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Start sending in your questions for Charles Dye! Dave Chick comments on Leo Badinella Sweetwater's guitar recording tip Brian Daste's guitar recording trick Al's featured video - The Loudness Wars:

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The Recorderman overhead drum mic technique. Recorderman's original post at Recording.org Gearslutz thread with more discussion and pictures

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Joao Alves recommends this video cowbell lesson!

An audio comment from Jeff Connor Lava lamp invention from Patrique Osbourne A gear/MIDI question from Jon Solitro An audio question about MILAR from Rick Shelton

The Stupid Knob: R. Kelly -- Pillar of the community...nay...THE WORLD! Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: It's one of the biggest singles of all time. It was #1 in almost every charting country in the world, including the UK and the US. It's the second most successful single of all time (after Cher's Believe) since 1999 in the United World Chart and has sold about 9 million copies worldwide. It's a duet, and a remake of a song off of the movie soundtrack of the movie Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. A: Hips Don't Lie, Shakira (ahh-OOO-gah) and Wyclef Jean! This week's winner is Mark Long. Congratulations Mark, you're taking home a copy of Guitar and Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at GuitarAndDrumTrainer.com. Honorable mention goes out to Alex Free and Jon Solitro. Great job! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign mix it like a record jamjunky groove monkey addictive drums ichords pianoteq tunecore guitar center charles dye leo badinella brian daste the loudness wars recorderman gearslutz r kelly cher dirty dancing hips dont lie shakira wyclef jean