Chuck Plotkin

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Chuck Plotkin has had an existing career as a recording engineer and producer.

1 Recording Engineer
2 Film and Record Producer
3 Other Appearances
4 External links

[edit] Recording Engineer

He is best known for his work with Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, but he has recorded, engineered, mastered and produced albums by many other artists, starting with The Floating House Band in 1972.

Among Plotkin's major achievements as an engineer, according to Springsteen official biographer Dave Marsh, 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. According to Marsh, the process 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.

[edit] Film and Record Producer

Plotkin was credited as producer for the 1995 movie Mirage [1] and produced the soundtrack albums for several films including Dead Men Walking, Vietnam: Long Time Coming, Philadelphia, and Jerry Maguire.

[edit] Other Appearances

Plotkin was also featured in the 1995 documentary Blood Brothers: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (2000), which documented an unmemorable E-Street Band recording session five years after it happened.