Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast
Oct 6, 2026 · 34 min · 12 segments
Producers and recording engineers: Dan McCormick explains what it takes to record a live-to-tape album at Abbey Road with no overdubs. McCormick flew to London three weeks after his second son was…
Uh, an extremely knowledgeable engineer working with us, um, helping me and helping run the whole show.
Um, and really it was managing getting the best out of them for 48 hours that we're there.
You know, not the whole time in the studio, but making them-- And just like I was made to feel welcome, making them feel like they belong there and they're gonna execute what they need to do, and that continues all the time.
I was going to ask you if you engineered, um, but you had somebody with you too, right?
He was originally, like, when we met him, he was just fresh out of school, you know, uh, in 2022, and now he's been there for several years.
The, the first time we were there, I did mix one of the tunes there, and that was such an incredible experience.
But I was able to mix one of the instrumentals there the first time, and that was unbelievable to use their outboard gear and their board.
No. [laughs] We used Studio 2, um, which is huge, uh, and, and very, like, unchanged.
From, like, the pictures, you could see it's kind of they've built out a new room.
But Studio 2, like, it's like you see it in the documentary Get Back, but she looks exactly the same.
And, um, they, they have all sorts of different baffles and portable walls that you can kind of create isolation with, um, between the band.
But no, I think bec- mainly because we were gonna be really trying to make this feel like a live feel to it, you know?
Uh, an extremely knowledgeable engineer working with us, um, helping me and helping run the whole show.
Um, and really it was managing getting the best out of them for 48 hours that we're there.
You know, not the whole time in the studio, but making them-- And just like I was made to feel welcome, making them feel like they belong there and they're gonna execute what they need to do, and that continues all the time.
I was going to ask you if you engineered, um, but you had somebody with you too, right?
He was originally, like, when we met him, he was just fresh out of school, you know, uh, in 2022, and now he's been there for several years.
The, the first time we were there, I did mix one of the tunes there, and that was such an incredible experience.
But I was able to mix one of the instrumentals there the first time, and that was unbelievable to use their outboard gear and their board.
No. [laughs] We used Studio 2, um, which is huge, uh, and, and very, like, unchanged.
From, like, the pictures, you could see it's kind of they've built out a new room.
But Studio 2, like, it's like you see it in the documentary Get Back, but she looks exactly the same.
And, um, they, they have all sorts of different baffles and portable walls that you can kind of create isolation with, um, between the band.
But no, I think bec- mainly because we were gonna be really trying to make this feel like a live feel to it, you know?
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