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IHR Episode #56 (Enhanced) – Dimension Pro, Recording Philosophy, Hardware Failures (2008_03_28)

March 28th, 2008 by Derek

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Dave Chick on Cakewalk’s Dimension Pro, Boris Aeven on recording philosophy, Paul on hard drive failure, Derek on overcompression and pitch correction, our final remix winner, and more on IHR TV. Oh, and Derek shaves his head.

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• 00:00 Intros. Thanks as usual to GoToMeeting, Source Elements, zZounds, Amazon, NCIX, Blubrry, and the Home Recording Network. Clicking our affiliate links helps support IHR.
• 02:30 Our final listener’s choice contest winner for the Boris Aeven remix winners! Yay! Thanks to Zoom for the G2.1u guitar effects pedal that our winner will receive.
• 03:48 Paul met with Dave Chick, our new PC contributor, at the Vancouver podcaster meetup. Dave normally lives in Toronto, but was in Vancouver for a few days.
• 04:20 Yes, Inside Home Recording TV, sponsored by macProVideo.com, has started (we already have an iTunes feature and a review). Please go subscribe (it won’t be part of the audio podcast feed in the future, just its own feed). We’ll be using our new Panasonic SD5 camcorders for future episodes.
• 09:25 SPONSOR: GoToMeeting.com
• 10:10 GEAR REVIEW: Cakewalk’s Dimension Pro soft synth, reviewed by Dave Chick.
• 22:16 IHR 101: Reacting to hard disk failure, and moving to Mac OS X Leopard, with Paul Garay. He discusses using LaCie external drives, the NCIX computer retailer in Vancouver, and Apple’s Time Capsule.
• 30:02 GUEST SEGMENT: Recording approaches and philosophies with Boris Aeven, and a little rant about Melodyne.
• 38:47 EDITORIAL: Overcompression and limiting, crazy use of Auto-Tune, Melodyne’s new DNA (Direct Note Access). Check out War, Norah Jones, and Amy Winehouse for recordings that still have decent dynamics.
• 49:43 END

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. Other photos in this episode are courtesy of johncarleton, mac_vegetarian, targuman, penmachine, crazyglue, daspixel, dnorman, drumaboy, webchicken, jiscinfonet, jidnet, mhaithaca, cmiller, ahmedrabea, santos, wwny, sonnyandsandy, feastoffools, primejunta, emayoh, dmason, 37prime, bhuguenard, easypickle, joeworld, tracy_collins, toner, asceticmonk, andrewbaron, maerten, zeke_, 2create, and homiesinheaven (phew!).

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