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Bob Clearmountain: Making the hard stuff look easy

Alan di Perna, Musician, July 1990

BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN exudes a calm, deliberate air as he moves around the cluttered interior of a recording truck parked outside L.A.'s Universal Amphitheatre. Politely negotiating a path through clusters of technicians and hangers-on, he trims a compressor setting here, adjusts a mike preamp there.

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