This week Ryan tries out several mic positions to find out which sounds best for recording guitars and Jon reviews his new Yamaha monitors.
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All the files used in Ryan’s guitar segment can be downloaded here.
The answers to the mic shootout in #39:
1 4060 -b
2 414 -e
3 Sputnik -a
4 Solaris -c
5 2035 -d
6 Nova -f
This week Ryan takes 12 different microphones of varying types and polar patterns to find out which sounds best for recording guitars and Jon brings us part II of the vocal microphone shootout this time with a male vocal.
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All the files used in Ryan’s guitar segment can be downloaded here.
All the files used in Jon’s vocal segment can be downloaded here.
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This week Jesse talks about the state of modern records. Ryan talks about ribbon mics.
This week Ryan talks to Craig Sowby from www.myonlinedrummer.com a great service to get professional drum tracks for your songs. Jon shares his big gear purchase regret, we’ve all got at least one! If you’ve bought some recording gear that flat out sucked, let us know!
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This week Jesse talks about shotgun mics and the whole group finish up the follow up questions that have been asked about making your home studio into a business.
This week Ryan talks about swapping out preamp tubes to get different tones out of guitar amps and Jesse does his first segment on how to simplify your recording sessions.
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