The contest has just started and runs until Feb 8th. The community will vote and choose the top 10 by Feb 16th. See all the details here: Inside Home Recording Theme Contest

In addition to winning the best composition and having it used on the show you can win gear from a bunch of sponsors: PreSonus ; Audio-Technica; Home Studio Corner; The Recording Revolution; KRK; Audiofile Engineering

Here is my list:

Queens of the stone age – Songs for the deaf[02]
65daysofstatic – the destruction of small ideas[07]
Alexisonfire – Crisis [07]
Long Distance Calling – Satellite Bay [07]
Killswitch Engage – The End Of Heartache [04]
Marilyn Manson – Holy Wood [00]
Dub Trio – New Heavy [06]
HIM – Love Metal [03]
Junius – Junius [07]
Karnivool – Sound Awake [09]
Katatonia – The Great Cold Distance [06]
A Perfect Circle – Mer De Noms [00]

What are your favorite albums of the past decade?

Comment below with your favorites.

This is the 1st Annual Roundtable Discussion of the Audio Recording Podcast Community.  This show includes Ryan Canestro, Jon Tidey, and Jesse Zoller, Ronan Chris Murphy, Dave Chick, Slau, and Big Al Wagner.  This is a long show, but certainly worth the listen.  Where else are you going to hear all of your favorite podcasters together in one place?!

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Those jerks started without me but I still had a great time and I can’t wait for next year to do it again. Thanks to Ryan for organizing it, writing the music and putting it all together.

In this episode, Ryan does a review of the Golden Age Pre-73 and Jesse talks about his picks for the best albums of the decade

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The Home Recording Show – A great weekly podcast. OK so I’m a bit biased on this one, I co-host the show, but it really is good. Hosted by 3 independent recording engineers covering wide range of topics for home and professional recordists.

Sessions With Slau - I love this one. “Slau takes you behind the scenes at BeSharp, a recording studio in New York City. Listen to excerpts from sessions, gear reviews and equipment shootouts.”

Ronan’s Recording Show – A video podcast with Ronan Chris Murphy. “Recording and Pro Audio: Behind the Scenes Interviews, Recording Studio Tours and Music Production Tips. Hosted by Producer Ronan Chris Murphy”

Inside Home Recording – Podcasting since 2005, IHR is the longest running series on home and project studio recording. Hosted by Dave Chick and Derek K. Miller.

Project Studio Network – PSN was one of my favorites monthly podcast, they post very infrequently these days but when they do it’s one of the best there is. Sessions With Slau started off as an occasional feature on PSN.

EM Cast – This podcast is produced by Electronic Musician magazine and features interviews with some big names in the recording industry.

Shure Cast – Produced to promote Shure Microphones but there is also a lot of great info in each episode.

I subscribe to all of these via RSS feeds but you should be able to find them all on iTunes too.

I hope I didn’t leave anyone out!

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Hopefully the Vimeo embed works, if not it’s on YouTube too.

Bass Distortion Shootout from Jon Tidey on Vimeo.

There’s not really any point to this, there’s no moral to the story and no quiz. However, I will say I think any one of these sounds is better than what I can get with plugins.

The hard part about recording a distorted bass is that often you have no reference of what it will sound like with the rest of the instruments. Committing to a distorted bass sound early can bite you in the ass when it comes time to mix. For that reason alone, it’s a good idea to record a clean DI along with it.
If you save the distortion for when you are mixing, you can reamp through a distortion pedal.

Stillwell has new plugins, one called The Rocket Compressor, and a ‘pitch tracking resonator’ called TinMan. There’s an older one I failed to mention before, Oligarc Filter. PC/Mac VST & AU.

• The Rocket Compressor - Character compressor with super-fast attack and analog mojo. (1176 & Distressor type compressor I reckon.)
• TinMan - Auto-peaking resonant filter with multiple pitch detection and individually triggered attack/decay envelopes. In other words, it listens to your audio and makes matching spooky wooo-eeee-oooo effects.
• The Oligarc Filter - a sophisticated emulation of a classic analog ladder filter, complete with nonlinearity, instability, character, good looks, and danger.

These are:

The Digital Audio Workstation

The Audio Interface

and Microphones

(This article is from The Home Recording Show Podcast Episode 5)

A digital audio workstation is an advanced software program used for recording and manipulating sound. There are dozens of choices with similar feature sets, which one is best is constantly debated on the internet, the truth is it doesn’t matter which one you choose. Which DAW you use matters far less than the sounds you record into it.

Some good entry-level DAWs are

• Cubase Essential
• Cubase Studio
• Sonar Studio
• Reaper
• and if you own a Mac then you’ve already got Garageband.

The heart of the recording studio is the Audio Interface. You need this to get sound from the microphone, into the computer and out your speakers. While computers come with sound cards built in, it’s best to get an audio interface made for recording as it will have the connections you need. Look for one with XLR microphone inputs, 1/4” line inputs, and 1/4” line outputs. Audio Interfaces communicate with the computer through USB or Firewire connections. Make sure the interface you buy had the option of phantom power, which is required for condenser microphones.

Some good enty-level interfaces are:

• The M-Audio Fast Track Pro
• Edirol UA-25
• Presonus AudioBox
• E-Mu 0404 USB

To save you some guesswork with the DAW and Interface selection, have a look at the Sonar Powerstudio 250, which bundles an Edirol UA-25 with Sonar Studio at a savings of almost $250.

Next up is Microphones.

We’ve already talked about microphones quite a bit in show # 2 so I’ll keep this part short. Microphones are like paint brushes and there are are wide variety of styles for different tasks. However the bulk of your painting in the studio can be done with one type of brush, the large diaphragm condenser microphone. I recommend purchasing one as your first mic, because of it’s versatility. As you learn the art of recording you will desire to have a wider variety of microphones, adding dynamic, ribbon and small diaphragm condensers as needed.

For your first microphone I suggest:

• AKG Perception 120 or 220
• Audio-Technica 3035
• M-Audio Luna

These mics aren’t the very cheapest out there but are great all-purpose mics.

Well those are what I consider to be the 3 key elements to a home studio.

Some other important elements of a studio are

• speakers
• cables
• the computer
• and often overlooked is the room.

The acoustics of your recording space are incredibly influential on both sounds picked up by the microphones and the way you hear the recorded sound. A small investment in room treatment can make a huge impact.

Feel free to disagree with me on these 3 things, if you think speakers are more important than microphones tell me why.

This week Des talks about parallel compression, Ryan compares the GLS Audio microphones against the comparable versions of the Shure mics, and Jon discusses choosing the right microphones for the job. As always, you feedback is appreciated. If there are any topics that you would like us to discuss, please let us know.

Enjoy!

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