Some cool news, another special feature from Andy Gagliano, Viewer Mail, part two of an interview with legendary rock gear-head Bob Heil, and a new piece of gear from SSL that you might actually be able to afford!

News:

SSL's New Web Site - MixBuss.com

Felicia Collins From The Late Show

Rhymezone

Feature Story:

Andy GaglianoWe've had quite a few requests for some more beginner oriented material once in awhile so we got our friend Andy Gagliano to give us a hand. He's an independent producer, audio engineer and sound designer for film and television. He's worked with several independent musicians in the studio, covering a huge range of genres from rock to hip-hop, acoustic to orchestral.

This week Andy stopped by to discuss helpful preparations before going into the studio.

Visit AndyGagliano.com

Spotlight:

The Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio, presenters of the Technical Excellence and Creativity (TEC) Awards, has announced the 2006 inductees to the TECnology Hall of Fame.

The 2006 TECnology Hall of Fame inductees include:

1916 Condenser Microphone -- E.C. Wente/Bell Labs

1933 Fletcher-Munson Loudness Curves
Harvey Fletcher/Wilden Munson/Bell Labs

1935 Lansing Shearer Horn

1953 Hammond Model B-3 tonewheel organ

1955 Ampex Sel-Sync 8-track recorder

1958 Telefunken Ela M 251 microphone

1967 Neumann U87 microphone

1967 Time-Delay Spectrometry—Richard Heyser

1971 Thiele-Small vented enclosure parameters
A.N. Thiele/Richard H. Small

1976 UREI 813 studio monitors

1979 Lexicon 224 digital reverb

1979 TEAC Model 144 Portastudio

1983 Sony PCM-3324 digital multitrack

1983 Yamaha DX7 FM synthesizer

1987 Sonic Solutions NoNoise

Mark Jensen Celebrity Interview:

Mark Jensen from PodSqod.com recently attended the National Association Of Broadcasters (NAB) convention where he had a chance to sit down with rock & roll gear legend, and creator of the famous Heil Talk Box, Mr. Bob Heil. Mark was kind enough to offer these clips to us so that you'd have a chance to listen in.

Visit PodSqod.com

Visit HeilSound.com

Gear Review::

SSL Duende

FXpansion VST To RTAS Adapter Version 2

Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question

Q: Simply tell us the name of the band featured in the picture below.

A: Little Feat!

There was also two bonus questions. 1) What classic Little Feat song was covered by Garth Brooks? 2) What famous top ten country artist was in Pure Prairie League? The answers are Dixie Chicken and Vince Gill!

Congratulations to John Demetre! He got all three questions right and won a free copy of Guitar & Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com!

Brian Stephens
Music Pro Show
Podcast Host Also receiving the same free prize this week is Tim Burgess. He's visually impaired and wrote us a very creative letter about how he couldn't compete since he couldn't see the picture!

Honorable mention goes out to Brian Stephens from the Music Pro Show podcast who wrote in to say, “If any drummers are listening to your show and didn’t spot Richie Hayward right way, they need to turn in their sticks immediately!?

See you next week!

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