Nathan E Adam
Credits

Selected work

Twenty-five years of production, engineering, and publishing on emerging technologies and media.

  • 140+ episodes post-produced
  • 13 countries broadcast
  • 2 books, internationally distributed
  • 50+ courses produced
  • 6,000+ students taught
Nathan Adam sitting at a console with a group of students in a recording studio
A session room, a console, and people who didn't know how to use it yet. Most of the work has looked like this.

Television

  • Rhonda Vincent & The Rage performing on Presleys' Country Jubilee
    Presleys' Country Jubilee
    Post producer / editor · RFD Network
    More than 140 episodes. Broadcast in thirteen countries to a weekly audience of roughly 500,000.
  • Nathan Adam interviewed on MSNBC's Tonight with Deborah Norville, segment titled Singing or Synching?
    Tonight with Deborah Norville
    Producer / editor · MSNBC
    Segments with more than 820,000 views on YouTube. Brought on as the studio expert for a piece on pitch correction — "Singing or Synching?"

Music & audio engineering

Vince Gill · Earl Scruggs · The Oak Ridge Boys · Paul Franklin · Bill Medley · Collin Raye

  • Playbill artwork for Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan
    Peter Pan, starring Cathy Rigby
    Recorded and mixed the music and orchestra
    Staged at the Mansion Theater in Branson, Missouri. Watch a performance.
  • Editing, pocketing and pitch correction
    Nashville sessions, 2000s
    The work that became the subject of the first book.

Instructional video

  • Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar boxed course with DVDs and lesson book
    Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar
    Producer, videographer and editor · Legacy Learning Systems
    Reached more than 100,000 guitar students worldwide. Winner of the Acoustic Guitar Player's Choice Gold Award. The series also won a Telly Award for Legacy Learning Systems.
  • The Multi-Platinum.com course library home page
    Multi-Platinum.com
    Founder · 50+ courses produced
    One of the first online training companies in music production. Courses on recording, editing, and mixing, taught by working Nashville engineers.
  • Live from Virtual Reality
    Producer

Books

  • Multi-Platinum Pro Tools by Nathan Adam and Brady Barnett, Focal Press
    Multi-Platinum Pro Tools: Advanced Editing, Pocketing and Autotuning Techniques
    With Brady Barnett · Focal Press, 2006 · ISBN 978-0-240-52023-0
    Distributed internationally. Shipped with a DVD containing a real Pro Tools session to work along with.
  • Pro Tools 9: The Mixer's Toolkit by Nathan Adam and Kevin Ward, Focal Press
    Pro Tools 9: The Mixer's Toolkit
    With Kevin Ward · Focal Press, 2011 · ISBN 978-0-240-81871-9
  • Exploring the Audio Engineering Technology Faculty Teaching Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Doctoral dissertation · Tennessee State University, 2022
  • AES Journal Conference Summary
    Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 2016

Curriculum

  • GRAMMY Career Pathways course dashboard showing Audio & Mixing, Video Production and Electronic Music Production tracks
    The Recording Academy Presents: GRAMMY Career Pathways
    GRAMMY Foundation · 2018 · online curriculum
    Three tracks — audio and mixing, video production, and electronic music production — built for students who couldn't get to a camp in person.
  • GRAMMY Camp: Weekends
    GRAMMY Foundation · 2016 · online curriculum
  • LANDR Courses page for Getting Started with Pro Tools with Nathan Adam and Anthony Falcone
    Getting Started with Pro Tools
    With Anthony Falcone · LANDR Courses

Teaching

  • Belmont University
    Associate Professor of Media Production · Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business
    Cinema, television and media production. More than 6,000 students.
  • A full GRAMMY Camp Nashville class photographed together in a Belmont studio
    GRAMMY Camp
    Audio engineering faculty · 50+ camps since 2009
    The GRAMMY Museum's program for high school students. Los Angeles at USC since 2009, New York at the Converse Rubber Tracks studios 2011–2018, and Nashville at Belmont 2012–2018 — including camps at 34 Music Square East, home of historic Columbia Studio A and the Quonset Hut.
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