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

• Bryan's Site
• Download 15 Tips to Help you Survive as an Audio Pro

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