Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast

Matt O'Neil REVEALS Exactly How to Spot Music's Next Hollywood | Ep. 650

Producer-engineers learn how Matt O'Neil bet on Houston early and built 42 plugins with AI instead of waiting on costly developers. Matt explains how he spotted Hou

Tamar Kaprelian REVEALS Exactly How to Survive Getting Dropped | Ep. 649

Artists and music industry newcomers: how Tamar Kaprelian got dropped by Clive Davis, burned out at 24, and built the support she never had. She refused a Lindsay Lohan

Robina Ritchie-Barker REVEALS Exactly How to Never Miss a Sync | Ep. 648

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

Gil Weinberg UNCOVERS What AI Could Really Mean for Musicians | Ep. 647

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

The AI Copyright Battle Every Independent Artist Needs to Understand | Ep. 646

The latest music business and production news. For independent musicians: AI copyright lawsuits, royalty disputes, and changing listener habits are reshaping the music i

Dan McCormick REVEALS Exactly How to Get Better Performances | Ep. 645

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 e

Wilson Harwood REVEALS Exactly How to Build a Truly Soundproof Studio | Ep. 644

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

Don Miggs on Why Legacy Artists Keep Running Away From Their Greatest Work | Ep. 643

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

Why Star Wars Sound Designers Ditch Expensive Field Recorders ft. Nick Peck | Ep. 642

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 h

Why Mix Engineers Lose Momentum and Struggle to Build It Back ft. Michael Morgan | Ep. 641

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

Why Chasing Perfection Could Be Your Biggest Mixing Mistake ft. Bruce Sugar | Ep. 640

Music producers and engineers navigating rapid changes in recording technology learn from veteran producer, engineer, and Grammy nominee Bruce Sugar why staying relevant

Bobby Owsinski News And Views: What’s Changing in Music | Ep. 639

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

Why Aspiring Tour Managers Burn Through Artist Budgets So Fast ft. Ryan Goldbacher | Ep. 638

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

Why New Platforms Can No Longer Access Spotify's Artist Data ft. Oskar Eichler | Ep. 637

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

Why Genuinely New Plugins Fail When the Market Has No Category ft. Evan Mezeske | Ep. 636

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

Why Blindly Trusting Your Plugin Will Eventually Ruin the Mix ft. Hannes Andersson | Ep. 635

Audio plugin developers who assume machine learning is the right tool will find the process used by Hannes Andersson and the team at Oeksound genuinely surprising. Ander

Why Your Voice Memo Proves Nothing in a Copyright Dispute ft. Nadim Rahman | Ep. 634

Song copyright protection for musicians who record ideas with a voice memo at 3am proves nothing in a dispute. That original moment completely unverifiable.   Nadim Rahm

Why Betting on Major Labels Will Kill Your Music Career | Ep. 633

Music industry professionals still betting on major labels to develop artists should know the system has structurally exited that business.  On this week's episode

Why Mastering Too Hot Destroys Your Mix on Streaming Platforms ft. Jeff Graves | Ep. 632

Independent musicians sometimes upload masters that are too hot, so they lose transient detail the moment streaming platforms apply loudness normalization. Mastering eng

How Darlene Koldenhoven Hit the Charts With No Manager or Label | Ep. 631

On this week's episode, session vocalist Darlene Koldenhoven tells us how her music hit #4 on the Billboard classical crossover chart with no manager or label. The