IF YOU LIKE THE WAY REVOLUTION Radio sounds, don’t just credit the record’s producer, Billie Joe Armstrong, or its worldclass mix engineer, Andrew Scheps (Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Adele). Remember to also credit the guy who captured every sound on the album, Green Day’s Grammy-winning engineer, Chris Dugan. —JG
“We tracked Revolution Radio at OTIS, which is Billie Joe’s studio in Oakland, California,” says Dugan. “It’s a former live/work loft that Billie and an architect friend of his remodeled from the ground up. I helped some, too. We floated the floors throughout the entire place, and they built a live room, three isolation booths, and a control room, and soundproofed the hell out of it. They also put in an apartment/lounge upstairs.
“OTIS’ mixing desk is a Trident ATB,…