RSR334 - Bob Clearmountain - Answers All Your Mixing Questions
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2022
⏱️ 143 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Bob Clearmountain, an American recording engineer, mixer and record producer. He has worked with many prominent names in music including Bruce Springsteen (mixing Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. and 25 other projects), The Rolling Stones including Tattoo You and Voodoo Lounge amongst over 20 album, movie & concert video projects, Bryan Adams (producing and/or mixing nearly all of his albums since 1983), Robbie Williams, Huey Lewis & The News, Toto, Bon Jovi (These Days, Crush, Bounce), Simple Minds, The Pretenders, The Who, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, INXS and hundreds of other artists. He is also married to Apogee Electronics CEO, Betty Bennett and has created a plugin for mixing called Spaces.
With multiple Platinum LPs, Grammy Awards, Emmy's and even a Les Paul Award, Bob continues to be one of the world's premier mixers working from his studio in Los Angeles Mix This! sharing his knowledge in places like Mix With The Masters and right here on Recording Studio Rockstars.
I'm excited to have Bob joining us on the show today, and have gathered a bunch of great questions for Bob from you Rockstars in our Facebook group. If you want to join the group follow the link in the show notes. You will also find a great discography playlist of Bob's work.
Thanks so much to Brian Murphree for connecting us and Kelle Musgrave at Linear Management for your help.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, rock stars, you're in for a real treat on this interview with Bob Clear Mountain. |
| 0:06.0 | He's made an incredible number of records, including working with the Rolling Stones. |
| 0:10.5 | And we got a chance to talk about both Tattoo You and Voodoo Lounge on this interview. |
| 0:16.0 | And shortly after the interview, though, sadly, we lost the great Charlie Watts playing drums for the Rolling Stones. |
| 0:22.4 | So this interview is dedicated to Charlie Watts. |
| 0:25.4 | Thanks for keeping the heartbeat of rock and roll going. |
| 0:27.7 | This episode of recording studio rock stars is brought to you by OWC, Spectra 1964, |
| 0:34.6 | Sampley, Carl Tats design, and isotope. |
| 0:38.1 | In fact, you're hearing my voice right now through isotope, RX, and Ozone, |
| 0:42.3 | all recorded safely onto an OWC SSD. |
| 0:46.2 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:49.1 | Pretty standards that you do a normal mix, you do a vocal up, half TV, a vocal down half TV, a backing |
| 0:55.8 | track, which is no lead vocal but with backing vocals, and then an instrumental mix, no vocals, |
| 1:02.2 | and then an a cappella, which is just vocals without any music. And sometimes it's a separate |
| 1:06.9 | lead vocal and separate backing vocals. Of course, now there's also the Atmos |
| 1:11.5 | mix that goes along with it. |
| 1:23.3 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rock Stars. I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
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