Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Signal Flow with Roger Cole

Yesterday the HA! team spent the day with Sound Engineer/Composer/Producer Roger Cole. Many of you may know Roger from the band Little Feet, not as a band member but as a producer. Over the past two plus decades Roger has been on the road making sure other artists didn't have to worry about their 'sound'. The point of our time with Roger yesterday was to tape a new title entitled SIGNAL FLOW. If you working with sound, live or studio, you're a lot more efficient and effective if you understand signal flow and nobody know that better than Roger Cole.

Look for Roger in other upcoming titles including: Running Live Sound and Sibelius, in addition to a new video series coming soon the HowAudio.com - Tips From The Pros.

Friday, October 26, 2007

What's new this week Oct. 26th

Sorry, I need to get better at updating. I have a great reason though, if it really matters. We've been busy creating new titles for HowAudio.com.

Yesterday we filmed a title on the Line 6 Low Down Bass Amp with Jonathan Ahrens. Look for that one in the next couple of weeks at the latest.

It looks like we are finally going to post the Line 6 Spider III and Spider Valve tutorials.

New titles added this week are the "Preparing for Mastering" with Grammy Nominated Mastering Engineer Ron McMaster (Capitol Mastering). He did a great job explaining the nitty-gritty of the too-often-overlooked as aspect to remember for mastering your projects. Also added is the Antares Auto-Tune title with Jeff Dykhouse.

Teddy Campbell just finished up another Drum Tuning title for us. Why another drum tuning title you ask. Well, there were some things that we felt we left out from the first one, based on your feedback. So, we got the incredible Teddy Campbell to show us the ropes.

Carmen Rizzo also has a couple of more titles that are currently in editing. Look for those in the coming weeks.

Within a week you should see a title on Podcasting, The POK, EQ basics followed by a What's New in Reason 4.

Stay tuned for more giveaways. Next week we will announce all the winners from our How To Relic A Guitar giveaway. Over the next year we will be giving away NI Software, Audix Mics, M-Audio gear, Behringer gear as well as a custom built pedal board designed and built by Phil O'Keefe.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

New Look and Feel

We are excited to announce our new and improved website. You asked for a site that was much more user-friendly and we think we have accomplished that.

In addition, we have more than doubled the number of subjects with dozens more on the way before the end of the year.

Look for upcoming titles by such names as:

Carmen Rizzo
- Carmen Rizzo is a two-time Grammy nominated recording artist whose multi-faceted career includes producing, mixing, remixing, programming and co-writing with/for influential artists such as Seal, Coldplay, Alanis Morissette, Paul Oakenfold, BT, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cirque de Soleil and Pete Townsend. Carmen has also co-produced projects with such notable producers as Trevor Horn, Marius, David Foster, Rob Cavillo and Don Was. His current solo album “The Lost Art of the Idle Moment” is a lush beat-driven disc that features vocal collaboration with Esthero, Jem, Kate Havnevik, Ladybug Mecca and Grant Lee Phillips. He also co-founded Niyaz (Six Degrees), which is a world-beat and electric fusion musical project, with Azam Alit and Loga Ramin Trorkina. Other recent projects include composing his first film score and collaborating with Eurythmics' Dave Stewart on a world-beat song for Greenpeace.

Onree Gill - Onree Gill has worked with some of the biggest and brightest names in the music industry today, especially in his current role as Alicia Keys musical director. Other impressive artists he has had the opportunity to work with include: John Mayer, Eve, Missy Elliott, Kelly Price, DMX, Sean "P Diddy" Combs, Stevie Wonder, Gwen Stefani, Lenny Kravitz, Carlos Santana, Eric B, Anthony Hamilton, Angie Stone, Big Daddy Kane, Naughty by Nature, Dez, Iyanla Vanzant, James Hall & Worship & Praise, Jade, Patra, Bono, Arturo Sandoval, Paul Simon, Julian Marley, Damien Marley, Usher, Angelic Kijo, Adam Levine, Snow, and Soundscape Music Media. Onree uses the Motif ES8, Motif ES7, Motif ES Rack, and the NS10M.