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Twice Emmy-nominated (okay, okay, Daytime Emmys*, in 1990 and 1991 but, still, let’s see your Emmy nomination, huh?) sound engineer, producer, and voice artist Nick Selby has what must be charitably called the weirdest career ever. He currently keeps his hand in as an engineer working on tape syncs and field recordings - learn more at tapesync.pro including a look at his enviable gear collection.
Nick has been the co-host with Chris Swan of the Tech Debt Burndown podcast since 2021. From 2017 to 2018, Nick was co-host with Peter Moskos of the Quality Policing Podcast, where in 2017 he reported, produced, voiced, and edited the long-form report, Divert to Where? Mental Health Policing in America. He was the voice, executive producer, and lead writer of the Trail of Bits Podcast in 2022.
Darryl McDaniels and Nick ~1989
Nick co-owned from 1988 to 1991 a NYC recording studio with a 2-inch Ampex MM1000 16 track-recorder, a 24-channel Sound Workshop Gold series console and a whole bunch of cool digital gear like, LOL, an AKAI S-1000 with 32MB of RAM, and a bitchin' MIDI-studio based around an Apple IIe computer.
That Guiding Light gig? It was three years sitting in a 7-foot-by-7-foot booth working with a persnickety music director who told him when to bring in the music and make it louderlouderlouderlouder. Truth be told, Nick liked her quite a bit and she tolerated quite a lot from him, too. Also at that Guiding Light gig, Nick got to work with musician, composer, and music director AJ Gundell.
In 1991 he worked as one of the first producers on Warsaw, Poland-based Radio Zet, where he also was a sometime-morning drive-time DJ. He served as a creative director and production manager for an international ad agency before it fired him unceremoniously. Recently Nick has been working on a range of tape syncs and field production for podcasts, museums, and radio stations in the US and Europe.
Cart machine like this one, but older.
** ‘Mixing Music’ using a literal cart machine (see image, right) that looked like something out of Captain Video and his Video Rangers, but again, still. *