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Total time 40 min 48 sec. Welcome to IHR in 2008. This episode we announce the winners of our Boris Aeven remix giveaway (and tell you how to vote for the Listener’s Choice winner for the next show), talk about various fun recording announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show, NAMM Show, and Macworld, and let Derek go off on a rant about product registration and copy protection for the software that came with his new Mbox 2 Mini.

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Shownotes

• 00:00 Intros, welcome to the first official show of 2008
• 00:52 Thanks to our sponsors GoToMeeting and Source Elements; affiliates zZounds and Amazon; fellow podcasts at Blubrry and the Home Recording Network; and of course Steve Herringer (voiceovers) and Steven Dennis (theme music)
• 01:57 INDUSTRY NEWS from CES, the NAMM Show, and Macworld:
  • Belkin Podcast Studio – see Belkin’s TuneStudio from last year (still not shipping!) and Derek’s notes about iPod recording skipping problems
  • MacBook Air – is it a decent recording computer or not?
  • New 8-core Mac Pro – now there’s a recording computer
  • Time Capsule – Wi-Fi base station with hard drive for wireless automated backups
  • Good NAMM video and blog coverage from fellow Home Recording Network podcasters Sonic State and Gearwire
  • Some highlights from Wire to the Ear
  • Yamaha resurrects Paul’s beloved KX series MIDI controllers (probably little in common with Paul’s old KX88 from 1986, except the name), and introduces the Pocketrak tiny flash recorder
• 11:20 IHR NEWS: Video projects
  • Paul has completed his huge new GarageBand ’08 video tutorial set for macProVideo.com (going beyond his previous GarageBand 101 set), and it should be available for online purchase sometime in February. Also don’t forget his free GarageBand-to-Logic switcher videos!
  • We’ll also soon be bringing out some free IHR tutorial videos as a separate video podcast, also available on YouTube and so on — you can see a couple of our earlier videos to see the kinds of things we might cover
  • Paul is going off on a cruise with his family for his 40th birthday, so we’ll start that when he gets back
• 15:20 CONTEST WINNERS: Giveaway winners for the Boris Aeven remix contest — discussion with Paul, Derek, and Boris recorded live with Paul’s Zoom H4 at Me-n-Ed’s Pizza Parlor in Langley, B.C.
  • Prizes are:
    • The G-Track USB condenser mic and interface, courtesy of Samson and a pair of Shure e2c sound isolating in-ear monitors for our Editor’s Choice winner
    • Hip Hop Hotness, D&B 4 The Headz, Properly Chilled, Hacienda House, and ElectroTech (that’s five DVDs of samples), courtesy of Digital Redux for our random draw winner
    • Editor’s Choice runners up will get Sennhesier HD201 sealed headphones
  • Check out the complete list of submissions at our website
  • Discuss the contest on our forum thread
  • Keep an eye on insidehomerecording.com for updates on the contest, and the power of Peet’s coffee
• 26:49 VOTE FOR YOUR CHOICE: Send in your pick for Listeners’s Choice in the remix contest. We’ll announce our Listener’s Choice winner (who gets the G2.1u guitar effects pedal/interface, courtesy of Zoom) on our next show — send in your votes (with the name of your favourite mix) to contests {at} insidehomerecording {dot} com. Please vote only once (no vote stuffing allowed)! Deadline is 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, February 10, 2008.
• Are you listening to IHR on an unusual audio device? Email us and let us know!
• 29:12 SPONSOR: GoToMeeting.com
• 30:21 EDITORIAL: Derek rants about the installation and serial number hell of his new Digidesign Mbox 2 Mini (otherwise a very nice little USB audio interface) and its accompanying Pro Tools LE software and Ignition Pack plugins
• 38:37 JOIN IHR: We’re looking for an experienced home recordist who uses Windows to join IHR as our PC expert, since neither Paul nor Derek is a regular Windows user. Email comments {at} insidehomerecording {dot} com if you’re interested in putting together audio segments for the show and getting some free stuff (and vast fame, of course) in return.
• 40:48 END

Sponsors and Affiliates

• GoToMeeting.com (online meetings made easy with GoToMeeting: try it free for 45 days)
• Source Elements (thanks for the use of Source-Connect)
• We are also part of the Home Recording Network and Blubrry.com groups of podcasts
• Our affiliate programs at zZounds and Amazon — purchases you make through those links help us pay for hosting, bandwidth, and prizes (plus pizza)
• Please comment on the blog at insidehomerecording.com and head over to the the forums at insidehomerecording.com/forums

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.

Pictures: The Home Recording Network “lava lamp” logo is based on an image by und_dann. Photo portraits of Paul and Derek are by Kris Krug. Additional photos for this episode are courtesy of Flickr users shadowhut, fapeg, and hypowren.

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This podcast is (c) 2008 by Inside Home Recording under a Creative Commons license creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca

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