This week Ryan talks about ducking techniques and using a sidechain and Jesse does an experiment to show how a few different mics sound on and off axis.

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Apple iPad

Rode NTG-2

Sennheiser MKH 416

Shure SM57

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 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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Jesse’s Reel – Elective Mute

Quicktime Pro

Sound Effects links:

FreeSound

VideoMaker