First Shure sent me some mics to try out for free, on a strict loan basis. Then Sennheiser plans to do the same, as they feel they have mics that can compete with the SM57 and SM 58 from Shure, which are two of the mics I've been loaned.
But those aren't the only two company's I've contacted. Some of them haven't responded to me yet, but I just got an email today frm Audio Technica. Seems they are interested in sending me some mics they feel are just as good as the 57 as well. Check out what I'm gonna get from them soon!
AT2020
AT650
I'm excited about getting these, as it'll be really cool to pit the 57 against the sennheisers against the Audio-Technica's. I've used the AT2020 before to record vocals for my band Day Nine (go check out Distant Memory to hear it). I haven't recieved anything except the Shure's just yet, so keep tuned in for updates!
9/5/07
Neil-O-Mac's Music Attack!
Any of you who are familiar with the Home Recording Odyssey podcast know that on Episode 36, Neil McDougall reviewed EZ Drummer. Little did I know that he's got a podcast that plays underground bands! Anyone who likes those types of podcasts should check it out at http://musicattack.libsyn.com/.
Anyway, Neil expressed interest in submitting a segment to The Metal Shop about The Metal Pack for the Pod XT. Can't wait to get it.
Anyone else who's interested in submitting a segment, email me at metalshoppodcast@yahoo.com!
Rock on!
Anyway, Neil expressed interest in submitting a segment to The Metal Shop about The Metal Pack for the Pod XT. Can't wait to get it.
Anyone else who's interested in submitting a segment, email me at metalshoppodcast@yahoo.com!
Rock on!
Update on my DAW situation.
The Metal Shop Podcast is now getting 37 new subscribers per day, and that number just keeps going up and up!
The podcast has now reached over 3500 subscribers, in only 6 episodes!
I just wanna say thanks to all of you who are listening. That number (37 per day) only reflects the number of those who subscribe. It doesn't reflect the number who are listening over the internet, or listening with their friends or bandmates or other groups. The podcast has reached quite a substantial number of people in just a few short months and a few short episodes. So a big thank you to all of you is in order.
Please keep this thing growing. Tell all your friends about it, and tell their friends! The best way we can keep this growing is with word of mouth, and you guys have been doing a great job so far!
To all of you.........
KEEP IT METAL!
The podcast has now reached over 3500 subscribers, in only 6 episodes!
I just wanna say thanks to all of you who are listening. That number (37 per day) only reflects the number of those who subscribe. It doesn't reflect the number who are listening over the internet, or listening with their friends or bandmates or other groups. The podcast has reached quite a substantial number of people in just a few short months and a few short episodes. So a big thank you to all of you is in order.
Please keep this thing growing. Tell all your friends about it, and tell their friends! The best way we can keep this growing is with word of mouth, and you guys have been doing a great job so far!
To all of you.........
KEEP IT METAL!
9/4/07
37 Subscribers Per Day, And Counting!
On average, The Metal Shop Podcast is now getting 37 new subscribers per day, and that number just keeps going up and up!
The podcast has now reached over 3500 subscribers, in only 6 episodes!
I just wanna say thanks to all of you who are listening. That number (37 per day) only reflects the number of those who subscribe. It doesn't reflect the number who are listening over the internet, or listening with their friends or bandmates or other groups. The podcast has reached quite a substantial number of people in just a few short months and a few short episodes. So a big thank you to all of you is in order.
Please keep this thing growing. Tell all your friends about it, and tell their friends! The best way we can keep this growing is with word of mouth, and you guys have been doing a great job so far!
To all of you.........
KEEP IT METAL!
The podcast has now reached over 3500 subscribers, in only 6 episodes!
I just wanna say thanks to all of you who are listening. That number (37 per day) only reflects the number of those who subscribe. It doesn't reflect the number who are listening over the internet, or listening with their friends or bandmates or other groups. The podcast has reached quite a substantial number of people in just a few short months and a few short episodes. So a big thank you to all of you is in order.
Please keep this thing growing. Tell all your friends about it, and tell their friends! The best way we can keep this growing is with word of mouth, and you guys have been doing a great job so far!
To all of you.........
KEEP IT METAL!
9/3/07
Upgrades To The Metal Shop Website?
I'm thinking of doing some upgrades to The Metal Shop Website, but want to know if any of you have any suggestions for what I should include on the site?
Wanna Be On The Metal Shop?
Do you like what you're hearing on The Metal Shop Podcast, and think you've got something to add?
If you'd like to submit your own segments to The Metal Shop Podcast about recording rock and metal, shoot me an email at metalshoppodcast@yahoo.com and let me know what you've got in mind. If I like it, and think it fits, we'll use it!
If you'd like to submit your own segments to The Metal Shop Podcast about recording rock and metal, shoot me an email at metalshoppodcast@yahoo.com and let me know what you've got in mind. If I like it, and think it fits, we'll use it!
Metal Shop Collaborative With PSN & HRO?
Since Shure sent me the Shure SM 57 as one of the mics I get to play with, I figured I'd do an episode where I compare it to the Shure PG 57, which I already owned thanks to it's price tag.
I'm not going to tell you my findings thus far, but I will tell you this. Dave Criddle from The Home Recording Odyssey Podcast, and Big Al Wagner from The Project Studio Network may be on that episode to give me their feedback on the recordings made with these two mics! That'll be a show not to miss!
I doubt that Dave Criddle will be on at the same time as Al Wagner, since Dave has his newborn daughter to watch after and all. His time is pretty constrained. But Dave told me to send him the Wav files and he'd record his thoughts on the sound differences between the two mics and send it back to me. However, if I can work it out between his PSN commitments, Al Wagner and I may be on at the same time to talk about our thoughts on the mics!
This should be interesting, and I can't wait!
I'm not going to tell you my findings thus far, but I will tell you this. Dave Criddle from The Home Recording Odyssey Podcast, and Big Al Wagner from The Project Studio Network may be on that episode to give me their feedback on the recordings made with these two mics! That'll be a show not to miss!
I doubt that Dave Criddle will be on at the same time as Al Wagner, since Dave has his newborn daughter to watch after and all. His time is pretty constrained. But Dave told me to send him the Wav files and he'd record his thoughts on the sound differences between the two mics and send it back to me. However, if I can work it out between his PSN commitments, Al Wagner and I may be on at the same time to talk about our thoughts on the mics!
This should be interesting, and I can't wait!
New Deal With Sennheiser?
Since Shure loaned me 4 of their great mics to shootout on the show, I figured I'd take a que from Andrew Brierley from The Home Recording Odyssey podcast. He once mentioned that he'd like to review mics that were as good as the SM 57 from Shure, but made by other manufacturers. We'll, he never really got that one done, but he said he didn't mind me doing it.
So I started calling Nady, Sennheiser, AKG, Audio Technica, and getting a bunch of voicemail boxes, or being asked to "send it in writing through email". After leaving messages, both in voicemail and email, I left it up to the Gods good graces that I'd get a response.
Thank you Sennheiser!
I talked to one of the guys from Sennheiser, who actually had googled the show before we got a chance to speak in person to each other. He said he liked what I was doing, and he'd be glad to help by loaning me some mics that he feels are just as good as the SM 57 for micing a guitar cab, and some that are just as good as the SM 58 for vocals.
So now, I'm just waiting to hear back from him next week. I've emailed him all the particulars about where to send them and what not, and I'll know more next week about wether this will go through. I'm pretty shure it will though. SWEET!
Now if some of the other manufacturers would just respond..........................................................
Stay Tuned!
So I started calling Nady, Sennheiser, AKG, Audio Technica, and getting a bunch of voicemail boxes, or being asked to "send it in writing through email". After leaving messages, both in voicemail and email, I left it up to the Gods good graces that I'd get a response.
Thank you Sennheiser!
I talked to one of the guys from Sennheiser, who actually had googled the show before we got a chance to speak in person to each other. He said he liked what I was doing, and he'd be glad to help by loaning me some mics that he feels are just as good as the SM 57 for micing a guitar cab, and some that are just as good as the SM 58 for vocals.
So now, I'm just waiting to hear back from him next week. I've emailed him all the particulars about where to send them and what not, and I'll know more next week about wether this will go through. I'm pretty shure it will though. SWEET!
Now if some of the other manufacturers would just respond..........................................................
Stay Tuned!
Recent Interview With Rick Shriver!
I just finished the interview with my former professor at Ohio University - Zanesville's Electronic Media Department. Rick Shriver is the head of that department, and was kind enough to do a double ender with me to talk about recording, learning the art, some of his favorite techniques for rock and metal styles, and his conquests overseas in recording and studio building!
The interview went on for an hour and 40 minutes raw, with very little editing needed, which means that I'll probably do the interview in 3 segments, over 3 different episodes.
Keep tuned in for that. I'm waiting for Rick to send me his side of the conversation from the double ender. Once I get that, I'll edit it together and send it your way!
Rock on!
The interview went on for an hour and 40 minutes raw, with very little editing needed, which means that I'll probably do the interview in 3 segments, over 3 different episodes.
Keep tuned in for that. I'm waiting for Rick to send me his side of the conversation from the double ender. Once I get that, I'll edit it together and send it your way!
Rock on!
Episode 7 is on the way, sit tight!
Sorry for the delay getting episode 7 out to you. A few more complications have arisen thanks to my necessary computer upgrade last month. I'll explain.
The PC I was using to edit the show together had Adobe Audition 1.5 loaded on it. I bought that software about 3 or more years ago. After loading it on my machine, I loaned it to my guitarist in my band Day Nine so he could load it on his machine.
When I moved to Bloomington Indiana from Columbus Ohio a year ago, I didn't take the software with me. Now that I've had to change machines, since I didn't have my DAW software with me anymore, I decided to just load Audition 2.0 on the new Machine so I could try it out for 30 days and still put out a new episode.
During that 30 days, I went on vacation. When I got back, I wrote to Josh (my guitarist) and asked him to send the software back to me since I needed it do a mix I've been paid for, and to do the show. He should've sent it by now, but with the holiday weekend upon us, I won't get any more mail til Tuesday. I hope it shows up this next week.
Just in case this takes a while, I've downloaded some free DAW's. I can't do the mix I was paid for using them, as the learning curve is too steep for me to figure it out quickly, but hopefully I'll be able to figure things out well enough to do a new episode for you soon. And besides, this will give me a chance to review some of the freeware available on a future episode!
So keep tuned in. I'll get things going back up soon enough. Thanks for hanging in there with me so far, and see you on the other side!
The PC I was using to edit the show together had Adobe Audition 1.5 loaded on it. I bought that software about 3 or more years ago. After loading it on my machine, I loaned it to my guitarist in my band Day Nine so he could load it on his machine.
When I moved to Bloomington Indiana from Columbus Ohio a year ago, I didn't take the software with me. Now that I've had to change machines, since I didn't have my DAW software with me anymore, I decided to just load Audition 2.0 on the new Machine so I could try it out for 30 days and still put out a new episode.
During that 30 days, I went on vacation. When I got back, I wrote to Josh (my guitarist) and asked him to send the software back to me since I needed it do a mix I've been paid for, and to do the show. He should've sent it by now, but with the holiday weekend upon us, I won't get any more mail til Tuesday. I hope it shows up this next week.
Just in case this takes a while, I've downloaded some free DAW's. I can't do the mix I was paid for using them, as the learning curve is too steep for me to figure it out quickly, but hopefully I'll be able to figure things out well enough to do a new episode for you soon. And besides, this will give me a chance to review some of the freeware available on a future episode!
So keep tuned in. I'll get things going back up soon enough. Thanks for hanging in there with me so far, and see you on the other side!
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