Daniel Hager – PES 109

My guest is Daniel Hager from Germany, host of Let’s Talk Re-Touching, owner of Hager Media, and award-winning, internationally published retoucher and Adobe Photoshop Certified Expert.

We covered a ton including:

• A self-modified OEM branded mic with a capsule similar to the Shure Beta 27
• dbx 286s channel strip
• Power conditioners
• Presonus 192 Mobile interface (used to use a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2)
• Balanced/unbalanced
• Zoom H1
• Tascam DR 60D (can record up to 4 tracks)
• Self-built Windows computer
• Adobe Audition DAW and its multi-band compressor targeted for plosives, EQ to match the host and guest, sometimes a bit of compression, and on the mix-bus track for voices a multi-band compressor, limiter, and sometimes an additional eq to affect all voice tracks
• Presonus Studio 1 DAW
• VB-Audio VoiceMeeter, a virtual mixer for Windows machines
• Recording 4, 6, or 8 tracks in one .WAV file at 24 bit resolution
• De-click
• De-noise
• Microsoft cloud services for media hosting
• Feed generated in WordPress
• Mastering to the desired output of -16 LUFS (Audition has a Loudness Radar as an effect which I put on the master track)
• File Output, adding an image, title, description or other meta information is also done all within Audition
• Daniel blogs about audio gear at https://all-geared-up.com

Thanks for hanging out with us, Daniel!

Comment below with any questions or comments.

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