Interview with Rob Ruccia (Album in a Day engineer)

I think after the 5th album, the First of October team should select the "greatest hits" from all of the albums and do fully produced versions and spend the entire day re-recording those songs.

It was really enjoyable to watch him alongside with the videos, he really radiates that positive energy in which one of the factors really carried the awesome recording

The most chill audio engineer ever

Thank you for giving Rob Ruccia more time in the lime light! He's clearly a talented guy. I mean, can you imagine going through 'First of October' with any other engineer??

Dude watching Rob “The Man” Ruccia and Rob “first try” Scallon is so interesting. Would love to see an interview with Andrew “piano ballad” Huang as well.

I love how Rob is like basically a third member of the band. Usually sound engineers don't take much part in the band's life aside from recording in studio. But with First of October the entire existence of the band is tied to a studio, so he's with them a 100% of the time basically

Attention to detail Musical knowledge Being transparent Being friendly Ears As a live sound engineer for 13 years, this is 💯💯💯

33:07 personally I think my favourite still is Don't Go. I remember Rob Scallon writing "don't go just because I do" and saying "not sure what it means yet" when in the context of the song it instantly meant "I've been emotionally unavailable in the past and I've let you down but please do not use it as an excuse for letting me down now" to me

Rob's "So... do you wanna make one more song?" With, like, three minutes left in the day was seriously one of the greatest moments in human history. lmfao

9:07 I absolutely dug this part where Rob talks about his nu metal band, From Zero and the Chicago nu metal scene. I knew every band he mentioned well and was hoping he'd mention a band I did some promotion for called No One.

He wasn't lying: he really seems to deeply care about the music that goes through him.

It's guys like Rob Ruccia that really inspire me to furfill my dream of becoming a studio engineer as well! So thanks for the inspiration!

Just felt like I needed to reinforce this: Sound guy Rob, we truly do adore you, and not just for First of October. Watching you work on all the field trip videos is always a joy, and the occasional insight or reaction to certain sounds is extremely valuable to us watchers for whom this stuff isn't necessarily obvious. Also you're literally always having a blast and that's just fuckin' fun to watch.

What a pleasant, thoughtful person. A perfect addition to the Scallon cast.

I recorded an album with Rob in my old band at Uptown recording studio. I loved working with him! I was a huge From Zero fan too so that was a plus. Much love

I legit like this last record. Most music is so polished these days it rarely has that chaotic magic of something spontaneous

Instant like, Rob is an international treasure, such good vibes during the recording video's

Rob just seems like a really cool guy to hang out with. That goes for Rob too.

Holy shit Rob was in From Zero???! I think way back in the day my Uncle worked with someone who was friends with one of the guys in that band at UPS in the chicagoland area and got an album from them which was their EP! When I was a little ass kid he gave me One Nation Under and that was a huge reason i ended up getting into metal!! I still have that CD stashed away somewhere! Totally mind blown right now! Check Ya and Smack were like the anthems of my childhood lol. Damn I miss Chicago, thanks Rob S so much for so much content and so many memories.

A great engineer is hard to find. He's a champion.