BRENT CLABAUGH

Brent Clabaugh works where the studio meets the lab. A recording engineer, inventor, and scientist based in Nebraska, he treats audio production as a system to be understood and refined — pairing a deep ear for sound with the rigor of scientific method and the discipline of thoughtful systems design.

He records out of a studio he built and runs himself: an analog, tape-machine-based room where his scientist's instinct for research and method development meets hands-on engineering. It's a deliberate choice — capturing sound the way the craft demands, with tools and spaces that serve the creative work rather than complicate it.

Ask him about gear and the answer comes quick — reverbs, reverbs, reverbs.