IHR 101 – “We’re Not Dead Yet”

September 19, 2012 Dave 2 Comments

In this episode David Andrew Weibe is introduced as the new co-host!

We chat a bit about his projects:

SEGMENT:

Gary Cable – Mess o’ Cables Part I

Excel Spreadsheet on ideal room size ratios

Gary chats about planning his new studio buildout

CLOSE-OUT:

Dave and I chat about a couple of topics:

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CREDITS

Sounds: Our theme music, “Fallin’ In” is by Jason Suko in Shelton, WA, U.S.A., and our voiceovers are by Jordan Reynolds in Denver, CO, USA.
“Arrival at the Castle” from “The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail” courtesy of Arista Records
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We’re also on Facebook (insidehomerecording) and Twitter (ihr). • Dave is on Twitter as chckn8r.

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IHR 100!!!

March 26, 2012 Dave 3 Comments

In this episode, I’m joined by the three finalists in the IHR Theme Contest!

Jason Suko – South Sound Sound Recording Studios
Jac Mandel – jacmandel.com
Jordan Reynolds – Jordan Reynolds Voice Over Actor

SHOWNOTES:

On this show, to mark the 100th episode of IHR, Jason, Jac, Jordan and I chat about each of their entries – how they came to be, gear used and contest impressions.

We also explore some topics related to the project / home studio owner. A lot of fun all around.

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CREDITS

Sounds: Our theme music, “Fallin’ In” is by Jason Suko in Shelton, WA, U.S.A., and our voiceovers are by Jordan Reynolds in Denver, CO, USA.
Listeners: Please comment and leave show segment suggestions at insidehomerecording.com.
Also remember that you can post your photos to the IHR Flickr Group – joining Flickr to share photos is free.
We’re also on Facebook (insidehomerecording) and Twitter (ihr). • Dave is on Twitter as chckn8r.

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Episode 99 – Big Al & Mastering Interview with Ian Shepherd

February 29, 2012 Dave No comments

In this episode, I’m joined by Allen “Big Al” Wagner:

MAILBAG:

Messages from

Max Eisenbeiss who sets the record straight on use of compression and mono compatibility on radio and
Michael Boemmer on feedback on the contest entries.

NEWS:

“Fract” – a video game that potentially requires a keyboard controller: http://fractgame.com/
MIDIPad – a pretty freakin’ awesome iPad controller: http://www.crossfire-designs.de/

SEGMENT:

Interview with Ian Shepherd – Mastering Engineer.

Ian and I talk about his site “Production Advice“, the mastering process, DIY mastering and of course Dynamic Range Day.

CLOSE-OUT:

Big Al and I chat about a couple of new products that were announced at NAMM:

Universal Audio’s “Apollo” – a high-resolution audio interface AND UAD-2 card combined.
Yamaha’s THR – an off-stage amp that’s an amp modeler, interface, stereo hi-fi playback AND with simulated tube glow!

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CREDITS

Sounds: Our theme music, “Acidic Bond,” is by Steven Dennis in Louisiana, U.S.A., and our voiceovers are by Steve Herringer in Vancouver.
Listeners: Please comment and leave show segment suggestions at insidehomerecording.com.
Also remember that you can post your photos to the IHR Flickr Group – joining Flickr to share photos is free.
We’re also on Facebook (insidehomerecording) and Twitter (ihr). • Dave is on Twitter as chckn8r.

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We have a Winner!

Entries have been submitted, the community has voted and now, the judges have endured a week of poking and proding by yours truly. And we’ve decided on a winner for the IHR Theme Contest!

Check it out here: February Fanaticism

To the entrants:

A HUGE thank you to all the entrants to this contest. I am amazed, humbled and totally blown away by the response that this event has generated.

The diversity and creativity of all the entries has opened my eyes and ears to so many things … and I LOVE that! I received over 50 entries from six different continents in so many different styles and genres. Opening up and posting each of the songs was a lot like opening a Christmas present for me … every single time.

You have my appreciation and gratitude for all the time and effort you spent crafting your song and sharing it with IHR and the site visitors.

Thanks, thanks, thanks!

Dave

A sincere and heart-felt thanks to the most generous support of:

PreSonus

Audio-Technica

Home Studio Corner

The Recording Revolution

KRK

Production Advice

Audiofile Engineering

Episode 98 – Slau and Flanger/Phaser/Chorus

January 18, 2012 Dave 5 Comments

In this episode, I’m joined by Slau (sessionswithslau.com).

MAILBAG:

Messages from Mark Pierce with feedback on the Brandon Drury interview Steve Watkins on in-ear monitor solutions and Doug Michael on voting for the contest.

In ear monitor links:

NEWS:

Remix competitions – Olivia Broadfield and Propellerhead and Lamb and Melodyne
The Ultimate Live Sound Operator’s Handbook: http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2012/01/03/how-to-do-live-sound/
Audio Technica’s 50th Anniversary: http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2012/01/09/audio-technica-celebrates-its-50th-anniversary/
SOS Free Audio Frequency Poster: http://www.soundonsound.com/news?NewsID=14604
Smacktop: http://code.google.com/p/smacktop/

SEGMENT – Flanger, Phaser, Chorus, Oh my:

I go on a voyage of self-discovery and enlightenment to uncover the secrets and differences between the Flanger and Phaser effects. Chorus came along for the ride. Here are some screenshots from Ozone4 that show how each effect affects a white-noise wave-form:

White Noise - no effect

White Noise with Flanger effect

White Noise with Phaser effect

CLOSE-OUT:

Slau and I chat about the expense of studio build-outs.
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CREDITS

Sounds: Our theme music, “Acidic Bond,” is by Steven Dennis in Louisiana, U.S.A., and our voiceovers are by Steve Herringer in Vancouver.
Listeners: Please comment and leave show segment suggestions at insidehomerecording.com.
Also remember that you can post your photos to the IHR Flickr Group – joining Flickr to share photos is free.
We’re also on Facebook (insidehomerecording) and Twitter (ihr). • Dave is on Twitter as chckn8r.

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A Secret for You…

December 31, 2011 Dave 1 Comment

Just wanted to give a heads-up to IHR listeners and/or visitors to this site.

I am so jazzed about this and can’t wait to give out the details, but for now, you’ll have to settle for this.

At the end of this week, I’ll be launching the:

Write a
New IHR Theme
Contest!

I can’t quite express how awesome this one will be without letting the proverbial cat out of the bag. It’s got to be the biggest contest that we’ve had BY FAR!

Please keep your eyes and ears peeled on this site, Twitter, Facebook and of course, the podcast feed.

It all starts this Friday, January 6th.

I’m pretty excited about this and I’m sure you will be too!

Cheers and happy New Year to all!

Dave

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Happy Holidays!!!

December 16, 2011 Dave No comments

Well, I’m off with my family to take in a few days of snowboarding before Christmas.

Should be filled with lots of snow and fun. It’s been a wild year with many ups and downs. I sincerely hope that everyone has had a fantastic year full of adventure and new discoveries.

I’m hoping to get one more post in before New Year’s, but if I don’t, here’s wishing everyone a year of happiness, peace and wonderful recordings.

Now, onto this past week’s list of posts that caught my attention:

When I was going through my music degree, if you didn’t play an orchestral instrument, you were required to be a part of one of the faculty choirs. Every ensemble always has its’ prima donna member(s) who receives the brunt of jokes and such … usually because of their ego and sensitivity. It was always the sopranos who got the jabs. This thought resurfaced after reading Kim Lajoie‘s recent blog post: “Are singers more sensitive than other instrumentalists?” – some interesting perspectives on what to keep in mind when dealing with vocalists.
Jeff Tolbert over at Film Scoring.info posted a link to Film and Game Composers that is probably of interest to a lot of established and budding composers: “Finding Scoring Jobs Online“
Audio Issues hit me with a double-whammy this week. Björgvin Benediktsson posted some advice on “How to Use a Reference Track to Improve your Mixing” and then went on to drop some more opinions on a topic that a lot of us ask: “Is Second Hand Audio Recording Equipment Just As Good?“
Not to get topped by anyone, Bobby Owsinski posted a funny, you-know-you’d-get-one-if-money-wasn’t-an-issue product: “The 10,000 Watt iPhone Dock“. He also dropped a top-10 list to add to everyone’s Gear-Acquisition-Syndrome priorities: “10 Holiday Gifts for Musicians and Engineers.“
Matt Mcglynn over at Recording Hacks posted a timely (for me) blog entry that’d be of interest to anyone building a studio, or just wanting to get better sound in their room: “Mounting Acoustic Panels with a Variable Air Gap“
Jon Tidey posted some details and examples over at Audio Geek Zine from the segment he did on the Home Recording Show concerning “Time Adjusting a Multi-mic Performance“. Lots of interesting theory and opinions to chew on!
Just wanted to leave you with a post that came through today that gave me whip-lash doing a second-(what-did-he-say?)-take. Ian Shepherd published a post on his blog, Production Advice, entitled “How to Master a Song Loud“. He hasn’t abandoned the crusade against loud mixes, but rather, advocating some techniques to produce decent loud mixes. If you’ve gotta do it, then you may as well learn how to do it properly…

Until next week, Happy Recording!

Pre-Holiday Summary

December 09, 2011 Dave 1 Comment

As everyone starts getting that last-minute panic tingle rising up in their body, why not take a break and look through some of the blog posts that have been coming through IHR’s syndication feed? It’s the gift that keeps on giving!

For those of you who’d rather have things pre-screened, well, this is what these posts are for – I go through and pick out posts that perked my interest from the week past:

Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t let you know that Inside Home Recording Episode 97 was released – David Andrew Wiebe was my guest host and we chatted about a whole slew of topics.
Gary Ewer over at Essential Secrets of Songwriting seemed to be pulling out all the stops this week. It seemed like every day there was a post that came through and caught my fancy:
- Building Song Energy With the Dominant Note
- 5 Ideas for Creating Melodies When Your Mind Goes Dry
- Working a Meldoy in an Upward Direction
- 10 Reasons That Songs Fail, and How to Fix them
Kim Lajoie had some fantastic ideas on how to make creative use of delays in Interesting Things to do with Delay.
Jeff Tolbert over at Film Scoring.info dove into one of my favourite topics – making use of non-standard scales and chords to get that interesting sound: Create Your Own Scales Using Tetrachords
Bobby Owsinski seems to have his finger on many different pulses all the time. His post “The Death of Artist Development” was a very interesting read.
I’ve been threatening to release an EP of my music (okay, it’s been sidetracked quite a bit) and of course Graham Cochrane comes out with a relevant post that got my juices flowing again: Short EPs Verses Full Length Albums.
And of course, not to be outdone, Joe Gilder offered a guest post from Nick Lewis on a topic that is probably at the top of mind for most of us: “Making Money From Your Home Studio“.

There’s probably going to be one more summary post before the holiday break, so don’t fret – more to come soon!

Cheers, D

Episode 97 with David Andrew Wiebe

December 05, 2011 Dave 6 Comments

In this episode, I’m joined by David Andrew Wiebe (daw-music.com).

I chat a bit about his site, his podcast and a whole slew of other things including:

A CONTEST - it’s currently percolating in the dark recesses of my mind. I’m, at least, looking to refresh the intro theme of IHR – get your creative juice going!

MAILBAG:

Messages from Nathan White on 16 vs. 24 bit recording for podcasts and Simon regarding mixing for vocal backing tracks.

I address some of the initial feedback I received regarding everyone’s use of the AAC feeds and encourage some more feedback. Nothing will be done to the current format until probably the 100th show.

NEWS:

Studio Pros - Internet, spec string section recording
Simple DIY Contact Mics
Surfer EQ – Pitch Tracking Equalizer
Auto-Tune phone calls

SITE HIGHLIGHTS:

The Best $200 Condenser
The Role of the Score
Mixing in 3D
RHCP “I’m With You” vinyl sounds better than CD

CLOSE-OUT:

David and I chat about Spotify and some other tangental topics. Links to some of the other things we mention:

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CREDITS

Sounds: Our theme music, “Acidic Bond,” is by Steven Dennis in Louisiana, U.S.A., and our voiceovers are by Steve Herringer in Vancouver.
Listeners: Please comment and leave show segment suggestions at insidehomerecording.com.
Also remember that you can post your photos to the IHR Flickr Group – joining Flickr to share photos is free.
We’re also on Facebook (insidehomerecording) and Twitter (ihr). • Dave is on Twitter as chckn8r.

This podcast is (c) 2011 by Inside Home Recording
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Post-Turkey Day Wrap-up

November 25, 2011 Dave 1 Comment

Gobble this up folks!

Yes, Canadian Thanksgiving was over a month ago, but there is no freakin’ way that we can ignore the holiday celebrated to the south this weekend. Well, especially when I’ve also got three little dual-citizens running around here. That, and the bombardment of advertisements … even Canadian retailers get into the spirit with “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” deals.

It’s been a bountiful harvest of blog posts out there in the audio-related blog-o-rama world. I’ve actually categorized them this week. Enjoy!

Recording, Mixing and Mastering

We’ll kick this section off with an off-the-wall post from Bobby Owsinki about analyzing annoying sounds and how that might help in mixing: Scratching the Blackboard Sound.
Björgvin Benediktsson at Audio Issues was on a where’s-my-signal? kick this past week with a couple of posts: Connecting Your Equipment – The Basic Rule of Signal Flow and The #1 Thing to Avoid While Routing and Subgrouping.
Home Studio Corner was active this week. Joe Gilder finished up his “Five Steps of Recording” series with “Step 5 – Mastering” and then has some sage advice on “Why Your Mixes Need to Be Critiqued” and on recognizing gear-acquisition binge activity with “Why Your Home Studio Might Be Bloated (and why that’s a bad thing)“.
Not to be outdone, our friend Ian Shepherd finished his 11-part mastering series with “Day 11 – Check your level“. He then turns around to navel-gaze and ponder “Do mastering engineers deserve any credit?” He also posted a very eye-opening comparison analysis of the RHCP track “I’m With You”: Vinyl versus CD.
Can’t forget about Graham Cochrane. He posted a video showing us how he recorded his band using only 8 inputs: “Recording My Band With Only 8 Inputs“. Later in the week, he posted some great tips on how to enhance your live show with some pre-recorded tracks: “Take Your Studio Tracks To The Stage“

Creative

Kim Lajoie kicks off this week’s creative section with some tips, advice and pointers on “What makes a successful collaboration“. As with a lot in this business, talent and equipment only really take you so far – it’s all the other soft-skills that get you to the finish line.
Gary Ewer over at The Essential Secrets of Songwriting always seems to have some thought-provoking angle to think about songwriting. He didn’t disappoint with an entry entitled “Songwriting Tips and Tricks: Changing Tonal Focus” which looks at ways that you can make things interesting by avoiding the stereotypical resolution to the tonic chord.
On one of my favourite topics, Jeff Tolbert from FilmScoring.info provides some head-nodding common-sense advice for film composers with “The Role of the Score“.

Business

Jeff Tolbert kicks things off this past week with some thoughts on website design and points to some easy-to-use resources one can use to get a good-looking site up quickly with “How’s Your Website?”
Bobby Owsinski did not hold back this past week:
- Online Music Store Showdown – a very interesting chart comparing the “specs” of online music stores.
- How We Currently Discover Music is an interesting article on a study done by NARM and the NPD Group
David Andrew Wiebe posted some thoughts on looking to enhance the user’s experience at your site with “Fewer Clicks“

Dang! That was a huge amount of fantastic blogs. I sure hope these guys eat a whole lot o’ food this weekend and spend some time resting and digesting… ;)

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