Show 139 – Recording Shakers and more.

Posted by Jon | Home Recording | Wednesday 26 October 2011 11:41 am

In this episode we discuss recording shakers-types; techniques; mic placement; mic types.
In RapidFire we talk about – Pro Tools 10 features we actually care about; our vocal tuning process; nonstandard effect we’ve recently discovered.

Our guest this week is Steve Currington

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Show 138 – Kick Drum Mic Placement and more

Posted by Jon | Home Recording | Tuesday 18 October 2011 3:43 pm

This week Ryan compares various kick drum placement options with an Audix D6 and homemade subkick. In Rapidfire we cover: Guitar and vocals at the same time; What we compare our mixes to; Dumbest things heard in a recording session.

Our guest host this week is Sonic Valentine aka Ben Strano. Ben was also with us on show #118

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Show 137 – Programming Rock Drums + DIY Diffusors and more

Posted by Jon | Home Recording | Tuesday 11 October 2011 5:05 pm

This week Jon explains how he programs MIDI drums and how to humanize them. Justin Newton sent a segment in on how he built his home studio acoustic absorption and QRD/BBC style diffusion.

Our guest this week is Jason Miller.

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Show 136 – Guitar Tone Caps Compared and more

Posted by Jon | Home Recording | Wednesday 5 October 2011 2:19 pm

In this episode Ryan compares 3 different types of capacitors in the tone circuit of his Les Paul. Click to download the full quality examples.
In the rapidfire section we cover: opinion on summing boxes; how we setup our monitors; and favorite audio ‘rule’ we like to break.

Our guest this week is Big Al Wagner of PSN Podcast and Home Studio Guru.

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