For episode 13 of the UNSUNG podcast, MixedByJocelin and Matt Soczywko were joined by Devvon Terrell aka @HelpMeDevvon at Kensaltown East studios in New York.
Devvon Terrell is an artist, content creator, and mixing engineer from Brooklyn, New York. He is also one of the hosts of the My Studionerds podcast. He began making music at 17 and decided he would make it his career during a formative experience at college. In his early days as an artist and singer, while peers took traditional routes to promote their music like getting their music to DJs for radio play, Devvon began doubling down on social media instead, releasing a string of viral covers and remixes on his YouTube channel Devvon Terrell. One day he uploaded some educational videos he recorded breaking down the production and mixing techniques in his music to a brand new channel and put it to one side. Months later somebody recognised him in public from those videos and he discovered the channel “Help Me Devvon” had accrued 20k subscribers and tens of thousands of views. He resumed creating content for the Help Me Devvon channels and today the brand has accrued over 35 million views, launched a podcast, and even released a collection of plugins.
In this episode, Devvon discusses the podcast strategy for My Studionerds, learning to produce and mix in the no information era, splitting time between Help Me Devvon and Devvon Terrell, Devvon’s projects as a singer, his first artist deal, being a graduate in 2008, getting his first studio, On The Radar Radio, UK and US rap, the Help Me Devvon plugins, developing plugins, creating content for Pro Audio companies, speaking candidly about sponsors and their products, what would tempt Devvon away from Pro Tools, asking for the project file instead of stems as an engineer, the role of the mix engineer and more.
