Bottom Shelf Recording Talk

In this glorious episode, The hosts maintain different schedules and welcome as guest, Colin Wilson of local Edmonton band, Something Mechanical.  The three squirrels follow every leaf on the tree as they try to navigate through the idea of managing band members, firing band members, transitioning through the idea of bucket list recording to pursuing music as a career.  The idea of criticism as a growing tool is tossed around and the random BS scale goes off the charts.  Tune in for another exciting adventure.  

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In this meandering episode, our dim witted heroes get lost in their own hairball thoughts and struggle without coffee.  After being excited about the potential of a second guest, Cory Bosse (Call him the Boss) of Sleeping in Traffic couldn't join the show to talk about his recent recording session.  Instead, Joey and James try to reconstruct the event from 2nd and 3rd hand stories.  Disaster predictably follows.  A conversation is had about why buying a $4000 microphone is the wrong thing to do for Joey, and James shares a dull list of gear he won't be buying.  Oh, and there is an unfortunate conversation about hair.  

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Melanie Martinez (http://melaniemartinezmusic.com/)

In this exciting, ground breaking episode, Joey and James welcome Glen Allan, of Paradox Mastering to the show as the very first guest of the podcast. Glen educates our heroes on what mastering is and how to properly get your home mixes ready for mastering.  Then, as is typical, James derails the conversation into stories about Glen's studio in the 90s, and a debate rages over the value of higher sample rates vs lower sample rates.  Yes, once again our heroes talk about topics no one else ever mentions!  Except Joey, he mostly just drank coffee. 

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In this glorious episode, Joey laments how James brings up a subject that is beaten to death, and then into a dead horse.  Should they avoid these tragedies? James complains frantically about a terrible website that Joey defends as "improving" and they dive into the world of weirdness that is metal.  Lastly there is a lesson to be learned from an awkward attempt to book James' studio for a video shoot in an hour, but they're not sure if they learned any lessons.  Stay tuned for more awkward tales on the next exciting episode of "Construction: An Under the Stairs Story!"

In this exciting episode of Rants and Derailed Thoughts, our heroes discuss Joey's new fake tribute band and James explains why he dislikes a certain style of drumming. Featured tangents include clients doing naughty things in the studio, walking bass lines, and intentional vs accidental creativity.

In this episode, Joey and James try to talk about the passing of David Bowie and predictably get sidetracked again and again and again and again…  Our hosts also talk about how to stay motivated when working with clients that aren't really excited about their own music. "Magic Dance" Labyrinth (OST) (Joey's favourite Bowie)"Bring Me The Disco King" Reality (James' favourite Bowie)

In this week's adventure our heroes re-tell a story from the last episode, talk about a Canadian company that is doing well for themselves, and discuss customer service vs commission sales. Joey brings up a forum question about vocal recording and James uses funny words… Finally, to wind down, they both rant about technology getting better and musicians getting lazier. Instant classic or should we hire the "Wrecking Crew?"

In this episode, our heroes talk about Joey's new job and how pictures can be used to trick the unsuspecting.  James tells a long, inexcusably awful story, and the guys take a twitter request from country band Ain't No Rodeo (@aintnorodeo).

In this episode, our heroes talk the value of gear, disassembling gear, digital gear, stolen gear, and what gear means to a studio vs an engineer. Joey and James also talk advertising for clients, the Digital Audio Production class at Pixel Blue College, And working hard on the music they're part of.

In this episode, Joey and James try to stay organized and continuously fall off topic.  They talk about a model Protest the Hero is trying to sell their music, discuss how to find new clients, and tell horror stories of the revision process.  A twitter request to talk about drums comes in...