Moving across the street to the Hit Factory and working with a Who's Who of rock and roll artists and engineers, Bruce's focus then was primarily on the technical side of the music industry. It was there that Bruce had his first exposure to "Surround Sound" while doing the technical set ups for the music mixes on Paul Simons "One Trick Pony" motion picture.

In 1980, Bruce came to Los Angeles for a weekend visit and never went back. Chris Stone from the Record Plant, who knew him from the East Coast, took pity on him and offered him a job.

For close to a decade, being part of a talented team that made Record Plant a world- renowned recording studio, Bruce mastered new audio disciplines. Everything from recording "one nighters" and tours across America in The Record Plant's recording trucks, to the complete rebuilding of the scoring "Stage M" at Paramount Pictures.

It was there that Bruce learned about film projection, television and motion picture scoring, ADR and Foley techniques, along with control room and loudspeaker design. "Stage M" gave sound to many award winning features like "Star Trek", "Out of Africa", "Back to the Future" and "Lady Hawke" to name a few.

While the Record Plant was changing hands, Bruce also took this transitional period to hone his sound skills and developed a line of loud speakers for which he received a TEC Award nomination for Loudspeaker Design. His speakers are featured in installs by Dolby Labs, Solid State Logic in England and Sony Pictures Scoring Stage. Bruce also took this opportunity to travel the world while working on several televised award shows and variety specials.

Moving from recording studios to the sound stage, Bruce joined Sony/Culver Studios. While at Sony, Bruce designed and developed several innovative modular sound and video recording packages for use in both sitcom and motion picture location work.

Capitol Studios lured Bruce away from Sony/Culver Studios in the mid 90's, where he dusted off his rock and roll sneakers and was thrown back into the music recording industry. During Bruce's 5-year tenure at Capitol Studios he redesigned and rebuilt the CD Mastering Suites, the vintage Studio "B" control room, streamlined and updated the audio paths of all 12 studios, and refurbished the legendary live echo chambers.

Under Bruce's leadership, for the first time in the famed studio's history, Capitol Studios was nominated for the TEC Award for recording studios. He also sat on the DVD Audio WG4 for EMI Music.

By merging his extensive knowledge of sound and music, motion picture and television scoring and studio design expertise, Bruce is able to utilize his diverse engineering background to its entirety in Cups 'n Strings. It is here that he has further honed his skills in mixing and mastering, perfected his modes of analog archival and restoration, and established his studio as a state-of-the-art recording center which is constantly updated to stay on the cutting edge.

Since Cups ‘n Strings launch in 2002, Bruce has carved a reputation for being the “go to guy” when it comes to analog archival and restoration work. His attention to detail and perfection is recognized by the industry and it is well-known that any precious master is safe in his hands.

Similarly mastering projects are also handled with the same attention to detail by using digital technology with analog techniques to achieve maximum results.