Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast

Why Star Wars Sound Designers Ditch Expensive Field Recorders ft. Nick Peck | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle 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 | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle 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 | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle 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 | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle 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 | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle 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 | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle 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 | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle 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 | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle 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 | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle 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 | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle 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 | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle 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 | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle 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

Why Chasing Algorithms Is Killing Your Music Career ft. Keith Jopling | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 630

Music career longevity is what separates artists who last from those who burn out chasing the wrong metrics. Too many aspiring musicians hand control to social platforms

Erasing Leakage But Keeping The Drummer's Actual Performance DNA ft. Dr. Bill Evans | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 629

On this week's episode, Bobby speaks with Dr. Bill Evans, audio scientist, producer, educator, and inventor of the Performance Restoration methodology. Bill believe

Why Female Artists Lose Money and Control on Unreleased Songs | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 628

Female artists who hire producers risk losing creative control before a single song is released. On this week's podcast episode, Xylo Aria, founder of Music Product

Elliot Easton Talks The Cars, Guitars, And Interesting Tours | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 627

On this week's episode, Elliot Easton, guitarist for The Cars and Creedence Clearwater Revisited, takes us through his journey with the band and beyond. Easton look

Music Industry News Today (And Where the Business Is Actually Heading) | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 626

Music business professionals who still see major labels as career partners need to hear what Bobby Owsinski lays out plainly: Universal Music Group's pursuit of a $3

Why Character Beats Talent When Getting Hired and Re-Hired Daily | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 625

What matters more in the music business, mastering every plugin, or becoming the kind of person people want to hire again? On this episode of Bobby Owsinski's Inner

Chasing Better Sound With Newer Consoles? You're Upgrading Wrong | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 624

What can a 1956 recording console teach us about the future of music production? In this episode of Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle Podcast, Bobby talks with Tom Camuso, D

Why Dead Digital Drums Force Engineers Back to Analog Warmth | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 623

What makes a compressor become one of the most trusted pieces of gear in modern recording studios? In this episode of Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast, Bobby ta