Summary: IHR's First Anniversary, NI Guitar Rig 2 Giveaway from Our New Listener Survey, Compression Ear Training, Tannoy Reveal 5A Speakers, Alsoft DiskWarrior, Les Thorn Interview, First Year Highlights Total time: 36 min 06 sec. Hosted by Paul Garay and Derek K. Miller. See "Links mentioned" below to visit the sites we discuss. Listen to the whole episode to hear the secret word, then go to our new listener survey at insidehomerecording.com/survey to enter to win Guitar Rig 2 with controller (a $600 value) courtesy of Native Instruments, which received a great review from Paul on IHR #20. NOTE: See the Tannoy review update for some good information about Reveal 5A pricing. 00:00 It's our one year anniversary. IHR #1 came out August 22, 2005: go back and give it a listen! Also check out SSL's new contest, where you can download the original digital multitracks from Peter Gabriel's pioneering hit song "Shock the Monkey" and remix them and maybe win an SSL Duende hardware rack EQ and dynamics plugin. Check out some of the great remixes already available too. 07:20 IHR's Rob Gillis has some announcements about IHR, with thanks to our many listeners in Europe, with more info on our gear giveaway featuring NI's Guitar Rig 2, plus our listener forums. 08:43 EAR TRAINING: Paul on audio dynamics compression. This segment features several songs from the Podsafe Music Network - see "Links mentioned" below for information about the artists and links to hear and buy their music. 13:04 GEAR REVIEW - TANNOY REVEAL 5A STUDIO MONITORS: Derek reviews these quality self-powered (active) studio monitor speakers. He has particular praise for the thorough user manual (page links to the free PDF file from Tannoy). 18:25 GEAR REVIEW - ALSOFT DISKWARRIOR FOR MAC: Paul reviews this well regarded and simple to use disk directory scanning and repair utility for Mac computers. 23:13 GUEST INTERVIEW - LES THORN: Derek interviews Les Thorn, who works as a mastering artist from his home in New York City, and has mastered all of Derek's music tracks. Les mentions Waves and Blue Tubes plugins and Samson Resolv 65A monitors as some of his favourites. 32:00 EDITORIAL: Highlights from the last year of IHR. Sort of. Check the next episode for some hot stuff from our association with Blubrry.com. 36:06 END Links mentioned: Remember: any purchase from our links to zZounds (not just these products) helps support IHR. Thanks for those who've already bought some gear there. IHR's great gear giveaway listener survey (listen for the secret word during the show!) to win the Native Instruments Guitar Rig 2 (available at zZounds) Peter Gabriel's remix contest to win an SSL Duende Tannoy Reveal 5A monitor speakers Tannoy's great user manual (free PDF) Waves and Blue Tubes plugins Samson Resolv 65A studio monitors Les Thorn's website, mastering page, and before-and-after samples Songs from the Podsafe Music Network used in our dynamics compression ear training segment are "Ain't No Cure" by Doug MacLeod from Black and Tan Records, "Funk2Paddy" by Aidan Doyle, "Blue Eyes" by Justin Winokur, "Fool" by Tommy Brown, "Empty" by Derek Clegg, and "Soul on My Foot" by Aux and Big Mike Join the IHR Flickr photo group IHR at Blubrry.com Join the discussion at the IHR forums. Our theme music, "Acidic Bond," is by Steven Dennis in Louisiana, U.S.A. The New York skyline photo is from Chris Linton at Flickr.com.
