A s Tod Maitland began the sound-mixing process for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere , he knew he had to go right to the source: the Boss himself.

“We talked right from the get-go, finding out if he was using headphones during his sessions, how Bruce worked with the microphones, how he recorded the takes. Bruce was very involved; he really wanted this thing to sound exactly like what he did,” explains Maitland, a six-time Oscar nominee for best sound.

The process was the polar opposite of Maitland’s previous film, James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown , for which he never met the elusive rock legend. But tasked with helping replicate Nebraska , the most intimate album of Springsteen’s career, Maitland found that extra access vital.

A s Tod Maitland began the

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