Rich Spillberg Picks Ocean Way Audio for Josh Groban Projects

	Rich Spillberg

Recording engineer, producer, musician, and composer Rich Spillberg has acquired Ocean Way Audio monitors for his private studio where he worked on a new Josh Groban project with 40 songs for a virtual promotion for Groban's new album, Harmony.

In the new album, Groban performs a collection of timeless songs along with two originals, showcasing the artist's unmistakable vocal prowess. The record includes classics such as "The Impossible Dream," "Angels," "I Can't Make You Love Me," "Celebrate Me Home," "She," and more. https://www.joshgroban.com/news/new-album-harmony-out-now-1226786

"I started working with Josh in 2008 and did a session at Avatar Studio in New York City," Spillberg recalls. "Allen Sides was on the session, and I was in the control room with him. He had placed a microphone on an acoustic guitar and all of a sudden the guitar sounded like it was sitting in my head. It was in the room, but inside me. I was overwhelmed, and then he was messing around with a Pultec, the first passive program equalizer on the market. When he adjusted it on the guitar, I suddenly understood what Pultecs were designed for. There was a tingling aspect of the high end as if someone turned a light on and it got harmonically brighter."

Spillberg's professional musical career spans over 35 years, starting as the guitarist for the Boston-based metal band Wargasm. Spillberg acted as one of the main songwriters and principal producer for the band, which released four records and made multiple tours throughout Europe and the states.

"Another time I worked with Allen, we were at Lincoln Center for a performance by Josh," Spillberg explains. "The room that they put Allen in looked like an office. It made me realize that you're not always sitting behind an SSL in a perfectly designed control room, but you still have to get the job done. It's all about focus. And it was a great learning situation where you really have to listen to the speakers. You play reference material, or what gets you used to that room so that you can actually produce something of value. There were some tracks that I had to put into Allen's ProTools session to align with other tracks. Allen said, 'Rich, I got to tell you, man, I was flipping back and forth and there's absolutely no phase whatsoever. Nice job.' Allen has been a mentor to me and getting that sort of feedback from him was very gratifying."