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  <li>00:00 -- Intro<br><br></li>
  <li>00:30 -- First impressions of the Slate VMS and the Sony C800G.<br><br></li>
  <li>03:04 -- <strong>This Month's Featured Multitrack: Fredy V's '<a href="[[~373]]#FredyV">Not Alone</a>'</strong><br><br></li>

  <ul>
    <li>03:44 -- overheads stick transients</li>
<ul>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">04:30 - 04:40 -- [[$podcastDemo]] raw stereo overheads recording (unprocessed tracks)</span><br><br></li>
</ul>
    <li>04:41 -- mono room mic phase-alignment</li>
<ul>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">05:13 - 05:24 -- [[$podcastDemo]] unprocessed equal balance of stereo overhead mics and mono room mic (unprocessed tracks)</span></li>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">05:25 - 05:36 -- [[$podcastDemo]] unprocessed equal balance of stereo overhead mics and mono room mic, with room mic delayed by 80 samples (unprocessed tracks)</span></li>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">06:11 - 06:21 -- [[$podcastDemo]] raw stereo overheads recording (unprocessed tracks)</span></li>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">06:22 - 06:32 -- [[$podcastDemo]] unprocessed mix balance of stereo overhead mics and mono room mic, with room mic delayed by 80 samples (unprocessed tracks)</span><br><br></li>
</ul>
    <li>06:40 -- tom mic resonances</li>
<ul>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">06:55 - 07:00 -- [[$podcastDemo]] raw tom 1 recording (unprocessed track)</span></li>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">07:01 - 07:06 -- [[$podcastDemo]] raw tom 2 recording (unprocessed track)</span></li>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">07:07 - 07:13 -- [[$podcastDemo]] raw tom 3 recording (unprocessed track)</span></li>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">09:16 - 09:21 -- [[$podcastDemo]] unprocessed mix balance of the three tom close mics (unprocessed panned tracks)</span></li>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">09:22 - 09:27 -- [[$podcastDemo]] mix balance of the three tom close mics with resonance-reduction processing (panned tracks with notch-EQ and gating processing)</span><br><br></li>
</ul>
    <li>09:41 -- lead-vocal mains hum</li>
<ul>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">10:40 - 10:51 -- [[$podcastDemo]] raw lead-vocal recording (unprocessed track)</span></li>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">10:52 - 11:03 -- [[$podcastDemo]] lead-vocal recording with static hum-removal processing (processed track)</span></li>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">12:16 - 12:27 -- [[$podcastDemo]] lead-vocal recording with static hum-removal processing (processed track)</span></li>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">12:28 - 12:39 -- [[$podcastDemo]] lead-vocal recording with automation-driven hum-removal processing (processed track)</span><br><br></li></li>
</ul>
    <li>13:02 -- lead-vocal tonal variability, sibilance &amp; recessed midrange<br><br></li>

    <li>13:57 -- electric guitar mains hum &amp; multimic polarity mismatch</li>
<ul>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">14:58 - 15:02 -- [[$podcastDemo]] raw electric-guitar multimic recordings hard-panned (unprocessed tracks)</span></li>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">15:03 - 15:08 -- [[$podcastDemo]] raw electric-guitar multimic recordings in mono (unprocessed tracks)</span></li>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">15:18 - 15:22 -- [[$podcastDemo]] polarity-corrected electric-guitar multimic recordings hard-panned (unprocessed tracks)</span></li>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">15:23 - 15:28 -- [[$podcastDemo]] polarity-corrected electric-guitar multimic recordings in mono (unprocessed tracks)</span><br><br></li></li>
</ul>
    <li>15:48 -- piano brightness &amp; digital clipping</li>
<ul>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">16:02 - 16:09 -- [[$podcastDemo]] raw piano recording (unprocessed tracks)</span><br><br></li>
</ul>
  </ul>
  <li>17:26 -- <strong>Mix Critique: <a href="http://discussion.cambridge-mt.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=524">sano</a>'s mix of 'Not Alone'</strong></li>
  <ul>
    <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">17:43 - 24:32 -- [[$podcastDemo]] sano's full mix</span><br><br></li>
    <li>25:07 -- Critique Point #1: overall mix tonality</li>
    <ul>
      <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">25:39 -- snare mic: gating or dynamic EQ to avoid brightening hi-hat spill</span><br><br></li>
    </ul>
    <li>26:20 -- Critique Point #2: bass-guitar consistency</li>
    <ul>
      <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">26:41 - 26:57 -- [[$podcastDemo]] snippet of sano's mix</span><br><br></li>
    </ul>
    <li>28:31 -- Critique Point #3: over-stark mix focus &amp; lack of cohesion</li>
    <ul>
      <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">30:51 - 30:59 -- [[$podcastDemo]] snippet of sano's mix</span></li>
      <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">31:00 - 31:09 -- [[$podcastDemo]] snippet of sano's mix with my post-processing to rebalance and blend the snare sound</span><br><br></li>
    </ul>
    <li>31:21 -- Critique Point #4: suitability of LCR panning</li>
    <ul>
      <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">33:04 - 33:19 -- [[$podcastDemo]] snippet of sano's mix</span></li>
      <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">33:20 - 33:37 -- [[$podcastDemo]] snippet of multitrack-library preview mix</span></li>
      <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">33:51 - 34:07 -- [[$podcastDemo]] snippet of sano's mix in mono</span></li>
      <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">34:08 - 34:25 -- [[$podcastDemo]] snippet of multitrack-library preview mix in mono</span><br><br></li>
    </ul>
    <li>34:46 -- Critique Point #5: piano timbre in breakdown section</li>
    <ul>
      <li><span class="spanPodcastMiniText">34:58 - 35:21 -- [[$podcastDemo]] snippet of sano's mix</span><br><br></li>
    </ul>
    <li>35:46 -- Critique Point #6: mystery hiss in breakdown section<br><br></li>
    <li>36:06 -- Critique Point #7: backing vocal balance<br><br></li>
  </ul>
  <li>37:16 -- <strong>Unvarnished Review: <a href="http://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/music-production/speakers/hs_series/hs8/?mode=model">Yamaha HS8</a> affordable active nearfield monitors</strong><br><br></li>
  <li>47:01 -- Outro <span class="spanPodcastMiniText">(Total Running Time 47:39)</span></li>
</ul>
 
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<li><strong>Uncompressed Audio Version:</strong> The player on this page uses 320kbps MP3 quality. If you'd prefer to hear uncompressed PCM audio, <a href="http://www.patronpodcasts.cambridge-mt.com/CambridgeMT_PatronsPodcast1609sano_HiRes.zip">this ZIP archive</a> contains the podcast in 24-bit/44.1kHz WAV format.<br><br></li>

<li><strong>Mix The Same Raw Multitracks Yourself:</strong> The raw multitracks for Fredy V's 'Not Alone' can be downloaded via <a href="[[~373]]#FredyV">The 'Mixing Secrets' Free Multitrack Download Library</a>. And make sure you check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/fredyvmusic/">Fredy's website</a> too, and support his music! This multitrack session was contributed by Richard King and George Massenburg at Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology/The Graduate Program in Sound Recording, Schulich School of Music, McGill University. For further details, see B. De Man, B. Leonard, R. King and J. D. Reiss, "An analysis and evaluation of audio features for multitrack music mixtures," 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2014), October 2014.<br><br></li>

<li><strong>Have Your Say About This Mix:</strong> The original thread featuring this month's critiqued mix can be found <a href="http://discussion.cambridge-mt.com/showthread.php?tid=13107">here in the Discussion Zone</a>.<br><br></li>

<li><strong>ToneBoosters <i>TB_HumRemover</i>:</strong> The hum-removal I showcased in this podcast is ToneBoosters's [[$software_ToneBoosters_TBHumRemover]], but it appears that it has now been discontinued by the manufacturer. If you look around, though, you can still find it for download elsewhere, and the same manufacturer's [[$software_ToneBoosters_TBFix]] will do a very similar job with its 'Harmonic lin' filter type set to 60Hz. (Incidentally, I'm not some kind of endorsee of ToneBoosters -- I just think their plug-ins in general are very useful and cheap as chips!)<br><br></li>

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