Show 94 – Interview With William Rigout, Recording A Violin, and Mo Carey Asks Some Questions

Jon is out this show because his daughter Alice was born the day we tape the show.  Congratulations to Jon and Holly.

This week Ryan interviews William Rigout about the Château d’Hérouville, also named the Honky Château by Elton John, where many notable artists recorded in the 1970’s.  Jesse does a segment on how to record a violin with examples if different microphones at different distances.  Our guest Mo Carey asks us a few questions from an recording artist’s point of view.

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Château d’Hérouville

Home Studio Corner – Flashlight Reference

Mo Carey

Show 88 – Outboard EQ and New Avid Products

This week Ryan talks about the “Ask the Mixers – LA” panel that he went to a couple days earlier and how it got him thinking more about ourboard EQ than ever and Jesse brings up the topic of the new product releases from Avid.

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http://ronansrecordingshow.com/

Show 80 – More Phase Issues and Analog Recording

This week Ryan talk to Dave Chick about phase issues relation to the pitch of a particular song and Jesse interviews Sean Roux about recording an entire project in analog in this digital age.

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Inside Home Recording

Hatched Productions

Sean Roux

Show 71 – Ducking & Sidechains and Off Axis Mic Placement

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

Show 68 – Interview with Vinny Pedulla and Free Pro Tools Plugins

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 2http://www.fluxhome.com/products/Freewares/bittersweet2
  2. Flux Stereo Toolhttp://www.fluxhome.com/products/Freewares/stereotool
  3. Brainworx BX_Solohttp://www.brainworx-music.de/en/plugins/bx_solo
  4. Brainworx BX_Cleansweep V2http://www.brainworx-music.de/en/plugins/bx_cleansweep_v2
  5. TT Dynamic Range Meterhttp://www.brainworx-music.de/en/downloadrequest
  6. Massey Plugins demoshttp://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 amphttp://www.studiodevil.com/download/downloadBVC.htm
  9. Kontakt 4 playerhttp://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/kontakt-player/
  10. KORE 2 playerhttp://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

Show 65 – Outboard Gear vs. Plugins and Why Your Studio Sucks

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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