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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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 016 – Guitar Amps, Signal Chains And All About Compression

In this episode, Ryan talks about Guitar amps, stomp box order and how it applies “In The Box”. Jon continues his series on effects, this time with Compression and other dynamics processors.

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Show 015 – Noise Gates Explained and Computer Maintenance

In this episode, Jon explains noise gates and how to use them. Ryan talks about computer maintenance, and data backup.

We also answer Patrick’s question about the Line 6 TonePort UX2 preamp emulations.

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Links:

Line 6 TonePort UX2: http://line6.com/toneportux2/

PC Inspector File Recovery Software: http://www.pcinspector.de/