Next Monday, April 26th at 7:30 PM CDT I’ll be participating in a FREE webinar hosted by Home Studio Corner about getting great recordings at home. You’re going to want to sit in on this rare meeting of home studio pros.
Hosted by: Joe Gilder
Special guests:
Jon Tidey (Audio Geek Zine, The Home Recording Show)
Ryan Canestro (Ditch Road Records, The Home Recording Show)
Jesse Zoller (The Ice Shop, The Home Recording Show)
Big Al Wagner (Project Studio Network, Home Studio Guru)
Slau Halatyn (BeSharp Studio, Sessions With Slau)
Sean Yee (KeyOfGrey.com)
What Will We Cover?
If you’re not familiar with webinars, they’re simply a GREAT way to host big online meetings. You’ll need to register to attend (the link will be at the bottom of this post.) When the webinar starts, you’ll be able to hear me and these six panelists. We’ll discuss various topics, and we’ll take time to answer your questions, too.
Our goal is to simply share our thoughts on what it takes to make a great-sounding recording from home.
Get all the details and sign up here: http://www.homestudiocorner.com/2010/04/20/an-epic-free-webinar/
This is free and live but will be recorded in case you miss it but the only way to interact is during the live webinar.
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UPDATE
The Webinar is over but you can listen to the replay here:
http://hissandaroar.com/ Vegetable Violence Professional SFX Library. Recorded & mastered at 96kHz for stomach churning realism
@CaptainCoke11 re: trigger vs Drumagog. Trigger will beat it. Drum samples and sidechain alone beat it. [in response to: @theaudiogeek Thoughts on Slate's Trigger vs Drumagog?]
This is the first post from contributor Connor Hayes. Connor will be writing reviews and other articles for Audio Geek Zine. He uses Cubase, but otherwise is a nice guy.
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INTRO
You will have to forgive me. Apparently my sense of time is completely useless because I still thought Auto-Tune Evo was new – that is, until the nice man at Antares informed me that it came out years ago. 2008 to be exact. Regardless – I still felt it was worth reviewing because I don’t hear Evo being talked about too much and I feel that it is a very important plugin. A lot of people seem to have a problem with tuning vocals, they think it’s cheating, or what have you, but I couldn’t live without it. To me, it’s the best way to focus on the attitude and the vibe of a performance, and if the notes are a bit off, you can fix them right up. It’s also the ONLY way, to me, to do a lot of layering in any reasonable amount of time.
Auto-Tune can be as transparent or as obvious as you want it to be – it’s all in how you work the retune speed. Auto mode on 0 (zero) retune speed will obliterate any trace of natural vibrato, or you can manually tune each syllable with whatever retune speed you need for each one, and it can tune up your vocals without leaving a trace.
… because my wife will kill me for spending all my money on toys. I think many of you can relate.
From the first time I saw it I knew I must have one. I posted about how great they looked and how much I wanted one. That urge to buy did not pass for months, until I finally succumbed and bought one. I put my old CME UF5 MIDI controller on craigslist and ordered the Novation Nocturn 49.
Look what just arrived!
Expect a full review in the not too distant future.
For those not keeping score, that’s 2 gear lust articles that have led to me becoming obsessed and eventually buying one (the first was a Macbook pro).
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got some music to make.
One of the cool new products from Steven Slate is now ready for you to try. Trigger is a realtime drum replacing software that claims to be phase accurate, easy to use and comes with a great set of Steven Slate drums samples. Below is a video where bedridden (seriously!) Steven takes you through what Trigger can do.
RT @Chris_Randall: Sigh. Avid buys Euphonix. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
I heard something I mixed after mastering from an online service. I immediately tried to null it with Ozone presets.
@sonicdeviant it didn’t null…they must have better presets Sounded the same but mostly louder. -10dB RMS for a piano+vocal track. [in response to: @theaudiogeek Did nulling it work? Did it sound good?]
@sonicdeviant yeah. I’m just so wary of flat fee internet based mastering. [in response to: @theaudiogeek -10 dB RMS isn't too bad. Still pretty dynamic these days. Glad it didn't null...you probably would've been ticked. ]
I wonder how many followers I’ll lose by constantly tweeting to my wife…1363 now.
Oh shit…. wife on Twitter now. Welcome @ihazadoodle LAWL best name evar!
About to succumb to my gearlust for a Nocturn 49 http://bit.ly/a8vwQ4 someone talk me out of it
[reply from Sonic Valentine] @theaudiogeek ummm… don’t get that really friggin’ cool midi controller?
[reply from Nick Meade] @theaudiogeek No, No… You deserve the Nocturn 49…. (He said slithering away….)
[reply from Rupert Brown] @theaudiogeek if your going to get automap sure you dont want a device with lcd readouts for each parameter? (thats the best I can do sorry)
Sounded the same but mostly louder. -10dB RMS for a piano+vocal track. [in response to:
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