Nathan E Adam
Credits

Selected work

Twenty-five years of production, engineering, and publishing, nearly all of it on technology that had just shown up and that nobody had worked out yet.

  • 142 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
    Post producer / editor · RFD Network
    Episodes 1 through 142, 2009–2015. Broadcast in thirteen countries to a weekly audience of roughly 500,000. Guests cut over that run included Collin Raye, Debbie Boone, Neal McCoy, the Grascals, Jim Stafford, Larry Gatlin, Moe Bandy, Dusty Rogers Jr., Carrie Tillis, Les Brown Jr. and Rhonda Vincent.
  • Nathan Adam interviewed on MSNBC's Tonight with Deborah Norville, segment titled Singing or Synching?
    Producer / editor · MSNBC
    Brought on as the studio expert for a piece on pitch correction, "Singing or Synching?" A YouTube upload of the segments passed 820,000 views before it came down.

Music & audio engineering

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

Nathan Adam with Vince Gill at a rehearsal space
With Vince Gill.
Nathan Adam at the Capitol Studios mastering rooms sign in Los Angeles
Capitol Studios, Los Angeles.
  • Playbill artwork for Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan
    Recorded, edited and mixed the orchestral score · 2009
    Staged at the Mansion Theater in Branson, Missouri, and tracked at the Mansion Studios. Watch a performance.
  • Nathan Adam at a large mixing console with a band tracking in the live room beyond the glass
    Editing, pocketing and pitch correction
    Nashville sessions, 2000s
    The work that became the subject of the first book.
Nathan Adam operating a phone rig on a monopod while a guitarist plays behind him
Still behind the camera, on considerably smaller gear than it used to take.
Nathan Adam adjusting a camera rig while a keyboard player performs in the background
Same session. The whole shoot fits in one hand now.

Instructional video

  • Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar boxed course with DVDs and lesson book
    Producer, videographer and editor · Legacy Learning Systems · 2005–06
    Ten discs, fourteen hours, shot and edited start to finish. Reached more than 100,000 guitar students worldwide, and won the Acoustic Guitar Player's Choice Gold Award and a Telly Award for educational video production. Legacy Learning Systems submitted it and holds the award. Still sold today.
  • The Multi-Platinum.com course library home page
    Co-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.
  • A virtual reality social space showing photo panels and an avatar of Nathan Adam
    Producer
    Broadcasting from inside a headset, as an avatar, to an audience that wasn't in the room.

Books

Curriculum

Teaching

  • 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
    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. That last one included camps at 34 Music Square East, home of the historic Columbia Studio A and the Quonset Hut.
Free · about two minutes

Wondering which half of your own work is at risk?

Ten questions about how you actually get paid, and my honest read on what's exposed and what isn't. No score, because a score would be a number I made up.