WCA #397 with Bryan Cook - Recording as An Exit Strategy, Chillin with Tom Dowd, Landing at A&M Studios, and Doing Non-Music Things
My guest is Grammy Nominated Mixing engineer Bryan Cook who has worked with U2, One Republic, Jeff Goldblum, and Switchfoot.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Early life in Philly
- Studios - A thing that people did
- Love for Jazz
- Saxophone
- Recording as an exit strategy
- Bluejay Internship
- Chillin with Tom Dowd
- Ryan Hewitt
- Deciding on a move to LA
- Landing at A&M Studios
- Moving up in the industry
- Professionalism - Egos working together
- Moving up the engineering ladder
- Sensing upcoming burnout
- Michael Andrews
- Nobody likes the bad vibe guy
- Walk Hard
- Transitioning to flying solo
- One Republic
- How artists find an engineer
- U2 project
- Push them into the pool
- Mixing from home
- How to do pricing?
- Handling disappointment
- Ease with setup
- Bounce Factory
- Doing non-music things
Matt's Rant: Audio File Management
Links and Show Notes
Credits
- Guest: Bryan Cook
- Host: Matt Boudreau
- Engineer: Matt Boudreau
- Producer: Matt Boudreau
- Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau
- WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell
- Announcer: Chuck Smith
