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Rob Dewar began his initial forays into the music business with his constant drumming on everything around him as a child. At the age of six, his mother enrolled him in piano lessons, which he greatly enjoyed, although he had extreme difficulty in learning to sight-read music, because he was able to almost immediately learn any musical passage he heard and play it back from memory without the aid of sheet music. Maybe, not such a bad "handicap", and in hindsight, a precursor of what was to come.

When, after two years of piano lessons, Rob's piano teacher failed to reappear for the third season, Rob dabbled on the piano, but also began to take notice of an aging Mexican-made classical guitar on his parent's shelf, strings broken, and coated in a layer of dust. Rob convinced his Mom to get him a set of strings, and, using youthful exuberance and the note names as printed on the string packages, Rob re-strung the old classical guitar with the technically incorrect but workable steel strings he had purchased, and tuned it to the piano in his home. Then, using an old folk song book he had discovered in the piano bench storage, Rob taught himself perhaps ten basic guitar chords from the grids in the book, and by the following day, was strumming these chords and beginning on developing a rudimentary repertoire of simple folky tunes he found in the book, knew from piano, or had heard on the radio, or in movies and television.

Four years of strumming later, and Rob met a fellow musician and mentor who introduced him to one position each of the Pentatonic scale, and a major scale. Inside of a few months, Rob had developed a series of scale patterns based on this knowledge, and was soon able to play effectively all around the guitar neck. Musically, the rest was simply a forward progression through the styles of guitar and music which Rob found intriguing - Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, George Benson, Allan Holdsworth, and any other really skilled guitarists whose music caught his ear. Rob's passion for the guitar helped him to quickly develop some serious chops on the instrument, and also, to develop a refined sense of musical taste and a sense of proper musical production.

At 18 years of age, Rob entered audio engineering school at the Institute of Communication Arts in Vancouver, studying recording and mix engineering, entertainment business, live sound production, video production and synthesizer technique. Upon graduation, Rob was hired by a young touring club band, and cut his first engineering teeth as their FOH engineer. Over the following years, Rob toured extensively with various small and mid-sized acts, and also worked on studio recording sessions, both as an engineer/producer, and as a session musician.

In the late 1990s, Rob purchased a commercial recording studio in Penticton, BC  from an associate, and developed his audio production business, Rock Shop Productions Inc. As time passed, Rob found himself constantly advising fellow engineers and musicians on technical points and equipment purchases, and so, Rock Shop Pro Audio was founded, to create a commercial venue for this advice and service. Rob's penchant for high quality led him to pursue representation of only the finest products in each category, and has created some valuable associations and friendships along the way, with leading designers in their fields.

Rob currently consults through Rock Shop Pro Audio, as well as pursuing his love of musical production and guitar by writing, recording and performing music for numerous different applications. He has extended his advisory capacities to the development and delivery of college-level audio engineering, production, psychoacoustics and synthesis courses, initially, for a Canadian technical education college, and currently, for his own program of education. His love of synthesizers has contributed significantly to his varied musical repertoire, the focus of which is on music for film and TV sync.

A sampling of Rob's music can be found by clicking here - you will be redirected to the Broadjam.com website.

More information on Rob's audio and musical work can be found here.