This week, an e-mail from Jim Weishorn regarding a video on Adobe TV that features some spectral view/Photoshop trickery,
and then it’s on to a look at (and a listen  to) the mastering plugin.

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This week, a quick follow up clarification on something I mentioned in ep#136 regarding the ‘order’ of filters. Thanks to Jim Weishorn for pointing out the ambiguity (or error) of my comments.
Then Ron Tostevin asked about purchasing a second-hand Mackie Control Universal off EBay now that the prices of same have come down so much.
Also, the ‘Donate’ button is now back on audio2u.com, so if you feel like making a donation toward paying for the bandwidth, that would be greatly appreciated!
And then, it’s on to the ‘modulation’ sub-menu of the effects menu, which includes Chorus, Flanger and the Sweeping phaser.

Effects/Modulation/Chorus

Effects/Modulation/Flanger

Effects/Modulation/Sweeping phaser

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This week, Karl Cooper wrote to say how much he enjoyed the episode on parametric eq, and to ask about whether I could knock up a special ‘voice processing’ episode.
Also, the all new audio2u.com forum is up and running.
Go register now!
And then, it’s on to a thorough investigation of the Scientific Filters.

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This week, we look at the parametric equalizer.

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This week, Michael Rooney has finished his new program, AATranslator, which will the allow the import of various other DAW session formats into Audition.
Then, we look at the next item in the ‘Filters and EQ’ section… the graphic EQ.

The graphic EQ in 10 band mode. Each filter covers an octave.

The graphic EQ in 20 band mode. Each filter covers half an octave.

The graphic EQ in 30 band mode. Each filter covers one third of an octave.

The waveform display, after a cut at 8kHz, in 10 band mode. Notice how far the dip extends to the left and right of the centre frequency (it covers a full octave).

The spectral display, after a cut at 8kHz, in 10 band mode. Notice the area of the display which is NOT yellow, but rather orange (signalling a drop in amplitude).

The waveform display, after a cut at 8kHz, in 30 band mode. Notice how far the dip extends to the left and right of the centre frequency (it now only covers a third of an octave).

The spectral display, after a cut at 8kHz, in 30 band mode. Notice how the orange section of the display is shorter, because the amplitude drop is narrower than in 10 band mode.

Grab the swept sine wave here.

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This week, we move on to the ‘filter and eq’ section of the effects menu.
First cab off the rank… dynamic eq.

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I’m publishing a day early this week.
Got a recording session tomorrow night which means I wouldn’t be able to publish then.

This week, no Q+A.

KBSCOTW 0:33
Alt+A (add audio track)
Alt+B (add bus)
Alt+M (add midi track)

WITE 2:40
delay/echo chamber

INTERFACE 8:46
Track EQ

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In ep 101,

Q+A 0:28
This week, a quick follow up on btp100.
I received some really nice e-mails and comments (on the blog)… thanks one and all.
Winners in the btp100 prize giveaway will be announced next week.

KBSCOTW 5:06
F11 – convert sample type
(don’t confuse with adjust sample rate)

WITE 10:27
effects/amplitude/stereo field rotate
(similar to “centre channel pan” of the stereo expander
and
effects/amplitude/stereo field rotate (process)

INTERFACE 17:48
Track properties area
4 views – inputs,fx,sends,eq

BTW, if you click on those images, you’ll (hopefully) get this really funky darkening of your screen, and the images will load in a slidehow over the top of the website.
If it works, you can use your left and right arrow keys to navigate back and forth through the slideshow, and you can use the ‘x’ key to close the slideshow.
Pretty neat, huh?

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At last!
Just when you thought it was never gonna get here… the big one ton is here!

*** EDIT ***

To download the movie, go to
“BTP100 downloads“.

*** END EDIT ***

So, what’s in store for episode 100?
A promo remix in real time, for Rem Lavictoire.

Yeah yeah yeah, but what about the damned prizes, man? That’s all we’re here for!

Oh yeah, right…. ok.

Well, Peter Baker at Beatbox Music

has been kind enough to donate a copy of the Podcasting Production Toolkit CD.
This is a CD of royalty free music AND sound effects that you can use for polishing up your podcast!

While I will confess to not having heard the CD yet, I have dealt with Peter professionally for over 20 years, and he has always represented some of the finest music production companies around… and I have no reason to suspect that this won’t be an AWESOME collection of sounds to have at your disposal.

And to keep the CD theme going, I have 3 more copies of the Adobe Audition 2.0 Essential Training Guide from Lynda.com to give away as 2nd, 3rd and 4th prizes.

OK, so what do you have to do to win one of these great prizes?

Well, this is where you’re gonna hate me. I’m not going to tell you… just yet.
In order to make this fair, I’m going to hold off posting the details of the competition for 72 hours.
The reason for that is, it will give those on slower internet connections a chance to be involved too.
So, at around midday GMT on Wednesday (25th July 2007), I’ll post the details right here.

Nasty, aren’t I?

In the meantime, enjoy the video!

Well, I’m slowly getting those catgeory links in place. HUGE thanks go out to Michael who has (so far) been through 10 episodes of BTP and given me the key topics. If any one else has got some time to donate to listening back to some old episodes, that would be greatly appreciated.

This week, I take a close look at Mike Wills’ podcast Mikeshotdish, and the way it’s mixed. Specifically, how to mix your voice over track with a high energy music track and not lose the vibe by having to pull the music down radically when the voice over starts.

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In ep 68, Bruce discusses making monster voices (and voices for other evil-doing no-good type creatures).
Adobe Audition 2.0 Essential Training Guide at Lynda.com

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In episode 54, Bruce talks about how to de-pop a vocal track. Also, the keyboard shortcut of the week, and is it the end of an era?

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In episode 47, Bruce talks about iZotope’s Ozone, and how you can achieve similar results using Audition on its own. Also, the keyboard shortcut of the week… Audition’s 5 clipboards.

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In episode 40, Bruce talks a bit more about radio imaging production techniques.

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In episode 8, Bruce elaborates further on EQ, plus introduces a few new tricks in the multitrack environment.

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