Audio Products Podcast
We are meeting with pro audio industry veterans: founders, product managers, UX designers to learn how they build and manage the products we love. You will get tips on how to navigate your career in audio and how to develop a successful audio product – from musical instruments, through audio plugins and gaming middleware to music distribution platforms and consumer electronics like headphones, mics or even automotive speaker systems New episode is dropping every second Monday 11:00 am ET.
Episodes
🎙️ Here are the top 3 episodes from Season 2 of the Audio Products Podcast
- Building products with Andrew Scheps - 3x Grammy-winning mix engineer
- Exploring music technology with Jordan Rudess - legendary keyboard virtuoso and music innovator
-Inside soothe3 with Hannes Andersson(CEO) and Atte Karm (Marketing Director) from oeksound (recorded in their Helsinki office)
Our guest is Will Hoult, Head of Product: Focusrite and Novation at Focusrite Group. In this episode we talk about: ✅ Product leadership across Focusrite and Novation Will's work sits across recording interfaces, pro audio systems and electronic music workflows. We dig into what changes when product discovery moves between different users, brands and product categories. ✅ From PM to Head of Product Will's path from RedNet Prod...
Our guest is Maciej Dulski, Co-Owner and Managing Partner at MusicTech Lab and Co-Founder of MusicTech Poland. In this episode, we talk about: ✅ Trends in music tech Maciek shares which music-tech trends matter most right now, and why AI provenance is the big one. ✅ What software can and cannot fix in music Royalty dashboards, streaming analytics, superfan apps, music marketing tools, and DSP integrations can make real work cle...
Our guest is Tobias Lønnerød Madsen, Founder of Moonbase - a storefront system built for audio plugin companies. Moonbase is a sponsor of Audio Product Jam Stockholm #1 that will be hosted at XLN Audio on September 10th. 👉 Learn more about Moonbase: https://moonbase.sh/a/product-jam In this episode, we talk about: ✅ Why audio plugins need their own commercial stack Generic checkout tools break down fast when a plugin company ...
Our guest is Zach Kornhauser — Editor-in-Chief of our 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿. He is also a Billboard-charting, RIAA-certified mastering engineer with more than fifteen years of experience shaping the sound of contemporary music. Formerly the head mastering engineer at Atlantic Records NYC. In this episode, we talk about: ✅ Navigating the Audio Tech Career Path How Zach navigated the professional au...
Our guests are Hannes Andersson and Atte Karm from oeksound. Hannes is CEO and Atte is Marketing Director at the company behind Soothe, Spiff, Bloom. They have just released soothe 3, the newest version of their flagship plugin, loved by mixing and mastering engineers all around the world. We visited oeksound HQ in Helsinki before the official launch and had a great conversation about their products and business philosophy. We t...
Our guest is Varda Caspi — VP Marketing at Aiode. Aiode is an Abbey Road -backed company building ethical AI tools for music creation 👉Learn about Aiode here: https://aiode.com/ In this episode, we talk about: ✅ What ethical AI actually means in music tech Varda breaks down what "ethical AI" should mean in practice: transparent training methods, clear consent from musicians, and business models where artists are not just ...
Our guest is Amanda Whiting Gerstle — a strategic marketing leader in music tech and pro audio, who worked with iconic brands like Universal Audio, Splice, and Roland Corporation. In this episode, we talk about: ✅ How startups should build marketing from scratch We go deep into what early-stage audio companies should focus on first, how to avoid common mistakes, and when it makes sense to bring in external expertise ✅ Mark...
Our guest is Ross Totino — Product Developer, Sound Designer, and expert in audio hardware and DSP systems who worked on many iconic products we love.
In this episode, we talk about:
✅ How to build a career in hardware product development Ross shares how he moved from technician roles into sound design and product development in Electro-Harmonix and Line 6 and how those helped me to further work with iconic brands Eventide Au...
This time Wojciech in the solo episode. We want to pause to: ✅ Reflect on what is actually missing in the audio business education space ✅ Discuss why generic content does not translate into real-world audio product skills ✅ Explain what Audio Product Academy is and why it exists (besides the podcast) ➡️ Check our course platform
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➡️ Our audio PM meetups - Audio Product Jams
🎮 How do you actually start a career in game audio? We talked about it with Krzysiek Kowal — Audio & Motion Department Manager at Anshar Studios and former Sound Designer at CD PROJEKT RED. Game audio is one of the most fascinating intersections of sound design, technology and interactive storytelling — but entering the industry can feel hard, especially today. In this episode, we talk about: ✅ How Krzysiek sta...
Our guest is Rithik Kundu — Founder of NYU GenAudio & AI, and former Senior Generative AI Researcher at Deep Noise who is also involved in building Joker Deck Ventures. In this episode, we talk about: ✅ State of AI education and AI adoption ✅ The difference between AI demos and AI-native workflows ✅ What Pipeline, guardrails, etc. are in the context of an AI-powered product
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...Our guest is Maciej Bąk — a Senior IT Project & Program Manager with 16+ years of experience, currently at Neural DSP and previously on the Avid Pro Tools team. Maciek has delivered hundreds of audio projects. He is also a very active musician and mix engineer, which gives him a rare perspective on both industry and user sides of audio. In this episode, we talk about:
✅ Why audio delivery is different from SaaS ✅ Proje...
We met Jordan Rudess - legendary keyboardist of Dream Theater, voted the greatest keyboard player of all time, and a deeply involved music technologist.
In this episode, we talk about: ✅ how he started building products, ✅ the tools and innovations he’s excited about, ✅ the future of music education ✅ his perspective on AI in music making
➡️ Wizdom Music (apps built by Jordan)
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Our guest is Diana Monroy-García, founder of MC Media who is an expert in digital asset management and media production. Her expertise encompasses audiovisual collections research and management, copyright clearance, sync licensing, and comprehensive library and metadata management. Her focus is on improving rights information management within the digital ecosystem, particularly through the development of innovative technology. I...
This time we look back at 2025 — through the voices of the people who shaped it.
From indie plugin developers and AI startups, to UX leads, hardware PMs and R&D heads at companies like Roland, Universal Audio, Safari Audio and d&b audiotechnik — 2025 gave us 15 deep conversations about what it really takes to build audio tools that matter. In this solo episode, Wojciech reflects on: • What builders, designers a...
We met again with Dr Tomasz Żernicki. This time we talked about how AI is reshaping product management workflows and what it really means for PM jobs. Is AI going to take over, or will it finally let PMs focus on strategy instead of chasing tickets and status updates?
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We met Andrew Cresswell, Head of Product Sales at ICEpower A/S.
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➡️ How to get from start-up to scale-up
https://organizationalphysics.com/2015/10/15/rethinking-p...
#18 Product Career in Pro Audio with Wolfgang Schulz, Head of Product Management at d&b audiotechnik
We met with Wolfgang Schulz, Head of Product Management Electronics & Software, d&b audiotechnik.
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