Show 41 – Favorite Gear and First Impressions of Pro Tools 8

This week Jesse talks about his favorite piece of gear and Ryan talk about Pro Tools 8 after working with it for a week.

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Show 38 – The state of modern records and Ribbon mics

This week Jesse talks about the state of modern records. Ryan talks about ribbon mics.

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Before the Music DiesHere’s a great scene from the film

Apex 205 Ribbon Mic

Apex 210 Ribbon Mic

Show 37 – Mic shootout from $120-$1900; transfer recordings between different formats

This week Jon shares a shootout of 6 vocal condenser mics ranging in price from $120-1900. Ryan explains how to transfer recordings between different formats, from tapes to DAWs.

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Get the files for the mic shootout here:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1053122/vocal%20mic%20shootout.rar

The mics in the shootout:
* M-Audio Nova
* Audio Technica AT2035
* M-Audio Solaris
* M-Audio Sputnik
* AKG C 414 B-XL II
* Audio-Technica AT4060

Show 34 – Swapping Tubes in Amps and Simplifying A Session

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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Show 029 – Voice Over Recording and Mixing Strategies

This week Ryan talks about Voice Over Recording and Jon talks about Mixing Strategies. We also have Jesse Zoller helping with the discussion, Jesse was interviewed on Show # 23.

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Please leave us comments if there are topics that you would like us to discuss or to let us know how we are doing. We would like to hear from you.

Links:
Emusician article on Mixing Strategies
The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook

Show 025 – Subtractive EQ and the Electro-Voice RE20

This week Jon buys a used Electro-Voice RE20 and does a review.  After we did the show and thought that the mic sounded a little weak in the bass, it was compared to two other identical mics.  Jon got the dud.  Ryan answers a listener’s question about using subtractive EQ to fix your mixes.

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Electro-Voice RE20

Shure SM7

Heil PR40

Sennheiser MD421

Jonathan Roberts’ page