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Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast

Interviews with music industry movers and shakers, tips, and news. Learn more at: https://sholink.to/bobbyowsinskidotcom.On this show, music industry guru Bobby Owsinski gives you his personal insights into the industry of music, covering industry news, reviews, analysis, and tips, as well as offering amazing interviews with prominent industry movers and shakers on every show! If you know Bobby, you know you"re in for an enlightening and engaging treat.So enjoy the show!

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45:38

Don Miggs on Why Legacy Artists Keep Running Away...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/09/22

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 relationships that landed him as a producer on a new "Let It Be" with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Mick Fleetwood, and Dolly Parton. He also unpacks why legacy artists need someone to remember what made them good. Bobby and Miggs cover Canyon Studios Nashville and the 1968 Electrodyne board ZZ Top and Aretha recorded on. Mi...

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39:45

Why Star Wars Sound Designers Ditch Expensive Field...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/09/15

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 hundreds of Star Wars projects since 1998, including serving as Audio Director on Star Wars Battlefront. In this episode, he explains why he moved from a Sound Devices 722 to a Zoom H4N, how Soundminer Radium allows him to perform sound design live to picture, and why respecting an established sonic vocabulary is essential whe...

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37:02

Why Mix Engineers Lose Momentum and Struggle to Build...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/09/08

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 sustainable mixing career requires a clear business system, not just great technical skills or the latest marketing tactic. He explains why mixers often struggle when they stop doing the activities that originally generated opportunities, and why experienced engineers need to keep adapting, maintain their relationships, and s...

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33:35

Why Chasing Perfection Could Be Your Biggest Mixing...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/09/01

Music producers and engineers navigating rapid changes in recording technology learn from veteran producer, engineer, and Grammy nominee Bruce Sugar why staying relevant means embracing new tools without sacrificing the feel and emotion that make music connect. Bruce shares how a short engineering gig with Ringo Starr became a working relationship spanning more than two decades, how artists like Ringo and Joe Walsh balance feel with perfection, and how his own workflow has evolved from cutti...

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15:54

Bobby Owsinski News And Views: What’s Changing in...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/08/25

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 business and professional audio landscape. Bobby examines major industry moves involving iZotope, Plugin Alliance, Native Instruments, Dynaudio, and DistroKid, alongside the Hollywood Bowl’s immersive sound upgrade and D’Addario’s controversy over undisclosed AI use. He also looks at the growing challenge of defining a...

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39:12

Why Aspiring Tour Managers Burn Through Artist...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/08/18

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 the job actually demands when an artist’s money, crew, and reputation are on the line. Ryan traces his path from Blackbird and Dark Horse Recording, including setting up microphones for a young Taylor Swift in 2006, to Shooter Jennings, where he admits he struggled on his first tour management run and may have cost the arti...

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33:55

Why New Platforms Can No Longer Access Spotify's...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/08/11

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 CEO of Songstats, Oskar has helped build a real-time music analytics platform that tracks streaming, playlist, chart, radio, and social media performance across major platforms. Songstats now serves 10,000 active artists and provides data to major booking agencies, distributors, management companies, and labels. Oskar explai...

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35:58

Why Genuinely New Plugins Fail When the Market Has No...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/08/04

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 want to launch a genuinely new synthesis tool will recognize their own blind spots in Evan Mezeske's story. Evan left Google after 11 years building large-scale fraud systems to create Anukari, the first commercially available 3D physics modeling synthesizer that runs in real time. He discovered that technical originality ...

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41:23

Why Blindly Trusting Your Plugin Will Eventually Ruin...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/07/28

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. Andersson is CEO of Oeksound, the creator of Soothe, the dynamic resonance suppressor that became so dominant on Spotify's Top 50, yet it's team rebuilt the algorithm from scratch. Oeksound's secret is two people in a room listening for hours until the math feels right, a standard that quietly shaped the sound of a lot of re...

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30:08

Why Your Voice Memo Proves Nothing in a Copyright...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/07/21

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 Rahman built Songproof, a dual-blockchain platform, after recognising that musicians needed an irrefutable timestamp at the exact moment inspiration strikes, not after the fact. For 99 cents per song, Songproof issues what Rahman calls a birth certificate for your music, anchored to the blockchain, so that if a collabo...

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16:34

Why Betting on Major Labels Will Kill Your Music...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/07/14

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 I break down the data showing how UMG and WMG now redirect spending toward catalog acquisitions rather than new careers. . . . . . have made AI licensing deals explicitly designed to reduce artist relationships. . . . . . and then kept the copyright settlement money those deals generated without passing any of it on to t...

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36:27

Why Mastering Too Hot Destroys Your Mix on Streaming...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/07/07

Independent musicians sometimes upload masters that are too hot, so they lose transient detail the moment streaming platforms apply loudness normalization. Mastering engineer Jeff Graves spent two and a half years measuring 214 audio fingerprints across 15 samples per genre to build a 24-stage AI mastering platform, and in this conversation he explains exactly why delivering at the target LUFS level protects the dynamics and clarity that make a song translate from earbuds to car speakers.&nb...

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36:50

How Darlene Koldenhoven Hit the Charts With No...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/06/30

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 common assumption that a major-label infrastructure is required to chart is exactly what her story dismantles, and she walks through the specific decisions that produced number-one worldwide radio chart results as an independent artist. Darlene, a veteran of over 1,000 studio sessions and 14 self-produced solo albums, separates cre...

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42:05

Why Chasing Algorithms Is Killing Your Music Career...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/06/23

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, grinding out content as servants to algorithms while the industry gaslights them with success measures that have nothing to do with real longevity. Keith Jopling spent 25 years inside the business, including time at Spotify, then interviewed 80 artists and bands to write Riding the Rollercoaster, and the creative director m...

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32:06

Erasing Leakage But Keeping The Drummer's Actual...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/06/16

On this week's episode, Bobby speaks with Dr. Bill Evans, audio scientist, producer, educator, and inventor of the Performance Restoration methodology. Bill believes that drum recording has always involved a painful tradeoff, but it doesn't have to. Most engineers accept mic bleed as an unavoidable character of a drum sound, questioning whether removing it could actually alter the drummer's true performance DNA. Bill spent seven years answering exactly that question. His concept of the Virtua...

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17:09

Why Female Artists Lose Money and Control on...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/06/09

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 Production for Women(MPW), tells us how she learned this the hard way, by paying for sessions where male producers overrode her vision, leaving her with music she never put out and studios where personal safety competed with creative freedom. Seven years building MPW taught her that the real barrier isn't technical knowledge, but confiden...

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39:54

Elliot Easton Talks The Cars, Guitars, And...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/06/02

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 looks back at The Cars' origins, from getting a label deal the old fashioned way, to connecting with famed producer Roy Thomas Baker, to recording the band's initial albums, to how his many influences shaped his solos in the studio. He then tells us about his time with Creedence Clearwater Revisited, and the broken tour with The New Ca...

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25:42

Music Industry News Today (And Where the Business Is...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/05/26

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 billion Spotify stock sell-off signals that labels have shifted from artist development engines into financial instruments that happen to license music. The failure mode is assuming the label is on your side when, as Bobby explains, artists are a line item on a balance sheet. His counterintuitive fix is to stop waitin...

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45:29

Why Character Beats Talent When Getting Hired and...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/05/19

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 Circle Podcast, Bobby talks with songwriter, producer, engineer, and educator Gary Gray about music licensing, post production, rhythmic integrity, AI, immersive audio, and the character traits that keep people working in a changing industry. Gary shares how his early life as a drummer, his music theory training, and his work al...

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36:29

Chasing Better Sound With Newer Consoles? You're...

Bobby Owsinski"s Inner Circle Podcast ·

2026/05/12

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, Director of Engineering at The Les Paul Recording Studio, and Michael Braunstein, 3rd Generation Les Paul Manager. They discuss the newly restored Les Paul Recording Studio in Los Angeles, Les Paul’s groundbreaking recording innovations, and why his original Fairchild based console still feels ahead of its time today. Tom and...

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