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AGZ Rewind – December 2010

Jon — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:27:24 +0000

We’ve all been busy, but in case you missed something, here’s what we posted in December.

12/27/10: Free Sound Of The Week – Pro|Tone Elements
12/26/10: Ken Scott Interview
12/22/10: Home Studio Corner Holiday Sale
12/17/10: Last minute gifts for audio geeks
12/12/10: Behemoth Studio Videos
12/08/10: Pretty Hate Machine Remaster
12/03/10: Joe Barresi interview
12/02/10: AGZ Rewind – November 2010
12/01/10: New product – Home Recording Tactics

AGZ Rewind – November 2010

Geoffrey — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:37:08 +0000

It’s been a busy month over here in Audio Geek land. If you’ve been busy and missed a couple of stories, check out what we’ve been up to.

Image yoinked from Chickn8r

There’s gold in them there mountains.

11/29/10: Story Time With Eddie Kramer
11/26/10: Sweetwater Just Ticked Me Off – A message from Brandon Drury
11/25/10: Behind the music of The Walking Dead
11/23/10: The Monsters Of High Gain – 13 amp heads demoed
11/22/10: Waves CLA Signature Collection signal chain diagrams
11/20/10: Scott Humphrey on Recording, Song Writing
11/19/10: Key Of Grey collaboration Project
11/18/10: New Andy Sneap Interview
11/17/10: Guitar Recording – Old Vs New strings
11/16/10: Free Plugin Of The Week – Ignite Amps NRR1 – 3 Ch. Tube Preamp
11/13/10: John Feldmann Interview On Producing and Recording
11/12/10: Detecting Tempo Of Audio In REAPER
11/10/10: High End Converters – It really doesn’t matter
11/09/10: Why I’m not upgrading to Pro Tools 9…yet
11/08/10: Free Sound Of The Week – PakBytes for Ableton; Kontakt; Logic
11/05/10: Pro Tools 9 is out!
11/05/10: Advice From Producer Rob Cavallo
11/04/10: Comb Filtering Demonstrated
11/03/10: Free Sound Of The Week – Tonehammer Sick
11/02/10: Free Plugin Of The Week – Nasty DLA

Please Excuse The Mess

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:03:44 +0000

Hello and welcome to Audio Geek Zine.

We’re in the process of recovering the site after Bluehost deleted it and all backups off their server. How nice of them. They’ve done this 3 times to me since 2007. I can’t really recommend them.

Some links may not work until the DNS is redirected properly. All the articles can be recovered thanks to Google.

Unfortunately some images and audio files may be gone for good.

Toys Breaking Sample collection now $10

Jon — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:50:51 +0000

Attention
My collection of circuit bent toy samples is now $10.
What!? Why???
This is closer to the price it should have been from the start. Since it is a niche product I could have charged way more for it. I feel this is still a very fair price.This price change does not affect previous purchases.
The details of the sample pack are here: http://www.audiogeekzine.com/toys-breaking-sample-cd/

Weekly Tweetdump 29

Jon — Mon, 03 May 2010 03:17:09 +0000

Another week of twitter activity from@theaudiogeek

AudioMIDI No-Brainer deal T-RackS 3 Classic EQ and Metering for $20! http://trunc.it/7mipz VERY useful plugs. Get these!
Finally bought my REAPER license. Only took me 450 days to decide.
Had the fire alarm go off during a vocal take today….and continue for 15 more minutes. Well about 15 min, we were on Hip-hop time.
RT @recordingreview: Killer Home Recording Release Date! http://aweber.com/b/28NkP
New AGZ post: Follow Friday #FF http://bit.ly/cNKGyy
How Cymbals Are Made (Via @bobbyowsinski) http://trunc.it/7od1q
Girls are bad at SFX part II http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1931870
Downside to recording with me is my wife will tweet about you RT @ihazadoodle: OMG, it’s terrible! “Can we fix that with Autotune?” Um, no.
New AGZ post: Auto-Tune Motivational Poster http://bit.ly/bB34YH
I don’t like coffee in the afternoon but coffee ice cream wakes me from my nap pretty well.
New AGZ post: HSC Production Club – 12 week online course on music production http://bit.ly/9b5o2B
New AGZ post: Free Plugin Of The Week: Elysia – Niveau filter http://bit.ly/cY6Tvs
@peterkirn “That seems a stretch.” Why is that? Looks like it works perfectly and you don’t have to bash it like a typical pad controller.
RT @RandyCoppinger: Listen to 14 different mics on acoustic guitar! Let me know which ones you like, and why. http://ow.ly/1CwDl
New AGZ post: Weekly Tweetdump 28 http://bit.ly/bucOEF

Weekly Tweetdump 28

Jon — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:06:17 +0000

A week of Twitter activity from @theAudioGeek

Just when I start to <3 elastic audio again I hear “the change” and my evening is ruined and I’m back to manual chopping.
for example: first raw tracks, then slight adjustment with obvious artifacts. http://trunc.it/7hl4m
This session got to 40 tracks pretty quick, not even close to done yet.
Down by the river? RT @sonicvalentine: In a van.
Reminder: Free webinar Monday on great Home Studio recordings. http://www.homestudiocorner.com/2010/04/20/an-epic-free-webinar/
watching trainwrecks on the womb…http://thewombforums.com/showthread.php?t=14384
@rodger_brennan halucinations start around hour 16 of soldering, much faster when combined with circuitbending. [in response to:Is rosin core solder hallucinogenic?]
Session done. He brought pizza. Also I’m good at hip-hop.
@strangenotez LOL I don’t know. Being fast with PT. Not leaving while the rapper is in the booth. Paying attention. Engineering knowledge. [in response to: @theaudiogeek what makes for a good hip hop engineer in your opinion?]
session a no show…so far.
Home Recording Show Host @rcanestro is a guest on the great podcast Audio Now Cast http://nowcastnetwork.com/
New AGZ post: Learning REAPER – Resources & Help http://bit.ly/bUMyxz
Up early & listening to Sonic Talk http://trunc.it/7f4wd
Tracked some bass through a Tone Hammer today. http://trunc.it/79frd Pretty cool & worth checking out.
Grilled cheese sandwiches FTMFW!!
AudioMIDI no-brainer deal $20 for Antares DUO Evo http://www.audiomidi.com/DUO-evo-Native-No-Brainer-Deal-P13836.aspx
Depeche Mode’s Live Rig is crazy http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/depeche-modes-live-setup-revealed-245774
New AGZ post: An Epic Free Webinar on getting great home recordings http://bit.ly/aAkAZ1
The Home Recording Show Episode 73 out now. Upright bass & Software updates covered. http://homerecordingshow.com
Editing the newest podcast and man that energy drink burnout I had last night is really obvious.
@shadowhills was the case handcuffed to a guy in a suit? [in response to: Secret Prototype arrived this morning. Kind of disappointed it wasn't in a fancier case.]
- @theaudiogeek it should have been. The fedex guy did peel into the lot backwards and block the road to drop it off. That’ll do.
Toronto Home Recording Meetup – http://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Home-Recording/calendar/13230845/ May 6th
After tracking drums at a studio it’s gonna be tough to do it again in home studios.
having a spare U87 to use as a room mic is the kind of luxury that I don’t want to be without
Doing some more editing for The Empire Shall Fall today. Love working for those guys. http://www.myspace.com/theempireshallfall
Photoshop “Content Aware Fill” needs improvement. http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/9033644-post37.html LOL
New AGZ post: Weekly Tweetdump 27 http://bit.ly/ceTL6q