Some recent listener feedback
Shutters Inc:
Great job with the wedding series guys!
I knew when I asked Shelton about wedding shoots, as I had one coming up, he would deliver the goods.
I had no idea, however, it would result in such a great series of episodes, offering priceless information.
Typical of "the Guru Tigger Muller", the listeners are getting a veritable GOLD MINE of practical tips.
More importantly, I'm confident the listeners (as I am) really appreciate how you are giving us those extra little 'secrects' that we would rarely get from any other pro--I am seriously grateful.
I also wanted to thanks Bruce for his very timely and appropriate questions he often presents to Shelton.
A lot of co-hosts get in the habit of no-substance "filler" questions, just to keep the conversation rolling (beware of dead air!!), but this does not describe you Bruce.
I often feel that you are representing me, the common joe, in your questions.
You, my friend, are definitely an integral part of not only the production of the show, but also its content.
Once again, keep it up, the show started at a high level of quality right from episode one and you have both more than brought your "A game" for every one!
Canada loves Shutters Inc.!
Walt
Sine Language:
I value your podcast. As much as I love TWiT, I wish they had you
engineering their audio :)
James
Building the pod:
I've only recently decided to get back into music production after a prolonged absence.
So, when it came to choosing a DAW, it came down to a choice between FL Studio and Audition.
Dollar wise, quite similar although FL Studio does offer more in the way of virtual instruments for this price range.
But I chose Audition for two clear reasons.
1. I really like the look and feel. The layout is just easy on the eye and made sense to me very quickly.
2. I knew I had a great teacher. I discovered Building the Pod through the Adobe web site and soon found Sine Language.
I have to thank you sincerely for your weekly tuition.
It has turned a somewhat severe learning curve into managable bite size pieces.
I simply can't overstate how thankful I am of your weekly podcasts.
Bye for now.
Ross Huntley
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June 29, 2009
This is scary stuff people… watch it at your own risk!
I thought Ricoh’s CX1 with its 120 frames per second was impressive, but this is just awesome.
Thanks to Oleg for the link.
What happens when 4 guys, 3 pizzas, 2 bottles of red, and one mega trade show reach their ultimate destination?
You probably DON’T want to know…. but if you do, then this is your podcast!
Shelton Muller, Nathan Muller, Richard Annable and myself sat down for a chat (after the PMA Imaging Technology Show wrapped up) to talk about life, the universe and everything.
Sorry guys… this weekend has seen the PMA Imaging Technology Show being held at Darling Harbour here in Sydney, so all of my time has been consumed by that (lots of ’special’ episodes of Shutters Inc.)
However, the good news is that today (Monday) is the first of a 3 day trade show for the pro audio industry (along with video and lighting).
And my plan is to once again take along the hand held recorder and grab some interviews on the trade show floor, so hopefully, I’ll have a ’special episode’ or 2 of Sine Language to release this week, too!
Stay tuned.
June 27, 2009
In episode 130, Bruce talks to various vendors on the floor at the PMA Imaging Technology Show at Darling Harbour, Sydney.
00:00:38 Fujifilm
00:04:05 Ricoh
00:08:02 Canon
00:11:03 Olympus
00:18:31 Sony
00:30:21 Kodak
00:36:20 Momento Pro
00:38:28 Westwell
00:42:17 Nikon
00:50:00 Adobe
00:53:08 Lifetime Art and Photo
00:56:45 Wacom
01:03:16 Maxwell Australia
01:09:29 Epson
June 21, 2009
This week, we look at the parametric equalizer.
Hi there all you SI listeners,
I expected to have another episode to release this week, with Shelton, and talking about all those things we hinted at, at the end of ep 128.
However, with PMA coming up next weekend, Shelton is like a hamster on a treadmill at the moment.
So, alas, there will be no normal episode of SI this week.
Apologies for that.
However, as well as the pre-PMA teaser episode (#129) released a couple of days ago, I am also planning on taking a hand-held flash recorder to the show on Friday and recording some interviews with some of the vendors. Those interviews will then be chopped up into another special PMA episode.
Plus, we’re planning something else a little bit different for next week, as well.
So, the short version of the story (now that you’ve already read the long version!) is, it may be another couple of weeks before we get around to wrapping up the “going pro” series.
But that doesn’t mean you won’t have SOMETHING to listen to in the mean time.
Woot!
June 18, 2009
A special pre-PMA Trade Show episode.
Bruce talks with PMA spokesman, Paul Curtis about what to expect at the show, and why anyone interested in photography ought to be there.
Remember, you can still register for free access to the show, to save yourself $20.
June 14, 2009
In ep 113, a bit of a discussion on patchbays,
Michael Rooney’s AATranslator software,
Peachey wanted to know about how to lay out the audio for a film mix,
somebody liked my Muggshot commercial and wanted to know about de-breathing techniques,
the Loudness War awareness campaign is reaching mainstream (with a Facebook group supporting an end to the madness),
a new album WITH dynamics caught me by surprise,
and Yuli Mitsner alerted us to a Mac app called Max (which sounds like the Mac equivalent of dbpoweramp) for converting audio files from one format to another.
In episode 128, we’re nearing the end of the ‘going pro’ series.
This week, Shelton talks about when, and how, to push your limitations as a photographer.
June 13, 2009
Dear valued audio2u.com podcast listener,
If you know me at all, you would probably know that one thing I cherish in this world is consistency.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not averse to change if there’s a good reason for it!
What I hate is when things that SHOULD be consistent are not, because of laziness or sloppiness on the part of the creator.
What am I talking about here?
I’m talking about metadata in podcast mp3 files.
There are very few podcasts that I have come across where the metadata can be relied upon to remain consistent from one episode to the next.
Why is that important, you may well ask?
Well, the information contained in say, the ‘album’ field of the mp3 file will determine what ‘album’ the mp3 file appears to belong to on your mp3 player.
Likewise, the information contained in the ‘artist’ field will determine which artist the file appears under on the mp3 player.
So, if the content creator subtly changes the information in the ‘artist’ field from one episode to the next, then all those episodes of that podcast will not appear under the same ‘artist’ listing on your mp3 player.
No doubt, some of you have already been frustrated by this!
OK, you say. Bruce is anal about metadata. What of it?
Well, the reason for this post is to advise that I am making a change to the ‘album’ metadata for all 3 of my podcasts effective immediately.
Instead of all my podcasts belonging to the album ‘audio2u.com podcast’, the album name will now reflect the name of the podcast.
Hopefully, this will not be too disconcerting for you all.
It just means that all future episodes will not be listed under the same album (on your mp3 player, or in the WMP, iTunes, MediaMonkey database etc) as the episodes you currently have.
Thank you.
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming…
June 7, 2009
This was meant to be a Sine Language week, but I just got snowed under with other tasks.
Apologies all.
There’s always next week…
In episode 127, we’re still “going pro”.
This week, shooting for stock, part time vs full time, and selling your style to your target audience.
June 1, 2009
Having totally missed the boat with regards getting photos of the rest of the studio relocation project, I thought I should at least grab a couple of snaps of Ritchie in action, wiring up my patchbays.
For those of you NOT in the professional audio industry, it might amaze you (or it may not) just how much cable is required to wire up even a modest little studio like mine.
As you can see, there is quite a pile of cable there on my desk… at a guess, about 80 metres (88 yards) of the stuff.
Ritchie has now taken that great bundle of spaghetti home with him, where he will finish off the soldering of all those cable ends to the patchbay.
I am SOOOOO glad I was able to pay someone else to do this for me!
If I had tried to do this, I probably would have become so frustrated by the process that it would have just languished, half-finished, forever and a day.
Ritchie reckons he’ll have the rest of it done by next week.
Schweeeeet!
May 31, 2009
This week, the ‘going pro’ series continues.
The main thrust of this episode is ‘asking the right questions of your client’.
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