Episode 13 trivia

Mike Hickey has written in with the correct answer to episode 13's trivia, but the polls still remain open. Why? Because Mike has already won once, so I'm giving someone else a chance to win my album. Not that Mike's answer doesn't count, but I figure since he's already won once, why not give someone else a shot too?

Episode 13 - Neil McDougall's Review Of Line 6 Variax's Acoustic Modeling

This is episode 13 of The Metal Shop Podcast! In this episode, special guest Neil McDougall gives a review of the Line 6 Variax's acoustic guitar modeling capabilities.

LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA

Last week's question is about the recording of Nirvana's "Bleach" album. How many tracks were available in the studio that they recorded the album in during the 1992 recording sessions?

The correct answer is that it was recorded on an 8 track machine. All the drums, guitars bass, and vocals on that album were done using only 8 tracks. No one submitted a correct answer to last week's question, so we move on. Don't forget that a winning answer gets you a copy of my solo album "Orphan".

THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA

This week's trivia question is about Metallica (yet again, what can I say, I love them!) In the documentary "Some Kind Of Monster", james is talking about blowing his voice out on the black album. What song does he say he blew it out on?

Enjoy the show? If you like it, write me at metalshoppodcast@yahoo.com, or check me out on myspace at myspace.com/metalshoppodcast. Don't forget to check out the Youtube channel at youtube.com/metalshoppodcast! And you can now keep up with my daily behind the scenes activities by reading the Metal Shop Myspace Blog at blog.myspace.com/metalshoppodcast! And finally, you can discuss all things Metal(shop) over at the Metal Shop Forum, which is over at metalshoppodcast.myfastforum.org/!

[All music in this episode was original music that I, Brandon S. Hire, had a hand in writing and recording, except for the bumper music to the Line 6 Variax review, which is a song called "See Me" from Neil McDougall. The same song is played in full at the end of the episode. The music bed at the beginning and end of the show was created specifically for this podcast]

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Episode 13 in production, shouldn't be long.

The countdown has expired on getting your trivia answers in for last weeks question, and no one won. So we move on to the next episode and a whole new question.

I hope to have it out in the next 24 hours, so sit tight.

Youtube Channel Update, and episode 13

Episode 13 will begin production shortly. Since Neil-o-mac already produced the segment for me, all I've really got to do is the beginning and end banter, so when I get rolling it shouldn't take long.

Also, I've just updated the web site's youtube section to include the vids about recording acoustic guitar, like I promised would be up in episode 12. Sorry for the delay. While I was at it, I added 4 new playlists to the site. Enjoy!

Episode 12 - Recording Acoustic Guitar 101

This is episode 12 of The Metal Shop Podcast! In this episode, I explore various ways of recording acoustic guitar.

LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA

The trivia question for this episode asked; "How did Guns And Roses get the fornicating sound effects on Rocket Queen?"

The correct answer is that it was a recording of Axl Rose and drummer Steven Adler's girlfriend doing it in a vocal booth. Congrats to Scott Walton for having the right answer. Scott wins a copy of my solo album "Orphan".

THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA

This week's question is about the recording of Nirvana's "Bleach" album. How many tracks were available in the studio that they recorded the album in during the 1992 recording sessions?

Enjoy the show? If you like it, write me at metalshoppodcast@yahoo.com, or check me out on myspace at myspace.com/metalshoppodcast. Don't forget to check out the Youtube channel at youtube.com/metalshoppodcast! And you can now keep up with my daily behind the scenes activities by reading the Metal Shop Myspace Blog at blog.myspace.com/metalshoppodcast! And finally, you can discuss all things Metal(shop) over at the Metal Shop Forum, which is over at metalshoppodcast.myfastforum.org/!

[All music in this episode was original music that I, Brandon S. Hire, had a hand in writing and recording. The music bed at the beginning and end of the show was created specifically for this podcast, while the music bed at the beginning and end of the Recording Acoustic Guitars 101 segment is a song called Karen, and was recorded by me at OU's multi-track lab in 2003-2004!]

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The great Analog Vs. Digital Debate.

Thanks Kris from One Over Eight for sending me this video. Pretty interesting. He sent me a link to the video on it's home page at pbs.

Here's a link.
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/video/212-audio_files.html

I however have found the video on youtube. So I've added it to the youtube channel! Here's the embed!


The youtube vid is not the whole vid, so go watch the link!

Special thanks to Neil.....Yet Again!

I've just recieved a segment put together by Neil from Neil-O-Mac's Music Attack podcast. This segment is a review of the Line 6 Variax guitar modeler's acoustic guitar features, and I'm going to use it as episode 13.

Thanks again to Neil. Check out his show, Neil-O-Mac's Music Attack!

The reason why this is just a review of the Acoustic guitar sounds of the Variax, not of all of the Variax's capabilities, is that I asked Neil to send me some audio samples of the Variax acoustic models for the acoustic recording segment coming up in episode 12. Neil went above and beyond and sent an entire segment reviewing it's features, so I decided to give it it's own show.

I'm glad I've got supporters of the show out there like Neil, and the rest of you, who all kick ass. Keep it metal everyone!

Episode 12 production update......

I've finished putting together the segment for episode 12, I'm right now working on getting the rest of the podcast pieced together. In fact, I've just got to outline the after-segment banter, get the trivia questions ready, ect......and when I can get that voice-tracked the show will be ready for publication.

Kick ass!

Happy New Year!

Happy new year everyone!