Mastering engineer, recording engineer, producer, composer, graphic designer and web page designer Barry Wood is the owner and principal of The Other Room. Throughout his life he has pursued parallel interests in artistic and technical disciplines.

His music experience began with playing trombone as a child and continued through several years in the jazz ensembles at Orange Coast College. He played keyboards in a number of bands, was head engineer and co-owner a 24-track studio called Ashwood Productions, co-founded Crossroads Music Publishers Newsletter (now part of SongLink), wrote music for commercials and industrial videos, and most recently composed music for the documentary Earthlings, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. He also plays the Chapman Stick, bass (using Tony Levin's Funk Fingers), percussion and harmonica.

On the technical side, he's written software for the Orange Coast College computer graphics department, the Santa Ana College English department, Graphics applications for the Apple II for Visual Data Enterprises, business software for PDP-11's, created fonts and software embedded in a number of laser printers and terminals, and written an unattended backup/archive software package for DEC VAX/VMS systems.

In 1999 he partnered with Lou Rossi to start the company "i3 Audio" that manufactured the control room interface "Mission Control" (the red box in the middle of the photo). It was an excellent sounding device and is still being used in studios around the country.

When Ashwood Productions opened in 1989, computers were becoming integral to the recording process. Barry's software background enabled him to use the computer as tool without getting distracted by technical issues, thus enabling him to quickly master the skills necessary to blend the parallel disciplines.

Barry has performed technical editor duties for two books about mastering: Mastering Music at Home by Mitch Gallagher and The Mastering Engineers Handbook, Second Edition by Bobby Owinski.

In addition, Barry has also has contributed to articles in Keyboard, Electronic Musician, and Home Recording magazines and has lectured on the subject of audio at Orange Coast College and Fullerton Community College. Barry's other literary output includes the annual NAMM Oddities web site, where he displays innovative and under-appreciated contributions to the world of music merchandise.