This is the second annual Podcast of Podcasters Roundtable. This is where several individual audio/recording podcasters get together for a “year in review” discussion about all things audio. Oh yes, yours truly is on the panel.

This time we talk about the latest trends in recording, mixing and gear, as well as our favorites from this year’s NAMM show.

You can also subscribe to my podacast, The Project Studio Network, by clicking here.

On the panel for this event:

• Yours truly, Big Al Wagner
• Ryan Canestro – The Home Recording Show
• Jon Tidey – The Home Recording Show
• Matt McGlynn – Recording Hacks
• Slau – Sessions With Slau
• Ronan C. Murphy – Ronan’s Recording Show
• Dave Chick – Inside Home Recording

Thanks to Ryan Canestro for organizing the whole thing!

The Annual Podcast Of Podcasters Roundtable – 2011 is a post from: Home Recording Studio Guru

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Stu Veneable of AngryFolk.com (and the Project Studio Network listener who had an original song picked up for a Super Bowl commercial this year) commented on his aversion to the whole “PC versus Mac” debate.

If I remember correctly, he found all the hoopla annoying and was a happy PC user.

That’s why my heart warmed when I received this note from Stu yesterday…

“You might remember the audio comment I sent about the PC vs Mac thing.

“I upgraded my recording system in December (Quad-core PC w/ Windows 7 and a Digi 003r). I spent six months — that’s right, six months — trying to get PTLE 8 to run stably on my PC.

“Finally I broke down and bought an iMac. Within one hour of unboxing the computer, Pro Tools was installed, updated and I was recording.

“I finally followed your advice (“get a Mac”) albeit a few years too late.”

Welcome Stu, it’s never too late! We’re so glad to have you with us.

Now, slowly back away from the lava lamp…

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Stu Venable, a long time listener to the Project Studio Network podcast, has had a song picked up by the Dockers clothing company for a commercial during this years big game, Super Bowl XLIV.

The song is called I Wear No Pants.

I asked Stu if he wouldn’t mind telling us all a little bit about how this happened. Here’s his very interesting report…

In November of last year, I received a phone call from an advertising agency wanting to purchase a song I wrote, “I Wear No Pants” for use in an advertising campaign for Dockers, to begin during the 2010 Super Bowl.

The deal went through, contracts were signed and I sent them the score for the song. A preview DVD of the spot is being Fed-Ex’d to me as we speak, and my wife and I are hosting a Super Bowl party for the first time in our lives.

Almost as an after-thought, I asked my contact at the ad agency how they found the song. Our band has never pursued placements in commercials (or anything else), as we’ve been content performing at the local Renaissance Faire and a few other local venues.

She told me that they hit upon us during a brainstorming session when someone Googled “I Wear No Pants,” and they found a video of us, taken by a fan, performing the song live at the Faire.

In recent weeks, we’ve been working to make sure that anyone who sees the ad and wants to hear the original version of the song (or find out more about the band) can do so easily.

This has included purchasing the url http://IWearNoPants.com and asking our fan-base to act as a virtual street team to put as many references to the band, Dockers, I Wear No Pants and the Wear the Pants campaign in the blogs, Facebook and Twitter posts and anyplace else they can. We also made a video of the song, which was posted on Youtube a few weeks go.

You can’t help but run through all the possible scenarios of something like this. Last year, nearly 100 million people in the United States watched the Super Bowl. If one percent of those people buy the song…you get the idea.

Here’s the video of the soon-to-be-well-known-song, I Wear No Pants.

Here’s teaser for the actual Docker’s commercial featuring I Wear No Pants:

You can find more about Stu’s band here: http://PoxyBoggards.com

Here’s Stu’s podcast: http://AngryFolk.com

From high atop the PSN towers, we proclaim throughout the land:

Congratulations Stu on I Wear No Pants!

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