Show 72 – Multiple Songs In A Session & Ducking and Sidechain Part 2

This week Jon talks about the pros and cons of recording multiple songs to a single session file and Ryan talks more about ducking techniques and using a sidechain.

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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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Links:

Apple iPad

Rode NTG-2

Sennheiser MKH 416

Shure SM57

Show 69 – Home Studio Essentials and Songwriting Tips

This week Jesse talks about home studio essentials and Ryan invites Dave Criddle from The Home Made Hit Show to talk about songwriting.

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Links:

Pop Filter Shootout

C-Stand

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 67 – Mixing experiment & Interview with Nick Maxwell

In this episode we discuss the results of the mixing experiment from last week. Thanks to all that participated! Keep those submissions coming, we’d love to hear what you’ve done with the tracks.

Also in this episode Jon talks to Ableton Live guru Nick Maxwell of Nick’s Tutorials dot com on topics like Ableton Live and sound design.

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Links:

@abletontutor [follow Nick on Twitter]

Ableton Live

MIDI Fighter

Akai APC40

Novation Lunchpad