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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 and also plays the Chapman Stick,
bass (sometimes using Tony Levin's Funk Fingers),
percussion and harmonica.
Barry was head engineer and co-owner of a 24-track studio called Ashwood Productions in the 1990s. He also co-founded
Crossroads Music Publishers Newsletter (now part of SongLink).
He has written music for commercials and industrial videos, and composed music for
the 2005 award-winning documentary Earthlings,
narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. In 2010 Barry was commissioned to compose a mictrotonal music piece for the
Hutchins Consort as part of an NEA grant.
In 2011 Barry and collaborater Kevin Weed were recognized with
a Creative Excellence Award for their submission
to the Spectrasonics Bob Moog Foundation contest.
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 is the author of "Waves Plug-Ins Workshop: Mixing by the Bundle" available through the
publisher's website
or at Amazon.com.
The book goes into detail describing all of the plug-ins that Waves offers and, chapter by chapter, applies those plug-ins to a mix.
All of the individual audio tracks and plug-in presets are avialable for download so that the reader can follow along and try everything explained in the book.
The downloadable content can be found here.
Barry has also performed technical editor duties for the following books:
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.
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