Chris’s Goody Bag – PES 163

Thanks to Focusrite for sponsoring this episode! If you haven’t checked out the new Focusrite Scarlett 3rd Gen. series of interfaces yet, you can see them here.

I overview recent Daily Goody‘s (from Nov. 8 – Nov. 20). Here’s the link to view all those blog posts. And don’t forget that you can sign up to receive the Daily Goody in your email every day or once per week. Sign up here.

Here are the Daily Goody posts that we discussed in this episode:

• After Removing an Umm
• Using Multiband Compression When Mastering Episodes
• Episode Turnaround Times Expected by Clients
• Remember Steve Savanyu’s Awesome Episode?
• Hey, I Did a Thing!
• The Dynamic Range of a Participants Voice
• Small External Hard Drive for Session Files
• When’s the Last Time You Rearranged Your Studio Setup?
• FabFilter Pro-C 2 Compressor Plugin
• If Your Guest Is Using a Tabletop Conference Call Microphone…
• Voice Meeter?
• Recent Episode on Which I Used Fabfilter Plugins ONLY
• Demand One Pushup for Every Umm?

Notes on my production for this episode:

Recording: I used a Samson Q2U microphone going XLR into a Focusrite 2i2 3rd Gen. interface (picture above) with the Air mode activated. My mouth was about 1-2″ from the foam windscreen. I recorded the raw audio in SoundForge Pro.

Post-Production: First I had to de-plosive the raw recording because it had huge plosives on it due to my close proximity, even though I had a windscreen on the mic. Then for mixing I mostly used the Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain plugin from Waves, as well as a bit of Fabfilter Pro-G gate and Vocal Rider from Waves.

My thoughts on the final sound of my voice: Please note I limited myself to the Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain plugin in this episode (except for the couple others listed above) so I could try it out in full. I like the Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain plugin a lot but I would have liked to do more precise EQ’ing on my voice, and I would have liked to try a faster attack time but I wasn’t sure how to do that in this plugin. Since there’s no attack knob I’ll have to research the difference between the “Original” and “Modern” compressor styles. Also, the sound of my voice due to the Q2U mic and 2i2 with Air combo was pretty good!

Announcement: The start date for the next PES will be January 14, 2020

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