Bob Both was born on 1952 and is an American recording engineer and record producer, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1970s.
15 Facts About Bob Both
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Bob Both moved to Oakland, NJ at age 3 and in 5th grade moved to the neighboring town of Franklin Lakes where he would live until 1975.
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Bob Both started writing songs and making simple recordings on a home tape recorder by age 14.
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Bob Both attended Ramapo High School, continued writing songs and playing in bands.
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Bob Both received a publishing contract in 1969 at age 16 with Ren Maur Music for his song "Collapsing Corporation".
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In 1970 Bob Both started his own publishing company and record label, Twain Records to release his own music.
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Bob Both began to develop his engineering skills producing mixes for James Brown.
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In 1974 Bob Both traveled with Brown to Africa to record Browns performance on The Festival in Zaire.
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Bob Both left Brown in 1977, married Karen Cody and opened his own studio, Twain Recording, in West Milford, New Jersey.
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Bob Both did many notable recordings with Marty Munsch for Punk Rock Records including USChaos, NY Relix's, Dead Heros and others.
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Bob Both worked closely with Harry Weinger of Polygram Records catalog development on the re-issue of many of James Browns classic seventies albums on CD throughout the 1990s.
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In 1993 Bob Both began teaching audio production courses at Ramapo College of NJ.
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Bob Both recorded the drumming technique DVD Soul of the Funky Drummers with Clyde Stubblefield and Jabo Starks in 1999 for Warner Brothers and recorded the Accelerate Your Playing DVD series for The Berklee Press in 2000.
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Bob Both has written articles on recording techniques for magazines including EQ, REP, Soundtrack, Pro Music and others.
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Bob Both has received RIAA gold record awards for several of his James Brown recordings and is listed in The Marquis Who's Who in Entertainment.