Jacob Kleinberg (BARE) on SoundBetter

Gold-Certified Producer | Producer of Gold Record “North Face” – ODIE | Full-Service Production, Mixing & Mastering

I’m Jacob Kleinberg, professionally known as BARE —
I produced, co-wrote, mixed, and mastered records for ODIE, including the Gold-certified single “North Face” and “Analogue.” I also produced the rest of his catalog, helping shape the sonic identity that defined his rise.
My production lives at the intersection of warmth, texture, and emotional clarity — analogue depth with modern edge.
I don’t just make beats.
I build cohesive, emotionally immersive records from the ground up.
From first demo to final master, I focus on:
• Intentional arrangement
• Vocal intimacy
• Dynamic low-end control
• Depth and atmosphere
• Streaming-ready polish without sacrificing feeling
If you’re serious about making something timeless, I’m serious about building it with you.

Send me a note through the contact button above.

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Interview with Jacob Kleinberg (BARE)

Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: Shhhh!!!! 2 projects!
Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?
A: Alex Rein! Best Guitar player of all time. Helped produce so much of the work I've done
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: DIGITAL, analog is incredible but after spending much time with it, i've come to find a lot of nuance can practically be recreated.
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: I promise I will see their ideas and goals through, thoroughly, from start to finish.
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: I love everything about it. Music is therapy and hard work + music, together, makes medicine
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: That I just mix and make vocal chains LOL
Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?
A: What level of experience do they have and what their goals are.
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: Be yourself and let me know what I can do to help you bring your ideas to life!
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: Laptop, Apollo Twin, Sennheiser HD650s, SM57, U67!
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: This started as a hobby when I was a teenager, using my computer to make songs that fulfilled project requirements in my history class (my teacher was also the media teacher). Through school, I learned more and more and became more excited about producing, writing and recording my own songs. In my early 20s, I started to create many relationships with a community of people on Soundcloud, in where I found ODIE. Things "clicked" and we went on to create a surprisingly successful project. I have been making music for about 17 years
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: I would describe my style as Indie-Electro
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: I would love to work with any artist that is ambitious and has intention. Any artist that merely wants to know more and enjoys studying music.
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: For a natural wide sound, you can delay - in time - either the Right or Left channel of a mono source, respectively, and EQ that side differently! Our ears distinguish width based upon small differences on either side of the stereo field!
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: Alternative, Indie, Hip-Hop, R&b
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: Texturizing and sound selection
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: I bring a creative approach and a thoughtful, automation prevalent mindset to songs, in hopes to make the song breathe seamlessly, ebbing to and fro.
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: I typically like to listen to others ideas/songs in the rawest form first to familiarize myself with and reference a sound. I'll let that marinate a bit, then proceed to sculpt as I find fitting.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: I work on Adam Monitors with an Apollo Interface. Everything done in the box. I do use a plethora of Plugins though as I have collected many over the years.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: Frank Ocean, Thom Yorke, Emile Haynie, Mk.Gee, Yves Tumor, Kanye West
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: Producing ideas, for vocal artists, with careful and creative sound selection and structure and/or mixing + mastering those ideas so they are ready to be published and heard in the ideal context.