Plotkin has recorded, engineered, mastered and produced albums by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan,[1] and many other artists, starting with the Floating House Band in 1972. Just before hooking up with Springsteen for the mixing of Darkness on the Edge of Town,[2] Plotkin produced the Cocaine Drain album by the Cowsills.[3]
Among Plotkin's major achievements as an engineer 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. The task 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.[4][5]
He has been credited as a producer on several Springsteen albums.
