[Show #10] No Pod Fade For PSN! Celebration Grab Bag
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Yay! We made it! It\'s show #10 and we\'re feeling stronger than ever. We review\\nsome of what has gone into our first ten shows and how we\'re just not going\\nto stop! We\'re already planning what we\'re going to do to make our 100th\\nshow special.
\\n\\nToday\'s show is a tasty grab bag of tidbits that were planned for earlier shows \\nbut never made it for one reason or another.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO JOHN DAVIDSON!
\\n\\nJohn and his lovely wife just welcomed a new addition to the family with a \\nhealthy baby boy! He was born at 12:11 AM on Saturday March 11, 2006.\\nHe\'s 6 pounds, 9 ounces, and 20 1/2" long.
\\n\\nAl points out that he believes John brought in a surround sound crew to \\nrecord the birth and that he managed to get a small sample from the scratch \\ntrack already in 5.1. Al plays the clip and everyone is amazed by the \\n"you are there" realism!
\\n\\nA Minor Correction:
\\nJust a minor correction from last week\'s trivia question. We spoke with \\nCharles Dye, and while the Ricky Martin song, \\nLivin\' La Vida Loca was recorded and mixed entirely inside the \\nbox with Pro Tools, it wasn\'t mastered that way. It was mastered by \\nTed Jensen at Sterling Sound in New York, New York. \\nHere\'s the link to the awesome Sterling Sound web site:
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\\n\\nTed and Sterling Sound has done some great work with artists like: \\nJohn Mayer, Destiny\'s Child, Nickelback, Ozzy Osbourne, \\nGreen Day, Santana, Bare Naked Ladies, Billy Joel, Chris Botti and\\na host of others.
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- \\nSweetwater Sound
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Aja\\n
\\n\\nThis is a vivid portrait of the making of the canonical 1970s record \\nAJA by Steely Dan. Band members Walter Becker \\nand Donald Fagen recall the history of an album that was a year in the \\nmaking, but rewarded with a Grammy Award and three hit singles.
\\n\\nBritish songwriter Ian Dury, the Doobie Brothers\' Michael \\nMcDonald, and music producer Gary Katz all add their fascinating \\nanecdotes to this highly involving rockumentary. Many of the mixes are \\ndissected and studio sessions are detailed.
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Total Guitar\\n
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\\n\\nMike shares web site that details the acoustic guitar setups of many\\nfamous players like: James Taylor, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Alex de Grassi,\\nMichael Hedges, Leo Kottke, Adrian Legg, Paul Simon and more.
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\\n\\nNext, Al says that if you\'re a Comcast Cable subscriber with On Demand\\nservice, dig into the menus. There\'s all kinds of free video music tutorials\\nand gear reviews that are a lot of fun to watch.
\\n\\nMike encourages trying to play as many parts live in your project as\\npossible. Break out of the sequencer and samples and discover\\nsomething new!
\\n\\nAl details solving a sampled bass challenge by running it through\\nAmplitube (a digital guitar amp simulator).
\\n\\nHow do you pronounce the word spelled P - I - E - Z - O? The Online \\nAmerican Heritage Dictionary sets us all straight. Here\'s the audio \\npronunciation from their site. Click here to hear it!
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\\n\\nViewer Mail:
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\\n"Big Al, I picked up the BBE acoustic pre-amp you recommended on \\nebay for $72. Just got it yesterday, tried it out, and you were right. \\nIt works great. Nice sweetening effect, even on my Neve-equipped \\nTaylor. Begs a question, however. What\'s your opinion on \\npiggy-backing pre\'s?"\\n\\n\\nI\'m not a big fan of stacking up pre\'s. That said, it can work with careful monitoring. The problems that often crop up are distortion and phase-like anomalies. If you\'re using a unit with an effects loop that you can use it to insert the BBE. If you\'re using a mixing console, you could also insert the BBE in the channel there. If the only choice is to stack the pre\'s, I think I\'d go through the BBE last. It\'s usually not a good effect to equalize the BBE process. It lives best at the end of the chain.
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Hollywood, California\\n
\\nQ: Starting on August 25, 1970, who became an overnight sensation after playing only seven consecutive nights at the Troubadour in Hollywood, California? The club only held 600 people, but by the end of that week everyone in Los Angeles was talking about this person, who went on to become a multi-platinum, multi-Grammy winning recording artist.
\\n\\nA: Sir Elton John!
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\\n\\nA: Neil Diamond!
\\n\\nThe Los Angeles Times raved:
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\\n"Rejoice. Rock music ... has a new star. he\'s Elton John ... whose debut ... was, in almost every way, magnificent. His music is so staggeringly original ... [his] songs so varied in texture that his work defies classification ... He\'s going to be one of rock\'s biggest and most important stars."\\n\\n\\nIn that same year, John Lennon and his friend, Harry Nilsson, were ejected from the club for heckling the Smothers Brothers. Randy Newman started out at the club and comics Cheech & Chong were discovered there. In 1975, Elton John returned to do a series of special anniversary concerts.
\\n\\nMike was there for one night of this legendary performance and shares\\nhis memories of the experience.
\\n\\nThis Week\'s Trivia Question:
\\nIn honor of our tenth show, we\'re taking a trivia break this week!
\\n\\nAl mentions our new Listener Feedback Line: (928) 395-1343 Give us a\\ncall and be sure to leave your name and e-mail address!
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\\nSee you next week!
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