Mon, 25 December 2006
News, a Celebrity Interview with Charles Dye and we tweak The Stupid Knob! News: Crosstalk:
Dave Jackson - MusiciansCooler.com Submit Your Mix - MediaFire.com  This is week #3 in Another 30 Days Of Dye. Multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning engineer, mixer and producer Charles Dye began his engineering career in 1992. Since that time he's mixed hits for Ricky Martin, Sammy Hagar, Julio Iglesias, and Jon Bon Jovi. He's also recorded artists such as Aerosmith, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira and Gloria Estefan, among many others. Interview Links:
Lauryn Hill Mix Buss Forum Pro Media Training CharlesDye.com Charles' Recent Projects Digidesign White Papers On Digital (See The Pro Tools 48-Bit Mixer) ADSR On Wikipedia Diagram of Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release:  Weird Al Interviews Fed-X! Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: October 17, 1990 marked the first time that the #1 album in the United States was only available on CD or cassette - and could not be found on vinyl. Name either the artist or the album. A: The album was Vanilla Ice's To The Extreme. No correct answers this week! Doh! See you next year! |
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Mon, 18 December 2006
Guest host Dave Criddle, news, a Celebrity Interview with Charles Dye and a special PSN Gear Review! News:
Clone Ensemble FREE Plugin! Massey THC Plugin IntelliScore Audio To MIDI Support The James Kim Family This is week #2 in Another 30 Days Of Dye. Multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning engineer, mixer and producer Charles Dye began his engineering career in 1992. Since that time he's mixed hits for Ricky Martin, Sammy Hagar, Julio Iglesias, and Jon Bon Jovi. He's also recorded artists such as Aerosmith, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira and Gloria Estefan, among many others. Interview Links:
The Womb Forum Rolls Folcrom Summing Buss Waves Linear Phase Multiband Focusrite Red Mic Pre SSL Mix Buss Forum Izotope Ozone 3  Dave Criddle Dave Criddle brings us a guitar modeling shoot out! Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: Before Neil Young joined Crosby, Stills and Nash, the original trio had already asked three other top charting artists to become the fourth member of their group. Name one. A: The correct answers were either George Harrison, Eric Clapton or Steve Winwood. Congratulations to this week's winner Sean Scogin! Sean takes home a copy of Guitar and Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at GuitarAndDrumTrainer.com. Also with the correct answers this week, honorable mention goes out to Tbush, Grae Smart, George Leite and Jim Farley. See you next week! |
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Mon, 11 December 2006
News, a Celebrity Interview with Charles Dye and we tweak The Stupid Knob! News: Celebrity Interview:  Charles Dye Since then, Charles has become a bit of a pioneer in the area of mixing records on Pro Tools, evidenced by his mix of Livin' La Vida Loca, as Dan Daley said in Mix Magazine, "a milestone of technology: the first Number One record to be done completely within a hard disk system. In addition to changing the course of mainstream pop music, 'La Vida' may also turn out to be a pivot point in how records are made." Charles's further commitment to Pro Tools and mixing on it was demonstrated by his two-time Grammy and Latin Grammy nominated engineering and mixing of five additional songs on Ricky Martin's album, including two additional singles Shake Your Bon Bon and Private Emotion. In 2001 he was awarded a Latin Grammy for Best Engineered Album for Thalia's Arrasando, and he worked with Pro Tools on that project as well. As a veteran Pro Tools user he has recorded, mixed and produced almost every record he's worked on in the last several years completely on the system, and though he may use an analog or digital large-format console from time to time, you'll always find his Pro Tools nearby for the sounds and techniques he's become known for. And most importantly, he's a good friend of PSN and all of our loyal listeners. The Stupid Knob: The MPAA swings its weight around...again. Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: Timothy B. Schmit replaced Randy Meisner in the Eagles when he quit in 1977. But that wasn't the first time Schmit had replaced Meisner in a popular band. When, and in which band did he replace him prior to 1977? A: Poco in 1969. Congratulations to this week's winner Patrick McNeal! He takes home a copy of Guitar And Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at GuitarAndDrumTrainer.com. Honorable mention goes out to George Leite of the Catholic Rockers podcast, Mark Olson, Brian Stephens of the Music Pro Show, Grae Smart and Tony Butterworth of the Home Made Hit Show. See you next week! |
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Sun, 3 December 2006
News, a special announcement, a Celebrity Interview and we tweak The Stupid Knob! Charles Dye returns to PSN next week for another thrilling and educational segment. he's also made it possible for all PSN listeners to get Mix It Like A Record for just $99.00 through Christmas! (Regular price $139.95) Next week we'll also announce a special contest were you can win a copy of Mix It Like A Record. In the mean time, send in your questions for Charles. What have you always wanted to ask a pro mixer? Now's your chance! News:
apTrigga Sound Replacer Stradivarius mystery has been solved! SQ8L FREE VST Soft Synth Kevin Reeves is a talented composer, musician, singer, producer and a proud project studio owner. He's released a fantastic new album called "It's About Time" that is redefining what a project studio is capable of producing. We sat down with Kevin to talk about this project and share how it was done.  Kevin Federline. Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: Are You Lonesome Tonight? was a big 1960 hit for Elvis Presley. But he wasn't the first one to record it. It was first recorded all the way back in 1926. Who was the artist? A: It was written by Roy Turk and Lou Handman in 1926 as a vaudeville recitation and first recorded by Al Jolson. Brian Stephens over at The Music Pro Show found some alternate research that suggests the answer might have been Ned Jakobs on May 17, 1927. It was difficult to find a definitive answer for either one, so we would have accepted either answer. No one but Brian submitted a correct answer and he generously offered to pass the prize on to the next winner. Brian also sent along a little trivia about our trivia. Elvis' version of "Lonesome" was recorded during a late night session, about 3-4 AM, at the request of Colonel Parker. His wife apparently loved the song so much that he wanted the "Big E" to do a version, assuring Elvis it would be a hit again. See you next week! |
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Mon, 27 November 2006
News, a Celebrity Interview, we tweak The Stupid Knob and Viewer Mail! News:
IK Multimedia's Stealth Plug NextCat.com JOIN AL'S NEXTCAT NETWORK! Eventful.com  DUY Plugins DUY Native Goes Mac Intel  Carlo Santos Universal sues MySpace! Viewer Mail:
2) Shane Hendricks comments on the whole Universal/MySpace debacle 3) Matthias from Mexico wants to know about PZM mics 4) Allen Riege has nice things to say. :) Q: The MP3 format has literally revolutionized the music business. When was it invented? A: Here's the progression and the history. In 1987 the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany began research code-named EUREKA project EU147, Digital Audio Broadcasting. In April 1989 Fraunhofer received a German patent for MP3. In 1992 Fraunhofer's audio coding algorithm was integrated into the MPEG-1 standard. On November 26, 1996 a United States patent was issued for MP3. Congratulations to Tim Bush, this week's winner of a copy of Guitar And Drum Trainer, courtesy of Ryan Smith over at GuitarAndDrumTrainer.com. Honorable mention also goes out to George Leite. See you next week! |
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Mon, 20 November 2006
News, an interview with Jammin' Dave Jackson, Crosstalk, mixing tips, we tweak the Stupid Knob and Viewer Mail with a disturbing lava lamp update. News:
Double Freebies! Spline-Time NuGen's Line-up reFuse Software's Lowender New Pianoteq Models Available Win A SSL Duende!  Jammin' Dave Jackson Where do musicians go to trade advice? Why they go to the Musician's Cooler with Jammin' Dave Jackson! Dave's got his own gear conundrum going on as he contemplates his first DAW. He also has some great ideas on promoting your studio and recording projects with podcasting. Crosstalk:
 Brian Stephens Mark Rufino's Links To Affordable Ribbon Mics: Ribbon Mic #1 Ribbon Mic #2 The mixing book Mark referred to: Mixing With Your Mind The Stupid Knob: iPod owners are "thieves", according to Universal Music CEO, Doug Morris. MacWorld Link Billboard Link Viewer Mail:
2) Dave Criddle On Using Drum Loops 3) SUPER LAVA LAMP REPORT: Shane Hendricks: Mac Screensaver Ed Bradshaw: Touch Screen Video Ed Kachajian: The diagram from Getting Started in Computer Music by Mark Nelson, a book for recording beginners: 
Caleb Hawkins: GIANT LAVA LAMP! Q: Where is the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame located and when did it open? A: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is in Cleveland, Ohio. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation came together in 1983. Groundbreaking for the building took place on June 7, 1993 and the building opened to the public on September 2, 1995. Congratulations to Rich Masling, this week's winner of a copy of Guitar and Drum Trainer, courtesy of Ryan Smith over at GuitarAndDrumTrainer.com. Although just a bit late, the correct answer was also given by T-Bush and Jim Farley. Good job folks! See you next week! |
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Mon, 13 November 2006
News, a Celebrity Interview with 5-time Emmy-winning post mixer John Davidson, a Spotlight feature on using drum loops, a Stupid Knob update and a Featured Performance! News:  New Digidesign Mbox 2 MiniPrice The Mbox Mini At Sweetwater Thomas Dolby Weekly Video Podcast SampleTank2 Goes Universal Binary BAM Audio School Jerad Finck - A&R Rep - Hit Street Records http://MediaMagikGroup.com  Celebrity Interview:5-time Emmy-winner and PSN Correspondent John Davidson dropped by to share a project with us that's a little out of his comfort zone. After a little coaxing, he agreed to share the whole project with us. Web Site About The Project Spotlight:: Effectively Using Drum Loops Featured Performance Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: Continuing on with another first, who was the first group to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame? A: The Coasters! And no correct answers this week! Doh! See you next week! |
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Mon, 6 November 2006
News, a Celebrity Interview, we tweak the Stupid Knob and Viewer Mail!  Shawn Pelton
Shawn Pelton, The Saturday Night Live Drummer http://www.SellABand.com http://www.RecordingTheBeatles.com Grand Theft Auto When it comes to making music, most of us take access to computers and software for granted. But, what if you were to lose your sight? How would you continue to pursue your passion? One man who is making sure this is possible, and will continue to improve, is Tim Burgess. He's quit his day job to pursue improved access for the blind in the music industry. We sat down to talk with Tim and get more information on this important issue.
 The Stupid Knob:Kevin Federline - aka KFed - aka Mr. Britney Spears aka Cletus - has just released his rap album Playing With Fire. His album is available on Amazon.com, which allows customers to post comments Viewer Mail:
2) Arif Hodzic 3) Tim Burgess 4) Tommy from Form & Fracture Records
Q: What was the first song to achieve diamond download status? (That's one million digital downloads.) A: Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl. By November 2005, it had sold over one million downloads. Dennis McFall was the first one with the correct answer, as well as a very cleverly Photoshopped picture that has Gwen whispering into Al's ear. However, Dennis has already won a copy of Guitar and Drum Trainer, so this week's prize goes to the second person to answer correctly, and that's Trevor Brooks! Congratulations Trevor! Also coming in on the heels of Trevor with the right answer was Andy Bullock and Tony Butterworth, from the Homemade Hit Show. See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic vst lava lamp Ardour Shawn Pelton Saturday Night Live Recording The Beatles Grand Theft Auto Kevin Federline KFed Britney Spears Gwen Stefani Hollaback Girl Tony Butterworth Homemade Hit Show |
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Mon, 30 October 2006
News, a Celebrity Interview with Jon O'Neil from Naiant.com, a Crosstalk segment, we tweak the Stupid Knob and Viewer Mail! News:
Toontrack Expansion Packs For EZdrummer Guitar Player Magazine Guitar Hero 2006 Finals Brian Stephens, Host Of The Music Pro Show And The Band Ocean Street. Here's their first video release:  Jon O'Neil Over the last couple of weeks we've been talking about the killer little mics mounted in Neutrik connectors available from Naiant.com. Well, we just had to know more so we got a hold of Jon O'Neil, the owner, chief inventor and product specialist at Naiant. Crosstalk:: Viewer Mail:
Ari Blum - Auralex T' Fusor Ceiling Mount Pics   Jim Farley - Trash Can Vocal Booth Update! Trevor Brooks - Lava Lamps Indoctrinating Our Children: 
Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: What was the first record to sell a million copies? A: There were a lot of really good guesses, but none that went back in time quite far enough. There may have been some confusion as noted by Tony Butterworth over at the Home Made Hit Show. His answer was Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star, which the RIAA's own web site says was the first Gold single that was...and here's the important part...."officially" certified by the RIAA, which was founded in 1952. The original "gold record" awards were presented to artists by their own record companies to publicize the achievement of 1,000,000 sales. The first of these was awarded by RCA to Glenn Miller in February 1942, celebrating 1.2 million sales of Chattanooga Choo Choo. The 78-rpm commercial version of the song was recorded on May 7, 1941 for RCA Victor's Bluebird label and became the first to be certified a gold disc on February 10, 1942. The transcription of this award ceremony can be heard on the first of three volumes of RCA's "Legendary Performer" compilations released by RCA in the 1970s. Since Tony's answer was technically correct in the context of the RIAA, we're declaring him this week's winner and he takes home a copy of Guitar And Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com. Congratulations Tony! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic vst lava lamp perry como riaa glenn miller chatanooga choo choo catch a falling star home made hit show naiant brian stephens music pro shoiw ocean street toontrack ezdrummer guitar player magazine auralex the dumb bunnies |
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Mon, 23 October 2006
News, a Celebrity Interview, a PSN Gear Review, we tweak the Stupid Knob and we have a special lava lamp edition of Viewer Mail! News:
Alesis Introduces The CD Twin LE Smart Loops Launches SL Hit Tracks Digital Music Mentor Software  Tex-Mex 'Bebop Kid' Freddy Fender has passed away at just 69 years old. His hits included Before The Next Teardrop Falls and Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, which rose to No. 1 on the country chart and top 10 on the pop chart that same year, while his songs Secret Love and You'll Lose a Good Thing also hit No. 1 on the country charts.He won a Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album in 2002 for La Musica de Baldemar Huerta. He also shared in two Grammys: with the Texas Tornados, which won in 1990 for best Mexican-American performance for Soy de San Luis, and with Los Super Seven in the same category in 1998. Freddy also appeared in the 1987 motion picture The Milagro Beanfield War," directed by Robert Redford. In February 1999, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. http://www.FreddyFender.com In part three of a three-part interview with Mike Schettler of Hit Street Records and Shortler Studios in Spokane, Washington, Al talks with Mike about mastering your tracks. UPDATE: The little mics from Naiant.com we talked about last week are out of stock until the first week in November.  Gear Review:Zoom H4 Handy Recorder Edirol R-09 Recorder Viewer Mail - Special Lava Lamp Edition:
Caleb Hawkins Tim Burgess Crazy Joe: SurfLounge.com Liner Notes David "SpoonZ" Spooner: Lava Lamp Screensaver
Q: While playing at Hollywood's Palladium in 1972, the guitarist in Chuck Berry's backup band was replaced by another one waiting backstage. The new musician played so loudly that Berry stopped in the middle of a song and asked the first guitar player to come back out. Who was the guitar player he kicked off the stage? A: Keith Richards! This week's one and only correct answer came from Ed Kachajian. Ed takes home a copy of Guitar And Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com. See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic vst lava lamp ultramaximizer alesis led zeppelin the who sublime van halen freddy fender before the next teardrop falls wasted days and wasted nights secret love you'll lose a good thing la musica de baldemar huerta texas tornados soy de san luis los super seven the milagro beanfield war robert redford zoom handy recorder h4 edirol jimi hendrix michael dorr chuck berry keith richards |
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Mon, 16 October 2006
 News, a Celebrity Interview regarding recording and mixing drums, Crosstalk, we tweak The Stupid Knob and we sift through some Viewer Mail!
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Line 6 Is Now Shipping Gearbox Plug-In Silver And Gold Bundles Frontier Design Group Introduces AlphaTrack Auto-Tune 5 Available Soon Just a few days ago, Bryan Stephens, host of the Music Pro Show podcast, was hospitalized with appendicitis. Please send him a get well e-mail. His address is: brian@musicproshow.com Al sat down again this week with Mike Schettler of Hit Street Records and Shortler Studios in Spokane, Washington. They had a chance to talk about affordable mics and recording and mixing drums.  MSH-10 Mics From NaiantCrosstalk: Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: Barry Manilow was, and still is a prolific songwriter. He's sold over 75 million records worldwide. Even though he wrote many of his chart makers, he did not write three of his most popular hits. Name one of the three hits he did not write. A: "Mandy" was written by Scott English and Richard Kerr, "Looks Like We Made It", was penned by Will Jennings and Richard Kerr, and "I Write The Songs" was composed by Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys. Congratulations to this this week's winner, David P. Shortland! David takes home a copy of Guitar And Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com. Honorable Mention goes out to Dave Criddle, John Demetre, Dave Duffus and Jordan Chilcott. Congratulations! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic vst lava lamp alphatrack barry manilow |
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Mon, 9 October 2006
News, a Gear Review, a Celebrity Interview, we tweak the Stupid knob and a deluxe edition of Viewer Mail! News:  Sweetwater.com The OTR Network Library Digidesign Announces Velvet Line 6 Giving Away Free ReFills Sweetwater's Warehouse Moving Sale
(800) 222-4700 Ext. #1273 Andrew Brierly from the Home Recording Odyssey podcast sent in this audio demonstration of what he believes is a practical use of lava lamp technology in the recording process.  Lava Lamp Plugin - RTAS For Mac Celebrity Interview: This week Big Al caught up with Mike Schettler, Mike Bolan's partner at Hit Street Records and owner of Shortler Studios in Spokane, Washington.  The Shortler Studios Control Room Window See the full set of detailed pics on our Flickr page Sound Studio Construction On A Budget Richard Oliver - Studio Designer Jimmy Buffet takes a page from Willie Nelson's book! Viewer Mail: Shane Hendricks Dave Criddle Patrick Abbas Anthony Berrones Grae Smart Judson Voss Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: What was the longest title of a song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100? A: The 1981 Stars on 45 #1 hit, simply called Medley, "technically" is the longest song title to become a chart hit on Billboard. It originally appears in complete title form on the printed edition of the Billboard Chart. The actual title is: Medley: Intro Venus / Sugar Sugar / No Reply / I'll Be Back / Drive My Car / Do You Want To Know A Secret / We Can Work It Out / I Should Have Known Better / Nowhere Man / You're Going To Lose That Girl / Stars On 45 Congratulations to this this week's winner, the only person to answer correctly, Mr. Dennis McFall! Dennis takes home a copy of Guitar And Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com. See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic vst lava lamp |
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Mon, 2 October 2006
News, a Celebrity Interview, a Cat Box segment and Viewer Mail! News:  3D Audio's comparison CD'sMOTU Now Shipping Universal Binary Drivers The Missing �a� From Neil Armstrong FREE Synth Plugin - FXpansion ORCA SellMusicDirect.com Big Al Featured On NextCat.com! Join Big Al's NextCat Network  We had an opportunity to chat with Slau, of Slau.net on the topic of acoustic treatments for your studio, no matter what size it is. Slau went through his own conundrum trying to find a reasonably-priced solution for this. He's owned and operated a studio in New York City since 1990 and has been a regular contributor to Sound On Sound magazine.The Cat Box: Shane Hendricks submits Feline Demise. Viewer Mail:
David "SpoonZ" Spooner from Down Under Dennis McFall Suzie DeCree Dan Leuders Q: In 1996, this artist's self-titled second album was dropped from Wal-Mart shelves because one of the songs contained an unflattering comment about their gun sales policy. A: Sheryl Crow! This week's winner is Vern in Los Angeles! He takes home a copy Guitar and Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com. Also answering correctly was Christopher Neal, Andy Bullock, Bill Camarata, Rev. Mark C. Chauvin, John Demetre and Adam Smith. Congratulations all! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic vst |
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Mon, 25 September 2006
News, a Spotlight tip, a Featured Performance, a super-sized Stupid Knob and Viewer Mail! News:
Recording School Online Releases Funky Flanger Free VST Multi-Effect Plug-In Universal Audio Ships UAD v4.4 Software With New Neve Plug-In And Support For Intel-Mac Computers  SRS iWOW Plugin for Mac iTunesMichael Kingston Productions Releases RetroBand And RetroBandLite VST Plug-Ins  Spotlight:CDBaby.com = iTunes! CustomFlix.com = Amazon! Featured Performance: Arif Hodzic submits We Thank God For You for review. http://myspace.com/ad4records http://myspace.com/arifmusic http://myspace.com/olio Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: The longest title of an album that actually made the Billboard chart is made up of 90 words. The album is called, When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right. A: Fiona Apple! This week we had two winning entries that both came in an exactly the same time. One from Jord and one from Jim Fidler. Jord graciously deferred the prize of a copy of Guitar and Drum Trainer to Jim as he runs a Mac and it's only available for Windows at the moment. Honorable Mention also goes out to Patrick McNeal, Arif Hodzic, Ben Brasile, Mark Rufino, Kris Keyser and Bill Camarata. Thanks to Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com for providing our weekly prize. See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic vst steinberg cubase srs iwow cdbaby customflix charles dye elton john jay leno rolling stones keith richards john ralston lava lamp billboard fiona apple willie nelson |
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Mon, 18 September 2006
News, Crosstalk, a keyboard Gear Review, we tweak The Stupid Knob and Viewer Mail! News:  Join Big Al's NextCat.com NetworkBroadjam Launches Electronic Radio Delivery Service For Independent Musicians Native Instruments Releases Komplete 4 Japan’s Jvc Has Said It Will Soon Market A First-Of-A-Kind Speaker System That "Breathes" Sound Rather Than Vibrates Lionel Richie Has New Album! Last week we got a nice mention on Inside Home Recording with Paul Garay and Derek K. Miller. We look forward to doing some things with them in the future! PianoTEQ has posted our review on there web site. The new Mac Intel version is already available ahead of schedule. What’s up with lava lamps in control rooms?  Gear Review:The Yamaha Tyros 2 Keyboard Arranger/Workstation The Stupid Knob: Universal Music Group, the world’s largest record company, contends the wildly popular Web sites YouTube and MySpace are violating copyright laws by allowing users to post music videos and other content involving Universal artists. “We believe these new businesses are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars,? Universal Music CEO Doug Morris told investors Wednesday at a conference in Pasadena. “How we deal with these companies will be revealed shortly.? Pffffffffffffffffffffffft! Viewer Mail: A Freebie From Suzie DeCree: The Delay Lama is the first VST instrument to offer both vocal synthesis and a real-time animated 3D interface. Its advanced monophonic vocal synthesis engine enables your computer to sound just like an Eastern monk, with real-time, high resolution control over the vowel sound. What's more, the plug-in window displays a 3D animation of a singing monk, that reacts directly to your input! Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: You're probably familiar with the 1957 holiday classic Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms. What was on the flip side of that record? A: Captain Santa Claus And His Reindeer Space Patrol! True to his name, Dave Swift was the first one with the right answer. He wins a copy of Guitar and Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com. There was a bit of a snafu we came across for the first time this week. Dave had already won a copy of Guitar and Drum Trainer in a previous contest. Till now, we haven't had any rules about winning multiple contests for the same prize. So to be fair we've also awarded a prize to the second person to answer correctly, and that's Dave "SpoonZ" Spooner from down under. Congratulations Dave! Also coming in with the correct answer this week but just a little late was Patrick Abbas, Andy Bullock, Ben Brasile and Grae Smart. Way to go! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic vst nextcat.com myspace broadjam native instruments jvc lionel richie all night long three times a lady nicole richie grammy say you say me stuck on you penny lover michael jackson we are the world coming home def jam records jermaine dupri dallas austin island records raphael saadiq mariah carey justin timberlake inside home recording paul garay derek k miller pianoteq gwen stephani ricky martin george michael kylie minogue yamaha tyros 2 youtube delay lama |
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Mon, 11 September 2006
News, a Featured Performance, a guest Gear Review, we tweak The Stupid Knob, we've got a Crosstalk segment and Viewer Mail! News:  The New Digidesign MBox 2 ProMathematicians Solve the ‘Cocktail Party Problem' Massey Plugins are now all Mac Intel compatible! Universal Binary version of VSTi Host Tri-Tone Digital Pluggo 3.6 Beta Test A few shows back we mentioned an exciting contest (still in progress) that gives you the opportunity to remix the original tracks from Peter Gabriel's Shock The Monkey. Not to mention that the winner receives a free SSL Duende! Ian Baird, one of our creative listeners, is in the top 20 for his remix in the competition. If you or any of your friends do not have an entry in the competition and you'd like to help out Ian by voting for him, click here to do so now! Gear Review:  Dave Criddle, co-host of the Home Recording Odyssey podcast with Andrew Brierly, has done a guest gear review for us. Dave takes a closer look at Native Instruments Guitar Rig 2.The Stupid Knob: This one involves Clay Aiken of American Idol fame. Sometimes they just write themselves. Crosstalk: Viewer Mail: From Andrew Shaap: Download the Charles Dye Ring Tone From Kris Busby: http://Olga.net TheRecordingProject.com From Andrew in Ottawa: Pictures from Andrew in Ottawa of the Randy Bachman (of Bachman Turner Overdrive) gig he recently worked.     Q: Who was the first female over the age of 50 to have a chart topping record? A: Cher with Believe in March 1999! Congratulations to Richard Crosser for being the first one to get us the correct answer. He takes home a copy of Guitar & Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com. Honorable mention goes out to David "SpoonZ" Spooner from down under and Patrick Abbas, who also mentioned he loved the vocal-booth-in-a-trash-can solution from last week. The New Weird Al Release Is Almost Here! Straight Outta Lynwood The New Album – In Stores September 26! Pre-order It Now! Visit Weird Al's web site and get the first song off the album free! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic vst weird al bob seeger old time rock and roll straight outta lynwood don't donwload this song xpand massey plugins pluggo colo rtone phase tone valve tone ssl duende home recording odyssey guitar rig clay aiken chuck berry pink flyod dark side of the moon james blunt charles dye randy bachman bachman turner overdrive apogee olga led zeppelin cher |
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Mon, 4 September 2006
News: News, a new Cat Box submission, a Gear Review and a bucket of fantastic Viewer Mail!  Bob Dylan promotes iTunes! There must be sound all over it. Mac OS 10.4.7 Tiger is now officially supported for Pro Tools LE 7.1 and Pro Tools HD 7.2. PSN has been chosen as a front page feature over at ThePodLounge.com! This week we're featuring a rough mix sent in to us by Timothy Lee. He's a drummer and producer with his own project studio. You can see more about him at TimothyCLee.com. This tune is called My Time. It was recorded with Digital Performer in Tim's temporary studio in his house while his new studio space is under construction. It written by a bass player/singer pal of his who decided to finally record some original songs that have been sitting around for awhile. Here are some pictures of the setup Tim used while recording this song.   Thanks to Shane Hendricks for asking me to take a look at the new PianoTEQ VST plugin. It's presented as the first truly modeled piano. About $310.00 US. Download a free 45-day trial version for PC and Mac (Power PC only, Intel version coming). The free version has a few notes at the top and bottom ranges of the keyboard disabled. Viewer Mail:
Rodger Willis got the Reflexion Filter! Christopher Markus shares his solution for those who think they can sing but really can’t. Now they can with the Sing Like A Pro Rainjet!  Q: What is the most played song on jukeboxes across the United States? A: According to the Amusement & Music Operators Association, Patsy Cline's 1962 hit, "Crazy" is the most played song on jukeboxes across the United States. It's followed by "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger and "Hound Dog" / "Don't Be Cruel" by Elvis Presley. Congratulations to Dave Swift, who was the first person to correctly answer and takes home a free copy of Guitar and Drum Trainer from Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com. Honorable mention goes out to Heath McConnell of Violet Sun Studios who also answered correctly, but wasn't quite fast enough to beat Dave, and Bill Camarata. The New Weird Al Release Is Almost Here! Straight Outta Lynwood The New Album – In Stores September 26! Pre-order It Now! Visit Weird Al's web site and get the first song off the album free! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic ssl vst studio projects dave jackson school of podcasting weird al musicians cooler bob dylan the podlounge pianoteq reflexion filter patsy cline bob seeger old time rock and roll hound dog don't be cruel straight outta lynwood don't donwload this song |
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Sun, 27 August 2006
News, a mic pre shoot out between the Chandler Germanium and the Studio Projects VTB 1 and fantastic Viewer Mail! News:
Zen Soundcheck Audio Releases "Janus" Virtual Bass Amp Waves Plugins Version 5.9 Is Here iZotope Releases Universal Binary and Pro Tools 7 Updates Hugo Ball is one of our fine listeners that originally wrote in to complain about something he didn't like on the show. So, we did what comes naturally, we made friends. It turns out that Hugo has quite the project studio and a passion for recording. He also happens to own one of the mic preamps I'm considering adding to my studio as part of my continuing gear conundrum, the Chandler Germanium. But, is it worth spending over a $1,000 on a mic pre? How much better could it be than a decent lower priced unit? Well, Hugo has both so I convinced him to take a little gear trek, a mic pre shoot out for the benefit of all PSN listeners. If you'd like to talk to Hugo about doing a voiceover for your project, you can e-mail him at this address: newyorkvoiceovers@lycos.com Here are the links to the raw wav files featured in the mic pre shootout:  Vocals  Acoustic Guitar Tambourine
Get Real, The Real Estate Investing Show for the Rest of Us Douglas McDonald: Real Traps Acoustic Videos John Demetre: QuikWall For A Vocal Booth Mark Rufino: Using Sonotubes As Bass Traps Q: One night in 1968, while Gary U.S. Bonds was playing at a club in New Jersey, he thought he'd give a local kid a break and invite him up onstage to do a number. Who did that kid turn out to be? A: Bruce Springsteen! A Special Award! Adam Smith of Halifax, NS, Canada was the 100th person to put a pin in our Frappr map! We award him a complimentary copy of Guitar And Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com. Congratulations Adam! A Special Moment With Charles Dye! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic ssl vst bruce springsteen izotope chandler germanium studio projects dave jackson realtraps ethan winer sonotube vtb1 school of podcasting |
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Mon, 21 August 2006
News, tips on acoustic isolation, a new useful and affordable loop collection, Viewer Mail and we Tweak The Stupid Knob! 
New DigiRack Time Shift - Free Plugin Free Demo Of Extreme Punch Broadjam 6-Pack Songwriting Competition Digidesign Releases Free Training Videos Editor's Key's Decal Sets 
ModTrap - Thanks to Mark Rufino! Sonotube Spotlight:  Smokin' Joe's Harmonica Loops Viewer Mail Thanks to Suzanne DeCree, Mark Rufino and Kim Costello! Tweaking The Stupid Knob
rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature alt.guitar.tab Q: What was the B side of Elton John's Philadelphia Freedom? A: Paul Riggins correctly answered, "'Philadelphia Freedom' was released on Feb. 28, 1975 and the B side was a version of 'I Saw Her Standing There' recorded live with John Lennon at Madison Square Garden." Congratulations Paul! You take home a free copy of Guitar and Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com. A Special Moment With Charles Dye! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic ssl snakes on a plane trevor rabin vst broadjam ik multimedia genelec sony electro voice mackie spectrasonics ilio kaysound powerfx digitech ableton phil jackson reflexion filter modtrap digitalfishphones elton john philadelphia freedom i saw her standing there john lennon |
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Mon, 14 August 2006
Hot industry news, a featured performance from Dave Criddle, a boatload of Viewer Mail and some great examples of Why The Music Business Sucks. News:
Win A Free SSL Duende! Ryan Smith Press Release And Pic Free Soft Synth - KeyToSound REMEDY Digidesign Announces Upcoming ProTools Compatibility With Apple's New Mac Pro Crysonic VSTs Dave Criddle, the new co-host over at the Home Recording Odyssey, has submitted a song for our, and your critique. It's a guitar-heavy track by Dave's band Leisure called Back To America. The guitars were all done with the original Pod and the drums were recorded in his drum room, aka his unfinished basement. He uses Cubase and a Rode NT2 and some AKG C1000's to record mostly. Check out their web site: LeisureBand.com Viewer Mail:
Suzanne's links to music-dedicated sites similar to MySpace:
SoundClick.com MacJams.com ArtistLaunch.com/ Musicane.com RadioIndy.com IACMusic.com GarageBand.com SoundClick.com FreeWorldRadio.com IndieStore.com BroadJam.com MP3Unsigned.com IdiotVox.com CafePress.com SectionZ.com IntoMusic.co.uk AllIndie.com iCompositions.com MacIdol.com Suzanna's Super Freebies Link 
Paul Riggins Links: Mark Smith's Link To Adobe Audition 2.0 Demo With Charles Dye Feature Tweaking The Stupid Knob:Congratulations to the winners of the Why The Music Business Sucks contest! A Special Moment With Charles Dye! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic duende cubase rode akg ssl myspace fgm records flatpicking guitar magazine david lee roth strummin' with the devil jay leno jamies cryin willie nelson pam tillis dwight yokam steve earl travis tritt emmy lou harris sheryl crow warren zevon billy bob thornton waking up in reno steven segal fire down below charles dye mix it like a record cubase crysonic plasq metallica home recording odyssey ssl |
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Mon, 7 August 2006
Big news, a short Gear Review, we tweak The Stupid Knob, Big Al's Gear Conundrum continues and we answer a boat-load of Viewer Mail.. News:
Digidesign's Free Plugins - Signal Tools Secrets Of Songwriting E-book Special iZotope Updates "Vinyl"  Gear Review:The mini amp that plugs directly into your guitar! Crosstalk: Big Al's Gear Conundrum Continues! Viewer Mail:
Brainspawn's Forte VI Host Ed Bradshaw's Gaelcast RocketSounds.com Ryan Smyth - Guitar & Drum Trainer See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic gaelcast |
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Mon, 31 July 2006
Big news, an expanded super Viewer Mail segment and the second half of a fantastic interview with Brian Stephens from the Music Pro Show. News:
VstNotes - Free Plugin Ryan Smith from RenegadeMinds.com wins the Best Application Using .Net award at the Shareware Industry Awards Banquet in Denver, Colorado US again this year for Guitar And Drum Trainer. Later, Ryan also received the Silver Faucet award for 2006. Free Drum Loops From BetaMonkey Music Questions answered from Dave Criddle, Rick Kovars, Tim Burgess and Stuart Winkleman. Here's a picture of Stuart and his wife, "The Rocket" and the jet Stuart pilots (Falcon 900) while listening to the show!   
Celebrity Interview:  As a producer and engineer, Brian has worked on projects for Warner Bros., Verizon Wireless, Fox Sports, and 20th Century Fox as well as CD projects for indie artists such as Mike Martin, Amber Brooke, Tentilfour, Magno, and Ocean Street. As an educator, Brian has performed drum clinics all over the country, written for magazines like Modern Drummer and Performer Magazine, and given personal instruction to thousands of drummers, audio engineers, and other music business professionals. He's also the host of a fantastic podcast called The Music Pro Show and the author of Stickin' It Out - The Anatomy Of A Professional Drummer. This is part two of a nice chat we had with Brian about playing and recording music at all levels, from the home studio to the mega commercial facility.
Stickin' It Out - The Anatomy Of A Professional Drummer MusicProShow.com BonzoTunes.com OceanStreetMusic.com Brian's MySpace Profile Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic sweetwater roger nichols digital duy the drifters the coasters the crystals blueground undergrass warner bros fox sports verizon wireless ocean street music pro show myspace |
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Tue, 25 July 2006
Big news and a fantastic interview with Brian Stephens from the Music Pro Show. News:
Solid State Logic (SSL) Listen Mic Compressor Plugin http://PumpAudio.com  Contact: Andy Diekroger at Sweetwater (800) 222-4700 Ext. 1273 DUY Magic Spectrum Strike - The Ultimate Virtual Drummer from Digidesign Celebrity Interview: As a producer and engineer, Brian has worked on projects for Warner Bros., Verizon Wireless, Fox Sports, and 20th Century Fox as well as CD projects for indie artists such as Mike Martin, Amber Brooke, Tentilfour, Magno, and Ocean Street. As an educator, Brian has performed drum clinics all over the country, written for magazines like Modern Drummer and Performer Magazine, and given personal instruction to thousands of drummers, audio engineers, and other music business professionals. He's also the host of a fantastic podcast called The Music Pro Show and the author of Stickin' It Out - The Anatomy Of A Professional Drummer. We sat down and had a nice chat with Brian about playing and recording music at all levels, from the home studio to the mega commercial facility. See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic sweetwater roger nichols digital duy the drifters the coasters the crystals blueground undergrass warner bros fox sports verizon wireless ocean street music pro show myspace |
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Mon, 17 July 2006
News, a great interview with project studio owner Stewart McClellan, some Viewer Mail regarding patchbays, Big Al's Gear and Studio Upgrade Conundrum continues, we tweak the Stupid Knob and we have a new contest! We'd also like to thank this week's Big Tipper Aaron Griffith! News:  Ableton.comLive 6 Interactive Tour Airspun.com Combo Mac OS X Updates Compatible With Pro Tools 7: Mixing With Your Mind Stewart McLellan is a project studio owner in British Columbia. He also used to work for TC Helicon developing and testing cool new gear, which he still does on occasion as a consultant. We caught up with Stewart a couple of weeks ago and had a chance to chat about his approach to making music in his studio...AND even getting paid for some of it!
http://www.harmony4.blogspot.com http://www.tc-helicon.com/default.asp?id=2895 http://www.tc-helicon.com/default.asp?id=2349      Answer To Last Week's "How'd They Do That?" Q: David Bowie’s Vocals On "Heroes". Bowie's voice starts dry and then has this huge reverb that develops deeper as he sings stronger and then automatically becomes more intimate and up close as he sings more softly. How'd they do that? A: Here's the answer straight from Tony Visconti, the man who came up with the idea. "I set up three microphones. We only had two or three tracks left, and I needed one of these for backing vocals. I couldn’t even bounce down, and so we’d snookered ourselves.  "Therefore, even though I would have ideally loved to put each mic on a separate track – enabling us to capture the whole room when he sang loud, and just that one mic right in front of his face when he sang quietly – I put gates on mics two and three. Mic number one was in front of him with fairly heavy compression, because I knew beforehand that he was really going to shout, and it all went down to one track. This was recording by the seat of your pants, and Bowie was thrilled with the idea that I wanted to do something unique. He thrives on anything that’s different and someone else hasn’t thought of yet, and I just thought ‘Let’s do this live,’ because he’s a great singer and he could always sing it again if I made a mistake. That’s the luxury of working with him: he’s consistently good when he sings. He’s in tune, he’s passionate, and he delivers an arena-type performance every time."Mic number one was a valve U47, and with the other two on gates I made sure that number two, an 87 placed about 15 feet away from him, would go on at a certain level, while the third mic, another 87 that was all the way at the other end of the room, didn’t open up until he really sang loud. That reverb on his voice is therefore the room itself, none of it is artificial, and it’s his voice triggering the gates. What is really great is that the sound of the opening two verses is really intimate. It doesn’t sound like a big room yet, it sounds like somebody just singing about a foot away from your ear. The whole idea worked, and what you hear on the record is probably take three."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/“Heroes?_(song) Congratulations to Austin Moore from Manchester UK for getting the answer exactly right! He's also a Music Technology Lecturer at the University Of Huddersfield and a dance music producer. Check out his sites: ShaFunkers.com & Musictech.hud.ac.uk Austin takes home a free copy of Guitar and Drum Trainer from RenegadeMinds.com! Also coming in with the correct answer just after Austin was Trevor Thornton and Ben Wells from Tasmania. We also have a couple of Honorable Mentions. These were both great guesses and actually interesting and usable techniques in their own right! Lloyd Murphy “I think Bowie’s voice was sent to a buss which had a gate followed by a verb on it. Singing quietly would allow for a dry, intimate vocal because the gate remained closed. However, when the singing got loud, the gate would open allowing the signal to go through the verb effect.? Andrew Brierly from the Home Recording Odyssey Podcast “The most low tech way that I can think of is to use real reverb, i.e. a room with great reverb characteristics, then sing back from the mic for the loud section were the reverb will show up and sing close and personal for the quiet parts were the reverb will be far less noticeable.? See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer andy gagliano ssl solid state logic duende sweetwater digidesign studio projects studio projects c3 studio projects c1 neumann u87 tony visconti david bowie home recording odyssey ableton airspun.com michael jackson |
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Mon, 10 July 2006
Hot industry news, Big Al's Gear Conundrum continues, we catch up with Oscar-winning key frame animator Jeremy Bolan, we hear our final beginners tips and tricks from Andy Gagliano and another How'd They Do That? News:
John Lennon Songwriting Contest http://www.AmpTone.com Audio Impressions London - 70 Piece Orchestra Plugin  Crosstalk:Al's Gear Conundrum - The Dreaded Upgrade - Part #2
SSL Duende Focusrite Liquid Mix Demo Video PreSonus Eureka Mic Pre Focusrite VoiceMaster Pro Mic Pre Jeremy Bolan, Oscar-winning Key Frame Animator stops by to update us on his carreer since winning the Oscar for his work on King Kong.  Jeremy Bolan Transformers - The Movie Jeremy's Credits At IMDB Rhythm & Hues Animation Studios George Lucas - Industrial Light & Magic Feature Story:  This week Andy stopped by to discuss his last topic in this series, Helpful Hints On Post Production In The Studio. Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question Q: What's David Crosby's real name? A: David Van Cortland! This week's only the first person to correctly answer was Stewart McLellan! Honorable mention goes to Patrick Abbas. Congratulations guys! Best Musician Joke Contest: The winner of the joke contest is Joven Kerekes from Ireland. It's based around players of an Irish instrument called a bodhran (BOW-ron). It's a type of hand drum. And, the winning joke... Q: What’s the difference between a bodhran player and a dead rabbit lying in the road? A: The rabbit might have been on it’s way to a gig. Congratulations Joven! You are the proud winner of a free copy of Guitar And Drum Trainer from Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com. See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer andy gagliano ssl solid state logic duende sweetwater digidesign focusrite studio projects studio projects c3 studio projects c1 neumann neumann tlm103 neumann u87 john lennon focusrite presonus garfield king kong george lucas industrial light and magic ilm transformers david crosby bodhran bodhran |
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Tue, 4 July 2006
On this week's show, some Viewer Mail, hot industry news, Al agonizes over a gear upgrade, some tips for getting the low-end mud out of your mix, another guest segment by Andy Gagliano and a new contest! News:  GuitarPlayerTV.comDigidesign Pro Tools 7 Quick Tip Videos aM Plugz Amplitube Uno - Free Plugin! Sound Toys Native McDSP Announces New Native Product Line Crosstalk:
 Solid State Logic DuendeWaves SSL 4000 Heil PR40 Microphone Mojave Audio MA 200 Tube Microphone Studio Projects C1 Microphone Studio Projects C3 MicrophoneNeumann U87 Microphone AKG 414 Microphones The Studio Projects C1 Microphone Shoot Out Raw .wav Files From Mic Shoot Out Massey Plugins Feature Story: This week Andy stopped by to discuss part two of his helpful tips on preparations before going into the studio. Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question Q: What famous rock band got their name from watching news coverage of the LA riots after the Rodney King verdict? Their debut album went to #1. A: Porno For Pyros! There were no correct answers this week so we're giving the free copy of Guitar And Drum Trainer to one of this week's tippers, Mr Tom Rushton. Congratulations and thank you Tom! This week we have a new contest with a free prize. Listen in and find out how to enter! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer bob heil joe walsh andy gagliano ssl solid state logic duende waves sweetwater digidesign amplitube sound toys mcdsp focusrite heil sound pr40 mojave audio mojave audio ma 200 studio projects neumann neumann u67 neumann u87 akg akg 414 porno for pyros tip jar high pass filter |
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Mon, 26 June 2006
Some cool news, another special feature from Andy Gagliano, Viewer Mail, part two of an interview with legendary rock gear-head Bob Heil, and a new piece of gear from SSL that you might actually be able to afford! News: Feature Story: This week Andy stopped by to discuss helpful preparations before going into the studio. Spotlight: The Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio, presenters of the Technical Excellence and Creativity (TEC) Awards, has announced the 2006 inductees to the TECnology Hall of Fame. The 2006 TECnology Hall of Fame inductees include:
1933 Fletcher-Munson Loudness Curves Harvey Fletcher/Wilden Munson/Bell Labs 1935 Lansing Shearer Horn  1953 Hammond Model B-3 tonewheel organ 1955 Ampex Sel-Sync 8-track recorder 1958 Telefunken Ela M 251 microphone 1967 Neumann U87 microphone 1967 Time-Delay Spectrometry—Richard Heyser 1971 Thiele-Small vented enclosure parameters A.N. Thiele/Richard H. Small 1976 UREI 813 studio monitors 1979 Lexicon 224 digital reverb 1979 TEAC Model 144 Portastudio 1983 Sony PCM-3324 digital multitrack 1983 Yamaha DX7 FM synthesizer 1987 Sonic Solutions NoNoise  Mark Jensen from PodSqod.com recently attended the National Association Of Broadcasters (NAB) convention where he had a chance to sit down with rock & roll gear legend, and creator of the famous Heil Talk Box, Mr. Bob Heil. Mark was kind enough to offer these clips to us so that you'd have a chance to listen in. Gear Review::Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question Q: Simply tell us the name of the band featured in the picture below. 
There was also two bonus questions. 1) What classic Little Feat song was covered by Garth Brooks? 2) What famous top ten country artist was in Pure Prairie League? The answers are Dixie Chicken and Vince Gill! Congratulations to John Demetre! He got all three questions right and won a free copy of Guitar & Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com!  Music Pro Show Podcast Host Honorable mention goes out to Brian Stephens from the Music Pro Show podcast who wrote in to say, “If any drummers are listening to your show and didn’t spot Richie Hayward right way, they need to turn in their sticks immediately!? See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons the beatles paul mccartney digidesign guitar and drum trainer bob heil joe walsh andy gagliano podsqod mark jensen little river band little feat nitty gritty dirt band pure prairie league music pro show brian stephens richie hayward garth brooks vince gill ssl solid state logic duende fxpansion waves sweetwater felicia collins the late show david letterman digidesign |
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Sun, 18 June 2006
Some cool news, a new special feature, a celebrity interview with Bob Heil of Heil Sound, a gear review, and another chance to win a free prize! News: Two FREE Plugins! Feature Presentation: Recently he came on the show to talk about MIDI and Soft Synths in the studio. Mark Jensen from PodSqod.com recently attended the National Association Of Broadcasters (NAB) convention where he had a chance to sit down with rock & roll gear legend, and creator of the famous Heil Talk Box, Mr. Bob Heil. Mark was kind enough to offer these clips to us so that you'd have a chance to listen in. This is part one of two. Gear Review:: Drums On Demand My Co-writer Song Starters Released!
Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question Q: What was the B side of Billy Preston's Nothing From Nothing that later went on to become a top five hit for Joe Cocker? A: You Are So Beautiful! Congratulations to Jim Farley, who was the first person to answer correctly and won a free copy of Guitar & Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com! And Patrick Bonier too! (He actually bought the single!) Honorable mention goes out to Paul Riggins, Stewart McLellan, Bill Camarata, John Demetre who all had the right answer, just a little too late. DOH! This week we're offering, once again, a free copy of Guitar And Drum Trainer to the first person to correctly answer this week's trivia question! This week, the trivia question is a little different, something we call Name That Band!. Simply tell us the name of the band featured in the picture below. If you listen to this week's show we give you four names to choose from to make it a little easier.
Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons the beatles billy preston digidesign guitar and drum trainer drums on demand nothing from nothing bob heil joe walsh the who tape op prince izotope andy gagliano midi podsqod mark jensen yamaha little river band little feat nitty gritty dirt band pure prairie league rad monkey the grateful dead digital music mag |
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Mon, 12 June 2006
A few cool news items, PSN correspondent and 5-time Emmy-winner John Davidson, an interview with music software developer Ryan Smith and a few great surprises!  He began playing piano while sitting on his mother's lap at age three. He collaborated with some of the greatest names in the music industry, including The Beatles, Sam Cooke, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eric Clapton, Sammy Davis Jr., Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, George Harrison, The Jackson 5, Quincy Jones, Bob Dylan, and The Rolling Stones. He was the only person to receive a credit on a Beatles single, playing the electric piano on Get Back as part of the rooftop concert. Here are some other quick facts:
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BBE Acoustimax Instrument Preamp Glyph Online Disk Space Calculator Thanks to Frederic Phan from France for a generous donation to the show this week! PSN correspondent John Davidson is a 5-time Emmy-award winning audio post mixer. We hadn't heard from John for awhile until last week as he's been on hiatus enjoying his lovely new baby boy. This week he returns for the second part of his report on interesting facts, tips and tricks regarding the art of surround sound. Celebrity Interview: Ryan Smith of RenegadeMinds.com is the creator of Guitar And Drum Trainer. If you're serious about your music, and you think there's room to improve your playing, then GDT is for you. It's the ultimate musician's MP3 audio player, trainer and transcription aid. We had a chat with Ryan to talk about this cool practice tool. Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question Q: What famous performing musician dominated record sales for three entire decades in a row; #1 in the 50s, #2 in the 60s and #13 in the 70s? A: ELVIS! Congratulations to John Demetre, the only listener to answer correctly! This week we're offering a free copy of Guitar And Drum Trainer to the first person to correctly answer this week's trivia question! (You'll have to listen to see what the question is.) See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons emmy surround sound dolby the beatles sam cooke red hot chili peppers eric clapton sammy davis jr sly stone aretha franklin george harrison the jackson 5 quincy jones bob dylan the rolling stones saturday night live miles davis billy preston with you i'm born again digidesign elvis guitar and drum trainer syreeta wright |
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Sun, 4 June 2006
A few cool news items, we welcome back PSN correspondent and 5-time Emmy-winner John Davidson, we have a mini gear review of EZ Drummer and Charles Dye pokes his head in for a second with a special surprise for us! Pro Tools Available For Intel Macs! All McDSP Plugins Coming For Intel Mac!
 PSN correspondent John Davidson is a 5-time Emmy-award winning audio post mixer. We haven't heard from John for awhile as he's been on hiatus enjoying his lovely new baby boy. This week he returns with more interesting facts, tips and tricks on the art of surround sound.  Last week we enjoyed the final part in a four-part series with Charles Dye. In that last segment he talked about some of his recent projects and mentioned an independent artist he was working with that really impressed him, John Ralston. We play you one of the recent cuts from John's project that Charles worked on, a song called I Believe In Ghosts. Charles pops in for a quick introduction. Gear Review:
EZ Drummer Drum Track Creation Plugin Price EZ Drummer At Sweetwater!
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Featured Studio: This week we're featuring a couple of shots of Mike Finley's home studio. We found Mike on the Frappr Map and have enjoyed learning about his setup. This is all contained in a second floor space and is a designated "Man Room".
Q: What legendary rock guitarist (a pioneer of the hard rock and metal genre) was a session player on Tom Jones' hit record It's Not Unusual? A: Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Congratulations to Ronnie Marler and Aaron Griffith for submitting the correct answer. Ronnie kicked it up a notch by adding this tidbit: AC/DC drummer Chris Slade also performed on the track! Way to go Ronnie! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr charles dye grammy creative commons sweetwater sound emmy john ralston tom jones jimmy page chris slade led zeppelin ac/dc it's not unusual surround sound dolby pro logic the cure bowflex |
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Mon, 29 May 2006
A couple of cool news items. some tips and tricks, we tweak the stupid knob, we introduce a new feature and we present the last part of a four-part interview with Charles Dye that finishes off our first mini-series we call The 30 Days Of Dye. Crosstalk:
PSN On Digital Music Mag Andy Diekroger Sweetwater Sound (800) 222-4700 Ext. #1273
Celebrity Interview: 
The studio where Mix It Like A Record was filmed: http://SuperSonicStudios.com Click to hear Charles' recent productions and mixes! Waves Plugins Sony Plugins  This week we present a new feature that will appear on the show from time to time. It's Lane Sumner's Instrument Spotlight. Lane is, of course, the world-class guitarist that wrote and performs our theme song. This first installment is called: Breaking Out Of A Soloing Rut
Answer To Last Week's "How'd They Do That? Q: In the Cher song Believe there's a cool vocal effect...How'd They Do That? A: A combination of hybrid digital vocoding and filtering.  The Man Behind The Cher Effect Dangerously close was Don from Digital Music Mag who thought it was a Digitech Vocalist. Closest was Ronnie Marler and Aage from Norway who simply said, "It's a vocoder."
Thanks to Dave Hendrickson For Supporting PSN! Go see his web site and listen to all his wonderful original tunes.
See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr charles dye grammy creative commons ricky martin sammy hagar julio iglesias bon jovi aerosmith jennifer lopez shakira livin la vida loca shake your bon bon cher digitech autotune myspace sweetwater sound american idol waves sony oxford vocoder glyph |
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Mon, 22 May 2006
A few cool resources and products, a review of a sweet plugin you're gonna want to check out, another exciting edition of How'd They Do That? and we present part three of our fireside chat with Charles Dye that's part of our special mini-series we call The 30 Days Of Dye. IT'S OUR 20th SHOW! YAHOO! Crosstalk:
The studio where Mix It Like A Record was filmed: Gear Review:  Tri-Tone Digital ColorTone-Free & ColorTone-Pro ($129) - ColorTone is a "Tone Box" which simulates the signal path of analog devices through the use of convolution and various proprietary non-linear processes. ColorTone is designed to provide analog-like character and flavor to the modern digital audio workstation.ColorTone-Pro allows the user to load their own samples (instructions for sampling your own equipment are included) and provides the user with our custom-coded Warmth algorithm to enhance the signal-path with extra harmonic goodness. Big Al's Review Recommendation: He gives ColorTone 5 out of 5 VU meters!  Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: Who was on the very first cover of Rolling Stone magazine? A: John Lennon! Congratulations to Jim Farley and Chris Swartwood for submitting the correct answer! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr charles dye grammy john lennon creative commons ricky martin sammy hagar julio iglesias bon jovi aerosmith jennifer lopez shakira beatles rolling stone livin la vida loca shake your bon bon brian eno david byrne philharmonia orchestra stylus rmx colortone free colortone pro |
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Mon, 15 May 2006
 Viewer mail, a hot new demo offer from IK Multimedia and we present Part #2 of our 30 Days Of Dye series of interviews with Charles Dye.Viewer Mail: A request for help from Aaron Griffith of Death 101 Records. His friend is using Fruity Loops Studio (the latest version). Amplitube 1.0 worked fine, but he's getting all sorts of errors. He also tried it with Cakewalk Home Studio and it won't work there either. Have anyone heard of any issues with Amplitube 2.0 not working in this context? Write in and let us know! On a related note, IK Multimedia is offering a fully functional Amplitube 2 demo good for 30 starts! You'll need a SyncroSoft USB dongle or iKey plugged into your computer when you install it to activate it. This is not an iLok. If you don't have one you can get one online or at a local Guitar Center for about 30 bucks. Celebrity Interview: The studio where Mix It Like A Record was filmed: Here's Charles' setting for the Waves RenComp that closely mimics the buss compressor on an SSL console:
With most of the music he's been mixing lately, 4 dB of compression at the loudest point in the song has been sounding really good. Charles comments, "I should also say that this is in no way considered mastering compression. Compression across the stereo bus while mixing is done all the time on most of the records you own. Whether inserted at the beginning or towards the end it's been a pretty standard technique for decades done by engineers all over the globe. If you need anymore proof, I have three letters: S - S - L." Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: What two famous, number one artists sang back up on the Boz Scaggs' hit Love, Look What You've Done To Me, as heard on the Urban Cowboy soundtrack. A: Glen Frey and Don Henley of the Eagles! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr leo laporte radio leo charles dye grammy boz scaggs creative commons ricky martin sammy hagar julio iglesias bon jovi aerosmith jennifer lopez shakira gloria estefan keith richards rolling stones livin la vida loca shake your bon bon eagles don henler glen frey rolling stone mick jagger amplitube fruit loops cakewalk syncrosoft ikey ilok guitar center |
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Mon, 8 May 2006
 First, a big PSN hello to our new listeners that are joining us after discovering us on Radio Leo, Leo Laporte's podcast network channel, and thanks to all our listeners for continually downloading the show each week. This week we hit a new milestone - as of show #17, we've exceeded the 6,000 listener mark! Yay! Crosstalk:
 New Massey CT4 Compressor Plugin Mike's in a jazz band! PSN is now published under a Creative Commons License Celebrity Interview: The Stupid Knob: Keith Richards fans gathered outside a hospital last Sunday where the 62-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist was believed to be undergoing treatment for a mild concussion suffered when he fell out of a palm tree on vacation in Fiji. It was also reported that he got on a Jet Ski after the fall and had another accident.If Keith Richards falls out of tree in the forest and there's no one there to hear it, does it still make a sound? Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: Who played the guitar solo on the famous Beatles song While My Guitar Gently Weeps? A: Eric Clapton! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr leo laporte radio leo charles dye grammy boz scaggs beatles while my guitar gently weeps the ghost that feeds the hand that feeds trent reznor massey compressor jazz creative commons ricky martin sammy hagar julio iglesias bon jovi aerosmith jennifer lopez shakira gloria estefan keith richards rolling stones desmond child livin la vida loca shake your bon bon josie steely dan smooth jazz stevie wonder al jarreau |
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Sun, 30 April 2006
A couple of cool sites to share with you, a special podcast to recommend, a CD you ought to know about and Part #2 of our interview with the King Of All Geek Media, Mr. Leo Laporte!  He's a multi-platinum, Grammy-winning mixer, engineer and producer. He was the first person to win a Grammy for a song that was mixed entirely 'in the box', with Pro Tools. No analog gear was used. And he actually likes to share his secrets with others about how to get your mixes to sound like a record. In fact, Charles has published a fantastic interactive mixing course called Mix It Like A Record. It features three hours of instruction, an ever-growing library of online instructional movies and 40 Pro Tools sessions for you to load up on your own gear and see exactly what he's doing. We'll be talking about subjects in this course throughout the next four shows with him. If you haven't already gotten this interactive mixing course for yourself, what are you waiting for? Crosstalk:
Rehearsals.com Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions Bare Naked Ladies Podcast Part #2 of an exciting interview with the King Of All Geek Media, Mr. Leo Laporte! Here's a link to the podcast channel that will get you all of Leo's dynasty of podcasts: Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: Before his career took off, Jackson Browne joined what unlikely band for just two weeks? A: Blue Oyster Cult! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr moog styx mr roboto vocoder roland prosoniq shooter jennings electric rodeo rick derringer free ride leo laporte this week in tech twit tech tv kfi tech guy macbreak radio leo the laporte report leoville security now the daily giz whiz floss call for help inside the net amber macarthur screen savers dev null pandora libsyn garage band intel mac charles dye mix it like a record grammy guitar center my space joss stone the soul sessions bare naked ladies jackson browne blue oyster cult take it easy glenn frey eagles beatles while my guitar gently weeps |
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Mon, 24 April 2006
On today's show, a new product recommendation, music industry news, a great piece of viewer mail, a PSN blues jam and a fascinating interview with the King Of All Geek Media, Mr. Leo Laporte! Crosstalk:   The PSN Blues Jam Mike and Al record a little blues jam based on the free jam tracks they recommended on the last show. Spotlight: Part #1 of an exciting interview with the King Of All Geek Media, Mr. Leo Laporte! Here's a link to the podcast channel that will get you all of Leo's dynasty of podcasts: Viewer Mail: Matthias Frank from Germany writes, "I'm working here on Pro Tools 24 Mix on OS 9 and I was visiting some trade shows with different companies who offer new (supposedly better) audio interfaces for a much cheaper price. I'm debating whether or not to sell all of my formerly "high-class" equipment from Digidesign and switch to something else. "Is the quality that much better as these new companies tell you and try to convince you? Would do you guys think about the quality issues regarding audio interfaces. Is it all hype?" Answer To Last Week's: How'd They Do That? Q: There's a popular vocal effect used in songs like Mr.Roboto by Styx, and even in some science fiction programs. How'd They Do That?   David "SpoonZ" Spooner from Australia answered the question correctly and even sent in an audio example of how he created this effect with plugins in his own studio. See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr moog styx mr roboto vocoder roland prosoniq shooter jennings electric rodeo rick derringer free ride leo laporte this week in tech twit tech tv kfi tech guy macbreak radio leo the laporte report leoville security now the daily giz whiz floss call for help inside the net amber macarthur screen savers dev null pandora libsyn garage band intel mac |
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Sun, 16 April 2006
You don't want to miss even one of these as Charles generously shares his insights and Grammy-winning mixing secrets with us. Link to Massey Plugins for ProTools:  
Free guitar backing/jam tracks: The Thomas Dolby Tour Blog: This week we feature the second half of our interview we did a couple of weeks ago with Mark Jensen, the host of the popular PodSqod podcast. This week we talk a little "gear talk" and discuss the independent musician online. Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: What was the first Beatles song to feature a Moog synthesizer? A: Because off of the Abbey Road album. This reminds Al that a cool new mono, analog Moog synth has recently been released. It's called the Moog Little Phatty. Here's a pic and a link: 
This Week's Trivia Question: This week is another special edition of "How'd They Do That?" This time it's the popular vocal effect used in songs like Mr.Roboto by Styx. Have a listen and tell us how they did that. Better yet, send us an MP3 of you doing the same thing yourself! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio mixing frappr digidesign protools plugin the beatles podsqod mark jensen abbey road broadcasting moog little phatty synthesizer charles dye grammy thomas dolby styx mr roboto |
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Sun, 9 April 2006
On this show we have a new product announcement, a great listener audio greeting from David Spooner from Perth, Australia, a great interview with Mark Jensen of PodSqod and some challenging Beatles music trivia! MI7 has announced the distribution of the EMI TG1 - 2413 Limiter Plug-in - the first TDM/RTAS product developed by Chandler, in conjunction with the world-renowned Abbey Road Studios. The original hardware limiter featured on the TG Consoles was used to record classic albums like The Beatles' Abbey Road and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. This set of plugins lets Pro Tools users work with that same classic sound. Today we have an audio greeting from a listener Down Under in Perth, Australia, Mr. David "SpoonZ" Spooner. He works as an Audio/Visual Tech at St. Hilda's Girls School in Perth. Most of the audio work he does is similar to the greeting he sent us. He provides sound effects for theatre productions and often has to go out and record or find effects and mash together soundscapes or effects from the various parts. He also shoots and edits video. This week we're featuring part one of a two-part interview we did a couple of weeks ago with Mark Jensen, the host of the popular PodSqod podcast. This week we talk about Mark's background in broadcasting and how recording equipment and techniques come into play for producing his podcasting projects. Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: Besides John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, what two other people were once members of The Beatles? A: Stuart Sutcliffe and Billy Preston.
This Week's Trivia Question: Q: What was the first Beatles song to feature a Moog synthesizer? See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio mixing frappr digidesign protools john lennon paul mccartney george harrison ringo starr the beatles podsqod mark jensen mi7 abbey road studios pink floyd dark side of the moon perth australia broadcasting stuart sutcliffe billy preston moog synthesizer |
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Sun, 2 April 2006
This week on the show, industry software news, a gear review for you horn players, an offer of full master multitrack session files from a Trent Reznor (NIN - Nine Inch Nails) with permission to do just about anything you want with them and an unexpected dangerous donkey update!  1929-2006 We really want you to get involved in the show, so please send us your favorite recording tips and tricks in .mp3 format and we'll include them in the show! And send us pictures of your recording space and equipment which we'll also use in an upcoming new spot called Featured Studio Of The Week! Are you working on, or finishing up a project that our listeners would like to listen in on? Maybe you just recorded a track that's cooler than cool. We want to play it on the show! Get in touch with us and let us know about it! Crosstalk: Propellerhead announces Reason 3.0.5 for Intel Macs - Beta testers needed! IK and Sonic Reality are offer free sounds for Reason���® -- Yes, you can download FREE Sonic Refills, demo patches and custom Combinator modules! IK Multimedia announced that AmpliTube 2.0 is finally shipping. So, if you've ordered, keep your eye out for the big brown truck with goodies in it! The Stupid Knob:Last week Mike announced the wacky but true statistic that every year, more people are injured in donkey related incidents than are injured in airplane related mishaps. It seems there may be more to it. Mike shares his insights. Gear Review: Matt Long from the Home Studio And Audio Review returns to review a very specialized piece of gear for trumpet players...the Yamaha PM7 Silent Brass System.  Spotlight: Trent Reznor (NIN - Nine Inch Nails) has been, and still is, giving away master multitrack sessions for two of his songs for you to remix / reinterpret / destroy or whatever. The Hand That Feeds GarageBand Format Only  GarageBand, Ableton Live, Pro Tools and Sony Acid Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: What was the first commercial music CD released in the US that was also manufactured in the US? All CDs sold in the US previously had been import titles pressed for overseas labels. (These were still manufactured overseas, but for US labels.) A: According to the Tenth Anniversary of The CD supplement to the September 26, 1992 issue of Billboard Magazine, it was the September 1984 release of Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA. This Week's Trivia Question: Q: Besides John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, what two other people were once members of The Beatles? See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio mixing trent reznor nin nine inch nails garageband buck ownens amplitube dwight yokum bakersfield sound propellerhead act naturally i've got a tiger by the tail bridge over troubled water paul simon frappr digidesign protools bob dylan love minus zero catch the wind no limit nashville reason combinator subtractor malstrom yamaha pm7 silent brass intel mac ik multimedia sonic reality sonic refill rex loops the hand that feeds ableton live sony acid bruce springsteen born in the usa John Lennon paul mccartney george harrison ringo starr the beatles |
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Sun, 26 March 2006
On this week's show we feature some ProTools updates, a recommendation for a great online service and an interview with an Oscar-winning computer animator.  Al begins with a couple of ProTools updates concerning recent versions Mac OSX Tiger and their compatibility with recent versions of ProTools, as well as a heads up on a potential technical issue with the Digi 002R.Next, Mike shares a great online service for sending large files (up to one gig) without any charge. Here's the link: Celebrity Interview: We're proud and privileged to interview Oscar-winning computer key frame animator, Mr. Jeremy Bolan. His latest project was the blockbuster King Kong, which just happens to have been released on DVD today. Jeremy Bolan Here are the links we talked about in the interview:
Tippett Studio Peter Jackson's Weta Digital Ltd Rhythm & Hues Studio Our New Frappr Map Is Up! Come on over and put in a virtual push pin. Show us where you're listening from and what you look like! Here's the link: Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: There was a special guitar sound, often referred to as "the talking guitar" used by artists like Peter Frampton in the song Show Me The Way, Joe Walsh in his song Rocky Mountain Way and Richie Samborra on the latest Bon Jovi hit It's My Life. How'd They Do That?  Congratulations to the following listeners that got the right answer!
This Week's Trivia Question: Q: What was the first commercial music CD released in the US that was also manufactured in the US? All CDs sold in the US previously had been import titles pressed for overseas labels. These were still manufactured overseas, but for US labels. See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio mixing peter frampton joe walsh richie samborra guitar king kong constantine starship troopers stepford wives garfield computer animation heil talkbox bob heil pete drake frappr digidesign oscar phil tippett tippett studio key frame animator motion capture weta digital peter jackson rhythm hues |
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Sun, 19 March 2006
Mike opens the show by thanking everyone for their continued communication. Al asks a favor - help us out by posting a review of our show in the iTunes music store. Here's a link that will take you to our page where you can write a review:  Joe just keeps getting cooler and cooler lately. On his web site you can now listen to his new album Super Colossal in its entirety...f.r.e.e! You can also watch the new video of the title track as well as a 27-minute video feature of band rehearsals for the upcoming Super Colossal tour. Great behind the scenes stuff! As an added bonus you get to see Joe Riverdance! Here's the link to the page on satriani.com where you can access all of this cool content: Viewer Mail: Grae Smart writes: "I know that to send two tracks to a reverb, you put the reverb on an aux track and then send the tracks to it. You can control the amount with the send fader. However, when I want to compress two tracks, say two vocal tracks while recording, I don't think it works the same way. I think you need to send each track through its own compressor. Otherwise transients from one would affect compression on the other. What's your opinion?" Celebrity Interview: Al explains that a while back he found another podcast about home recording that he really enjoyed called Home Studio And Audio Review. Unfortunately, it's no longer being produced, but all of the shows are still available for download. Mike and Al caught up with one of the hosts of the show, Mr. Matt Long. In the interview Matt passes the torch to PSN for a new style of Trivia Question he used to feature on his podcast.  Mike reviews two new interesting guitar pre-amps/recording interfaces from Damage Control. They are both based on a dual 12AX7 tube design. They both feature:
Several demo clips are presented for your listening pleasure. Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Due to our tenth anniversay show last week, there was no trivia question. This Week's Trivia Question: As you heard in the interview with Matt Long, this week is the first of a special How'd They Do That? edition of the trivia question. Q: There was a special guitar sound, often referred to as "the talking guitar" used by artists like Peter Frampton in the song Show Me The Way, Joe Walsh in his song Rocky Mountain Way and Richie Samborra on the latest Bon Jovi hit It's My Life. How'd They Do That? Send us your answers! Don't forget you can also send us your audio comments in MP3 format.  Mike recommends checking out a relatively new star on the scene, James Blunt and his album Back To Bedlam. "Interesting sound. He really rocked the house on Oprah last week!" He currently has the #6 Single and #3 Album in the iTunes Music Store. See you next week! Tags: music recording studio mixing james blunt peter frampton joe walsh richie samborra oprah guitar home studio joe satriani itunes 12ax7 bon jovi |
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Tue, 14 March 2006
Yay! We made it! It's show #10 and we're feeling stronger than ever. We review some of what has gone into our first ten shows and how we're just not going to stop! We're already planning what we're going to do to make our 100th show special. Today's show is a tasty grab bag of tidbits that were planned for earlier shows but never made it for one reason or another. CONGRATULATIONS TO JOHN DAVIDSON!John and his lovely wife just welcomed a new addition to the family with a healthy baby boy! He was born at 12:11 AM on Saturday March 11, 2006. He's 6 pounds, 9 ounces, and 20 1/2" long. Al points out that he believes John brought in a surround sound crew to record the birth and that he managed to get a small sample from the scratch track already in 5.1. Al plays the clip and everyone is amazed by the "you are there" realism! A Minor Correction: Just a minor correction from last week's trivia question. We spoke with Charles Dye, and while the Ricky Martin song, Livin' La Vida Loca was recorded and mixed entirely inside the box with Pro Tools, it wasn't mastered that way. It was mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound in New York, New York. Here's the link to the awesome Sterling Sound web site: Ted and Sterling Sound has done some great work with artists like: John Mayer, Destiny's Child, Nickelback, Ozzy Osbourne, Green Day, Santana, Bare Naked Ladies, Billy Joel, Chris Botti and a host of others. 
Andy Diekroger (800) 222-4700 Extension: 1273  Aja This is a vivid portrait of the making of the canonical 1970s record AJA by Steely Dan. Band members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen recall the history of an album that was a year in the making, but rewarded with a Grammy Award and three hit singles. British songwriter Ian Dury, the Doobie Brothers' Michael McDonald, and music producer Gary Katz all add their fascinating anecdotes to this highly involving rockumentary. Many of the mixes are dissected and studio sessions are detailed.  Total Guitar Mike shares web site that details the acoustic guitar setups of many famous players like: James Taylor, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Alex de Grassi, Michael Hedges, Leo Kottke, Adrian Legg, Paul Simon and more. Next, Al says that if you're a Comcast Cable subscriber with On Demand service, dig into the menus. There's all kinds of free video music tutorials and gear reviews that are a lot of fun to watch. Mike encourages trying to play as many parts live in your project as possible. Break out of the sequencer and samples and discover something new! Al details solving a sampled bass challenge by running it through Amplitube (a digital guitar amp simulator). How do you pronounce the word spelled P - I - E - Z - O? The Online American Heritage Dictionary sets us all straight. Here's the audio pronunciation from their site. Click here to hear it! Viewer Mail: "Big Al, I picked up the BBE acoustic pre-amp you recommended on ebay for $72. Just got it yesterday, tried it out, and you were right. It works great. Nice sweetening effect, even on my Neve-equipped Taylor. Begs a question, however. What's your opinion on piggy-backing pre's?"I'm not a big fan of stacking up pre's. That said, it can work with careful monitoring. The problems that often crop up are distortion and phase-like anomalies. If you're using a unit with an effects loop that you can use it to insert the BBE. If you're using a mixing console, you could also insert the BBE in the channel there. If the only choice is to stack the pre's, I think I'd go through the BBE last. It's usually not a good effect to equalize the BBE process. It lives best at the end of the chain.  Hollywood, California Q: Starting on August 25, 1970, who became an overnight sensation after playing only seven consecutive nights at the Troubadour in Hollywood, California? The club only held 600 people, but by the end of that week everyone in Los Angeles was talking about this person, who went on to become a multi-platinum, multi-Grammy winning recording artist. A: Sir Elton John! Double Bonus Points Question:  A: Neil Diamond! The Los Angeles Times raved: "Rejoice. Rock music ... has a new star. he's Elton John ... whose debut ... was, in almost every way, magnificent. His music is so staggeringly original ... [his] songs so varied in texture that his work defies classification ... He's going to be one of rock's biggest and most important stars."In that same year, John Lennon and his friend, Harry Nilsson, were ejected from the club for heckling the Smothers Brothers. Randy Newman started out at the club and comics Cheech & Chong were discovered there. In 1975, Elton John returned to do a series of special anniversary concerts. Mike was there for one night of this legendary performance and shares his memories of the experience. This Week's Trivia Question: In honor of our tenth show, we're taking a trivia break this week! Al mentions our new Listener Feedback Line: (928) 395-1343 Give us a call and be sure to leave your name and e-mail address! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio surround sound cabo charles dye mixing ricky martin livin la vida loca charles dye john mayer destinys child nickelback ozzie osbourne green day santana bare naked ladies billy joel chris botti steeley dan walter becker doobie brothers michael mcdonald eric johnson elton john neil diamond john lennon randy newman cheech chong joe satriani james taylor mary chapin carpenter alex de grassi michael hedges leo kottke adrian legg paul simon ozzy osbourne hollywood troubadour sweetwater sound |
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Mon, 6 March 2006
Mike and Al open the show with a recommendation of another
podcast that's worth subscribing to. It's the Super Colossal Podcast
by Joe Satriani himself. Here's the link to the subscription page
on Joe's web site:Spotlight:PSN correspondent and 5-time Emmy winner John Davidson presents his latest installment in the his series. "The Art & Tech Of Surround Sound Mixing." This week John breaks down the walls of mystery surrounding (pardon the pun) phase. Are you in phase or out of phase? Is it good or bad? Does it matter? Listen and find out! (Pssssst! In this segment John also gives away one the coolest live mixing secrets that engineers usually won't share with you. Watch out for any black helicopters hovering over your house John!) Celebrity Interview:  In our last segment, you heard the addition of mariachi style trumpets to the scratch track. The musician brought in to lay down these parts was the incomparable Mike Lenke. Last week we interviewed Mike about his background and his career as a performing and recording horn player. This week, we're talking with Mike specifically about his work on the Cabo Project. Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: What was the first #1 record in history to be created, start to finish, completely within a hard disk system? (No outboard gear, or outboard consoles, etc.) A: Livin' La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin, released May 11, 1999. It was #1 for 5 weeks. Q: Who was the multi-platinum, Grammy award winning mixer/engineer that was responsible for this historic mix? A: Charles Dye! He won a Grammy for Best Engineered Album in 2001 and has been nominated six more times. Some of the artists he's worked with include Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Julio Iglesias, Gloria Estefan, Sammy Hagar and Bon Jovi. Learn more about him on his personal web site: This Week's Trivia Question: Q: Starting on August 25, 1970, who became an overnight sensation after playing only seven consecutive nights at the Troubadour night club in Hollywood, California? The club only held 600 people, but by the end of that week everyone in Los Angeles was talking about this person, who went on to become a multi-platinum, multi-Grammy winning recording artist. Double Bonus Points Question: Q: Who introduced this artist on the opening night? See you next week! Tags: music recording studio surround sound cabo charles dye trumpet ricky martin hollywood troubadour mariachi |
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Mon, 27 February 2006
 Mike opens the show with an interesting web site detailing the huge collection of music memorabilia contained in the recent sale of the estate of Bill Graham:
Mike's old band, Mt. Rushmore, is featured in the site here:
The Stupid Knob:The Electronic Frontier Foundation and ARS Technica reports on a latest statement (and possible filing?) by the RIAA that basically says it's illegal to rip your own CDs to your own iPod (or other portable player). They went even further and stated that it's illegal to make a backup copy of CDs you own.Here's one of the most interesting parts of the RIAA's take on this (emphasis ours): "Myriad online downloading services are available and offer varying types of digital rights management alternatives. For example, the Apple FairPlay technology allows users to make a limited number of copies for personal use. Presumably, consumers concerned with the ability to make back up copies would choose to purchase music from a service that allowed such copying.Thanks for nothing!  This week we Interview Mike Lenke, trumpet player extraordinaire. Mike has performed and recorded with the likes of Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich, B.B. King and Ray Charles. Mike shares highlights from his career thus far as well as his experiences and insights on recording horns in the studio. After some cajoling by Big Al, he even gives up some tips on realistically emulating horns with a sampler. Mike will be making another appearance on an upcoming show as he is also part of the Cabo Project. Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: Who played keyboards on Stevie Nicks' song Stand Back under the alias Alexander Nevermind? A: Prince! This week we received correct answers from four listeners! Congratulations and props to Mike Schettler from Shortler Studios, Grae Smart, Corrinne Haskins and Jimmy James Page! This Week's Trivia Question: Q: What was the first number one record in history to be created, start to finish, completely within a hard disk system? (No outboard gear, outboard consoles, etc.) Double Bonus Points Question: Q: Who was the multi-platinum, Grammy award-winning mixer/engineer that was responsible for this historic mix? See you next week! Tags: music recording studio riaa grammy stevie nicks ray charles alexander nevermind mt rushmore |
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Sun, 19 February 2006
Mike opens the show with a fantastic resource located here: In this unique and comprehensive music production web site, you may watch over 100 leading record producers talking on camera about their work and take 80 exclusive behind the scenes video tours around some of the world's top recording studios. The Stupid Knob: Mike shares a short story demonstrating one of the most unique iPod accessories we've every heard of. Kids, don't try this at home! Spotlight:PSN correspondent and 5-time Emmy winner John Davidson is back for Part #2 of the series The Tech And Art Of Surround Mixing. This week John discusses the proper method for calibrating your listening space. Gear Review: Big Al reviews Trilogy, a virtual bass instrument from Eric Persing at Spectrasonics.
If you're not a bass player, you always run across the need to lay down a quality bass track, often with some kind of sampler.  Trilogy is a Virtual Bass Module plug-in, 3 gigabyte core library with a powerful, yet easy to use interface and synth engine for manipulating the sounds. Windows and Mac, VST, AU and RTAS.
Several audio examples are presented demonstrating the True Staccato feature that is the power behind the stunning realism of this plugin. Big Al's Review Recommendation: It's the best in class and is going to be hard to beat any time soon, short of hiring a real session bassist. He gives Spectrasonics Trilogy 5 out of 5 VU meters! Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: In 1968, Iron Butterfly released the classic 17-minute long In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is actually a corrupted version of the song's original name. What was it?  A: In The Garden Of EdenThis week we received two correct answers from listeners! Congratulations and props to Grae Smart and Ronnie Marler, host of the Virtual Song Cast Podcast. Extra background facts:
This Week's Trivia Question: Q: Who played keyboards on Stevie Nicks' song Stand Back under the alias Alexander Nevermind? E-mail us your answer! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio emmy spectrasonics eric persing plugins iron butterfly bass guitar stevie nicks surround sound |
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Tue, 14 February 2006
Mike opens the show with a great online resource located at: Viewer Mail:Lane Sumner contacted us to share one of killer tips on getting good guitar tone in the studio. It involves recording direct using a Line 6 Pod while having a live amp in the room at the same time. The kicker is that there's no mic on the amp, or any other connection for that matter! This is indeed a KILLER TIP! Celebrity Interview: This week's interview is with Mike Bolan himself. This is Part #2 of the Cabo Project, which follows the life of a song from its composition through its final mastering. Revenge Of The Mariachis! This week, mariachi-style trumpets are added by world-class horn player Mike Lenke. He's a true recording professional and unsung hero of the music biz. He started his career in the military and then later toured with Ringling Brothers Circus, Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich and Maynard Ferguson. For three and a half years he was also an integral part of the very last Ray Charles tour. Here's a link to download the entire song with all of the trumpet parts: Download Christmas In Cabo with trumpets Feature Story:This is the first feature of our new PSN Correspondent and 5-time Emmy winner, Mr. John Davidson. This is Part #1 in his series, The Tech And Art Of Surround Mixing. This week John details the appropriate hardware setup for monitoring surround sound both in the studio and as a home user. Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: Who was the famous keyboard player (who had his own 1983 top forty hit at #23) brought in to enhance Foreigner's sound on the very popular Foreigner 4 album? A: Thomas Dolby Q: Double Bonus Points Question: What was his own top forty hit? A: She Blinded Me With Science This Week's Trivia Question: Q: In 1968, Iron Butterfly released the classic 17-minute long In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is actually a corrupted version of the song's original name. What was it? E-mail us your answer! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio emmy guitar trumpet plugins iron butterfly cabo thomas dolby surround sound |
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Wed, 8 February 2006
Mike opens this week's show with details on the upcoming ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO. Click here for more details.
Gear Review:  Al points out that Paul McCartney will be performing live for the first time on the Grammy Awards. Next, an update on Mac Intel compatibility, including the new Logic 7.2 and M-AUDIO. Here's the link that was mentioned for further information:The Stupid Knob: A consumer sues Apple Computer for his hearing loss due to listening to his iPod too loud. Our Motto: "Why The Music Business Sucks" is considered along with a quote from Hunter S. Thompson to back us up.  Spotlight:Getting & Recording Great Guitar Tone - Part #2
Al's secret weapon for acoustic and clean electric guitar: The BBE 386 Acoustic Preamp. Now discontinued, it lives on through the magic of ebay, usually for under $200.00. Here's the links regarding this great little product and the BBE process itself: Gear Review #2 Native Instruments New Guitar Rig 2  Mike reviews this very exciting new plugin. Here's the link (download the free demo!):Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: What was the first #1 hit to have a playing time of more than four minutes? A: House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals - 1964 An interesting side note... The Animals did not write "The House of the Rising Sun." (If you look at the really small print on their 1966 album, The Best of the Animals, you'll find that it was only arranged by them.) According to Alan Lomax in his book Our Singing Country (1941), the melody of "The House of the Rising Run" is a traditional English ballad and the lyrics were written by Georgia Turner and Bert Martin (both from Kentucky). It was first recorded in the 1920s by black bluesman Texas Alexander and later covered by Leadbelly, Charlie Byrd, Roy Acuff, Woody Guthrie, Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Tracy Chapman and Bob Dylan...just to name a few. This Week's Trivia Question: Q: Who was the famous keyboard player (who had his own 1983 top forty hit at #23) brought in to enhance Foreigner's sound on the very popular Foreigner 4 album? Double Bonus Points Question: What was this keyboard player's 1983 top forty hit? E-mail us your answers! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio bbe guitar plugins paul mccartney native instruments apple logic intel mac |
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Sun, 29 January 2006
This week's show opens with a big thank you to Lane Sumner for the PSN theme music and our announcer Bob Brooks, the voice of PSN.Celebrity Interview: This entire show is devoted to a very special guest who's a premiere unsung hero of the business.
John gives us a fascinating insider's look into mixing for television and film. He tells us how "what you've done" is more important than just about anything else, including formal schooling. He shares with us how he got his start in the business, which is a blueprint for anyone looking to get started with any type of commercial studio today. He also outlines some of the unique challenges with creating mixes where the quality of the final presentation is in the hands of others who might not be particularly skilled in sound production. Mike closes the show with an exciting announcement! John is joining PSN as a regular field correspondent. His experience and expertise will be invaluable to you as he shares news and tidbits from inside the business. He'll also be presenting Master Classes on standard and surround sound mixing. Since this show ran long, the answer to last week's trivia question has been postponed until next week. That's not necessarily a bad thing as no one has answered it correctly yet. So, you have one more week to get your answer in by e-mail. Here's the question again: This Week's Trivia Question: What was the first #1 hit to have a playing time of more than four minutes? See you next week! Tags: music recording studio emmy award motorweek pbs audio post dave matthews surround sound |
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Sun, 22 January 2006
![[Show #3] Getting Great Guitar Tone, Wilson Pickett Dead At 64](http://assets.libsyn.com/content/2329193 "[Show #3] Getting Great Guitar Tone, Wilson Pickett Dead At 64")
First up, some sad news. Wilson Pickett, best-known for hits "In the Midnight Hour" & "Mustang Sally", died of a heart attack yesterday at just 64 years young. Mike and Al share some personal memories of his work.Spotlight: Al discusses the new Macintosh computers with the Intel chip inside and it's compatibility with timing-based applications (MIDI, audio, video, etc.). The new computers are using a translation program called Rosetta to run any application that's not been updated to run on the Intel processor. Rosetta does not handle timing-based applications very well and is not ready to function as a media production platform until updates of the applications are available. Even Apple's own pro media apps (Final Cut, Soundtrack, Logic, etc.) won't run on this new machine yet. Updates of these pro apps should be available after March. In the meantime, if you're an Ableton Live user, you're good to go with the new Intel Macs! Version 5.2 was just released and ready to run on this new platform. Live 5.2 will be available as a download in February. Hot News From NAMM! Digidesign is heating up the NAMM show with lots of great news and releases... Digidesign Acquires Assets of Trillium Lane Labs
Digidesign is pleased to introduce the Digidesign�® Advanced Instrument Research group -- a new division that is dedicated to creating powerful virtual instruments purpose built for the Pro Tools environment. The Advanced Instrument Research group is showcasing two new exciting virtual instruments at this year's NAMM convention: the free Xpand! sound factory workstation and the soon-to-be-released Hybrid analog/digital high-definition synthesizer. Xpand! Your Creativity with a FREE Pro Tools Virtual Instrument
At this year's NAMM convention, Digidesign is previewing two new toolkit offerings that can help you dramatically expand your music and post production options. Take advantage of powerful plug-in collections, an increased track count, the Pro Tools MP3 Option, an included upgrade to Pro Tools 7.1 software, and much more! Every Digi 002 Now Includes the Factory Software Bundle
Now Shipping: Synchro Arts VocALign PRO
Synchro Arts introduces VocALign PRO, a new and more powerful version of the unique VocALign automatic audio alignment tool. VocALign PRO provides audio, post production, and multimedia professionals the greatest flexibility and power to quickly complete audio alignment tasks -- automatically, within the industry-standard Pro Tools environment as an AudioSuite plug-in. VocALign PRO automatically stretches or compresses one audio signal to match the timing patterns of another, saving you time and money. FXpansion's entire product line is now Pro Tools 7-ready. They've been optimized for Pro Tools 7, which will deliver substantial performance enhancements across the board. Includes GURU, BFD, VST to RTAS Adapter. The new VST to RTAS Adapter v2.0 also adds support for multiple outputs from VST plug-ins, and offers compatibility with close to 2,000 VST plug-ins and instruments. All of these are fully compatible with Pro Tools HD, Pro Tools LE, and Pro Tools M-Powered software on Mac OS X and Windows XP. Crosstalk: Getting a great guitar sound live and in the studio. Mike discusses the challenge of getting a great guitar sound in the first place, even before you're ready to record it. Amp and cabinet types are considered, as well as microphone choice and room placement. Modern processors like the Line 6 POD and Amplitube are compared to old school methods.Tweaking The Stupid Knob: "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962. This Week's Trivia Question: What was the first #1 hit to have a playing time of more than four minutes? Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: What was the most played song on American radio during the twentieth century? A: You've Lost That Loving Feeling - written by Barry Mann, Phil Spector and Cynthia Weil. (Congratulations to Chris B. who correctly answered this one!) Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil (still married: http://www.mann-weil.com) have written and/or recorded 53 top 40 hits so far. Here are just a few of them:
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Sat, 14 January 2006
![[Show #2] The Cabo Project & PSP Vintage Warmer Review](http://assets.libsyn.com/content/2329182 "[Show #2] The Cabo Project & PSP Vintage Warmer Review")
This week Mike opens with a news tidbit just for the country music musicians out there! This may actually be more of a safety warning.Spotlight: Big Al spotlights the new release of Apple's Garage Band 3 and a great site for finding cover art for your digital music collection: http://FindMyCover.com Mike spotlights a great web site (http://HollywoodHangover.com) that focuses on the Hollywood scene in the 60's that gave us so much of our early recorded rock 'n roll and many of our present celebrities in music and the movies. (Pssst! Mike was part of that scene too and will soon be appearing on this site, including pictures back when he actually had hair!) Celebrity Interview: Big Al interviews Mike about a new feature on the show, "The Cabo Project." This will follow a song from it's creation as words and melody (Mike is the composer of this song, Christmas In Cabo), to it's completion as a mastered tune ready to be included in an album project currently being produced by Hit Street Records. We'll follow the process and along the way learn why certain decisions were made, why tracks were added or deleted, how it was mixed, etc. A sample of the very first raw, scratch track is played. Click here to download the entire scratch track of Christmas In Cabo Gear Review: Big Al reviews PSP Vintage Warmer from PSP Audioware (available for Mac and Windows). This a single- or multi-band compressor/limiter with sound and saturation characteristics carefully modeled on those of analog tape machines. Also, the programmers of this fine plugin have agreed to come on the Podcast for an interview after the NAMM at the end of January. Here's a link to their site: http://PSPAudioware.com Big Al's Review Recommendation: He gives PSP Vintage Warmer 5 our of 5 VU meters! This Weeks Trivia Question: What was the most played song on American radio in the twentieth century? E-mail in your answer! Hints: Although recorded by different artists, this song is the only one in history to be played over 8 million times on the radio. That amounts to about 45 years if the song was played back to back! There are 3 songs that were played 7 million times: Never My Love, Yesterday, and Stand By Me (in that order). And it's not something silly or a trick answer like Happy Birthday or White Christmas. Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: The famous guitar player on the 1983 David Bowie cut, Let's Dance? Stevie Ray Vaughn! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio performing arts multimedia cabo vintage warmer garage band |
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Thu, 12 January 2006
![[Show #1] The Digital Studio Of Today Versus 20 Years Ago](http://assets.libsyn.com/content/2329173 "[Show #1] The Digital Studio Of Today Versus 20 Years Ago")
This week's topic:The Studio Of Today Versus 20 Years Ago. Mike and Al also interview each other about their experiences and background leading up to where they are in the music business today. They also discuss how you can get involved with PSN and appear on the show. The show format is outlined including Gear Reviews, Celebrity Interviews and even The Stupid Knob! Lane Sumner is introduced as the talent behind the show's theme. Once again, it's brought up that he really ought to be on the show since he did the theme for free. Maybe some day. This week's Trivia Question: Who is the famous guitar player on the 1983 David Bowie hit, Let's Dance? E-mail in your answer! Tags: music recording studio performing arts multimedia organ |
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Mon, 9 January 2006
Learn what PSN is all about and subscribe today!The PSN Podcast is dedicated to the both the amateur and professional recording musician. It features news, talk and reviews on all topics related to the performing and recording of audio and video. Join us every week for interesting insights, tips and tricks from inside the music business. The show is highly interactive and we encourage you to e-mail us with what you'd like to see on the show or questions you'd like us to answer. Would you like to be a guest? Would you like us to play a cut from your latest project? Drop us a line and let us know why our listeners would like to hear what you have to say or play! Tags: music recording studio performing arts multimedia |
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