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7 unusual facts about Bob Clearmountain


Gregory Markel

The song, with its Radiohead and Pink Floyd like properties and mixed by legendary mixer/producer Bob Clearmountain, (Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen and others), stood in profound contrast to the radio fare that year.

Jez Coad

Coad wrote and arranged parts of the album, and worked with Bob Clearmountain in the mixing.

Mickey Curry

Around the same time he was working with Hall & Oates, Curry met producer Bob Clearmountain who had just begun working with a young Bryan Adams.

Paraíso Express

It was produced by Tommy Torres, mixed by Bob Clearmountain, and was released worldwide in late November 2009.

The Compact King Crimson

# "Sleepless" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 5:24 (from "Sleepless" 12" single A-side, 1984; mixed by Bob Clearmountain)

Tissue paper

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a sound recording engineer named Bob Clearmountain was said to have hung tissue paper over the tweeter of his pair of Yamaha NS-10 speakers to tame the over-bright treble coming from it.

Yamaha NS-10

The initial product was disliked by many engineers, and it became a legend that Bob Clearmountain, then a rising star in record production, had chosen them because they were the worst speaker he could find.



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