Some recent listener feedback
Shutters Inc
Firstly let me start with reference to something that Bruce had mentioned, I think in episode 137.
You were quite concerned with the audio quality that you were able to present to listeners from the portable recorder used at Echuca, the audio on that episode was fine.
I have recently dabbled with other podcasts, and have since canceled all of the downloads except Shutters Inc.
Bruce the quality of the audio delivered by you leaves all others far behind, keep up the good work.
Thanks for the great pod casts not only in the information passed on but also the technical quality.
Mark Chapman
Sine Language
Bruce, I can only say, in my opinion, that the services you are providing are greatly appreciated.
J. R.
Building the pod
I've only recently decided to get back into music production after a prolonged absence.
So, when it came to choosing a DAW, it came down to a choice between FL Studio and Audition.
Dollar wise, quite similar although FL Studio does offer more in the way of virtual instruments for this price range.
But I chose Audition for two clear reasons.
1. I really like the look and feel. The layout is just easy on the eye and made sense to me very quickly.
2. I knew I had a great teacher. I discovered Building the Pod through the Adobe web site and soon found Sine Language.
I have to thank you sincerely for your weekly tuition.
It has turned a somewhat severe learning curve into managable bite size pieces.
I simply can't overstate how thankful I am of your weekly podcasts.
Bye for now.
Ross Huntley
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July 16, 2010
To quote Jim Morrison, “This is the end”.
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May 23, 2010
This week, Jim Addie weighs in on the Loudness War,
including providing us with this link to Audyssey’s room calibration tool for your DAW,
a link for AudioLeak,
and a link to a technical document on the subject of loudness,
Geoff Hankerson points us toward a recent epsiode of the Home Theatre Geeks podcast,
and Ron Eastwood chimed in on how new audio forensic technology might be shedding new light on a 40 year old case.
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April 25, 2010
This week, Kevin Smith chimed in some more on tracking with effects in place,
a brief comment on how the use of reverb has changed over the years,
Ron Eastwood suggested another way of accomplishing the “richer harmonics” that I talked about in episode 127,
and J.R. sent us this link which he says is useful for newbie ProTools users.
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April 4, 2010
This week, Jim Addie replied concerning Dave King’s link to the Vacuumsound RIAA plugin,
my trip to the Sony DADC plant here in Sydney,
baking tapes,
Springsteen’s Nebraska album,
the Mixerman Diaries,
an e-mail from Kevin Smith regarding “tracking with mixing/mastering in mind”.
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March 13, 2010
In ep 126, some pros and cons of the Fast Track Ultra 8R soundcard,
Dave King sent me this link for an RIAA EQ Curve Plug-in,
Todd Sadowski asked about USB mics,
Rob Scalise wanted me to cover digital noise reduction some more, so I’m asking for your samples,
plus, in a recent edition of Audio Technology mag, Stav talked about a double-tracked vocal technique using sample rate deviations for harmonic variation.
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February 28, 2010
This week, we follow on from last episode, talking more about restoring your vinyl and converting it to digital media.
Firstly, I came across Warren Barnett, a Sydney-based Mastering Engineer with what was, to me at least, an unusual approach to restoring vinyl, so I got him on Skype for a chat.
Then it was on to a couple of fairly lengthy e-mails from Rob Scalise (who mentioned Wendy Carlos’ approach to baking tapes) and Jim (War and Peace) Addie.
Jim also supplied a few links to go along with some of his comments:
Tone arm alignment:
The analog Department
Enjoy the music
Vinyl Engine
RIAA EQ: (good article, accurate, and has graphs of the actual curves and it’s permutations.
There were/are at least 3 slightly different versions!
ART USB Preamp
Diamond Cut Productions
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February 26, 2010
I’ve just received an e-mail from my hosting company advising that they are migrating all of my sites to new servers.
The move will take place between 10pm EST February 25th and 8am EST February 26th.
That’s about 6 hours or so from the time of this posting.
Hopefully, you won’t even notice!
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February 14, 2010
This week, a discussion on digitising your vinyl collection, and turning it into a digital music collection. Everything from preparing your vinyl, to setting up your hardware, recording, editing, mastering, encoding, completing the metadata, and finally, your playback options.
Links:
(preparation)
Gruvglide
(hardware)
Ortofon cartridges
Stanton cartridges
Techincs SL1200
(software)
Adobe Audition
Audacity
Reaper
(noise reduction)
Izotope RX
Sound Soap
Diamondcut
(encoding options)
Rarewares
Lame mp3 encoder
(ID3 tag editors)
Media Monkey
MP3 Tag Studio
Tag Scanner
(media management)
Media Monkey
Winamp
Foobar
I won’t insult your intelligence by linking to Windoze Media Player or iToons here.
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January 31, 2010
This week, a quick explanation of the new website layout (audio2u.com is now NOT the landing pad for Sine Language),
the MOTU UltraLite as a mobile recording interface (NB: the link provided is to the current mk3 version… mine is the original mk1, courtesy of Daryl Gungadoo and AWR),
dynamics control on portable recorders (and why I’m NOT a fan),
software dynamics,
recording drums,
and the limitations of my M-Audio Fast Track Ultra.
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January 24, 2010
If you receive my podcasts via iToons or some other podcatcher, and never visit my site, then this won’t affect you.
But if you do regularly come to audio2u.com, I’d like to make you aware of a major structural change that has just been implemented by myself and Phil Massyn (thanks, mate!). Truth be told, Phil has done about 90% of it… maybe even more!
But here’s what it means to you.
If you want to see the show notes for Building the Pod, you will now need to go here.
If you want to see the show notes for Sine Language, you will now need to go here.
If you want to see the show notes for Shutters Inc, you will now need to go here.
At the moment, all 3 sites look very similar.
That will change.
I will be developing a new look for each site over the coming weeks.
The major benefit to you, dear listener, is this.
In the past, people would ask me, “How can I just see the podcast entries for BTP?” and unfortunately because of the way the site was structured, you couldn’t.
You could see all entries for Building the Pod, and exclude Sine Language and Shutters Inc, but you couldn’t separate the standard blog posts from the podcasts.
Or, you could get just the podcasts without the blog posts, but you then got all 3 podcasts!
Wasn’t particularly helpful for those who wanted just the podcast entries of one podcast only.
This new arrangement addresses that.
It also allows me to customise the sites, which will hopefully result in a better all-round user experience for you, the listener.
Any/all feedback is welcome. Just add your voice to the comments below.
Cheers.
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January 17, 2010
And what a rip-snorter of a start to the year!
One week in, and already, I’m letting you down.
Sorry gang.
Shelton and I had plans to record, but something came up at his end.
And I did plan on recording a BTP, but hit a bit of a brick wall.
Grrr.
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January 11, 2010
Hi all,
There seems to be some issues with manual downloading of mp3 files at the moment.
I am aware of the issue, and will get it resolved asap.
Sorry for the inconvenience, folks.
January 10, 2010
Happy new year!
A quick mention of our holiday cruise (blog and pictures start here),
an e-mail from Steve Filmer regarding a couple of articles on NPR;
this one on the loudness wars, inluding this great pdf,
and this on one the average level of TV commercials,
a quick mention of James Cameron’s epic, Avatar,
and the final segment (I guess?) on vocal recording, including hung mics and signal structure. I know I’ve covered signal structure in the past, but am having issues finding which episode that was in. If anyone knows off the top of their head, drop me an e-mail, would ya, please? Cheers! 
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December 16, 2009
Yay! Got another ep out the door before the eyar escaped from me!
This week, just tidying up some loose ends.
A while back, JR sent us a link about the Schwartz Engineering Laser microphone. That link has now been revised.
Someone also sent in a link to the Waves Vocal Rider, which at the time I received the e-mail was still in development.
It is now a released product, and you can check it on the Waves site here. (Now that the podcast is edited and mixed, I discover that I covered this on the last episode! D’oh!)
Bomar wrote in asking about ID3 tags, artwork and metadata.
I use MP3 Tag Studio almost exclusively.
He also asked about the chipmunk effect and how to avoid it.
Plus he mentioned this article about shockwaves and how they can be photographed.
Also, if you are interested in picking up one of my Bruce Williams Photography 2010 calendars, please check ‘em out here!
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November 19, 2009
Bruce Williams Photography is pleased to announce the arrival of the “2010 – It’s a wide wide wonderful world” calendar, professionally printed on 150gsm paper stock.
The calendar is available for purchase in limited quantities.
For more info, please visit Bruce Williams Photography.
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