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Garza sits down in-person with Robb Flynn. Vocalist & guitar player of heavy metal band MACHINE HEAD. New album “UNATØNED” out April 25th! Catch them on tour April-May. https://linktr.ee/machineheadSPONSORS:Sweetwater - https://imp.i114863.net/rnrmVBDistroKid - https://distrokid.com/vip/garza 30% OFF!Garza Podcast Coffee - https://conceptcafes.com/product/garzapodcastcoffee/43Patreon - Coming Soon!CHAPTERS:00:00 - Robb Credits Garza Adding ‘From This Day' to Live Set05:11 - Chris Barnes09:23 - Making ‘The Burning Red' Album11:45 - Murder Car - Ross Robinson13:50 - Guitarist Logan Mader Quitting15:23 - Bar Fights & Internally Falling Apart18:33 - Getting Therapy23:55 - Recording ‘The Burning Red' at Indigo Ranch Studio30:16 - Slipknot in Studio w/ Machine Head33:40 - Being Sober for Writing Records35:27 - Driving to Indigo Ranch is Dangerous36:45 - Robb Can't Listen or Play ‘The Burning Red'39:28 - Being Adopted41:50 - Accidental Weed Smoking, Tobacco Pipes & Olympia Beer45:00 - Old R&B, Pop & Oldies Music Upbringing48:01 - Growing Up in San Lorenzo, CA52:35 - Robb Goes Back to Old House56:59 - Writing Songs to Get Rid of Bad Memories1:03:08 - Barfly Movie Influencing Writing Process 1:06:53 - His Infected Pierced Nipple1:09:56 - Getting Sober After Partying Too Hard1:11:05 - Getting Naked in Vocal Booth to Record1:15:53 - Director Michael Martin1:18:45 - Confronting, Facing Childhood House & Sexual Trauma1:21:24 - ‘Supercharger' Album1:25:40 - ‘Crashing Around You' Music Video & Touring After 9111:32:46 - Urinating in Public1:35:43 - Having Conversations w/ People1:39:22 - ‘Through the Ashes of Empires' Album1:45:58 - Struggling Financially1:50:28 - Getting Turned Down by 35 Labels1:53:36 - Resigning to Roadrunner 1:56:59 - Writing ‘Imperium'2:00:30 - Coldplay Fan2:05:01 - Classical Guitar Lessons in High School2:07:57 - Taking Mescaline2:11:41 - Robert Fripp2:13:56 - Writing ‘The Blackening' Album2:24:30 - Having Imposter Syndrome on Tour2:28:05 - Winning “Album of the Year” & “Golden God” Award2:29:54 - Metallica & Touring2:32:46 - Dad Rents Guitar for Robb But Joins Band to Sing2:37:06 - First Time Getting Drunk Was to Metallica2:41:19 - Seeing Metallica Live & Meeting James Hetfield2:43:29 - Playing Cover & Original Songs at Parties2:46:07 - New Record out April 25th & Ø in Each Song2:47:55 - Having Records Before They Come Out2:51:43 - Writing ‘Unbøund' Riff2:55:41 - Growing up on Punk Rock2:56:37 - Would Robb Ever Do Something Differently?3:01:53 - Music Saves Robb's Life3:01:44 - Robb on Mitch Lucker Memorial Show & Mayhem Festival3:04:40 - Losing Band Members & Friends3:25:06 - Sacrifices for Band to Keep Going3:34:05 - New Record Has Different Structure3:38:53 - Writing Lyrics at 3 AM3:41:16 - Last Song on New Album3:46:46 - First Seeing Korn & Getting Signed Through Robb3:50:37 - Biohazard3:52:28 - Garza Drinks Machine Head Shotgun Blast Whiskey3:58:00 - Patreon Teaser

...some fabulous choons out there at the moment, and this "Risin' " session showcases a few of them in their soulful, deep and broken glory!! Enjoy this, people!!Track-listing:  Trinidadian Deep - Deep 4 UCoflo feat. Nimiwari - VisionsDJ Wady - Love Affair (Dub Mix)N'dinga Gaba & Han Litz - Soaring AngelsTom Misch feat. Zak Abel - Beautiful Escape (Homero Espinosa House Mix)Nathan Haines feat. Ruby - Night Moves (Crackazat Remix)Blackwax - Synchronized Feels (Craig Smith Remix)Solu Music & Gabby Law - Give Me Sunshine (Sundown Remix)Lovebirds - Wrap Me Up (Extended Mix)Agent K - HandsJP Sunshine feat. Guim – TrencacinturesSoulparlor - Digital Soul (Naut's L8 Nite Dub)Zed Bias - That's The Way Luv Iz (Bruk Boogie Bootleg)Dina Ogon –  Håll avstånd Headhunter - Sexual Being (Terry Hunter Retouch)Tiffany Paige - Black Moon (Franke Estevez FUZION ClubMix Vox)David Morales feat. Jason Walker - Tuesday (Extended Mix)David Morales - Winter Vibes (Original Mix) …and here's the download link: https://www.sendspace.com/file/ea5odx…as always, thanks to all who locked on…  

...just me doing my Saturday morning thing - hope you enjoy this, the latest in the "Risin' " sessions!! Track-listing:  Clavis feat. KUBA - Drifting Alex Isley & Destin Conrad - Same Mistake (Mark Francis Remix)Aaron K. Gray & Conway Kasey - YouScott Wozniak - BeautifulVencer Café feat. Orlam - Called to Say Hi (Rumba Mix)Chaos In The CBD feat. Nathan Haines - Love LanguageNathan Haines feat. Ruby - Night Moves (Crackazat Remix)Ellis Aaron - Got It Bad (Sean McCabe Vocal Mix)Matthew Brian - Cheech‘s Groove (Original Mix)IQ Musique feat. Kimicoh - Love Is Here (K.G Sunset Remix)Art Of Tones feat. Chatobaron - Pendant ce temps-là à Vera CruzAtjazz – Touch The SunDego & Kaidi - Ain't Nothin' You Can't FeelMark De Clive-Lowe - State Of The Mental (Phuturistix Remix)Bobby Caldwell - What You Won't Do For Love (Eddy Meets Yannah Remix)Tshegotmm, Vencer Café & RamsTeque - SocoOrlam & Vencer Cafe - Rain Down On MeDaniele Busciala, Muzikman Edition, Earl W. Green, DJ Spen - One Last Dance (Original Mix)Reelsoul feat. Tasha LaRae - All That I Can Say (Lonnie's Groove) (DJ Spen Remix) …and here's the download link: https://www.sendspace.com/file/40btn3…as always, thanks to all who locked on…  

...the "Risin' " sessions return once again...and it became a very personal affair - a lot of this morning's selection titles have so much resonance for me right now, and I hope the selection's on point for you - do enjoy!! Track-listing:  Corey Holmes & DJ Tony L Walker – YesMERLIN BOBB & Masaki Morii - Pink White (Remix Vocal)Wipe The Needle & Venus Beats feat. Shezar X JayBay - We Shall Overcome (Frankie Feliciano RBLSND Remix)Tesfa Williams - Brighter LifeGuri Guri Boys feat. Aaron K. Gray - Fiyah (Masaki Morii Remix)Roel - Day After Day (Original Mix)ZAV - Just A Man (Extended Club Mix)Physical Education - Morning ComesOrlam & Vencer Cafe - Rain Down On MeReelsoul feat. Tasha LaRae - All That I Can Say (Lonnie's Groove) (DJ Spen Remix)Frank McComb - No Words (Laroye Future Jazz Mix)Laroye - Grateful (Original Mix)Ralf Gum feat. Beate S. Lech - WarriorDomu - Worldwide (Original Mix)Domu - Let Me BeJean-Jez - What Is It Tell Me (Original Mix)Gary Adams, Corey Holmes & Larry La Birt - Best Of Me (David Anthony Club Remix)Matthew Brian - Cheech‘s Groove (Original Mix)Ellis Aaron - Got It Bad (Sean McCabe Vocal Mix)Nathan Haines feat. Ruby - Night Moves (Crackazat Remix Instrumental) …and here's the download link: https://www.sendspace.com/file/iytccn…as always, thanks to all who locked on…  

...I like the way this played out!! This morning's "Risin' " session...for your pleasure - do enjoy!! Track-listing:  Charles Petersohn feat. Roberto Di Gioia and People of Tala'aga Samoa) - Children Of Zu Zu (Short Version)Clavis feat. KUBA - Drifting King Crowney x Zoe Kypri - Coat On (Slxm Sol Remix)Glenn Underground - Prelude (Tech Elements Mix)Gary Adams, Corey Holmes & Larry La Birt - Best Of Me (David Anthony Club Remix)Nathan Haines feat. Ruby - Night Moves (Crackazat Remix)Matthew Brian - Cheech‘s Groove (Original Mix)Ellis Aaron - Got It Bad (Sean McCabe Vocal Mix)Orlando Voorn & Han Litz - WHAT I LOVE (SOULFUL MIX)Walter G - I Need Life (Original Mix)Terry Dexter & Sweet Georgie - You Saved Me (Michael Gray Extended Mix)Jazzanova - Mwela, Mwela (Here I Am)JP Sunshine feat. Guim – TrencacinturesSoulparlor - Digital Soul (Naut's L8 Nite Dub)Makèz feat. Allysha Joy and Gallowstreet - Love You MoreTeddy Douglas feat. BDI Thug - Star In The GhettoGuri Guri Boys feat. Aaron K. Gray - Fiyah (Masaki Morii Remix)Roel - Day After Day (Original Mix)ZAV - Just A Man (Extended Club Mix)Physical Education - Morning Comes …and here's the download link: https://www.sendspace.com/file/plowyt…as always, thanks to all who locked on…  

...the return of the "Risin' " sessions after an unexpected enforced break, and back with a beauty of a show!! Just listen, and enjoy this 2-hour slice of Saturday morning goodness!! Track-listing:  Imaani - Found My Light (Atjazz Galaxy Aart Remix)Corey Holmes & DJ Tony L Walker – YesN'dinga Gaba & Distant Souls (US) - Love SneaksMERLIN BOBB & Masaki Morii - Pink White (Remix Vocal)Wipe The Needle & Venus Beats feat. Shezar X JayBay - We Shall Overcome (Frankie Feliciano RBLSND Remix)Jean-Jez - Take Me To The Moon (Original Mix)Manabu Nagayama - Light And Shadow (Masalo Version)Gary Adams, Corey Holmes & Larry La Birt - Best Of Me (David Anthony Club Remix)Roel - Day After Day (Original Mix)Physical Education - Morning ComesAnother Taste – Perfect NightSteve Arrington - Nobody Else But You (OPOLOPO Remix)Henry Wu - ShahadaSTR4TA - AspectsRae & Christian - Vai Viver A Vida (Tom and Joyce 80's Funk Remix)Daisuke Miyamoto - Morning Star (Original Mix)Walter G - I Need Life (Original Mix)Orlando Voorn & Han Litz - WHAT I LOVE (SOULFUL MIX)Daniele Busciala feat. Precious James - Stand Up (Original Mix)Ed Ramsey - Save Our World (Richard Earnshaw Classic Extended Mix) …and here's the download link: https://www.sendspace.com/file/u7hvg8…as always, thanks to all who locked on…  

...finally, January is no more - the first "Risin' " session on the first day of the month, and I think the selection reflects my gladness to see the first month gone...but anyway, enjoy the latest!! Track-listing:  Jaemus, Sen-Sei, Becka & Jeff Straw feat. Adrian Balletto - The Rain Has Stopped (GhostLife Remix)Chaos In The CBD feat. Nathan Haines - Love LanguageGlenn Underground - Prelude (Tech Elements Mix)Orlando Voorn & Han Litz - WHAT I LOVE (SOULFUL MIX)N.W.N. - Blues (Original Mix)Hanna - Sometimes (N.W.N. Remix)DJ Spen & Gary Hudgins feat. Sarah Sophia – Don't Be Afraid (Sarah Sophia's Disco Party Mix)David Morales - Boom Boom Boom (Original Mix)Rony Breaker & Chinua Hawk - Solid Ground (Brian Tappert for the Heads Remix)Ed Ramsey - Save Our World (Richard Earnshaw Classic Extended Mix)2000Black - Got Me Puzzled 126bpm?DKD - Future RageMarc Mac – BackspinAroop Roy - Step Back (Yellowtail Remix)Bugz In The Attic - Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong (Remix)Dave Anthony feat. Aleysha Lei - I Feel For You (Yoruba Soul Mix)Melchyor A - Drifting Away (Masaki Morii Remix)MERLIN BOBB & Masaki Morii - Pink White (Remix Vocal)Corey Holmes & DJ Tony L Walker – YesFunki Cadets, Louie Vega & Axel Tosca - Marimba Beats …and here's the download link: https://www.sendspace.com/file/x3to9d…as always, thanks to all who locked on…  

...today's "Risin' " session has a slightly sombre feel to proceedings, as "one of our own", Paks, is laid to rest today. My heartfelt condolences go out to Paks' family and friends, as well as others who have unfortunately lost people this week. Enjoy this morning's session for what it is...Track-listing:  Soulfreakah & ThandoNje - Sun & Stars (Main Mix)Dave Anthony feat. Aleysha Lei - I Feel For You (Yoruba Soul Mix)Corey Holmes & DJ Tony L Walker – YesMelchyor A - Drifting Away (Masaki Morii Remix)MERLIN BOBB & Masaki Morii - Pink White (Remix Vocal)Daisuke Miyamoto - Morning Star (Original Mix)Nathan Haines feat. Marlena Shaw - Squire For Hire (Fouk Remix)Orlando Voorn & Han Litz - WHAT I LOVE (SOULFUL MIX)Daniele Busciala feat. Precious James - Stand Up (Original Mix)Ed Ramsey - Save Our World (Richard Earnshaw Classic Extended Mix)BAM – You're Gone (David Harness Remix)Heavy - Wonderlove (Jazzanova Mix)Jimpster feat. Rasiyah - Secret SunDego feat. Face – Nothing More PowerfulDoob - If (U-key Remix)Lanu – Dis-Information (12" Mix)Toribio feat. Sharin - Daylight (Crackazat Extended Remix)Rune Sibiya - Sad Days, Happy Days (Original Mix)Guri Guri Boys feat. Aaron K. Gray - Fiyah (Masaki Morii Remix)Dav Risen, Nani Experience - Spirit Lead Me (2024 RE-VISIT)Lovebirds feat. Galliano - Icarus …and here's the download link: https://www.sendspace.com/file/c7wkx9…as always, thanks to all who locked on…  

...just vibing this morning - today's "Risin' " session is just about music to make me feel better - hope this morning's selection  does the same for you - enjoy!!Track-listing:  Jihad Muhammad - Afro Nights (Main Mix)Conway Kasey & Adira Kasey - Waking Up Again (Conway Kasey Remix)Dean Baker - Child In My Heart (MicFreak & DJ Spen Remix)Melissa B - Higher (DJ Spen & C-Dock Afrosymphonic Mix)Dave Anthony feat. Aleysha Lei - Into The Deep (N'dinga Gaba Remix)Patrick Gibin feat. Kaidi Tatham - Let It GoToribio feat. Sharin - Daylight (Extended Alternate Mix)Rony Breaker & Chinua Hawk - Solid Ground (Brian Tappert for the Heads Remix)David Morales - Boom Boom Boom (Original Mix)DJ Spen & Gary Hudgins feat. Sarah Sophia – Don't Be Afraid (Sarah Sophia's Disco Party Mix)Opolopo & Angela Johnson feat. Kaidi Tatham - BuffaloBuika & Kiko Navarro - El Silencio (Original Mix)Lavan & Corsica One - The Only Master I KnowMatica – BoatmanSean Khan - Starchild (Kaidi Tatham Remix)Rune Sibiya - Sad Days, Happy Days (Original Mix)Kayenne - Feeling Some Kinda Way (Jimpster Vocal Remix)Aaron Smith & Bridget Flowers - All I Know (Ezel's Deep Bliss Extended Mix)Earful Soul, Poizen, Kabza De Small - You Can Win …and here's the download link: https://www.sendspace.com/file/j0qnrh…as always, thanks to all who locked on…  

Last month we said goodbye to Pressure Radio after almost 13 years (Feb).This month we make our debut on Vocal Booth Radio, a new radio station set up and run by Andy Ward.  We've moved from Thursdays fortnightly to Tuesdays weekly.  The time remains the same.You'll be wanting the new URL.......  www.vocalboothradio.comThe chatroom is similar but with new updated emojis which kicked off a few Emoji wars in the chatroom.  I didn't know what to expect for my first show, would anyone be there!I needn't have worried as there were great numbers inside the chatroom and on the outside.We also had amazing support from Sydney.  For large parts of the show we had more people from Sydney than not from Sydney!  I even got to know new people in Sydney, not something you expect on a Spanish radio station!Huge thank you to everyone that tuned in especially those in the chat.  There was such great energy during the show in the chatroom.  I'm looking forward to holding court in the chatroom every Tuesday.Tracklisting:1: Ananda Project, Gaelle Adisson - Cascades of Colour (Wamdue Black Mix)2: Muted Soul - Cause I'm A Woman (c2e Jill & Candi Got The Love Mix)3: Michael Gray, Titania Owens - Ivy (Jimpster Extended Mix)4: Mr OffBeat - Hidden Currents5: Toronto Hustle, Sean Roman - Could his Be (An Abacus Re Edit)6: Ruze - Mister DJ7: N-W-N - Blues8: Mike Millrain - Good Luv 4 U9: Matonii - Stop Me This Time (N-W-N Remix)10: Risk Assessment, Jemeni G - Remember Me (Yuksek Extended Mix)11: Unlimited Touch - I Hear Music In The Streets (Michael Gray)12: Louie Vega, Todd Terry - Has Anybody Ever Loved Someone13: Geoffrey C, DJ Spen - Beats Like This14: c2eMusic - London Nights15: Doche - Pick Up The Pieces16: Soul Of Hex, Steve Lucas - Love Is In Control17: Tony Garcia - Over Pyramids (Romy Black Extended Mix)18: One Done - Chum19: Mousse T - All I Want Is The Bass20: Hardsoul - Deep Inside (Cassimm Extended Mix)21: Dafunkeetomato - Can You Dig It22: Delano Smith - I Fly23: Mother, Father, Brother, Sister Franklin - Respect Is The Message (DJ Spen Mash Factor Mix)24: Axel Boman - Acid Left & RightEnjoy!

2 hours of eclectic music

...3 shows in 7 days!!...the first "Risin' " session on Vocal Booth Radio, and the first session for 2025 - it's the usual fare of soulful, deep and broken nuggets, and playing catch-up with some late 2024 musical heat on a bitterly cold London Saturday morning...do enjoy!!Track-listing:  Conway Kasey & Adira Kasey - Waking Up (Vocal Mix)Ledisi - Like It Was (Terry Hunter Remix)Dean Baker - Child In My Heart (MicFreak & DJ Spen Remix)Melissa B - Higher (DJ Spen & C-Dock Vocal Mix)Patrick Gibin feat. Kaidi Tatham - Let It GoDave Anthony feat. Aleysha Lei - Into The Deep (Soulfuledge's Nyte Time Remix)Rune Sibiya - Sad Days, Happy Days (Original Mix)Kayenne - Feeling Some Kinda Way (Jimpster Vocal Remix)Aaron Smith & Bridget Flowers - All I Know (Ezel's Extended Mix)Kerri Chandler - Caged Bird (Feel Mix)Cosmo Klein and The Campers - Nothing But Love (Art of Tones Remix - Extended Version)Piers Kirwan - Heartbeat (Original Mix)Zed Bias - That's The Way Luv Iz (Bruk Boogie Bootleg)Brotherly - DTsBeatconductor - SoundtableAdam Rios - What I'd Do (Vocal Mix)Erik Rico & C-Boogie - How It Feels (To Be Loved) (Honeycomb Main Mix)Mark Francis, Raleigh Hall & Tymara Walker - Every Praise (Original Mix)Chymamusique, Dustinho & Brian Temba – Glory …and here's the download link: https://www.sendspace.com/file/pbbi2j…as always, thanks to all who locked on…  

2024 saw the end of an era as the home of my Radio show Pressure Radio closed its doors after decades. Andy Ward picked up the torch and created Vocal Booth Radio the station with over 90 DJ’s on rotation. Launching on Jan 1st 2025 my first show was on launch day. I must say […]

...a Happy New Year to you all!!So, the festive season ends for me on such a high note...PressureRadio has sadly dropped anchor on New Year's Eve, but its spirit and passion will live on through the assimiliation of Pressure DJs into the fold that is the new Vocal Booth Radio. And I am so proud and honoured to have been asked to present this, Vocal Booth Radio's first ever live show, on New Year's Day 2025...so here it is - on a new day, a new year, and a new dawn, 2 hours of doing what I love to do with archive goodness on a soulful, deep and broken vibe - and hope you'll enjoy this as much as I'll cherish the moment!!...wishing you all nothing but the very best for 2025!!Track-listing:  Joeflame - Music In My Soul (AJFP Reprise)Shake The Dog feat. Monique Bingham – Do It (QB's Hot Mix)Kentphonik - Hiya Kaya (Rocco Deep Mix)Namy feat. Marc Evans - Reset (Opolopo Remix)Me And The Gang - Sister PhunkCupcakes - Queen Size (Original Mix)Yanik Coen feat. Max C – Chance 4 Love (Classic Mix)SEL - Elevation (DJ Spen & Michele Chiavarini Long Version Vocal Mix)M & S feat. Shaun Escoffery - So Sweetly (M & S Sure Shot Vocal)Jamie Lewis & Marc Evans - Without You (Jamie Lewis Mastermix)The Invisible Session - To The Powerful (In The Broken Spirit Remix)The Latin Project - Musica De Amor (Album Version)Rhythm Slaves – Break My BiteFeaturecast feat. Farina Miss – Ego Tripping (Chicky Boom Remix)Jerome Hicks - Love To The World (Jerome's Love & Understanding Remix)NasteeNev feat. Merldy B - Fly AwayDearson feat. Uncle R - SpiritZiggy Funk feat. Taliwa – What You Afraid Of (DJ Spen & Thommy Davis Disco Phobia Mix)Markus Enochson feat. E-Man - Musical Prayer (Acapella) …and here's the download link: https://www.sendspace.com/file/qn35gl…as always, thanks to all who locked on…  

2 hours of forgotten gems and the occasional piece of buried treasure from the vinyl archives. The post 8th Dec 24: The Vocal Booth Radio Show appeared first on DJ Andy Ward.

2 hours of forgotten gems and the occasional piece of buried treasure from the vinyl archives. The post 1st Dec 24: The Vocal Booth Radio Show appeared first on DJ Andy Ward.

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2 hours of forgotten gems and the occasional piece of buried treasure from the vinyl archives. The post 10th Nov 24: The Vocal Booth Radio Show appeared first on DJ Andy Ward.

2 hours of forgotten gems and the occasional piece of buried treasure from the vinyl archives. The post 27th Oct 24: The Vocal Booth Radio Show appeared first on DJ Andy Ward.

2 hours of forgotten gems and the occasional piece of buried treasure from the vinyl archives. The post 20th Oct 24: The Vocal Booth Radio Show appeared first on DJ Andy Ward.

2 hours of forgotten gems and the occasional piece of buried treasure from the vinyl archives. The post 6th Oct 24: The Vocal Booth Radio Show appeared first on DJ Andy Ward.

2 hours of forgotten gems and the occasional piece of buried treasure from the vinyl archives. The post 22nd Sep 24: The Vocal Booth Radio Show appeared first on DJ Andy Ward.

In this episode of the audionerds podcast the guys talk alot about the evolution of cutting vocals and how theyve gotten better? Does acoustic foam filters on your microphone do more harm than good? Do you rather sit at the desk and record or do you prefer an iso booth? Does the iso booth sound better than recording outside of it? Lets talk about it. ➡️ Get Our Rosetta Plugins: https://cutt.ly/RwAEmuRF➡️ Our Site: https://www.helpmedevvon.com Please subscribe to our YouTube and rate our podcast it helps us a lot!➡️ https://linktr.ee/myaudionerdsFollow Ushttps://www.instagram.com/helpmedevvon➡️Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGyDjbX9F9ARt_8sgv5kGDg/joinFollow The CastDevvon Terrellhttps://instagram.com/helpmedevvonLJhttps://instagram.com/prodbyljeanHere is L.Jean channel! https://youtube.com/@LJean1Courtney Taylorhttps://instagram.com/officialcourtneytaylor#podcast #mixing #mastering

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In this episode of the Rebel Ears Podcast, I take you back to 2018 when I built my very own vocal booth. Discover the challenges, triumphs, and the passion that fueled this project. I'll share how it all started, from the initial idea to the final construction, and the lessons learned along the way. But this episode isn't just about my story—it's about inspiring you to follow your own path. Whether you're an aspiring audio engineer, musician, or creative, there's a unique journey waiting for you. Tune in for a dose of motivation and practical advice on pursuing your dreams and overcoming obstacles. Key Topics: Challenges faced and solutions found Encouragement for pursuing personal projects and dreams. Join me on this journey and let's make our dreams a reality together. Subscribe, listen, and be inspired! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rebelears/support

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Today we start with some vinyl and then take you back to 1996 with a live mix from Marco Polo's in Birmingham, featuring Carl Stanley on Sax. The post 19th May 24: The Vocal Booth Radio Show appeared first on DJ Andy Ward.

We start off with some Jazzy goodness then get an absolutely diamond mix from Barry Neaves, sharing mid to late 90s bullets. The post 12th April 24: Vocal Booth Radio Show with Barry Neaves special guest. appeared first on DJ Andy Ward.

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Join us for a special live broadcast from the bustling floors of NAB 2024 in Las Vegas! This episode dives deep into the latest trends and technologies shaking up the audio industry. We're bringing you the inside scoop straight from the heart of the action, featuring: Exclusive Interviews: Robert opens the bag in whats in SourceConnect four, which is set to revolutionize how we handle Atmos and multi-channel audio streaming. Product Spotlights: Discover cutting-edge products like the new vocal booths that promise unparalleled sound isolation, even on noisy show floors as their VP of Marketing Freddie Gateley joins us for a chat. Tech Insights: Learn about the tech that's driving audio innovation, including the latest in virtual set technology that could change film and TV production forever. Live Demos: Experience the power of Austrian Audio's OC 707 microphone, designed to deliver exceptional sound clarity, even in challenging environments. 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They also discuss the impressive soundproofing capabilities of their trade show booth and the advantages of prefabricated booths over custom-built studios with guest Freddie Galey. The hosts delve into the logistics and costs of shipping vocal booths internationally and highlight Vocal Booth's diverse market applications. Additionally, they share their experience using the Austrian Audio OC 707 microphone for recording on the road and discuss the advancements in virtual production technology showcased at the expo. The conversation also touches on the extravagance of Las Vegas and the use of wireless technology to record podcasts in a crowded convention setting. #AudioTech #VocalBooths #NABShow2023 loading loading Timestamps (00:00:00) NAB Highlights with George and Robert (00:00:57) Streaming Atmos Audio with SourceConnect Four (00:04:35) Soundproofing Magic at the Trade Show (00:05:57) The Value of Prefab Booths (00:11:26) Shipping Vocal Booths to Australia (00:15:12) Vocal Booths: From Testing to Pets (00:19:00) Building Recording Booths for Any Space (00:22:12) Recording on the Road with Austrian Audio (00:24:17) Virtual Production Advancements at NAB Show (00:28:53) The Excess of Las Vegas (00:29:55) Wireless Tech Powering Podcasts at Convention (00:32:24) Wrapping Up and Staying Connected Transcript : Y'all ready? Beat history. Get started. : Welcome. : Hi. Hi. Hi. Hello, everyone, to the pro audio suite. : These guys are professional. : They're motivated. : Thanks to Tribooth, the best vocal booth for home or on the rote. Voice recording and austrian audio making passion heard. Introducing Robert Marshall from source elements. And someone audio post Chicago, Darren Robbo Robertson from Voodoo Radio Imaging, Sydney Tech to the Vo stars, George the tech Wittem from LA, and me, Andrew Peters. Voice over talent and home studio line up. : Learner. Here we go. : And welcome to another pro audio suite. Thanks to tributh, it's your freedom. The golden handcuffs. And don't forget the code TripaP 200 to get $200 off yours. And austrian audio making passion heard. Now, lots of things are being heard at NAB as we cross live to George and Robert. : Yeah. We are here at NAB 2024. Hello, everyone. We're in Vegas, baby. : What happens in Vegas instead of. : Well, not today. : Yeah. I hope the sales keep on going outside of Vegas. : That's right. But we don't want the money to stay in Vegas. We want it to go with us. We're all here to make money. That's the bottom line, we have to admit. : It's true. It's very true, actually. We want to show our stuff. That's what we really want to do. And then if it makes money, very. : Gordon Gekko of you, I must say. : Yeah, exactly. Very few people leave Vegas. : I'd be buying everybody and dismantling their companies if I was Gordon Gekko, wouldn't I? : Yeah, something like that. : Yeah. Greedy's good. I'm not in on that name, but I'll google it later. : It's that movie where he's like the Wall street guy, and he just buys other companies and destroys them. And all the union people are like, no. And he's like, fuck you, capitalism. : Yeah. So we're. I'm here because of vocal booth. Vocal booth.com. We've done a little story about them already and what I've done with them. But we're here. I'm here because I wanted to hang out with them and meet all of their customers and help them make. : Then it might be the right decision. : And Robert is, of course, here with source elements, and he's helping to promote the launch of SourceConnect four, which is doing some very impressive stuff. : Yeah, we got nominated for our best in show award. Specifically, we made source connect four. The upper end version is going to be able to stream Atmos end to end. And that actually doesn't sound like that impressive because it's possible to stream multi channel audio right now. But the difference is source connect four will be able to stream all the bed, all those channels, all the objects which could be up to like hundreds and 128. And the metadata for all those objects so that the receiving side can render that locally for their system on the fly. And then you can do that for up to five connections simultaneously. So you could have a director monitoring an Atmos mix and the stage could be on a 25 speaker system. The director could have a twelve speaker system. The producer could log in from another location and just receive on binaural and maybe the writer logs in and they're at home and they only have five. One. And all those things can be rendered locally for each system so the stage doesn't have to dumb down or render down to the common denominator. Yeah, that was great. : Mind bending stuff. : I think we need to add a caveat to that though. You can do all that unless you're on the australian NBN. : Well if you have Andrew's Internet then all you can do is half a channel. : That's right. South of Melbourne. Not so great. Sydney. No problem. : It seems that way, doesn't it? : Yeah. : But seriously though, is that dependent on your connection? : Well yeah, if you're streaming 128 channels of audio we figure on the realistic side you need at least five megs upload. But really each person and it can add up quite a bit. So we're really talking about people with really good pipes. But the intended audio audience for a product like that tends to be mix stage for a feature film. They're sitting on top of a ton of bandwidth. And then on the home side, most people's download, I mean you can get a gig download without even thinking about it. : Yeah. : So yeah, it'll take your average podcasters. : Not going to use it, let's be honest. : Of course. : Or you just need George's cell phone that can get a gig from. : Yeah, we can get on 5g here. I can get 1.2 gigabit download. : Wow, wow, wow. : Inside a building. : I'm moving to the states, so I'm done. : I think the towers are in the building. : Yeah, no, there are definitely microcells inside this building. So it's. Anyway, to try to paint the picture. We are in the middle of the heart of the central hall. It's about as central as this show kind of gets. The main stage is about 150ft in front of us, right down the hall, which has tremendous sound levels. There's music playing. There's presenters. It's all kinds of stuff going on and yet we can get away with recording in this noisy environment until, uh oh. : Bing bong. : Hello, we have a guest. Until that door opens, you can hear the noise. : I think we should do that again. : Yeah, yeah, let's hear that again. : Before and after without all the talking. : Over. Take two. Take two. : Silence. : Open the door. : Wow. : And then close the door. : That's crazy. That's insane. : It is really good at a show floor because I've been to plenty of booth demonstrations at shows and it's really a hard, like, this is, this is as bad as it gets. You know, if you were doing a sports thing and who knows what's going on outside. Maybe not NASCAR racing, maybe not Formula one, but who knows, like a football game, you could probably get away with quite a bit with some stuff like this. Especially if it's, you know, off, you know, place in the right place. : Yeah. : Well, we've got another folk, another folk here. Yeah. Freddie Galey, which we've spoken to before. You betcha. How you doing, Fred? : I'm doing awesome. : He's the reason we're all, at least I'm here. And this is the reason why we have this booth here. : That's why we have the booth. : How many years of nab for you now? : This would be. Oh, when was my first one? In 2012? 2013? : I think so. So that was after we teamed up because guy was the first one that we. : Yeah, we were. I just, you know what? My Calvin, our owner, just sent me a photo like a couple days ago and he happened to be the one that we were down there and I said, source elements here is 2015. : Wow. : Yeah, it's not been a while. : And. : I've been coming to these spottily over the years, but I'm so glad that I came to this one because the, the quality of the, of the people that attend nab are top notch. I mean, these folks are not just creatives, but they're like education directors, station directors, managers, just incredible high level people here and they understand the value of this thing. The first thing I'm always impressed by is when you tell them what this, this is a big booth we're in, what, eight by ten? : Yeah, this one's an eight by ten platinum plus. Or a double wall with an extra layer of mass loaded vinyl. : Yeah. And you know, if we were at a music convention, you might tell them the price and a sticker shock might roll over their face, but not at a show like this, because people understand the value of what this thing does. : What's something like this? Like 15,000? Yeah. : So the basic one of this one would go out as seen here at an eight by ten. And the platinum double wall, including all the shipping be 23,000 shipped. : And the shipping is like two, three. : Grand on the chunk of it. : It's pretty stiff, but we pay for the shipping, so that's your out the door price. : That's what I love. These guys price everything shipped in the US, which really takes away any of the mystification of what stuff credit really. : Costs and, like, parts and materials and someone to build it. You're spending that much money, at least, and then double it for the frustration. : I've done a lot of custom studio designs and builds with contractors, and it's excruciating. : Yeah, excruciating. : Like, I. One of the things I get hard to do so often is, should I build or buy? And the build argument is so strong now more than ever, because construction's so damn expensive. It's very frustrating to deal with contractors. Not that they're bad people. : They don't understand the details of, like, I even did it now, and my contractor, I said, put these little rubber pads underneath the floor, blah, blah, blah. Do not screw the new subfloor to the old floor. What did they do? : Yes. : Thousand screws in it. By the time I got home from work, it's like, it's done now. My floor is coupled, and I didn't want it coupled. : You can spend gobs of money way more than this thing for something this size, and then have one mistake. One screw goes through his timber, short out the build, and it's ruined. : You ruin the whole. : That's a couple. Yeah, yeah. : One of the things, too, that I've had clients and stuff in the past is they've called us. They were already pretty well down the road with somebody, and then they were like, I'm just gonna see about having some. A prefab. And we came in, they're like, oh, you guys are a third the cost, and you can have it here this month. Yeah, game on. Let's go. And then that was the other big thing for them, too, is they were like, hey, I'm not modifying my real estate, so this is not going to be something I have to try and resell. This pool house with a recording studio in. It's like we just take it each. : Part of the art, right? : You have to include that cost, which is once you want to sell it, you've now modified some basement room to something that people don't want, and then you got to put it back, and that'll cost you at least half as much to undo it all. : Yep. I know. Watching Joe Cipriano's custom built studio I designed 15 years ago essentially be dismantled and destroyed because the people that bought the house don't need it was rather heartbreaking. : If there's one way to devalue your property, build a studio. : Unless you're very lucky. : Yeah. Unless you actually find you're just lowering the pool of people that want to buy your house on resale. Seriously. I had a real estate agent, and I was talking about building my studio and this and that, and I was like, definitely do not get rid of that bathroom. But all in all, I was like, you're devaluing your property by building this huge studio in it. It's like, well, I'm not moving in my case, but if you don't know or you're building, you know, buying an investment house and you might be planning on selling it, building a studio in there will cost you at least as much as a prefab booth. It will cost you more to get rid of it, and you will be frustrated by the whole process, and it will take you longer. : It's a serious commitment. Yeah. : What's even wild, too, is that recently, schools have been getting into that, too. I had one school that built an entire second story out of an acoustic floor just to be able to put our booths in on top of that so that they didn't have to later demo all the sheetrock and all the studs and everything. They're like, let's just put 17 big booths up here, make it look like it's all one structure, wood veneered, and wire all the h vac and everything into it. But later, we can just get rid of it. : Do you know one of the best tricks I've seen? You buy a booth, and then you just build the simplest wall in front of the booth, and the whole thing looks like it's built into the house, and it's only been one wall with one stud and one layer of drywall, and it looks like Joe Cipriano's place, practically. : Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. : So, gents, down there in Australia. : Yes. : What do you guys have in mind? What do you want to know? : I actually have a quick question about the booth you're in, because every Aussie and every Englishman is asking, yeah, it's great. 23 grand in the states. But if I want one down here, what's shipping going to cost me, and I'm Bhop. : Funny you brought that up. : 50,000, 100,000 australian. What's the conversion rate is off. : It fluctuates. : We've been seeing NAB is very international. So there are Qatar people from Qatar, Dubai, Europe. And you guys, did you ship something overseas not too long ago? : Well, even just thinking about Australia is just this last year we did University of Sydney down there and we did. I mean, containers full down there and they did a whole room full of booths and stuff. So logistics are the big thing down there. So if it's something going to Sydney or going to a port city, that's not too big of a deal. We have really good air options, we have really good freight options for the ocean options as well. And if we do a full container down there, it's really easy. We can even get that dropped off at the place and then it's almost like having a trailer. : So we're talking group orders. Maybe get together and do a group order or something, then fill a container. : Yeah, exactly. You know, we can always use somebody consolidating stuff over there. : So the shipping, the 23,000 for this booth shipped, that's continuous us states or is that. Yep. : That's going to be anywhere where we don't have to cross borders. Because then once we do get into, like, Canada, of course, we've got all the tariffs and fees and stuff that has to go in there and somebody has to be grabbing it on the other side. It's usually. It's funny how it's really not sometimes that much more. Sometimes it's like an extra $150 on our freight side to get it over there, but on. And that's if they're taking care of all the tariffs and all the import duties. We can do that. We can act as brokers for people too, though, and make it pretty easy. But again, it just depends on the level of. : It's a really world market now. I mean, we are doing build outs in the US where the windows and doors come from, China. This is not unusual. This is all happening right now. So things moving between continents is not nearly. Now, I know there was a little problem besides missiles. Yeah. ICB vocal booth. Intercontinental ballistic vocal booth. : I'm sorry, it just crossed my mind. I don't know what. : Filters. Filters, yeah. So, yeah, no, it's not unheard of. Would you buy maybe a little one off, four by four? I don't know. It depends on. Because you're sharing a container when you're doing like, one booth. Yeah. : And we do international crates, and so we can get it priced out just for a crate. The hard thing is that that is even a fluctuating market. So we've seen, all of a sudden it'd be dirt cheap, like, where we can get something down there for $1,200 shipping, but then we'll see it, like, just absolutely spike. Like, of course, we saw weird things during the whole COVID pandemic, like ships that were just sitting out there with stuff rotting on it. So it was just astronomically up and down, so you never really knew. But we do really quick turnarounds on quotes, so that's something that it's all up front, like, you know, order the boot and then find out how much shipping's gonna be once you guys, when somebody's happy with the way that the quote is, they're ready to go ahead and move to the next level. We're on the phone with our logistics. : Guys and we got it done. : So AP's just texted me, he'll take a container load, please. : Right. : Right away. : When you're all done with the container, you can just line it with double wall and make a booth out of the container. : Maybe we should line it with other things to pay for it. : Yes. : There you go. : Exactly. I think this just became evidence. : Hello, ASIO, if you're listening. Yes. : Yeah. So what's your biggest market? Is it people like myself, like a voice over talent? Or is it more studios, as in, you know, commercial studios? : I'm guessing it's broadcasters and production companies. : Yeah, it's funny. Our biggest market, probably. I mean, if we wanted to talk just dollar wise, it's going to be education and corporate, even testing. So those are the biggest ones that are getting really big boosts. So some of these will be 16 by 32ft and nine or 10ft tall. Some companies, like Medtronics or Philips, respiratronics or something, they'll be doing really big production stuff and want to move all their testing stuff inside because they're in a bigger factory. And so this is something that they can pop up right in a factory, bolt to the floor in there, and have a whole way of stuff coming in and out. : Bolt it to the floor. You're gonna couple it and then you're gonna get all those vibrations through the. : Yeah. : And so again, what they're all about is they don't need an anechoic chamber, but what they need to do is have all that equipment out there and bring it down to a level that's good enough for their testing inside. And so even inside of that big booth will be other booths. : Oh, wow. : Yeah. So it's a big crazy thing. But again, to bring a level down to another level and to another level also, we've been doing a whole lot of stuff with Apple and Amazon and stuff too, and their testing departments. And that's just one of the most consistent things that we have. : And then what stuff do they need? : A big thing that we designed for them is custom testing enclosures. And so this will be stuff to test all of their small. I don't know what my NDA can let me say, but you all know. : What Apple devices, that they all know. : What Apple branded devices about the size of an iPad or the size of generally portable things. Portable. So a lot of stuff in the testing facilities where they'll want to stack up like maybe 15 or 20 of these and have run localizations on all of those and not have them talk to each other. So they don't need like an insane level of isolation, but enough to where they're just not straight talking to each other or maybe even like speaker arrays or weird things on the inside and then even up to that. So, like, booths that are this size that they can go in and then have stuff kind of bounce around even. We do a lot of stuff like in the broadcasting world and stuff like the Nielsen Corporation that the Nielsen ratings and stuff too, where they build living room sets inside of our booth. So they have big 16 by 32 sets. : Wow. : And they're all dressed out and they have robotics arms and stuff, but they can build all those living room sets, put all their listening devices in there and then run all the tests around. And they have, like, I can't remember, they run like 32 of their own little tv stations in the back. And so they can broadcast to their own little closed circuit. Not closed circuit, but just a very small power thing and then test how this works across all of their tv stations and what it sounds like in this living room and what sounds like in that living room and if this thing is working and stuff. So again, that's the crazy thing about vocal booth, is that we never know who's gonna call and stuff. So we do get the people that, you know. Yeah, I'm unfortunate. : I rarely say no. : It sounds like, you know, yeah, we pretty much say no to very little. : Do parents ever call and they just wanna put their kids in the booth, actually. : Okay. So recently I did get a call and somebody wanted one for. They wanted one of our ant boxes that would perfectly fit a dog crate. And so they could put their dog in there because the dog had anxiety issues and he could be put in there. And we have ventilation and everything. And that crate slid right in there. And the dog could sleep in a nice, very quiet environment when they went to work. And then we had later one that somebody bought a three carat diamond for their parrot. So that thing was driving people crazy and the neighbors crazy when they go to work. And so they both. And I don't know. I mean, you don't ask questions. : Polly's got a booth. : We just don't say no. : Back to this. Back to the dog crate one, though. It's school holidays here, so I'll take four of those, please. : Absolutely. : And they stack nicely. : Yeah, yeah. Nice one. : What, the children or the boots? : The serial killer. Did the serial killer want an environment to do his thing in? : A less eating Las Vegas hotel food for too many days in a row. : Haven't had that customer yet. : There was somebody who wanted their entire bedroom put in one. : Oh, wow. : What were they getting up to in there then, I wonder? : I don't think. : I didn't ask, but I don't think it was all about what kind of sound was coming from the inside, but from the outside, so that's okay. They actually, it was one of the writers on Jimmy Fallon's show. And they were like, I get done writing after the last show is done and we get too busy and I might not get home until 08:00 in the morning and done writing, and then I'm in Manhattan and this is a nightmare stuff. So sent a booth, and from our booths, they can all be built from the inside out. They have nice ventilation and everything. So he just built it right into his bedroom and then threw all the bedroom set and everything aside. : That's very interesting. Your boots can be built from the inside out. You can put the floor in a corner and you're not screwed. You can put it in the corner. You don't have to, like, build it in the middle of the room and then shove it in the corner. : That's huge. : I have built enough booths that that's a big deal. Like, I didn't even realize that. That's really. : That's huge. : Yeah, we put all the stuff on the inside because so many places you want to maximize your, you know, your. Maximize your space. And so some people will even call, they just have an alcove like that. That's a big thing with corporations stuff, too. They're like, we've been given the area where the printer used to be. And that's our recording studio now. And so, yeah, no problem. As long as you get there from the front, build all the sides, and even with really short ceilings, we can build it right up to within, like, two inches of the ceiling and then slide light in, you know, the ceiling panels so that you don't have to go up and above and lay them down and then put that final wall in there. And that's a. : That's a really big deal. I mean, building booths is, you know, building your own built in booth is really frustrating, but it's still a task. It was. : It. : I mean, it's gonna, like. I'm sure you guys can put this thing together in, what, like, 2 hours or something, but if your first time on this, you're gonna spend the day building this thing. : Yeah. : At least the day. How good you are with instructions and how far it is you have to bring the panels or whatever. It just depends on the people and. : How it's like going to Ikea. : I was just there yesterday. : Very heavy Ikea, insulated with Romo. : Okay. : So funny enough, Ikea has actually become one of our clients, as last time. And we just sent him one of those little wrenches. : Yeah, yeah, yeah. : We seem to have lost our Allen key. : Yeah, that's right. : Well, you've got a few leftovers, like. : Yeah, yeah. : What do I do with my missed. : Yeah, yeah, totally. : On that wall. : You guys don't mind, I've got. I've got some clients and stuff to see out here, too, but it's great talking to you guys down there. And always a pleasure. So, Freddie, thank you for letting us enjoy. : Cheers. : Love having these guys around, and it's been fun. : Thanks, Freddie. Cheers, man. : Thanks. : Cheers. : Now listen to the door. Here we go. : Let's hear it again. : Seriously, it's good. : That's very good. : It is good. : That mic is doing good, too. From the distance, it's picking him up really clearly. It's hard to tell how it really is when you're the speaker. : Yes. : But when you turn it on him, it's good. : For most of you are probably only hearing the show. This is really an audio show today, and we are using the austrian audio OC 707. I promised I would make this my on the road mic. : It's a tighter polar pattern than the. Than the OC eight, I think. Right? : I think so. Like, I'm. So we're. Right now, Robert and I are equidistantly across from the mic, and it's still getting both of us. But it's a little more diffuse. Right? It's not as focused. : It's got a good presence. Like, that's even more presence. I hear that. And that's just rotating the mic, like, 30 degrees or something. : So very cool. It's definitely not. It's not a wide cardioid. It's a more narrow, maybe almost hyper. : I think it might be hyper. I don't know, but it's. I think it's doing well. : Yeah. Well, it's weird, because in this booth, we have other mics. We have some earthwork ethoses, and we have some other gear. But I opted just to go single mic handheld, which sounds old school and weird, but the nice thing about that is I can essentially engineer this. So I'm controlling and mixing manually. This is an old school thing, but I'm literally mixing the three of us. And because we have one mic, we don't worry about fading and crosstalk. We can get away from the glass. That's. This booth has a lot of glass because it's all about showing off. And, yeah, it's working out really well. : It's funny you should talk about mics, though, because the file I sent to you, that was done in the back of the car with the austrian audio, Cc eight, I sent to one of the engineers at big radio network here. And he said, what mic is it, and where do you record? I told him, CC eight with the mic four pro in the back of my car. And his reply was, nuts. Absolutely nuts. He couldn't believe it. : Right? : Yeah. : So from now on, you're doing all your sessions from your car? : That's right. : Yeah, exactly. : Exactly. : Well, I gotta say. So I don't know how much time you've had to really see the joint. I've only walked one lap of the central hall briefly, because, honestly, I've had so much to do here, I've not had a chance. : I mean, I walked one row down, so just the aisle. We got a pretty good boot spot. So we're on, like, a main aisle, but I just got to go all the way down and back. And I did see one thing that was really impressive. So do you know what a video wall is? : Yeah. : Like an led screen. It bolts together and is modular. : Not quite. More like, okay. You used to shoot stuff on green screen. Why shoot on green screen when we already have the whole background shot? : Oh, yes. : So now they have this thing. It's a $4,000 box, which is like. This is like million dollar shit. And now it's like $4,000 box. You can build the whole environment virtually. Or if you go through a bigger process, you can shoot it all from multiple angles. It'll stitch together. Then you shoot it with an iPhone or some camera that has the same thing that you use for VR. So wherever you move the camera, the video behind you moves in the exact same way. So you get the same angle. And all the parallax. Not only that, the thing controls all the lights that you set up around it. So if you turn it to a place where you say, this is dark, the lights will go down and. : Whoa. : Yeah, well, this is million dollar stuff. Like, I don't know exactly how much the real deal stuff is, but this is like $4,000, I think. : I remember seeing it here the last four, five, six years ago, and it was extremely, like, science fiction and extremely expensive, and it's. Now it's accessible. So what do they call it? Virtual sets, right. : Well, it's more than a virtual set, but yes, it's a virtual set, but now it's. I thought they call it a video wall or something, and it just negates the need for. Because a virtual set, you're sitting there just looking at a green screen. But on this thing, the actors, like, running around doing this thing, and they look behind, and if there's a character, they can make eye contact with the screen. They can act and feel it much more than pretending that they're talking to a green screen and imagining what's there. They can focus their eyes in the right places. : Right? Yeah. : Well, there's a couple of guys I know here who set up a thing called Dreamscreen, which you can google, and that's the same thing. But they've got massive sets with the whole back of the set is giant video wall. And they've shot a lot of films there. In fact, they were up for Metropolis, the remake of Metropolis, the Fritz Lang film. : Yeah, it's. : Oh, wow. : Except bring your own screen. : Yeah. : But they said it will work with projectors, so you can stitch together multiple projectors and fill a, you know, who knows how big of a wall. : Well, they did a. They did a big thing here. One of the first things they did was a series called fires. It was all about the bushfires drama. And they, of course, could actually, you know, have the. Have the fires actually happening with the actors on set, on the screens. So the actor, even though they had, like, the, you know, the car there was on fire or whatever, they had blah, blah, blah. But they had the screens in the background so the actor felt like they were actually in the middle of a bushfire. : Whoa. : Wow. : Yeah. This is the kind of thing you see at nab. It's all the traditional stuff, like mics, camera booms. Um, but you're seeing way more of this virtual type production. There's. There are apparently 150 different classes here on AI stuff alone, because there's a huge amount of education that comes along with it. We're just. We're just here for the expo. You know, we're here to sell. But there's a huge education component. : I mean, that's. That's the problem with being an exhibitor, is that you can't do it. You can't see all this stuff. It's like, it takes an nab. You can probably do in a. It'll take you at least two days or three days to really see everything. : And your feet are gonna kill you. : Yeah. CES is insane. You'll just shoot yourself when you're done. But as an exhibitor, you get to stand on your feet all day. But you only get to see your own stuff because. : Yeah, so. So I haven't seen anything too revolutionary. There's another company here that does soundproof windows, which I've known these guys forever called, literally soundproof windows. And they have an entire Conex shipping style container that they've converted into a quiet space so they can show off all their doors and windows. And it is damn impressive. As quiet as it is in here, takes it down another ten to 15 decibels. : That's. That's like a whole other level. : That's, you know, that's probably a hundred thousand plus install. : Yeah. You're not shipping that to a residential place, and you're not building that on your own in a day. : This thing's on a. This thing's on a flatbed truck. It's trailered in, and they've used it in am show and stuff like that. You know, so it's. I'm staying a whole extra day tomorrow just so I can start seeing things that I haven't been able to see. Yeah. : Because if you lose weight. No, it's impossible to lose weight here. That's my problem, actually. : You know, a six dollar order of onion rings at the Westgate is enough to feed like a starving family. : Yeah. And they don't even talk about the buffets. : I ate a $30 omelet this morning because that's. It was a buffet. And all I wanted was a damn. Yeah, that's Vegas. : Right. : Well, let me tell you. I mean, we just had the Sydney Royal Easter show here, which is like our big carnival of the year, I guess in Sydney, a cup of lemonade was dollar 18. : What? Oh, my gosh. : Yeah. $18 for a cup of lemonade? : Oh, my gosh. : That's ridiculous. : Well, the other thing I want to mention is that, you know, again, we've been talking about source elements and their new product. We're using Nexus right now as our communications portal. So we're all communicating real time over Nexus, and we're using source Connect 3.9 because that's the version we have currently installed. Third four just dropped, but we're using that. And the amazing thing is, we're doing all that on my laptop, which is running on a battery I don't even have plugged in. We're using a mic port pro, which is also running on batteries. And we're using a hotspot on a phone connecting all this via wireless to a mobile, you know, a mobile data connection. And we're doing all which. : That is mind blowing because I've been to so many of these conventions where usually you have to come in with three separate cell phone connections and you do what's called bonding them into one. When you get 100,000 people here with their cell phones, the towers just bog down to a crawl and you have to brute force it with three parallel connections. You're just doing it like a pedestrian turn on my hotspot. : Yeah, yeah. If you're on Verizon here, you're in good shape. If you're on t mobile, you're pretty well screwed, because Verizon, which I should. : Mention the source elements booth, is using a Verizon connection, which they were very gracious to provide us with. And we hooked up and it was a gig. And I was like, gigabit. : Yeah. : Gigabit connections on wireless. : Wow. : So we've been just leveraging all this technology to do shows from here. We've been recording from this booth. I've done. This is my fourth podcast since I've gotten here, and it's just incredible we can pull off these days. And, you know, and by the way. : Everyone, I like to point out that this, in a show floor that's really loud, is much better than most of the audio I give. : Yes, indeed. : This is a true fact. Actually, talking about the amount of bandwidth you've got there. I'm just looking at my hamster, and he's giving me the hairy eyeball saying, give me a break. I'm puffed out. : Yeah. : Yeah. So it's been great, guys. So I'm watching a ton of people outside the booth that are, like, circling. They want to come in and they're. : Going to start huffing and puffing and. : Like, they're being tutting and rolling their eyes. Is that what's going on? : We'll put a. Yeah, no, no, no. There's just people that want to come in, so. : And I need to go huff and huff. : You do HR puff and stuff. : Exactly. : That's right. : All right, we're out. : Yes. : Well, that was fun. Is it over? : The pro audio suite with thanks to tribers and austrian audio recorded using Source Connect, edited by Andrew Peters and mixed by Voodoo Radio Imaging with tech support from George the Tech Wittem. Don't forget to subscribe to the show and join in the conversation on our Facebook group. To leave a comment, suggest a topic, or just say, g'day. Drop us a note at our website, theproaudiosuite.com.  

Today's episode is with my long time friend Jeremiah Woods (no relation lol). We met in college and he was a part of the chapel team and has been an inspiration to me and so many others in the worship space. He's not only phenomenally talented, but he has such wisdom, depth, insight and a heart for Jesus and His church! He currently serves at Lakewood Church and has sung for artists such as Israel Houghton and many others!  We dive into many things around worship and worship leading. We've both navigated worship and the worship "industry" and the importance of having a heart of worship and the importance of surrendering to God's presence. Jeremiah emphasizes the significance of contentment in small worship spaces and the responsibility that comes with larger platforms and does a great job to encourage worship leaders to focus on what God is doing and to prioritize ministry to Him. We also highlight the importance of avoiding pride and recognizing God's work in worship.  This conversation explores the importance of offering true worship and the tests of faithfulness and humility that worship leaders face. This discussion emphasizes the need to redirect the focus back to God and repositioning of our hearts.   Jeremiah has started the Vocal Booth app, a practical tool for singers and worship leaders to train their voices and release their authentic sound. Check it out!  https://www.myvocalbooth.com/  Instagram: @vocalboothapp Instagram: @jeremiahjwoods Let's Stay Connected: Instagram: @itswhitneywood Want to join my 30 day workshop on learning how to have self compassion and self love GOD'S WAY? Join me and an intimate group of women navigate this conversation together and learn how this is such an important concept to heal our physical, emotional, spiritual, relational and mental health! Register today! https://wisdomandwellnessww.com/ 

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Joining Alexa this week is Nic Redman, who has been working with the spoken voice for almost 20 years and who is the author of the best-selling book ‘On the Mic'. Nic has featured across the BBC, Times Radio, The Guardian, Irish Times, and The Metro. She offers one-to-one coaching for voice-over artists, narrators, podcasters, and speakers to master their speaking voice, working with the likes of Peloton and comedian Sarah Millican. KEY TAKEAWAYS In Nic's experience, musical theatre often places a significant emphasis on appearance alongside vocal ability. This can create pressure for performers to conform to certain physical standards. However, in the realm of voiceover work, the focus solely revolves around vocal performance. Nic Redman's five techniques for improving vocal performance and recording quality, as discussed, are as follows:  Focusing on using your natural voice and avoiding an artificial "announcer" style. Being mindful of posture and alignment to allow the voice to resonate fully. Engaging in vocal warm-ups and exercises to enhance flexibility and range. Paying attention to microphone technique, including maintaining consistent distance and angle. Listening critically to recordings to identify areas for improvement. Nic's recommended vocal warm-ups for voice over work are: Lip trills and tongue trills: These exercises help relax the vocal mechanism and can be effective in warming up the voice. Pitch glides: Practising pitch glides up and down the vocal range helps in warming up the voice and increasing flexibility. Tongue twisters for articulation: Working on tongue twisters helps improve articulation and clarity in speech. Breath control exercises: Techniques such as hissing and sighing can improve breath support, which is crucial for sustained vocal performance. Humming exercises: Humming exercises help in exploring vocal resonance and can contribute to a fuller, more resonant sound. BEST MOMENTS  ‘I had this like, ping of this feels nice. This feels where I'm supposed to be on the microphone' ‘The huge contrast to the musical theatre world was that nobody was going, your voice is great, but you don't look quite right' ‘I was really intrigued by the idea of spoken voice and the potential that it really has as a performer'   EPISODE RESOURCES  Guest Website: onthemicbook.com Social Media: Instagram: @nicredvoice Relevant Links & Mentions:  Central School of Speech and Drama: https://www.cssd.ac.uk/ The Voice Coach Podcast by Nic Redman The Voice Deck by Nic Redman  Dane Chalfin: https://danechalfin.com/ Gravy for the Brain: https://www.gravyforthebrain.com/ The Voice Over Network: https://www.thevoiceovernetwork.org/ Voice Over KickStart: https://voiceoverkickstart.com/ The Voice Over Social: https://thevosocial.com/ Vocal Booth to Go: https://www.vocalboothtogo.co.uk/ Microphone: Rode NT1-A Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT 770 Get Nic's Free Warm-up HERE: https://nicolaredman.com/freebies/ BAST Book A Call ABOUT THE GUEST  Nic Redman, with nearly 20 years of experience in recording and coaching, specializes in helping individuals feel vocally confident on the microphone. Featured on BBC, Times Radio, The Guardian, Irish Times, and the Metro, Nic offers personalized coaching for voice artists, podcasters, and speakers, counting Sarah Millican and Channel 4 among her clients. She conducts retreats, online courses, and masterclasses, providing on-mic direction for brands like Peloton and Mercedes Petronus. Nic is a sought-after speaker, panelist, and co-creator of the award-winning Voiceover Social Podcast. Her bestselling book, "On The Mic," offers invaluable insights into voice training and recording. ABOUT THE PODCAST BAST Training is here to help singers gain the knowledge, skills and understanding required to be a great singing teacher. We can help you whether you are getting started or just have some knowledge gaps to fill through our courses and educational events. basttraining.com Updates from BAST Training

2 hours of forgotten gems and the occasional piece of buried treasure from the vinyl archives. The post 10th March 24: The Vocal Booth Radio Show appeared first on DJ Andy Ward.

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Some new music today as I hit a folder of recent promos I've been sent and also digging a little deeper. The post 25th February 24: The Vocal Booth Radio Show. appeared first on DJ Andy Ward.

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The English Channel is a set of three, premium-quality Signal Processing Devices, designed to help you sound your best, anywhere. Quickly shape your vocal sound making it ready for live streaming or recording. The English Channel includes SoapBox, a Studio Mic Pre, Gate, Compressor and De-Esser, and BlackCab™, a Parametric EQ with Sonic Enhancer. Rounding out the channel strip is PortCaster R4S, a Streaming USB-C Audio Interface with an SD Card Recorder. These tools use proven technology found in British recording consoles, hence the name. A full complement of vintage, tone-shaping goodness, The English Channel features sweet, warm-sounding "old-school analog processing". This means immediate adjustments and instant monitoring over headphones. No menus, no wasted time. Reach for the control and make the adjustment without taking your eyes off the action. Robbo has been sent one from the guys at Centrance and opens the box with George and AP.. 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This piece of technology is described as having three sections: a preamp, a filter, and an inbuilt compressor, which work together to produce a unique mix. Additionally, discussions highlight the Portcaster Vo Vo, a tool favored by content creators for its ability to switch from mono to stereo. The final product, Passport VO, an item with an inbuilt card recorder that can record and playback without clipping, is introduced and admired for its sturdy metal casing and ease of use for those with a basic understanding of audio. The hosts conclude with news of limited availability for the first batch of the technology and the upcoming guest appearance from Michael at Sentrance. #ProAudioUnboxing #EnglishChannelAudioStudio #PodcastTechTalks    Timestamps (00:00:00) Show Introduction (00:00:46) Audio Studio in a Box (00:05:27) Unit Power and USB Input (00:10:12) Portcaster XLM 103 Analysis (00:16:00) Passport VO Microphone Switch (00:23:47) Michael's Experience with Sentrance (00:28:47) Difficulty Quoting Dates (00:31:35) Conclusion & Final Thoughts    Transcript Speaker A: And here we are again with another show. And we have another unboxing, something very special. And Robo's a very lucky boy.,Speaker B: Welcome.,Speaker C: Hi. Hi. Hello, everyone to the pro audio suite.,Speaker B: These guys are professional and motivated with tech. To the VO stars, George Wittam, founder of Source Element Robert Marshall, international audio engineer Darren Robbo Robertson and global voice Andrew Peters. Thanks to Triboo, Austrian audio making passion heard source elements George the Tech Wittam and Robbo and AP's international demo. To find out more about us, check ThePro Audiosuite.com.,: What you got, Robo?,Speaker C: I've got a little black box of magic.,: What did you get that I didn't get way down under before you'd ship it across the country. What the heck?,Speaker C: Very early Christmas present. And it's very cool. Can you see the black box? It's like a flight recorder. That was my first impression. It was like, whoa, what's this?,: It's very cool. Nice little kit. So what's this thing called?,Speaker C: And it's rock solid. It's called the English Channel. It's an audio studio in a box, effectively. So if we crack it open, there's this piece of magic inside. And I'm guessing that we can all.,: See that there's three separate units, is what I'm seeing.,Speaker C: Yeah. So there's three of Sentrance's units. All. Well, they're not linked together at the moment because you need to do that with these XLRs and USB connectors at the bottom. But it's very simple. Gotcha. Which we'll talk through in a minute. Effectively, you've got your pre and effects. So in the soapbox is your gain and your high pass, low pass filter, all that sort of stuff. There's a gate.,: So the soapbox is the preamp.,Speaker C: The soapbox is your preamp. So your mic goes into here and then it joins it. Daisy chains across the top to the others. But in the soapbox. Yeah, there's your high and your lowest pass filters, your 48 and your pad. And then you've got your gain, obviously, and a dry, wet mix for your effects, which we'll get to in a sec, including the gate, which is here, and a Deesser. And also the option to check to select the frequency the DS is working on, which I think is the bit of magic. You've also got an inbuilt compressor, which obviously is using a preset knee and ratio and all that sort of stuff. But from testing it out with AP the other week when it turned up, it's actually, not too bad. Used in moderation, and also when used in conjunction with the mix knob. So wet is full on wet. For those who are not sure what a mix knob is, full on wet is everything working at its capacity. But then when you use the mix knob and you start bringing it back towards dry, that processed effect is being mixed with the original signal coming in from the microphone.,: Interesting, because that is not a knob that most people are going to have in their signal chain. Like you have a single rack piece of gear. Let's say it's a channel strip. I'm thinking of a DBX 286. I know he's thinking of that piece of gear a lot when he developed a soapbox. The signal goes left to right, it goes preamp, then it goes through each thing in that sequence, and then it comes out the other end and it's all wet. You can't blend it. Here you have a blend, which gives you an interesting level of creativity in terms of controlling all that.,Speaker C: That's right. So even if you find that you've got to wind up the compression a bit more to get whatever the desired effect is you're looking for, you can still manage that, micromanage that by sort of then playing with your mix to get it just right, which is kind of clever. So I'm really impressed with that. I thought that.,: So that first box of soapbox has a preamp.,Speaker C: Yeah, has your preamp.,: It has a high pass filter.,Speaker C: High pass and low pass.,: Actually, no, just high pass.,Speaker C: Just a high pass. And then something called High Z. Oh.,: High Z would be for a guitar. Yeah, because it's got a high Z combo.,Speaker C: That's right. Well, that's the other thing, actually. Yeah. You can use this as a DI, but we'll get to that, I guess.,: And then it's got 2 meters. Is one an input meter and one an output meter? Yeah.,Speaker C: So one's an input meter and one's an out. But it's also showing you. Well. Yeah, so you can see your compression working, basically. You can sort of see what's coming in and what's going out when you're dialing in your compressor, which is kind of nice.,: Got it. And what are the three little lights across the top? Looks like? There's three LEDs.,Speaker C: So that's just showing you when your gate's working, when your gates kicking in and out. Then your compressor. Your compressor and your DS are working.,: XLR mail output. Is that right? Is there a dial on the back?,Speaker C: There's a switch there. There's your on off switch? I'm back here. Yes. So that's just your brightness of those lights back there that you can see.,: Okay.,Speaker C: So you can sort of make those a bit brighter or a bit duller.,: Oh that's cool.,Speaker C: Yeah, very cool. So then using the XLRs we then daisy chain from the soapbox into the black cab, which is his EQ.,: Does it come with cute little XLR?,Speaker C: It does actually. In fact we should have gone through that first in here. He's thought of everything. Can I just say, he's really switched on with this. You've got your little short XLRs in here which is very cool. So if we were putting this together we would be sort of daisy chaining from there to there like that, which is kind of cool. And then from there to the port caster. So you've got two of those all packed away and in nice little padded pouches too. Can I just say? And then in the other one, which is also very nice, we have the USBC connectors because the power also daisy chains. So the power comes into the soapbox and then using these USBs you can daisy chain to each of the other boxes. And he also gives you two USB C's for the power in and also one to go back to your computer interface, whatever it is you're using as well.,: Okay, so each one of these units needs power and they each have a USB input for power. But you don't need to have three power supplies then.,Speaker C: No. So you just use the shorter USBCs that he's provided like those XLRs and just daisy chain through each one. He's also given the long ones as well. But the nice thing that I think is really clever is if you haven't got USBC. He's also included the adapters for normal USB which is sort of nice.,: Nice.,Speaker C: So he's thought of everything.,: Not everybody does that product where I actually opened up a sound devices mix pre three for a client a couple of weeks ago. It's not a cheap unit, 600 $700 unit and there was no adapter and I was dead in the water until I went and got the right.,Speaker C: And isn't that the frustrating part? You get this cool piece of equipment like this land on your desk and you're like oh shit, I got to wait till I can get to it.,: Cost here so little for a manufacturer to throw those adapters, give you that extra thing and it's nice. I'm really glad he thinks of that.,Speaker C: Yeah, I was really impressed. Into the black cab is the next little box and you've got high mids and lows.,: Three band sweep.,Speaker C: Three bands, sweethearts, sweepable. They actually sound quite nice. And then again, up the top, you've got your high pass air, which is, I would presume, extra high. And you've got a pad and you've got a bypass as well. So if you don't want to put your EQ in there, listen up, voiceover artists, you can bypass that.,: Is there a hard bypass?,Speaker C: Yeah, that's his switch. Switch, yeah, it's a switch. And that's the other thing that he included in here, which I have to say, these switches are all sort of recessed into the top. But he includes one of those little metal things he used. The SIM card tool. Yeah, he includes one of those. So you can get in there and you don't have to use your pen or whatever else you can get in there with that and switch them on and off as well, Michael.,: So if you do want to bypass it on the fly, it's not something where it's just a button. You do have to kind of. You got to use the little pick to.,Speaker C: You do switch that? Yeah, you do. Or a toothpick or a pen or whatever, a paperclip, whatever you can get your hands on.,: Yeah.,Speaker C: So that's kind of nice. I think the only thing that I missed on here was a low shelf and a high shelf for me. These are all your sort of curves as opposed to an actual shelf.,: They're all bells.,Speaker C: Yeah, but again, bell shaped. That's right. Yeah, I said curve. But you get my point. Exactly. But I guess realistically, if you were doing a voice, you probably wouldn't be using the EQ section anyway. Well, I hope you wouldn't be.,Speaker A: Well, the other thing is, I don't think it's not targeted for someone like me. That's overkill and stuff on there. I would never use.,Speaker C: Yeah, true.,: Where I would see it being useful if somebody had it would be for making a small correction. So if you don't have quite the right mic, there's a lot of people that have a Neumann TLM 103 that shouldn't have one. And that mic is very upper. It's got a big upper shelf on it. I mean, it has quite a bit of a sibilance peak. And there's a lot of women who are being told to use that mic for some reason, or their friends have one and they go buy that mic and it's just really sibilant. So to be able to go in there and then smooth out that shelf with an EQ and just leave it, set it and forget it would be pretty sweet. That's where I could see the EQ coming into play. Or if you're in a small booth and the low end is not quite well controlled, you haven't done a good job of eqing the room or you did your best and it's still boomy. Having a little way to sculpt the low end would be helpful.,Speaker C: I told you George would know.,: Yeah.,Speaker C: Yes.,: So the soapbox.,Speaker C: The black cab middle one. Yep, the black cab.,: The black cab. And then it goes into the.,Speaker C: Really, for the content creators out there, this is the really sexy and useful part of this thing, is you obviously have your mic that you've plugged in down onto the soapbox. You have that come in here and that's been through your processing chain, but in sort of shades of the passport Vo. You can also plug in your phone to here.,: I happen to have a Portcaster pro, by the way, and I love it.,Speaker C: Yeah.,: When I do it is awesome because of that phone patch functionality, the onboard recording, I mean, I'm using it for me. I'm using it as a field recorder for DOing field reporting, doing video interviews where I want to capture the audio in super high quality. I also used it in the video we did a while ago where we were at the. Actually, I don't think we did it for our show, but I did some videos recently that I posted@Vocalbooth.com, where I was inside the vocal booth. And in the video, if you happen to see it, you'll see me holding something in my hand. And that's the Portcaster. Yeah.,Speaker C: Right. Yeah, I saw it.,: To get a super high quality recording right off of the microphones we were using in the. Yeah, that's.,Speaker C: And when we see the rest of it, the question would be, why wouldn't you? Because you also got another mic input that can come into there. You've got a mono stereo blend. Now, I didn't play with this, George, because. So maybe you can give me a bit more. You could be a bit clearer about my understanding, and maybe I've got it wrong. But if you have two mics, does the mono stereo split them? Is that what I'm doing? If it's in mono, I'm hearing them both in both ears. But if I wind up the stereo, is it putting one in one ear and one in the other? Is that what I'm doing?,: Yeah, it's an interesting design choice. I mean that Michael did it. Because when it's in mono, it's just a mono mix of left and right. Everything comes down the middle. As you turn towards stereo, it now starts to separate them into a stereo channel.,Speaker C: So it's like a pan.,: And that's kind of unusual. Usually you either have mono or you have stereo. And here you have a knob. So you have anywhere from Mono to stereo.,Speaker C: Does that affect what's going out? Does that affect my output from here? Or is it only what I'm listening to?,: So that affects what goes to the line output. So if you're plugging it into a phone or a camera, and I believe it also affects what goes to the USB output that goes to the computer.,Speaker C: Because if you were doing a line.,: I think it affects all three, the recording, the line out and the USB.,Speaker C: Because if you were doing a live broadcast or something with this thing, that would make sense. Because me being me, I like to pan our show so that everybody's got their own little space. If you were doing a live broadcast, you could do that with here as well, I guess.,: Yeah. Or if you just want to have full separation of your two mic channels. Full left pan. Right, full left and right pan. You just turn that all the way to the right. And now your mic two is on channel two.,Speaker C: There you go. And you've got your separation. If you want to do it in post later on or whatever. Yeah, very nice.,: And I like that because the really basic interfaces, like the Scarlets and SSL Two s and the like, there is no option. Channel one is track one left. Channel two is track two right, period. So now you get a mixer where you can actually blend them and set them the way you want.,Speaker C: Yeah, very cool.,Speaker A: That's nice.,Speaker C: That's good. Your auxiliaries, there's two of. So you've got your mix of those down here. And then obviously volume, which is your monitoring. And what I missed up the top, which is also kind of nice, is you've got a limiter on both the XLR inputs, actually. I also think you can also put that limiter across your phone, by the looks of it, as well.,: Yeah, you know what? That's a darn good question. I don't know if the limiter circuit includes the phone patch function or if it's only for the preamp. I never saw the diagram and I haven't tested it. I have used all those functions, but I didn't notice whether the.,Speaker C: I'm presuming that it might affect the phone because it's on the same sort of eyesight level as that switch between the microphone and the phone. So might not.,: Yeah, we'd have to look at a signal flow diagram. When we designed the passport VO, that was a huge part of our time was spent scrutinizing, tweaking and adjusting the signal flow diagram to figure out where the switch is, where the knob is, where is each single piece in the signal flow as it goes. Know I'll take my opportunity to use this product here to promote our product. The reason we created Passport VO is because as feature riches of what this thing is that Robo is holding here, because this does things ours isn't going to, you know, three fully sweepable EQ bands Deesser things like that. But the reason we made the passport was there are really nuanced, interesting things we wanted to do with the signal path. We wanted to be able to have a separate return from the computer and have that be recordable or send that back to the headphones or whatever.,Speaker C: Right.,: So that was a huge part of the design. So it would be interesting to see. I'm sure Michael will say, oh, no, of course, I did it this way because this makes the most sense.,Speaker C: That's right. Given the attention to detail with everything else that's in this packet, it wouldn't surprise me that the limiter was across both of. So then the rest of the power of this beast is on the bottom down here for me, which is. And again, you'll probably expand more on what I've been able to play with in the short amount of time I've had it. But you have an inbuilt card recorder, right? So the micro SD, so you can record, you can play back off that. And I presume that only plays back to your headphones and not out the USB would be my guess.,: That does sound correct to me. There are things I use my unit for that I've done with it and I've never tried playing and then recording USB and seeing if it comes out. I don't think that it does that.,Speaker C: It would be very cool if it did. It would be very cool. I'd be well chuffed with Michael if he thought of that. But, yeah, maybe not. So then you've got the power daisy chain over that side and then the USB on the other side is your output back to your computer. 48 volts, obviously, monitoring in stereo mono, and a high and low output selector. What am I thinking of, George?,: What's the word? Oh, yeah, that's the line output pad switch. So if you're plugging this into a line level signal recorder. Let's say you plug it into, I don't know, some cameras and some devices can take a line level and other cameras can only take mic level. So having that switch means that if you plug this into your handicam, your DSLR, whatever your camera is, as long as you have it on low, you won't clip the input of the camera and distort the hell out of the audio.,Speaker C: Yeah, right.,: How many times have you seen like some low budget video production or TV where the audio is completely over modulated because they're shoving a mixer signal into their camera input, which is a mic input.,Speaker C: Yeah, exactly.,: It's designed to take this mic, plug that with an adapter to an 8th inch jack and plug it into the camera. That's what it's for.,Speaker C: Exactly. Yeah.,: So this can output either level without clipping.,Speaker A: So who do you think this is targeting? Robo?,: Yeah, that's a great question.,Speaker C: Who do I think it's targeting? I think definitely sort of content creators at home who maybe don't want to invest in a door or an expensive door or plugins or whatever, just want to be able to record and edit and spit it out. So it gives them the flexibility to add some of those features that are in here, the compression and the gating and all that sort of stuff. The thing that occurred to me after 35 years in radio is that outside broadcasting for radio, this thing would be perfect because you can plug your announcer mic in. You've got a guest mic should you need it. And you could use the phone return, or you could use the auxiliary input to monitor what's happening in the studio. So you can hear your music, you can hear the commercials, you can hear the callers coming in. But you could be sitting outside your local.,: Can be the return from the studio. Exactly.,Speaker C: You could be sitting outside your local store who's having a promotion that day doing your radio broadcast with basically just this and a laptop with a source connect connection. Hello.,: To me is the killer app for this thing. Is using it for Field broadcast?,Speaker C: Yeah, absolutely.,: Awesome. For field broadcast. Absolutely. I also see it being accompanying a musician when they're traveling. They might want to run their guitar rig through this, or they might want to capture their stage kit, or they might want to use it in the room, their hotel room, to do jamming or practicing or laying down tracks or there's a lot of interesting ways to use it. I certainly don't see the typical voice actor using a full blown channel strip or an EQ like that. Probably not typically, if you happen to be a producer or engineer and you know how to fine tune that stuff, then maybe. Or if you got one and you had me or Robert or Robo tuning it for you, like, all right, let's add a little bit more of the low know, which I do that occasionally. I talk people through on Zoom or whatever, and I explain how to adjust everything. Source connect is really the best because you can hear the absolute detail. And then I can have somebody adjust the knobs on their unit. That's where this thing could be really killer.,Speaker C: It really is. Well, it's actually more than that. It's a three, four channel console in a box, really, because you got your mic input and then you've got your couple of other line inputs and all that sort of stuff that you can play around with as well. So it's basically a tiny console in a box, really.,: I meant to ask you, I know the Portcaster is USB power or battery power. The other two units require power, correct?,Speaker C: Yeah, they both require power, which comes from that daisy chaining sort of thing.,: Right.,Speaker C: And then the other cool thing, just as an aside, and I guess, for whatever reason, let's say I was going to record somewhere, and all I needed was the podcaster. When you flip these things over, you can unscrew them, and you don't need a screwdriver or anything. You can unscrew them and you can.,: Just take the one you bolted to the tree.,Speaker C: That's right. So you can just. Okay, I need the port caster, but I don't need anything else. So I'm just going to take that, throw that in my bag with a microphone, and I'm off. And my phone or whatever. He's thought of everything. I'm so impressed. It's very cool and very clever.,Speaker A: And what's the build quality?,Speaker C: It's really heavy. It's chunky. It's sturdy. These are all metal, the cases, by the feel of them.,: How do the Pot knobs feel? Do they have a nice.,Speaker C: And they're really comfortable to use. And they're not stiff. Stiff, but they're not so loose that you could just bump them, which is kind of nice, given that you'll be sort of moving it around a bit, I would imagine, and all that sort of stuff you can sort of almost set and forget. Like, you could do your setting before you left home. You might have to tweak it a little bit when you get somewhere. But I would imagine if you put it in the case and close the lid, you could arrive where you wanted to get to and it would still be set to where you were without being. Having been.,: Is this your first time hands on with sentrance equipment?,Speaker C: Yeah. I'd never heard of Sentrance until we started talking to them about the passport.,: I take it for granted because I've been dealing with or using Sentrance gear since 2009.,Speaker C: Yeah, right. Well, there you go.,: I'm really accustomed to the build quality and what they are. So it's cool that you're finally getting your hands on one because you're basically feeling by holding the podcaster you're going to feel exactly what the passport is going to feel like.,Speaker C: Man, I'll be sharing the love down here. I'll be honest with you. This thing is incredible. To finish off what else is in the bag. Which sort of just again, goes to show how much thought's gone into this.,: Thinking of everything. Yeah.,Speaker C: I mean he sent, this is now it's Us and he can't cover all countries. But there's your little plug which you can see, which is a US plug, but it's got your two USB connections for your power if you need that.,: But that's just a standard power supply for USB, right?,Speaker C: That's right, exactly.,: You've got a power adapter, a local power adapter in Australia of course.,Speaker C: And he can't do one.,: The power plug in Australia, are they unique to Australia or are they in common with parts of Asia?,Speaker C: Yeah, no, they're pretty much unique to here. So we've got three pin plugs. We've got an earth as well.,: Everything has an earth ground. Right.,Speaker C: Yeah. Without we've got. So we've got the positIve, negative Earth. We've got three pins. Yeah.,: It's crazy.,Speaker C: In the.,: US you can still buy lots of things without the Earth ground.,Speaker C: Yeah.,Speaker A: Well this USB charger for Mac.,Speaker C: Yeah.,: That's extremely similar to a US one. It's just that the two pins are on slant. Yeah, the US is just parallel. Yeah, almost the same.,Speaker A: But normally I plug so. And I won't unplug anything because I'll probably turn something off.,: That'll be a bad sign. Don't unplug stuff while you're on this.,Speaker C: That's right. These are the bits that we always joke about that you'll never read but everything's. And I wanted to point this out.,: Only manuals for all of them.,Speaker C: Only because it sort of dumbs it. It's not dumbing it down, but it's so well explained that anybody who sort of has a general understanding of audio will be able to still sort of pick these things up and go, okay, I know what I need to do. They're clearly laid out. Everything's marked, everything's labeled nicely.,: Yeah, it's analog gear. It's got a USB, but it's analog. So each knob has a job. It's labeled what the knob does. So how much manual do you need when it's that straight versus something where it's like 15 layers of menus? I was setting up that mix pre three for my client. I was like, oh, my God, I need to open the manual, dude. I can't figure this thing out. To save my life, I had to watch YouTube videos and even to pass a signal to the Mac through the USB port. It was not intuitive whatsoever because it's all hidden inside little. The screen on that machine is like size of a post.,Speaker C: Yeah.,Speaker A: Stamps.,: I don't know, bigger than a poacher stamp, but it's like this big. And so you're, like, touching the little. So having everything. A knob and a switch for one job, man, that's the dream. That's why I'm so excited about the passport.,Speaker C: Yeah.,: So straightforward. No more firmware. Annoying stuff.,Speaker C: No more.,Speaker A: So we must be getting close, actually. How close are we to the passport video?,: Well, Michael has been giving us updates from time to know. I get emails. I don't know if you guys get emails, but I certainly get emails once or so, maybe a week, from somebody who's getting curious what's going on. There's still a projection of early spring, late winter, early spring, so March, April. It's such a moving target that it just doesn't feel right to quote any dates and times as soon as you do. It's the Elon Musk syndrome.,Speaker C: Yeah.,: Everything is, like, coming right? And you're like, hey, we've been waiting six years for this whole self fulfilled driving car thing, and they didn't hear you.,Speaker C: We're going to tell our advertisers to fuck off. Is that what we're going to do?,: I watched that whole interview. That was very interesting.,Speaker C: It was, isn't it?,: Yeah. So I'm always like, of the under promise, over deliver thing, but at the end of the day, it's going to come out when it's ready. And people don't like to hear that because we've had 87 eightyat of you have invested in that unit now at this point.,Speaker C: Yeah.,: So we have a lot of people obviously vested in this.,Speaker C: It'll be worth the wait.,: But it's worth the wait. And it is definitely coming. Until we have had one in our hands to actually test a prototype, we won't be able to give you any definitive yes when it's coming. And it's funny if you look on the buy page on the actual store@centrens.com. We have a 4.8 star review. Six reviews. Six people are so excited.,Speaker C: Haven't even had.,: They've already given it a review.,Speaker C: They even got it. Yeah, there you go.,: Trust us, folks, it doesn't exist quite yet, but there are still some, believe it or not, available. There's twelve of the initial batch still available to buy. So when they do ship, you get it, you'll be able to get on that first batch. So stay tuned. We're all excited. And trust us, as soon as we have our unit in hand, just like Robo does, we'll be definitely be sharing it with you guys.,Speaker A: Indeed.,Speaker C: Indeed.,Speaker A: Now, we haven't made any reference to the fact you're wearing a Santa hat, George.,: Why would I be wearing a Santa hat anyway?,Speaker C: He's having a home classic.,: I put it on earlier, I did a video and I thought, I'll just leave it on.,Speaker C: Why not?,: You can't tell because it's too bright. But the lights are twinkling. There you go. Yeah.,Speaker C: We got a four star rating. And you got a four star Santa cap. I was going to say, and if.,: You'Re really good, I'll give you a five star.,Speaker A: That's funny. We've had a five star general. Now we've got a five star Santa. You may have noticed one thing that I obviously have been feeling a bit jealous about. Robo's hair, so.,: Robo.,Speaker C: I even had a haircut yesterday. Look at that.,: Mine is longer than ever. I've really let this thing go crazy seeing how long I can tolerate it, if I can make it through the end of the year.,Speaker C: So listen, guys, just before we wrap this thing up, just to bring this all together, I don't know whether I've told you guys, but we've got Michael from Sentrance coming on to do a video episode with us in a couple of weeks. To walk me through that, we're going to plug it in and have a play with it. So that should be a bit of an in depth dive. He might even make you look silly for once, George. I try, but I can never succeed. Maybe Michael will.,Speaker B: Leave a comment, suggest a topic, or just say good day, drop us a note at our website, theproaudiosuite.com.