-roller-mics-to-deluxe-desks-the-journey-of-producer-engineer-and-mixer-dax-liniere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/from-diy-paint-roller-mics-to-deluxe-desks-the-journey-of-producer-engineer-and-mixer-dax-liniere\/","title":{"rendered":"From DIY Paint-Roller Mics to Deluxe Desks: The Journey of Producer, Engineer and Mixer Dax Liniere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"produ-1798376268\" class=\"produ-leaderboard-placement produ-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;margin-bottom: 30px!important;\"><script async=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"><\/script>\n<script> var googletag = googletag || {}; googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || [];<\/script>\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-9163411481762-0\">\n  <script>\n\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tgoogletag.defineSlot( '\/21927241144\/728x90-Leaderboard', [728,90], 'gpt-ad-9163411481762-0' )\n\t\t.addService(googletag.pubads());\n\t\t\t\twindow.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers || {};\n\t\tconst timers                     = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers;\n\n\t\ttimers['gpt-ad-9163411481762-0'] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\tconst id = 'gpt-ad-9163411481762-0';\n\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t}, 1000 );\n\n\t\tif ( typeof window.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotRequested', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\ttimers[id] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}, 2500 );\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotResponseReceived', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] !== 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tif ( ! ev.slot.getResponseInformation() ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\twindow.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener = true;\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tgoogletag.enableServices();\n\t\tgoogletag.display( 'gpt-ad-9163411481762-0' );\n\t} );\n  <\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"flex-video widescreen youtube\">\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f6TAZ7Q8VH8\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"From ZERO Budget to World-Class STUDIO: Dax\u2019s Incredible Journey\" title=\"Play video &quot;From ZERO Budget to World-Class STUDIO: Dax\u2019s Incredible Journey&quot;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f6TAZ7Q8VH8<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f6TAZ7Q8VH8\" title=\"From ZERO Budget to World-Class STUDIO: Dax\u2019s Incredible Journey\">From ZERO Budget to World-Class STUDIO: Dax\u2019s Incredible Journey (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f6TAZ7Q8VH8)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">When you walk into The Puzzle Factory, Dax Liniere\u2019s London studio, you can feel immediately that nothing here is accidental. The burgundy retro fridge that secretly houses microphones, the hand-built racks and stands, the carefully crafted acoustic treatment, the layout that somehow manages to feel both homely and relentlessly professional, it all points to a mind that lives at the intersection of music, engineering and invention.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">That intersection has defined Dax\u2019s entire life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\">A three-year-old in a radio station<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">Dax grew up in Australia in a deeply musical household where, intriguingly, nobody played an instrument. His grandfather was a radio DJ, so records and radio were always on, shaping his ears long before he ever touched a fader.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">The turning point came when his parents took him, at the age of three, to visit a radio station. Faced with banks of gear, lights, dials and faders, he was instantly obsessed. The staff apparently had to keep pulling him away from the console because he wanted to push every button in sight. He went home, flipped a chair upside down to make a \u201cdesk\u201d, grabbed a paint roller and used it as a microphone. The image tells you everything: the gear, the performance, and the complete lack of separation between imagination and making something real.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\">DJ Dax and the art of making do<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">Dax did not come from a wealthy background. There was no \u201chere you go son, have a studio\u201d moment. If he wanted something, he had to build it, hack it, or patiently save until he could buy it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">By the age of ten he was DJing school discos, running the sound for primary school dances, and before long he was DJing weddings and 40th birthday parties that came through his father\u2019s catering work. At eleven years old he was \u201cDJ Dax\u201d, running proper events, learning on the job how music works on a crowd and how sound systems behave in the real world.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">At thirteen or so, he found a job in a second-hand shop. It was the perfect environment for someone like him. Gear came through the door every week, and he got first pick of whatever he could afford. He started piecing together a primitive recording setup: some battered SM58s, a tiny two-channel mic preamp he built himself, and whatever he could get his hands on.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">He also picked up drums around this age, joined bands and, almost inevitably, started recording his friends\u2019 projects. Mic by mic, cable by cable, he was quietly becoming an engineer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-64126 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"569\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-scaled.png 1080w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-150x129.png 150w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-768x658.png 768w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-1536x1316.png 1536w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-2048x1755.png 2048w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-80x69.png 80w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-315x270.png 315w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-263x225.png 263w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-198x170.png 198w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-320x274.png 320w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-175x150.png 175w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-770x660.png 770w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-40x34.png 40w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-160x137.png 160w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-20x17.png 20w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-630x540.png 630w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-707x606.png 707w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-16x14.png 16w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-397x340.png 397w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-12x10.png 12w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-640x548.png 640w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-350x300.png 350w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-11x9.png 11w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-385x330.png 385w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.48.25-AM-1540x1320.png 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span class=\"\">Half a garage, a console and a path forward<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">When his parents realised he was genuinely serious, they did something that changed the trajectory of his life. They gave him half the garage.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">A builder friend came in, lined the room, and effectively helped create his first proper studio and rehearsal space. Dax watched every step of that build, fascinated by the carpentry and construction. That experience is written all over The Puzzle Factory now. He was absorbing not just sound, but the physical craft of building a studio from bare walls.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">Through his teens he carried on recording local bands while finishing school. After high school he worked in a Maplin\/Radio Shack type electronics store, the sort that sold components as well as consumer gear. When those kinds of shops were still around, they were universities for the self-taught engineer, and Dax soaked it up.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">He was later poached by a company building large-scale video advertising screens for supermarkets, shopping centres and train stations. It was a respectable job, but not a fulfilling one. Around the year 2000, after one particularly bad day, he asked himself a simple question: what if I just give this studio thing a proper go?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">By then he had saved for a basic two-channel audio interface from, then upgraded to an eight-channel unit. He\u2019d found a used SECK console with direct outs, patiently paid it off on lay-by, and now had enough infrastructure to take recording seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">So he did. That decision, to walk away from a \u201csensible\u201d tech job and bet on audio, is the quiet hinge point in his story.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\">From \u201cjust the engineer\u201d to producer, mixer and mastering engineer<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">In the early 2000s in Australia, Dax found himself working with a wide spread of artists. A lot of it was rock and metal, as you would expect from that era, however he also took on jazz, hip-hop, electronic music and anything else that came through the door. That stylistic breadth would become one of his strengths.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">At first he thought of himself simply as \u201cthe engineer\u201d, but, as so often happens, he was doing far more than mic placement and gain staging. He was suggesting parts, helping bands restructure songs, solving performance problems and guiding sessions in a way that went well beyond technical work. It took a while before he realised there was a name for that role. He had been quietly producing records for years.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">The same thing happened with mastering. Like many of us, he started mastering his own mixes out of necessity, because bands often did not have the budget to hire a dedicated mastering engineer. For years he prefaced conversations with \u201cI\u2019m not a mastering engineer but\u2026\u201d. At some point around 2007, he stopped saying that; the work stood up, the clients were happy. His ears and results were strong enough that downplaying it simply did not make sense any more.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">By 2009, he had moved from Sydney to Canberra, where he ran a series of studios: some in rented commercial premises, some in houses where a spare bedroom became a dedicated mix and mastering room. Australian real estate was more forgiving at the time, so he could afford to ring-fence a space purely for audio.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">He also launched a service he called \u201cMix Direction\u201d around 2010. Clients would send him their mixes for mastering and he found himself writing back with detailed notes on how they could improve balance, tone and impact before the mastering stage. Rather than keep doing that informally, he structured it as a proper add-on service. It sits neatly alongside his broader ethos: empowering artists and engineers to make better records, not just running their audio through a chain and sending an invoice.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\">Engineering, inventing and the degree that did not exist<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">For a while Dax tried to straddle academia and the studio. He moved to Canberra partly to study systems engineering at the Australian National University, focusing on mechanical systems and the integration of multiple engineering disciplines.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">He did a year of full-time study while running the studio full-time, then dropped the course to part-time in his second year so he could stay full-time in audio. Even then, it became clear that something had to give. He was simply too busy in the studio to commit properly to the degree.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">More importantly, the degree was not really what he wanted. What he actually craved was something that does not formally exist, a degree in inventing. He has always been fascinated by designing things, understanding how systems work, and then bending them to solve creative problems. That mindset, rather than the qualification, is what stayed with him.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\">A Churchill Fellow in the control room<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">In 2012 Dax\u2019s work was formally recognised in a big way. He was awarded Producer of the Year in two separate competitions, one in Sydney and one in Canberra. In the same year he received a Winston Churchill Fellowship for his audio work and research.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">The Churchill Fellowships are designed to send people out into the world to learn, then bring that knowledge back and share it. Dax\u2019s project centred on understanding how analogue gear shapes audio signals, and how those characteristics could be understood, analysed and recreated in the digital domain.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">The fellowship took him to Europe and the UK to study, observe and learn from some of the world\u2019s most respected engineers and producers. He spent a week with Michael Brauer in the south of France, then 16 days travelling between studios, sitting in on sessions and talking with engineers. He then came back down for a session with Joe Chiccarelli, followed by two weeks in London at Assault &amp; Battery with Alan Moulder and Flood while they were working on Foals\u2019\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\">Holy Fire<\/span><span class=\"\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">For any engineer that would be a dream itinerary. For Dax, it was also an engineering problem to solve.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">Partway through the Foals sessions, Alan complained about his existing work desk for the DAW and screens. The assistant mentioned that no carpenters ever got back to him because he did not have technical drawings. Dax, with his mechanical engineering background, immediately offered to design and draw a custom desk. He measured, sketched, drafted proper plans, organised fabrication of the steelwork, the powder-coating and the timber, then assembled the whole thing in the studio.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">Alan walked back in, saw the finished piece and famously said, \u201cMate, that looks de-effing-luxe!\u201d The name stuck. Dax later sent a small brass plaque emblazoned \u201cThe Deluxe\u201d and had it fitted. You can still see it there today, a literal piece of furniture that symbolises his hybrid identity: producer, engineer, maker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-64127 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"809\" height=\"438\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-scaled.png 1080w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-150x81.png 150w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-768x416.png 768w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-1536x832.png 1536w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-2048x1109.png 2048w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-80x43.png 80w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-320x173.png 320w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-314x170.png 314w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-277x150.png 277w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-770x417.png 770w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-40x22.png 40w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-160x87.png 160w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-20x11.png 20w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-640x347.png 640w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-628x340.png 628w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-18x10.png 18w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-554x300.png 554w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-17x9.png 17w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-385x209.png 385w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-11.50.36-AM-1540x834.png 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span class=\"\">From thesis to column: understanding analogue in the box<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">As part of the fellowship, Dax had to write a report, nominally around 2,000 words. He ended up writing roughly 7,000. His mentor on the project was Greg Simmons, a respected engineer and educator who was also the founding editor of\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\">Audio Technology<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0magazine in Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">Greg read the report, encouraged Dax to submit it to the magazine, and that led to an ongoing column. The central question of both the thesis and the articles was simple but deep: what really happens to our signals when they pass through analogue equipment, and how can we understand and emulate the parts we like inside the box?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">He broke it down into the desirable traits, saturation, subtle compression, harmonic enhancement, pleasing randomness, and the less desirable: noise, crosstalk and other limitations. His writing helped many engineers think more clearly about why they love analogue, and how to chase those qualities with intention rather than vague nostalgia, especially when mixing and mastering digitally.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\">\u201cA few years\u201d becomes now: moving to London<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">With European parents, Dax had always said he would move to Europe \u201cin a few years\u201d. Like tomorrow, \u201ca few years\u201d is a phrase that can stretch on forever. In 2015 he decided to stop saying it and set a date. He committed to moving in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">In April 2016 he packed his life and studio into a shipping container, sent it to the other side of the world, and began the search for a warehouse space in London that was the right size, in the right place, and not impossibly expensive. Eventually he found what would become The Puzzle Factory and set about hand-building it into the studio you see in the tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">It was, in his own words, an effort of blood, sweat and tears with no exaggeration. There were huge highs, when things finally clicked, and very low lows, when it felt like everything that could go wrong did. What carried him through was simple perseverance and a clear vision of what he wanted the space to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-64128 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Header_2023-06-27-135154_cqvf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"885\" height=\"366\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Header_2023-06-27-135154_cqvf.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Header_2023-06-27-135154_cqvf-150x62.jpg 150w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Header_2023-06-27-135154_cqvf-768x318.jpg 768w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Header_2023-06-27-135154_cqvf-1536x636.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Header_2023-06-27-135154_cqvf-80x33.jpg 80w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Header_2023-06-27-135154_cqvf-320x132.jpg 320w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Header_2023-06-27-135154_cqvf-770x319.jpg 770w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Header_2023-06-27-135154_cqvf-40x17.jpg 40w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Header_2023-06-27-135154_cqvf-160x66.jpg 160w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Header_2023-06-27-135154_cqvf-20x8.jpg 20w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Header_2023-06-27-135154_cqvf-640x265.jpg 640w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Header_2023-06-27-135154_cqvf-385x159.jpg 385w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Header_2023-06-27-135154_cqvf-1540x637.jpg 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span class=\"\">A studio that reflects the person<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">The Puzzle Factory is not a generic studio. It is a reflection of Dax himself: comfortable, professional, inspiring, and quietly inventive. The colour palette, the retro fridge full of microphones, the custom stands and racks, the lighting, the workflow, it all serves the same purpose. It is designed to make artists feel at ease while also making the technical side invisible, so the creativity can flow.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">He has little patience for \u201cwe do it this way because that is how we have always done it\u201d thinking. Tradition has its place, however for Dax, convention only matters if it is genuinely useful. Otherwise you design something better.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">Today he continues to work as a producer, mixer and mastering engineer, often helping clients shape their projects from the ground up, and still writing, teaching and answering questions from viewers and artists who discover him through studio tours and mix breakdowns.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">From a three-year-old pressing forbidden buttons in a radio station to a Churchill Fellow designing desks for Alan Moulder and building one of London\u2019s most distinctive studios, Dax Liniere\u2019s journey is really about one core idea: if the thing you want does not exist yet, learn how it works and build it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f6TAZ7Q8VH8Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: From ZERO Budget to World-Class STUDIO: Dax\u2019s Incredible Journey (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f6TAZ7Q8VH8) &nbsp; When you walk into The Puzzle Factory, Dax Liniere\u2019s London studio, you can feel immediately that nothing here is accidental. 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