IHR Episode #60 (Enhanced) – Copying Rod, Ranting Pianos, Laptops vs. Desktops (2008_07_17)

Summary: [Play IHR #60 now] Try GotoMeeting free for 45 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomeeting.com/podcast. with Paul Garay, Derek K. Miller, and Dave Chick and featuring Boris Aeven Paul works with Rod Stewart (sort of), Boris rants about stage pianos and monitor speakers, we discuss NAMM news and laptops vs. desktops, and Dave Chick comes to Derek's home studio to record IHR. If you can play Enhanced podcasts (AAC enhanced) on your iPod, PlayStation Portable, Apple TV, Xbox 360, TiVo, or Zune, or in iTunes or QuickTime, you'll find lots of photos and links accompanying this episode. 00:00 Intros with Paul Garay, Derek K. Miller, and Dave Chick - Disneyland, Derek's birthday, Boris has Internet! 05:44 George Michael the home recordist. 08:07 Summer NAMM Show news - Korg's nanoSERIES controllers, IK's Total Workstation Rack runs as a standalone sampler unit or as an external hardware plugin module. 12:00 Pro Tools 7.4 finally supports Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and there's also a Mac OS X update which improves support for Logic Pro. 15:30 Don't forget the Home Made Hit Show summer song challenge, deadline August 10. 16:10 SPONSORS: Thanks to Source Elements, GoToMeeting, macProVideo.com, Blubrry, Home Recording Network. 16:30 AFFILIATES: zZounds, Amazon, NCIX (Paul found super-cheap deals on hard disks and Etymotic headphones). 18:35 IHR TV #4 features Derek on "The Lab With Leo" (now cancelled, alas) talking about MIDI drums, and he also did some live gigs with his cover band The Neurotics (he posted on the IHR blog about their live setup). 21:54 SPONSOR: GoToMeeting 23:02 IHR 101: Paul in the studio with Rod Stewart (well, not quite). He uses Audio Hijack Pro for getting sound (especially from video sources), and Logic Pro for sequencing, beat mapping, and editing. He plays most of the parts himself, except for guitar, which he subs out to someone he's worked with lots, but has never met in person. Backing vocals also come from another studio. He uses a similar process for the TinaJourney.com Tina Turner tribute. 34:47 BORIS'S RANT: Buying a new stage piano (Derek also wrote an article on that topic five years ago, which remains useful) and reference monitors. For pianos, the line between pro stage and home use has blurred considerably. He discusses Casio, Yahama, and Roland stage pianos, and some of the strange design decisions that get made along that blurred line. Newer pianos are definitely better in sound. He ended up with a Yamaha P140, despite some compromises, because the higher-end pianos are too heavy. He also purchased Dynaudio BM5A reference monitors, with much better low end and more accuracy than what he used previously. 42:27 EDITORIAL: Paul bought a new MacBook Pro, necessary for the better dedicated video card, because of all his recent video work for Mac Video Training and macProVideo.com. General discussions of laptops vs. desktops, and the continued appeal of the tiny 12" PowerBook. 56:00 Welcome Dave to Vancouver and its restaurants. Also don't forget the website and blog, IHR TV, our new page at Facebook, our Twitter notifications, the listener forums. See you for IHR #61! 58:48 END Credits Sounds: Our theme music, "Acidic Bond," is by Steven Dennis in Louisiana, U.S.A., and our voiceovers are by Steve Herringer in Vancouver. Pictures: The Home Recording Network "lava lamp" logo is based on an image by und_dann. Photo portraits of Paul and Derek are by Kris Krug. Thanks! Listeners: Please comment on the blog at insidehomerecording.com and head over to the the forums at insidehomerecording.com/forums. Also remember that you can post your photos to the IHR Flickr Group -- joining Flickr to share photos is free. We're also on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. And don't forget to subscribe to IHR TV! This podcast is (c) 2008 by Inside Home Recording under a Creative Commons license creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca