A Nashville night can feel like a darkroom shadows, red wash, smoke cutting across the stage. That’s where Daniel Howell thrives. The founder of Black Owl Media built his name shooting live music, crafting swift, story-driven videos, and helping bands speak authentically online. In this episode of the Create-it Studios Podcast, Daniel sat down with host Jordan to talk concert pits, social media that actually works, and why you should master what you already own before buying anything new…

Building a Dolby Atmos mix template inside Create-it Studios’ immersive audio suite.

Inside Studio 5, the air feels calibrated. Eleven monitors curve around the room in a 7.1.4 array, with four more floating above. The moment the session loads, sound stops being flat it becomes physical.
In Dolby Atmos, every mix begins as a blank sphere. The engineer’s first task isn’t faders or effects; it’s building the world the sound will live in…

In Studio 1 at Create-it, the room settles into a familiar silence meters idling in Logic Pro, headphones draped across the desk, the final mix shimmering just below 0 dB. This is the moment before the master, when precision becomes preservation. What you send to a mastering engineer shapes everything that follows.

The mall style doors of Walmart Franklin were sliding shut when it happened. A chance hello. A quick “you want to see something cool?” from our colleague Frank. Ten minutes later, a touring artist with a mission stepped into our main lobby at Create-it Studios and the very first podcast found its opening line.

How Future Bean Powers Creativity at Create-it Studios.

Every creator reaches that moment the folder chaos, the “final_mix_v4” problem, and the hard drive that’s 98% full of takes you don’t remember recording.

At Create-it Studios, we see this every day. Musicians arrive with incredible material buried under duplicates, lost bounces, and forgotten backups. Before new inspiration can flow, it’s time to make space for it…