Bobby Owsinski’s visit to the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s music students was one that they will never forget. His vast experience and expertise in so many facets of the music industry made him the perfect guest and clinician for our students. Whether interacting with our students in classes, working in the studio with our musicians and engineers, or just talking one-on-one with our aspiring song-writers, Bobby’s rich insights and perspectives were extremely valuable. Additionally, his kind nature and the selflessness he demonstrated while working with our students underscored his great skill as a master teacher. I can’t overstate the positive impact that his visit had on our program. 
Scott L Phillips, PhD
Director, Music Technology Program
University of Alabama at Birmingham  

“Bobby Owsinski recently visited MTSU’s Department of Recording Industry to give outstanding workshops to our students. His experience and cutting edge knowledge of music production and internet marketing was evident in his presentations. Our students walked away with much more knowledge and skill. Bobby’s contributions to education are wonderful!”
Dr. Joseph Akins
Associate Professor of Recording Industry
Middle Tennessee State University

“Thank you again for speaking to our students yesterday. What an amazing experience for our students, and our staff and myself learned a great deal also! Thank you again, and hope to see you again soon here in Nashville!”
Lynn Dorton – Campus Director
SAE Institute – Nashville

“I find Bobby’s blog to be a great source for fundamentals about recording, mixing, drum miking, pretty much all the details that go into becoming a competent engineer. His work reminds me of the old Mix Magazine articles that were my college course in recording.”
Richard Baron
Sonora Recorders

First of all I want to thank you for writing such great blogs. I’ve been reading a lot of them and also showing them to several of my clients. Great work!

This blog was exactly what I was looking for. And now you break down a Cure song with a slightly untraditional song arrangement and tons of guitars that somehow mesh. Thanks for the great work, it is slowly helping me get a handle on the process conventionally and unconventionally.

Thanks for doing this blog. REALLY appreciate it. My wife and kids thank you too because I’m in such a good mood lately.

Bobby, you are a king. I learn more useful information from your blog that from anything else I read! Thanks.

“I don’t have many blogs bookmarked, but this one makes the cut! Lot’s of useful information…I’m glad you do this Bobby!”

“Your blog is a source of up to date information on so many things Pro Audio. Awesome. Great work Bobby! Thanks a lot!”

 As a veteran recording artist from the golden age of the business, I was enthralled, horrified and enlightened with the insights and logical practicality in this book. Owsinski has distilled an entirely new business plan for success in the record business that stands virtually every convention on its head as he outlines the step-by-step efforts both new and established artists must now take to survive and flourish.
Ainsley Hanes

I own close to a dozen books on the topic of the changing landscape of music and how musicians of the new era might fit in; and while some of these books were helpful, Music 3.0 was by far the best and most useful of them all.

This book is a definite MUST READ! It teaches the reader how to successfully work in the highly technological field of the music industry.

We were blown away by Bobby Owinski’s book, Music 3.0 (see review here), a must-read for any musician trying to find commercial success in the music industry.
musicplayers.com

The Music Producer’s Handbook is a completely different animal, a book filled with wisdom and guidance sure to improve anyone’s skill assuming the role of producer on a music recording.
musicplayers.com

There have been many books on this subject before, but most were written at a time when the recording industry barely resembled the one within which a producer has to operate today. The Music Producer’s Handbook, on the other hand, is bang up to date, and is thus realistic about the current state of the industry.
Sound On Sound Magazine

“The Recording Engineer’s Handbook, 2nd Edition is certainly worth the price of admission, especially now that an Amazon Kindle edition is available for under $20. Bobby Owsinski does a respectable job of covering the many facets of the recording practice and an outstanding job of detailing the many different microphones and their suggested placement for capturing a multitude of diverse instruments.”
Future Music

“I could have saved a lot of money personally over the past 30 years if I had had this Handbook to work from. Trial and error can get expensive with guitars. For anyone in the market, yet not exactly certain what they ultimately want, The Ultimate Guitar Tone Handbook is an invaluable resource.”
Greg Barbrick
BlogCritic

The Ultimate Guitar Tone Handbook is another GREAT book. A MUST HAVE on the bookshelf for ALL engineers and guitar players, no matter what your experience level. WELL DONE Bobby.

All in all The Ultimate Guitar Tone Handbook perfectly lives up to its subtitle: A Definitive Guide To Creating And Recording Great Guitar Sounds. I have never come across anything as exhaustive, yet so plainly written on the topic. For those interested in finding their personal perfect sound on guitar, this is an invaluable set of pointers.
blogcritics.org

The Touring Musician’s Handbook” is on the must-read list for all aspiring or potential touring performers.

“Just bought the book (Mixing Engineer’s Handbook 3rd edition) and as much as I’ve learned about mixing & engineering (which is never enough) I find this book is a great one-stop shop to remind myself of all the little details to keep track of in a mix. The interviews are fantastic and it’s just a must-have for any engineer!”

The Who – The Kids Are Alright
The Who – Quadraphenia
Amon Tobin – Splinter Cell 2
The Ramones – Around The World
The Ramones – World Tour
The Ramones – Have A Nice Day
Chicago – Live By Request
Neil Young – Berlin
Willie Nelson – The Willie Nelson Special
Jimi Hendrix – Rainbow Bridge
Jimi Hendrix – The Making of Electric Ladyland
Iron Maiden – Raw
Christopher Cross – A Night With Christopher Cross
John Pizzerelli – At The Montreal Jazz Festival
Weird Al Yankovic – HBO Special
The Cars – Live
Yanni – Live At The Acropolis
Pat Benetar – HBO Special
Eddie Money – Shakin’ With The Money Manâ
PBS – 50 Years Of Do Wop
The Blues Brothers – The Best Of The Blues Brothers
Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town
Pharcyde – Cydeways
The Turtles – Happy Together
Dokken – Devolution
Dead Kennedys – Live

The Kinks – Muswell Hillbilly
Pantera – Cowboys From Hell
Pantera – Watch It Go
Vladimer Horowitz – Horowitz In Moscow
George Winston – Seasons
Dokken – MTV Unplugged
Barry Manilow – A Night With Barry
ELO – All Access
Elvis – Elvis In Hollywood
Todd Rundgren – Tortured Artist
Todd Rundgren – Videosyncracy
Todd Rundgren – I Saw The Light
Utopia – Live At The Royal Oaks
Utopia – Live In Japan
Utopia – Retrospective
Silverchair – Across The Night
The Chieftains – An Irish Evening
Tammy Wynette – Live
The Monkees – 59 Episode Box Set
John Coltrane PBS Jazz Casual
Dizzy Gillespie PBS Jazz Casual
Count Basie PBS Jazz Casual
Woody Herman Jazz Casual
Carmen McRae Jazz Casual
Mel Torme Jazz Casual
Jimmy Rushing Jazz Casual

Adrianna Marie and Her Groovecutters – Double Crossing Blues (plus mixing) Nominee for Blues Music Awards Best New Artist/#2 Billboard Blues Chart

SNEW – Snew You (plus mixing)

SNEW – We Do What We Want

SNEW – What’s It To Ya

SNEW – You’ve Got Some Nerve

Gerry Groom – Once In A Blue Moon (plus mixing)

Mick Taylor – Live At The 14 Below (plus mixing)

Mick Talylor – Coastin’ Hom (plus mixing)

Amon Tobin – Splinter Cell 2 (plus mixing)

Joe Houston - The Blues And Nothin’ Else (plus mixing)

Joe Houston – Sat Right Down And Cried (plus mixing)

The Young Dubliners – The Young Dubliners

4 By Funk –  Funked Up (plus mixing)

The Balding Brothers – I Like The Big Girls (plus mixing)

Westbourne – Zero Point One (plus mixing)

The Defrozterz – The Defrozterz (plus mixing)

Unsung – Unsung (plus mixing)

Bobby Caldwell Band – Walk Right Back

Beto Levato – The Color Of Blood (plus mixing)

Carrera – You’re The Lucky One (plus mixing)

Burbank, CA. March 26, 2019

When Bobby Owsinski first created his Inner Circle Podcast 5 years ago, he had zero expectations. I was amazed when we made it to 50 shows, but listeners really loved it and here we are more than 250 episodes later, he stated. Indeed, people connected with music and audio everywhere have liked it enough to propel the Podcast into the iTunes Top 200 with a 5 star rating.

Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle Podcast features a combination of the latest music industry and production news along with insightful interviews with movers and shakers from throughout the music world. That encompasses musicians, engineers, producers, composers, music business and technology execs, and gear manufacturers who all tell how they got their start and reveal the inside scoop on what they do and how they do it.

Among Bobby’s past guests include musicians like Blue Oyster Cult’s Buck Dharma and top session guitarist Tim Pierce; hit-maker engineers Al Schmitt, Ed Cherney, Richard Chycki, and Andrew Scheps; producers Michael Beinhorn, Stonebridge and Robert Margouleff; composers Richard Gibbs, Rich Tozzoli and Brian Schmidt; the Recording Academy’s Washington lobbyist Daryl Friedman and former EMI top exec Rupert Perry; gear manufacturers EveAnna Manley from Manley Labs and Dusty Wakeman from Mojave Audio, and many more.

Bobby’s 5th anniversary episode features a tribute to the genius of the late Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick in a conversation with his long-time assistant and best friend Bill Smith. In the episode we learn a lot about Geoff the engineer and the man that even those who knew him might not be aware of, as well as an inside look at some of his recording and mixing techniques from someone who was by his side for many projects.

Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle Podcast can be found at BobbyOInnerCircle.com or either on iTunes, Stitcher, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and now RadioPublic. 

For information about being a guest on Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle Podcast, contact:

Bobby Owsinski –bobby@bobbyowsinski.com