RSR334 - Bob Clearmountain - Answers All Your Mixing Questions

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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[@teslatravels4197]

Fantastic. Great that you got Bob on the Podcast. Legend.

[@lijjly]

Thanks! I feel honored to have him on the show :-)

[@Beatledave7]

Thank you for this wonderful interview!

[@lijjly]

Youre welcome! Thanks for listening

[@dannydaniel8975]

Atmosphere? Hell, I'm still having trouble with the least most..

[@sebastiancuthbertmusic]

Yes, I got my Black Beauty Snaredrum
last Year! Woop Woop

[@RecordingStudioRockstars]

Nice! I need to get one still :-)

[@sebastiancuthbertmusic]

@@RecordingStudioRockstars It really is a great Snaredrum! So versatile! And thanx for the great interview with Bob!

[@thoughtfulbravado]

Bob is the man!

[@RecordingStudioRockstars]

Thanks for listening!

[@ReinerDamisch]

Can Izotope also filter out message beeps? It seems not.

[@RecordingStudioRockstars]

I would say yes though I have not tried it yet. And it would probably require manually doing it in RX. I have definitely removed click track bleed from a lead vocal. Also foot shuffles from a choral recording. It’s amazing!