Bob Webb, Engineer/Producer, Mountainview Recording
Bob has recorded, produced, and co-produced creative music projects, poetry and spoken word, radio ads, and public radio documentaries since 2000. After moving to northeast Oregon in 2012, he created a home studio where he recorded CDs for artists including Caleb Samples, Homemade Jam, Elwood, Robert Wilson, and his own duo with Heidi Muller. He has done on-location recordings for pianist Gail Swart and bassoonist Mark Eubanks, plus documentation of numerous live events, from music to lectures. Bob has mixed and mastered music recordings for Carolyn Lochert, Jezebel’s Mother, Ted Hays, Ron Sowell, and Dave Haas. He has also taught audio and video classes for young people through the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture.
Bob made his name in Charleston, WV since the mid-70’s as a musician playing electric cello, mandolin, electric dulcimer, and guitar in the band Stark Raven that became the house band for the syndicated NPR radio show, Mountain Stage. Bob also backed up touring songwriter Kate Long and dulcimer artist Dave Haas. Turning his musical ear toward recording, he started his own studio in Charleston in 2000, where he recorded many CD projects for artists like John Lilly, Ron Sowell, Ryan Kennedy, Doug Imbrogno/Garagecow, Jon Wikstrom, the Contrarians, Dave Haas, Soup Kitchen/Bare Bones, Walter Craft, Appalachian Celtic Consort, Comparsa, Voodoo Katz, Mark Davis, Gail Finnie, and Heidi Muller. He also recorded projects for music genres from gospel to rap. Bob produced the Hayslett Collection CD presenting music played on violins, cellos and other instruments made by 90-year-old West Virginia luthier Harold Hayslett. He produced the public radio documentary, Passing It On: The Rebirth of Old-time Music in Pocahontas County, engineered the radio series, In Their Own Country, and edited and mixed several other public radio documentaries for Allegheny Mountain Radio in West Virginia. Bob recorded, mixed and/or mastered CDs for storytellers Bil Lepp and Susanna Holstein, and he recorded the audio CD of the poetry book Kettle Bottom, by Diane Gilliam Fisher. Bob and his partner Heidi also created soundtrack music for the WV film documentary, Legacy of the Land. Along the way, Bob recorded business radio advertisements and demo CDs for up-and-coming songwriters.
Bob also enjoys recording oral histories and restoring old recordings. He is able to digitally transcribe audio and video projects, convert old reel-to-reel tapes, 78 rpm records, or cassettes to CD, and even has a wire recorder to play and transcribe recordings made back in the 1940’s. He has saved and enhanced old recordings for families and organizations, including the Alvin M. and Betty Josephy Library of Western History and Culture.
Additional services include music lessons for children and adults, stringed instrument repair, musical performance and studio backup, and short-run duplication of CDs and DVDs. Please call Bob at 541-432-0156 for more information.