Show 026 – Interview with Russ Hughes and Choosing a Mic Preamp

This week Jon interviews Russ Hughes of the AIR Users Blog and Ryan answers Patrick’s question on choosing a mic preamp.

It’s a long one, so hang in there.

Enjoy!

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Links: AIR Users Blog

Show 025 – Subtractive EQ and the Electro-Voice RE20

This week Jon buys a used Electro-Voice RE20 and does a review.  After we did the show and thought that the mic sounded a little weak in the bass, it was compared to two other identical mics.  Jon got the dud.  Ryan answers a listener’s question about using subtractive EQ to fix your mixes.

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Links:

Electro-Voice RE20

Shure SM7

Heil PR40

Sennheiser MD421

Jonathan Roberts’ page

Show 024 – Bass Distortion Shootout and MIDI

This week Jon has some fun with some bass distortion pedals, and Ryan talks a bit on how he uses MIDI in his studio.

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Links:
Obscure Canadian indie band Jon was talking about

A video version of the shootout

An unhealthy amount of info on MIDI

Show 023 – Great In the Box Guitar Sounds and An Interview About Working Professionally In Sound

This week Ryan interviews Jesse Zoller, a listener of this show, about working as a professional sound engineer and Jon demonstrates several techniques to get the most natural and best sounding guitar tracks all inside the box.

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Links:

Guitar Cabinet Impulses

Digidesign Eleven

Jesse Zoller

Show 022 – Kick Drum Micing and Getting Out of the Box

This week Ryan experiments with different ways to mic a kick drum and Jon talks about many of the ways to get sound in and out of your digital workstation to incorporate all of that great analog gear that you hopefully still have.

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Show 021 – 5 ways to get more out of your mics and the Yamaha PM5D

In this episode Jon shows 5 ways to get different sounds out of the mics you already have. Ryan shares his experience with the Yamaha PM5D digital mixing console.

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