This week we talk about passive and active guitar electronics. In Rapid Fire we cover: Vintage gear- cool because its good or cool because its on the old records?; How do you convince your wife or girlfriend that microphones are more important than shoes?; and What’s the hardest thing to fit in the mix?
Our guest this week is Peterson Goodwyn from SoundHow and DIY Recording Equipment

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In this episode we explore the wonders of transient shapers on tambourine and drums.
In Rapid Fire we answer: Analog Tape-Cool or not worth the effort; Music production starter kit on the cheap; portable recorders-are the onboard mics actually usable?
Joining us this week is Randy Coppinger

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Stillwell Transient Monster
Flux BitterSweet
SPL Transient Designer 2 Hardware
SPL Transient Designer Software
SPL Microplugs software splits the Transient designer into 3 specialized tools, Attacker, Mo-Verb, and De-Verb
SPL Transient Designer software for UAD platform
Sonnox Oxford Transient Modulator

This week Ryan compares 3 types of guitars, 2 types of pickups in each, open or closed back cabinets, tube vs solid state and more. Jonathan Roberts sent us some examples of the FMR Audio RNC in action.

No Rapid Fire, No guest this week.

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This week Jon talks about adding delay to tracks to compensate for mic placement issues. Slau tells us about the recent AES convention in New York.
Joining us this week is Slau of Sessions With Slau

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In the show discussion we couldn’t think of the auto-time aligning plugin-Turns out there’s 2 out there. We have no idea if they work!
Sound Radix Auto-Align : http://www.soundradix.com/products/auto-align/
Melda Productions MAutoAlign : http://www.meldaproduction.com/mautoalign/
Lynx Hilo : http://www.lynxstudio.com/product_detail.asp?i=59#

This week Ryan demonstrates how he uses multiple compressors when tracking and we learn all about Pro Tools 10.
Our guest this week is Russ Hughes from AIR Users Blog.

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Russ interviews Andy Munro on SE Egg monitors

Pro Tools 10 Launch Meeting (parody)