Show 319 – Automating your life at home and in the studio

Jon and Ryan share some ideas for using home automation and smart devices for the home studio, as well as smaller scale task automation with macro software, scripting, backups and more.
Jon uses many smart plugs for his video recording setup, activated by shortcuts app on phone, or stream deck, even through Siri.
Ryan hasn’t gone into the home automation world yet, but has a wildly complicated backup system with local and remote servers.

We would love to know what products and services you use to simplify your life, reduce task steps, or do more with your time. Leave a comment?

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00:00 - Intro
00:17 - todays topic is smart devices and automation in general
06:42 - wifi networking
13:47 - Automating computer tasks
15:21 - Stream Deck
21:52 - Focus modes
24:14 - Automatic Backups
26:49 - Ryan's backup system
30:08 - wrapping up

Some products and services we mentioned in this episode (some affiliate links)

Kasa Smart Plugs

Elgato Stream Deck

Elgato Stream Deck XL

Backblaze Online Backup

IFTTT

Bitfocus Companion for Stream Deck

Watt App for Kasa and TP-Link smart devices

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Brian Olsen, Doug Darrell, Stephan Gaugh, musicforgeeks, someone, John Stranovsky, Jonathan R, Michael Sedelmaier, and yinghuochong.

Show 228 – Ask HRS #1

This week answer your questions from the last 4 shows. Thanks to all wrote in with great questions.

Topics include:
Time adjustment of drum tracks to tweak phase
New theme competition
Mark’s DIY addiction is all Ryan’s fault
The first rule of impedance club
Mixing the theme song
Using reference tracks when mixing
Our gear lists
Is this show all an ad? Is this real life?
Audio interface recommendation
Focusrite Liquid Saffire 56
Organizing drum samples
Plugins with added harmonics
Jeremy Anderson’s plugin tests
Fab’s DSP Lab at Gearevu
Tape and console emulations without iLok
Sonimus Satson
Toneboosters Reelbus
Noisy monitors with Mbox Mini
Alesis Trigger IO vs Slate Trigger
More post production, ADR, Deliverables and Loudness.

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Show 227 – Producing Lucas Lee’s Normalcy Bias album

This week we have a guest segment from Lucas Lee about his self-produced and recorded prog-rock album Normalcy Bias. Lucas goes through the preproduction, equipment, techniques, working with session drummer Pat Mastelotto, and much more.

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