From Session Bass to Taylor Swift & Lauryn Hill | Lorenzo Wolff | WCA #603

Lorenzo Wolff is a Grammy-winning producer, engineer, musician, and owner of Restoration Sound in Brooklyn. He joins Matt for episode 603 to trace a path that runs from a hip-hop-obsessed kid in Nyack, New York — chasing the basslines on Fugees and Wyclef records — to interning under engineer Scott Lehrer at Second Story Sound, to building one of Brooklyn's most community-minded studios over 11 years. Along the way his string sessions with violinist Bobby Hawk led to Taylor Swift's Folklore, which led to Ye's Donda, which led to his ongoing work with Ms. Lauryn Hill. We talk about the two tiers of gigs (community vs. famous), funding a studio build with a patron's retainer, why he treats conflict de-escalation and generosity as business strategy, survival economics through production-suite rentals, and the honesty it takes to work with visionary artists. Watch or listen: https://www.workingclassaudio.com/wca...