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Thanks to The Mastering Show, we’ve found some new podcasts to educate, entertain, and even relax you.

Home Studio Corner’s Joe Gilder takes questions about beginner and advanced topics alike. On Recording Studio Rockstars, Eric Taft talks about how local bands can produce albums and grow a business. Twenty Thousand Hertz features the curious popularity of ASMR. Sound Matters takes us to New York City to explore its history, noise, and culture. On Sound Design Live, hear from Chris Tsanjoures about Smaart tuning, mic placement, and common mistakes. On Working Class Audio, Matt Boudreau speaks with Phil Greiss about his life, travel tips, mentorship, and more. And Adam Buxton talks to English musician Thomas Dolby about changing technology and personal histories in the music industry. Happy listening!



 

Home Studio Corner | Ask Joe – Ep 230: Chasing Problems

Episode outline: ‘Join Joe Gilder every Tuesday at 1pm CT. This week he takes questions about (the myth of) creating the perfect first demo, how he sculpts certain sounds and uses his gear, knowing when to stop mixing, and more!’

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Recording Studio Rockstars – Ep 138: Eric Taft – Producing Rad Pop, Getting Killer Sounds, And Growing Your Studio Business

Episode outline: ‘Eric talks about producing pop punk with local bands, getting killer sounds for drums, bass, and guitars, and how to grow your local studio business through Youtube.

My guest today is Eric Taft, a producer, engineer, and multi-talented musician working from the Buzzlounge Studio outside of Baltimore MD. Eric works alongside Matt Squire with artists such as Underoath and Plain White T’s. He also plays guitar and sings for “The Great Heights Band” out of Baltimore, and produced the bands latest release, “Rad-Pop.”

Today we are going to dig into some questions about recording, editing, and mixing tight powerful pop. And how to grow your studio business through smart use of promotion and content creation.’

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Twenty Thousand Hertz – Ep 40: ASMR 🤫

Episode outline: ‘Do certain sounds give you the head tingles? If yes, this episode is full of ear candy for you! In this episode, we learn all about the phenomenon called autonomous sensory meridian response—or ASMR for short. This soothing episode features researchers Giulia Poerio (University of Sheffield), Craig Richard (ASMRuniversity.com), and ASMR artists Gentle Whispering, Jellybean Green, and Somni Rosae – as well as the team at Defacto Sound!’

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    Cataclysm is a vast collection of recorded, synthesized and designed sounds created to support important destructive moments and add a stronger sense of extreme consequence to any sound.

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  • Game Audio Packs Warfare Sounds Play Track 2492 sounds included $28

    WARFARE SOUNDS is a massive collection of 2492 professionally recorded, edited and designed sound effects.  Including guns, bullet flybys, bullet impacts, silenced guns, explosions, footsteps, Foley, nature ambiances and more!

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    Glacier Ice is a library containing over 300 high quality sounds of ice cracking, breaking, shattering in various sizes of blocks – recorded entirely in the Italian Alps over the course of two winters.

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Sound Matters – Ep 18: Untitled Noises Of New York

Episode outline: ‘In the second instalment of our Sound Of The Cities series – a sonic exploration of our urban environments and their cultural soundscapes – Sound Matters podcast jumps into the deepest of the deep ends of art and culture: New York. Host Tim Hinman is joined by podcaster and artist, Jeff Emtman, whose show, Here Be Monsters is an influential aural institution in its own right. Jeff takes us on an epic day-long sonic adventure through the Big Apple – along the way discovering a number of sonic surprises, not least a mysterious recording of influential composer, philosopher and famed man-about-New-York-town, John Cage.’

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Sound Design Live – Smaart is just a tool. You are the analyzer.

Episode outline: ‘Interview with Chris Tsanjoures, Product Manager and Smaart Instructor at Rational Acoustics, about sound system tuning time saving techniques, microphone placement for main+sub alignment, and the biggest mistake new Smart users are making.’

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Working Class Audio – Ep 176: with Phil Greiss

Episode outline: ‘Phil joins me to talk about his childhood musical and audio experiences , travel tips, mentorship, his draw to pop music and an early experience with the magic of radio broadcast compression and limiting. Enjoy! – Matt

Phil Greiss is a musician and a multiple-award-winning record producer/composer/engineer, he left his name on numerous gold, platinum & diamond records, focusing on both production and songwritting aspects of Pop songs. Very much at ease on his own or collaborating with others, he’s been known to deliver award winning albums and songs, and chart topping singles wether composing, writing, producing, arranging, mixing, or all at the same time.’

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKF3JfPeP0o&list=PLrzeCrZFdiEwCeB4yvDXga7lBsyqIu7R8&index=172

 

The Adam Buxton Podcast – Ep 60: Thomas Dolby

Episode outline: ‘Adam talks to Thomas Dolby about his pioneering adventures in the music and tech industry, including revealing tales of close encounters with Michael Jackson and David Bowie.’

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