Trade Secrets-Toby Scott-Humble and amazing...

Toby Scott...Man what a talented catAs a teenager admiring rock bands and the idea of music as a career, Toby wantedto be part of the action. He was able to get into several recording studiosearly on and started recording at home. Discovering that his talent wasn't in frontof the microphone, he decided the other side of the glass would work just aswell. Starting out at a small one-room studio in Hollywood, Clover, the artistsand producers on sessions found him to be an excellent engineer. Under thetutelage of mentors, Steve Copper, Tom Dowd and others, he honed his craft ofengineering and mixing.  Among theartists coming into the Clover was Bruce Springsteen, finishing the final mixon his album, Darkness On The Edge Of Town. Toby and Bruce hit it off fairlywell and 2 years later Bruce came back looking for a mixer for his next album,The River. Passing a brief audition, Toby spent months mixing to Bruce’s everyrequest.  Following that release, Bruceasked him record live concerts on that tour. In between those occasional days on the tour, he was back in the studiowith other artists, Bob Dylan and Bette Midler among them.  In 1982, Bruce was back in Clover, this timeproducing an album for Gary US Bonds and having Toby mix. Once that wasfinished, Bruce wanted to commence work on his next record with Toby so it wasoff to New York City and the Power Station recording studio where they beganwork on Born In The USA.  SubsequentlyToby moved to New York City as his homebase and another tour and liverecording.  In 1987 Bruce had him set upa studio at his house in New Jersey with enough equipment to cover everythingthey needed.  That turned into the TunnelOf Love album, which was basically Bruce playing all instruments, Tobyrecording and programming drum patterns with no other participants.  This collaboration and process continued onsuccessfully for another 20 years. During that time Toby was continuing to workwith other clients and occasionally at his home in Whitefish Montana. In 2018they parted ways and Toby worked full time at his studio, Cabin 6 Recording.There he records everything from narrations, singer/songwriters, rock andcountry bands, and occasional remotes recording the local Glacier SymphonyOrchestra. Alwayslooking for a way to pass on his experience and knowledge to those upcoming inthe industry, he speaks at colleges and other schools of audio engineering year-round.