The Modern Musician Show with Colin Thomson

022: Bobby Owsinski: Music Engineer, What Happened to Surround, And Musicians Today

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A long-time veteran of the music industry, Bobby Owsinski has worked as a producer, recording engineer, guitar and keyboard player, songwriter, and arranger for a variety of major and minor recording artists, motion pictures, and television shows. One of the first to delve into surround sound music mixing, he has worked on a range of surround sound projects and DVD productions for such diverse acts as Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, The Ramones, and Chicago, among many others. Bobby has penned several hundred audio-related articles for a variety of popular industry trade publications. He has also authored a number of books that are now staples in recording programs at colleges around the world, including “The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook,” “the Mastering Engineer’s Handbook,” and “The Recording Engineer's Handbook,” in addition to the “How to Set Up Your Surround Studio” DVD.

Key Take Aways:
  • Take every opportunity you can to work on good gear, and get experience in general - it will do wonders for you down the road
  • At first, you're going to have to take every gig you can get
  • If you're going to be able to really focus on one thing - you have to be basically the best in the world. Better to spread yourself out over several things at first, while you are figuring out where to go
  • the quality of your demo will make a huge difference in the attention you are given by anyone. You demos need to be final master quality, without exception

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    Learn more about Bobby Owsinski:

    BobbyOwsinski.com

    FaceBook

    Twitter: @bobbyowsinski

    YouTube

    Google+

    LinkedIn

    Pinterest

    Books by Bobby on Amazon:

    The Mastering Engineer's Handbook

    Music 4.0: A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age

    Social Media Promotions for Musicians

    StudioLive Mixer Handbook

    The Mixing Engineer's Handbook

    The Recording Engineer's Handbook

    How to Make Your Band Sound Great

    The Studio Builder's Handbook

    Audio Mixing Boot-Camp

    The Ultimate Guitar Tone

    The Musician's Video Handbook

    The Studio Musician's Handbook

    The Drum Recording Handbook

    and more...

     

     

     

    If you would like to be considered for featured artist, email music submissions [email protected]

     

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    The Modern Musician Show with Colin ThomsonBy Colin Thomson interviews musicians and entertainers like Bryan Callen and Bobby Owsinski , to get advice on what musicians should be doing today. Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, and Justin Timberlake should also come on the show, as well as Taylor Swift, Justin