Have a very merry Christmas and a wonderful Holiday. Eat, drink and be merry, but be sure to stay safe so we can enjoy the new year together. Thank You! I am grateful, thankful and humbled by your continued support.
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There are a few “godfathers” of the modern recording industry – Bruce Swedien, Al Schmitt and Bill Putnam all immediately come to mind as they transcended different eras of music. Engineer/producer Tom Dowd certainly falls into this category as well, with the added gravitas of being one of the physicists that actually worked on the […]
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Can you believe that it’s Episode #500 of my Podcast? To celebrate I have my very first guest from Episode 1, engineer Dennis Moody. Dennis is one of the few engineers who’s as comfortable in a recording studio as he is in a live concert setting. Likewise, he’s just as comfortable mixing a rock, R&B, […]
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If you’re like me, you need a little bit of help when it comes to choosing Christmas gifts for the people in the music and recording business. If you have no idea what to buy, here’s a list of recommendations that you might find fit perfectly for that musician or producer that you want to […]
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Anyone who has worked in the studio professionally either as a musician, engineer or producer knows that the hours can be long and you can go for days, weeks and months without a break. Most of us do this willingly, at least at the beginning of a career, but there’s something that we all know […]
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On my latest podcast episode: Listen to it at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. Enjoy the show!
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One of the interesting things about modern plugin development is that, as its become more sophisticated, sometimes it fails to duplicate the sound that we really liked back when digital technology was in its primitive stages. Take reverb for example. The original Lexicon 224 and 480, and the EMT 250 are sometimes held as the […]
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If there’s one place where Ai has made great strides in recent years, it’s mastering. This excerpt from The Musician’s Ai Handbook takes a look at the various online Ai mastering services, as well as some of the limitations they currently have. “Like mixing, mastering costs vary quite a bit. A job by an A-list […]
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The latest episode of my Inner Circle Podcast features Bosco Kante, who’s a Grammy award-winning artist, producer, creator of the world’s first Tubeless talk box, and co-founder of ElectroSpit. Bosco has performed on albums by Kanye West and Dua Lipa, and wrote the theme to the TV show “In Living Color.” During the interview we […]
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If you would have asked me 5 years ago about using an online mastering service, I would have told you to dig deep into your pocket to pay for a real engineer instead. At the time, the results were okay, but not in the same ballpark. Today the services have improved greatly thanks to the […]
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My free 3 day Awesome Mix Workshop will provide solutions to your most common mix problems. It starts on Monday December 4th at 4PM Eastern. I’ll show you how to. . And so much more. Click here to register (be sure to select Register to all dates under Dates), but don’t wait too long because […]
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When I was writing my latest book, The Musician’s Ai Handbook, one question that I received quite often was one that I had taken somewhat for granted. “How does Ai music generation actually make music?” came up repeatedly, so I did some research and it ended up as a section of the book. Here’s the […]
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I’ve had so many great guests over the 10 years and nearly 500 episodes of my Inner Circle Podcast. I always enjoy revisiting them, as I hope you do as well. One of the best is from back in 2016 with hit mixer Josh Gudwin. Josh has mixed huge hits for Justin Bieber, Bad […]
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My first job in Los Angeles was working for Everything Audio, a pro audio equipment dealer. We had the latest of everything, and of course, engineers and producers would want to try out expensive pieces of gear before they took the buying plunge. One day I found myself going to Crystal Studios (once a major […]
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To all my friends and readers, I wish you a happy holiday. I truly appreciate your support and I am humbled and honored that you take the time out of your busy day to read my musings. It’s a good day to take some time off, relax, eat a nice meal, have a cocktail (or five), […]
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