Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast

Sync composers: Robina Ritchie-Barker explains why finishing catalog admin early is what keeps your music ready when a brief arrives.

Robina co-founded TrackStage after missing a sync opportunity because a piano track she finished four years earlier was never cut down to the required length. TrackStage moves a final mixdown to fully tagged and cataloged in under two minutes, replacing up to 15 separate tools.

Bobby and Robina also cover AI keyword analysis, split sheet automation, and how strategic pitching through one platform can replace a stack costing anywhere from $30 to $500 a month.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinaritchie/
Website: https://robinaritchiebarker.com/
Company: https://trackstagepro.com
Resource: https://mytrackstage.com/promo/onboarding-sales2401.html
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robinaritchiebarker/
Songtradr Profile: https://www.songtradr.com/robina.ritchie-barker
Bobby Owsinski Inner Circle Podcast Episode: https://bobbyoinnercircle.com/episode-463-trackstage-founders-tidal-new-royalties-canned-and-the-importance-of-studio-furniture/

#SyncLicensing #MusicCatalog #SyncComposer #TrackStage #RobinaRitchieBarker

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Coming up...
00:00:59 - What Track Stage actually does for musicians
00:02:12 - How frustration with spreadsheets led to building Track Stage
00:09:52 - What changed with Track Stage 3.0
00:12:19 - How Track Stage solves the metadata problem
00:15:11 - How AI keyword analysis expands sync opportunities
00:18:58 - How Track Stage supports strategic pitching
00:21:05 - What brings most musicians to Track Stage for the first time
00:22:47 - Why sync is a numbers game and versioning one song 27 ways
00:26:04 - What the sync industry still gets wrong about standards
00:29:51 - Every tool you would need without Track Stage
00:33:15 - Her unexpected claim to fame as Princess Jasmine

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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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Musicians curious about AI robots: Georgia Tech's Gil Weinberg shows how technology expands what players can do without replacing the act of playing.

Weinberg built Shimon, a marimba robot with eight arms hitting 20 notes per second, and a prosthetic drum arm for amputee Jason Barnes using ultrasound sensing for finger-by-finger piano control.

His app HearMe blocks audio downloads and delivers notation and tabs instead, so players learn from the AI. 

The episode also covers the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition where musical instrument inventors show their latest ideas, and why Weinberg now calls himself a decelerationist.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/weinberggil
HearMe App: https://hearme.music
HearMe Album: https://www.gilweinberg.com/hearmealbumnew
Georgia Tech: https://music.gatech.edu/gil-weinberg
Website: https://www.gilweinberg.com
Shimon (Singer and Songwriter): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOck0kPtlfk
Robot Music - featuring Shimon, the robotic marimba player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9OUbqWHOSk

#MusicTechnology #AIMusic #MusicRobotics #ProstheticMusician #GilWeinberg

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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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The latest music business and production news.

For independent musicians: AI copyright lawsuits, royalty disputes, and changing listener habits are reshaping the music industry right now.

Bobby covers US recorded music revenue hitting $6 billion in the first half of the year, with CDs up 59%. 

He also explains what a San Jose Sharks arena crowd rejecting an AI goal song tells independent artists. . .

Universal Music Group is suing DistroKid for up to $150 million over undisclosed AI-generated tracks. . .

And a proposed mechanical royalty settlement would drop songwriter pay below the current 13.1 cents per song rate.


#MusicIndustry #IndieArtist #AIMusciCopyright #SongwriterRoyalties #BobbyOwsinski

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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. Business. Creativity. Straight from the Inner Circle.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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.

Produced by APodcastGeek: https://itl.ink/APodcastGeek