Chuck Plotkin
{{Short description|American recording engineer and producer}}
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| birth_name = Charles Richard Plotkin
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| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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| occupation = Record producer, film producer, audio engineer, mixing engineer
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| employer = Chuck Plotkin Productions, Inc., Clover Recorders
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Charles Richard Plotkin (born September 8, 1942) is an American record producer, film producer, audio engineer and mixing engineer, best known for his work with Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.
Recording engineer
Plotkin has recorded, engineered, mastered and produced albums by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan,{{cite web |last1=Carlin |first1=Peter Ames |author-link1=Peter Ames Carlin |title=Shot of Dylan: Chuck Plotkin recalls producing "Shot of Love" - Part One {{!}} Peter Ames Carlin |url=https://www.peteramescarlin.com/node/185 |access-date=18 November 2024 |date=23 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723233901/https://www.peteramescarlin.com/node/185 |archive-date=2011-07-23 }} and many other artists, starting with the Floating House Band in 1972. Just before hooking up with Springsteen for the mixing of Darkness on the Edge of Town,{{cite magazine |last1=Epstein |first1=Dan |title=Bruce Springsteen's 'Darkness on the Edge of Town': Little-Known Facts |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/bruce-springsteens-darkness-on-the-edge-of-town-10-things-you-didnt-know-630596/ |access-date=18 November 2024 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=2 June 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230602192757/https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/bruce-springsteens-darkness-on-the-edge-of-town-10-things-you-didnt-know-630596/ |archive-date=2 June 2023}} Plotkin produced the Cocaine Drain album by the Cowsills.{{cite web |title=The Cowsills Web Page: Music |url=https://cowsill.com/music.html |website=cowsill.com |access-date=18 November 2024}}
Among Plotkin's major achievements as an engineer was the mastering of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album. Springsteen recorded the album as a set of demonstration tapes on an inexpensive home cassette recorder. The task of turning the raw, unprocessed cassette tape (which had spent weeks in Springsteen's pants pocket) into a professional-sounding vinyl LP was a daunting one, and a major technical accomplishment.{{cite news |last1=Rowley |first1=Scott |title=How Bruce Springsteen recorded his most important album in his bedroom with just a Gibson J-200 and a TEAC 144 |url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/recording-week-2023-how-bruce-springsteen-recorded-his-most-important-album |access-date=18 November 2024 |work=MusicRadar |date=31 October 2023}}{{cite book |last1=Zanes |first1=Warren |title=Deliver me from nowhere: the making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska |date=2023 |publisher=Crown |location=New York |isbn=9780593237410 |edition=First |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZP1-EAAAQBAJ |access-date=18 November 2024}}
He has been credited as a producer on several Springsteen albums.
Film and record producer
Plotkin was credited as producer for the 1995 movie Mirage, and produced the soundtrack albums for several films including Dead Man Walking, Vietnam, Long Time Coming, Philadelphia, and Jerry Maguire.
Other appearances
Plotkin was also featured in the 1996 documentary Blood Brothers: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, which documented an E Street Band recording session the preceding year.
References
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External links
- {{IMDB name|0687424}}
- [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=chuck-plotkin-mn0000124821#credits|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic credits info]
- [https://www.matttillotson.co/p/deliver-me-from-nowhereand-to-nowhere Blog on the making of] Nebraska
- [https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-bob-dylan-song-he-claimed-came-from-somewhere-else/ Chuck Plotkin turns himself into a microphone stand] to record Bob Dylan's Every Grain of Sand
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Category:American record producers
Category:American audio engineers
Category:American film producers
Category:Engineers from Los Angeles
Category:Record producers from Los Angeles
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