Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast

How does an indie band from Chicago afford to record at the legendary Abbey Road Studios? You record live, of course.

In this episode, producer Dan McCormick explains exactly what it takes to record a live album at Abbey Road with no overdubs.

McCormick flew to London three weeks after his second son was born to produce The Empty Pockets in Abbey Road Studio 2. The indie band had spent nearly a year playing the songs live, then captured the full album in two days with no instrument overdubs.

He covers drum and piano placement to control bleed, his subtractive EQ approach, and what a room full of guests on day one taught him about pulling honest takes.

The Empty Pockets: https://theemptypockets.com
Bandcamp: https://theemptypockets.bandcamp.com/
The Empty Pockets – Abbey Road Mini Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp7RWLd3xfc

#LiveRecording #AbbeyRoad #NoOverdubs #LiveToTapeRecording #DanMcCormick

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Soundproof studio costs, common mistakes, and overlooked questions: acoustic designer Wilson Harwood tells musicians what building one actually takes.

An artist himself with a need for a personal studio, he first built his own 270-square-foot backyard studio in 2020. Wilson found he loved the work and the process, which eventually grew into a full design firm.

He explains why soundproofing and acoustic treatment are frequently confused, why mini-split air conditioners don't actually bring in needed fresh air, and why DIY builders routinely underestimate everything beyond the walls.

Website: https://www.soundproofyourstudio.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soundproofyourstudio
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soundproofyourstudio/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilson-harwood-1b523025/
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soundproof-your-studio/id1618807531
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/harwoodwilson6/

#RecordingStudio #HomeStudio #StudioBuildCost #SoundproofingTips #WilsonHarwood

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Thank you for tuning in to Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle, the podcast that takes you deep inside the music industry. Each week, Bobby shares insights, news, analysis, and conversations with the movers and shakers shaping today’s music world.

📌 Explore Bobby’s best-selling books

🎙️ Nail that pro vocal sound: clear, upfront, and mix-ready. Learn how in Bobby’s Vocal Mixing Mini-Course

🎧 Discover more mixing and production courses

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Nashville songwriter and producer Don Miggs explains how he built a career connecting legacy artists to the music that made them great.

Miggs details how he brokered the relationships that landed him as a producer on a new "Let It Be" with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Mick Fleetwood, and Dolly Parton. He also unpacks why legacy artists need someone to remember what made them good.

Bobby and Miggs cover Canyon Studios Nashville and the 1968 Electrodyne board ZZ Top and Aretha recorded on. Miggs closes with his case for building an artist's world before chasing a hit.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-miggs-8b896420a/
Website: https://www.miggs.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/don.miggs
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/donmiggs

#MusicProduction #LegacyArtists #NashvilleProducer #LetItBeRecording #DonMiggs

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Thank you for tuning in to Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle, the podcast that takes you deep inside the music industry. Each week, Bobby shares insights, news, analysis, and conversations with the movers and shakers shaping today’s music world.

📌 Explore Bobby’s best-selling books

🎙️ Nail that pro vocal sound: clear, upfront, and mix-ready. Learn how in Bobby’s Vocal Mixing Mini-Course

🎧 Discover more mixing and production courses

📲 Follow Bobby for more tips, insights, and updates:

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🎙️ New episodes release every Tuesday at 9AM Pacific on YouTube and your favorite podcast app.

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Star Wars sound designers and audio post pros: Nick Peck breaks down how a veteran actually builds iconic effects from field recording to final mix.

Nick has worked on hundreds of Star Wars projects since 1998, including serving as Audio Director on Star Wars Battlefront. In this episode, he explains why he moved from a Sound Devices 722 to a Zoom H4N, how Soundminer Radium allows him to perform sound design live to picture, and why respecting an established sonic vocabulary is essential when working inside an iconic franchise.

Nick also breaks down practical field-recording techniques he has used on recent horror and Star Wars projects, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how memorable sounds are captured, shaped, and brought to life.

Plus, Nick tells us about this vintage synthesizer collection and how he keeps decades-old electro-mechanical instruments still running.

#SoundDesign #StarWars #StarWarsSoundDesign #FieldRecording #NickPeck

Website: https://nicolaspeck.com/
Under the Big Tree: https://underthebigtree.com/wp/
YouTube: https://underthebigtree.com/wp/about/
Bandcamp: https://nicolaspeck.bandcamp.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nipeck/

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Thank you for tuning in to Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle, the podcast that takes you deep inside the music industry. Each week, Bobby shares insights, news, analysis, and conversations with the movers and shakers shaping today’s music world.

📌 Explore Bobby’s best-selling books

🎙️ Nail that pro vocal sound: clear, upfront, and mix-ready. Learn how in Bobby’s Vocal Mixing Mini-Course

🎧 Discover more mixing and production courses

📲 Follow Bobby for more tips, insights, and updates:

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Michael Morgan, a Mixing Business Coach with a background in product development, research, and audio-industry brand work, joins Bobby Owsinski to explore why building a sustainable mixing career requires a clear business system, not just great technical skills or the latest marketing tactic.

He explains why mixers often struggle when they stop doing the activities that originally generated opportunities, and why experienced engineers need to keep adapting, maintain their relationships, and stay open to new ideas as the industry changes.

Michael breaks down his approach around clarity, growth, and delivery, showing how mindset, positioning, pricing, outreach, sales, client experience, retention, and persistence work together to create momentum. 

For mixers, producers, and other audio professionals trying to create more consistent careers, this episode offers a practical way to look beyond individual tactics and identify where the real gaps in their business may be. 

Connect with Michael:
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Thank you for tuning in to Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle, the podcast that takes you deep inside the music industry. Each week, Bobby shares insights, news, analysis, and conversations with the movers and shakers shaping today’s music world.

📌 Explore Bobby’s best-selling books

🎙️ Nail that pro vocal sound: clear, upfront, and mix-ready. Learn how in Bobby’s Vocal Mixing Mini-Course

🎧 Discover more mixing and production courses

📲 Follow Bobby for more tips, insights, and updates:

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Music producers and engineers navigating rapid changes in recording technology learn from veteran producer, engineer, and Grammy nominee Bruce Sugar why staying relevant means embracing new tools without sacrificing the feel and emotion that make music connect.

Bruce shares how a short engineering gig with Ringo Starr became a working relationship spanning more than two decades, how artists like Ringo and Joe Walsh balance feel with perfection, and how his own workflow has evolved from cutting tape to in-the-box production, Atmos mixing, and AI-assisted songwriting. 

He also reflects on working with Ozzy Osbourne, the fast-paced Nashville session culture that shaped his approach, and how AI is changing both the possibilities and value of music production.

Throughout the conversation, Bruce explains why engineers should avoid letting technical perfection get in the way of a great performance, keep sessions moving, and make technology serve the music rather than dominate it. 

Listeners will gain a veteran engineer's perspective on adapting to an evolving industry while preserving the human emotion at the heart of great records.

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Thank you for tuning in to Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle, the podcast that takes you deep inside the music industry. Each week, Bobby shares insights, news, analysis, and conversations with the movers and shakers shaping today’s music world.

📌 Explore Bobby’s best-selling books

🎙️ Nail that pro vocal sound: clear, upfront, and mix-ready. Learn how in Bobby’s Vocal Mixing Mini-Course

🎧 Discover more mixing and production courses

📲 Follow Bobby for more tips, insights, and updates:

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Bluesky

🎙️ New episodes release every Tuesday at 9AM Pacific on YouTube and your favorite podcast app.

Music. Business. Creativity. Straight from the Inner Circle.

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Bobby Owsinski, author and host of Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle, breaks down how shifting ownership, AI adoption, and changing platform policies are reshaping the music business and professional audio landscape.

Bobby examines major industry moves involving iZotope, Plugin Alliance, Native Instruments, Dynaudio, and DistroKid, alongside the Hollywood Bowl’s immersive sound upgrade and D’Addario’s controversy over undisclosed AI use. 

He also looks at the growing challenge of defining and labeling AI-generated music, Spotify’s efforts to combat AI spam and synthetic artist personas, and what new AI disclosure rules could mean for musicians and creators.

For anyone trying to keep up with today’s music industry, this episode offers context on where consolidation, artificial intelligence, distribution, and new technology are heading, and why these changes matter to the people making, producing, and releasing music.

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Thank you for tuning in to Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle, the podcast that takes you deep inside the music industry. Each week, Bobby shares insights, news, analysis, and conversations with the movers and shakers shaping today’s music world.

📌 Explore Bobby’s best-selling books

🎙️ Nail that pro vocal sound: clear, upfront, and mix-ready. Learn how in Bobby’s Vocal Mixing Mini-Course

🎧 Discover more mixing and production courses

📲 Follow Bobby for more tips, insights, and updates:

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Bluesky

🎙️ New episodes release every Tuesday at 9AM Pacific on YouTube and your favorite podcast app.

Music. Business. Creativity. Straight from the Inner Circle.

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Tour management can burn through an artist’s budget fast when logistics replace leadership, and Ryan Goldbacher, a tour manager and front-of-house engineer, explains what the job actually demands when an artist’s money, crew, and reputation are on the line.

Ryan traces his path from Blackbird and Dark Horse Recording, including setting up microphones for a young Taylor Swift in 2006, to Shooter Jennings, where he admits he struggled on his first tour management run and may have cost the artist tens of thousands because he did not yet know how to settle shows correctly. 

The experience taught him that effective tour management is less about booking hotels and collecting checks than leading people, supporting the band, and asking for help before uncertainty becomes an expensive mistake.

That same discipline shapes his approach to live sound: start with the quietest and most important elements, especially vocals and acoustic instruments, build the mix around them, and treat the kick drum as a full-range instrument instead of simply a bass source. 

For artists, engineers, tour managers, and anyone building a career in the music industry, Ryan's story shows why taking the next step before you feel fully ready can open doors, but staying valuable requires humility, strong judgment, and people you trust enough to call when you do not know the answer.

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Thank you for tuning in to Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle, the podcast that takes you deep inside the music industry. Each week, Bobby shares insights, news, analysis, and conversations with the movers and shakers shaping today’s music world.

📌 Explore Bobby’s best-selling books

🎙️ Nail that pro vocal sound: clear, upfront, and mix-ready. Learn how in Bobby’s Vocal Mixing Mini-Course

🎧 Discover more mixing and production courses

📲 Follow Bobby for more tips, insights, and updates:

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Bluesky

🎙️ New episodes release every Tuesday at 9AM Pacific on YouTube and your favorite podcast app.

Music. Business. Creativity. Straight from the Inner Circle.

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Reliable music data is getting harder to access, and Oskar Eichler explains why the artists and companies that know how to interpret it now have a serious advantage.

As CEO of Songstats, Oskar has helped build a real-time music analytics platform that tracks streaming, playlist, chart, radio, and social media performance across major platforms. Songstats now serves 10,000 active artists and provides data to major booking agencies, distributors, management companies, and labels.

Oskar explains why playlist follower counts can be misleading, how Songstats evaluates playlist health through long-term growth, artist performance, refresh frequency, and what the company calls the “playlist journey.” 

He also reveals how machine learning made it possible to track 100 million songs across 50,000 radio stations and how the new Social Stats platform helps creators understand performance across Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok.

These insights matter because succeeding in today’s music business requires more than watching streaming numbers. 

Oskar argues that as AI makes music easier to create, artists who build a distinctive identity, story, and connection with their audience will be better positioned to turn attention into loyal fans, merchandise sales, and touring opportunities.

Connect with Oskar:
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Songstats
YouTube
DONT BLINK

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Thank you for tuning in to Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle, the podcast that takes you deep inside the music industry. Each week, Bobby shares insights, news, analysis, and conversations with the movers and shakers shaping today’s music world.

📌 Explore Bobby’s best-selling books

🎙️ Nail that pro vocal sound: clear, upfront, and mix-ready. Learn how in Bobby’s Vocal Mixing Mini-Course

🎧 Discover more mixing and production courses

📲 Follow Bobby for more tips, insights, and updates:

Facebook
LinkedIn
Instagram
Bluesky

🎙️ New episodes release every Tuesday at 9AM Pacific on YouTube and your favorite podcast app.

Music. Business. Creativity. Straight from the Inner Circle.

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Indie plugin developers who want to launch a genuinely new synthesis tool will recognize their own blind spots in Evan Mezeske's story.

Indie plugin developers who want to launch a genuinely new synthesis tool will recognize their own blind spots in Evan Mezeske's story.

Evan left Google after 11 years building large-scale fraud systems to create Anukari, the first commercially available 3D physics modeling synthesizer that runs in real time.
 
He discovered that technical originality creates a marketing problem most developers never anticipate. When a product is genuinely new, the market has no category for it, and polished 3D visuals can trigger skepticism instead of excitement.

His path from that invisible launch to being discovered by Doom Eternal composer Mick Gordon and Star Trek's lead sound designer reveals what actually moves a tool without a genre.

Listen to how this totally unique approach to synthesis went from unnoticed to being on everyone's radar in this Inner Circle Podcast episode.

Connect with Evan:
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Anukari
Instagram (Anukari)
YouTube (Anukari)
“You do not need to know chemistry to enjoy fireworks”: Exploring the physics-driven thinking behind some of the most groundbreaking plugins

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Thank you for tuning in to Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle, the podcast that takes you deep inside the music industry. Each week, Bobby shares insights, news, analysis, and conversations with the movers and shakers shaping today’s music world.

📌 Explore Bobby’s best-selling books

🎙️ Nail that pro vocal sound: clear, upfront, and mix-ready. Learn how in Bobby’s Vocal Mixing Mini-Course

🎧 Discover more mixing and production courses

📲 Follow Bobby for more tips, insights, and updates:

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🎙️ New episodes release every Tuesday at 9AM Pacific on YouTube and your favorite podcast app.

Music. Business. Creativity. Straight from the Inner Circle.

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