Ryan interviews Vinny Pedulla about the tools a visually impaired person would use to work in the studio and Jon tells us all about the best of the free plugins out there for Pro Tools.

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Links:

1. Flux Bittersweet 2 – http://www.fluxhome.com/products/Freewares/bittersweet2
2. Flux Stereo Tool – http://www.fluxhome.com/products/Freewares/stereotool
3. Brainworx BX_Solo – http://www.brainworx-music.de/en/plugins/bx_solo
4. Brainworx BX_Cleansweep V2 – http://www.brainworx-music.de/en/plugins/bx_cleansweep_v2
5. TT Dynamic Range Meter – http://www.brainworx-music.de/en/downloadrequest
6. Massey Plugins demos – http://www.masseyplugins.com/ (download the demos) CT4, L2007, Tapehead & TD5 are excellent
7. Massey Tools (Mac only) – http://www.smassey.com/plugin.html
8. Studio Devil BVC guitar amp – http://www.studiodevil.com/download/downloadBVC.htm
9. Kontakt 4 player – http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/kontakt-player/
10. KORE 2 player – http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/kore-player
11. Free Kontakt patches

    http://www.pettinhouse.com/html/download.html

    http://www.samplelogic.com/trypack.html

    http://www.humanworkshop.com/index.php?modus=e_zine&sub=articles&item=142

In this episode we discuss the results of the mixing experiment from last week. Thanks to all that participated! Keep those submissions coming, we’d love to hear what you’ve done with the tracks.

Also in this episode Jon talks to Ableton Live guru Nick Maxwell of Nick’s Tutorials dot com on topics like Ableton Live and sound design.

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Links:

Mix Submissions

@abletontutor [follow Nick on Twitter]

Ableton Live

MIDI Fighter

Akai APC40

Novation Lunchpad

In this week’s show, Jesse gives us some examples of different techniques and microphone placements when recording a resonator guitar and Ryan covers the basics of vocal booths from the most basic to the most complex.

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Special mix experiment for the next show!

Download the bare bones instrument and MIDI tracks to make a mix from this 45 second song clip that Ryan put together.  The point is to see how we all make instrument choices and mix in very different ways on the exact same source material with very different end results.  The guitars and bass need to be reamped or run through amp modeling software.  The drums and keys are MIDI only.  They will need to be run through virtual instruments, synths, drum machines, or whatever you want.  We are all doing a mix for next week’s show.  Play the HRS home game along with us!

Pro Tools Session

Raw Audio and MIDI Files for all other DAWs

Links:

http://www.resoguit.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonator_guitar

In this week’s show, Ryan talks about using outboard gear vs. plugins and Jon gives you 10 reasons why your studio sucks.

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In this week’s show, Jesse talks about how to get your audio dialed in on video projects and Ryan talks about the commonly used techniques to record electric bass.

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Links:

Jesse’s Reel – Elective Mute

Quicktime Pro

Sound Effects links:

FreeSound

VideoMaker