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 |
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 |
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 |
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:
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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 |
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:
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