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Pro Drum Recording Techniques with Ross Hogarth & Kenny Aronoff

By Big Al on Thursday, February 25th, 2010 | 1 Comment

This is part 1 of 2 with Grammy-winning producer Ross Hogarth and top pro drummer Kenny Aronoff. They chat about their approaches to miking drums, using room microphones, and how they get the best-possible drum sounds in the studio. Using a screen reader? Click here for the video.

How To Build A Portable Mini Vocal Booth

By Big Al on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | No Comments

If you’re a Project Studio Network podcast listener, you’re no doubt familiar with the upside down trash can vocal booth. While that may be the ultimate solution in portable vocal booths, there are other approaches. Here’s one of those approaches as posted over at Instructables.com : In this tutorial we will make a DIY portable [...]

Brainworx Releases New Freeware EQ Plugin – bx_cleansweep V2

By Big Al on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Ya’ gotta’ love it when it’s FREEeeee! bx_cleansweep V2 is a 2-band EQ offering their new “AntiCrush” 6dB HP & LP filters (hi-pass and lo-pass). These filters are taken from their critically acclaimed mastering EQ bx_digital and have been modeled after analog 1st order filters. bx_cleansweep V2 is now available for FREE in TDM, RTAS, [...]

An Alternative Mac Mini Powerhouse DAW Computer

By Big Al on Thursday, February 18th, 2010 | No Comments

I just received an interesting suggestion from Steve Currington, also known as @kiwicomposer on Twitter. He has an interesting suggestion for another configuration using a different Mac Mini model than in my example in this previous post. In the not too distant past Apple introduced a Mac Mini Server. It eliminates the DVD drive in [...]

An Interesting Idea For A Powerhouse (Yet Affordable) Mac DAW Computer?

By Big Al on Thursday, February 18th, 2010 | No Comments

After seeing and hearing tech news from a few different sources, I had an idea for a pretty cool, powerful and affordable Mac computer for your DAW that would be quite a performer, or so I postulate. First the base computer. The Mac Mini 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo: $599.00 This is the entry level dual-processor [...]