Meet The Hosts - Brandon S. Hire & Neil McDougall!

My name is Brandon S. Hire, and I'm one your hosts. Pleased to meet you. I'm more than just the host of this podcast, I've also been a solo artist, frontman for Day Nine, and a freelance producer and studio engineer. Here's a little bit about why I decided to add podcaster to my resume.

I had previously published a podcast called "Music Industry Tips". Each episode included 3 segments, and each segment outlined a promotional tip for independant artists. I was new to podcasting (but lets face it, so was everyone else at that time). I eventually ran out of ideas and stopped producing episodes, although the previous ones are still up on the web (check it out on iTunes).

In early 2007, I began listening to a podcast called "Home Recording Odyssey". This podcast was for beginners, and run by a man in Australia named Andrew Brierly. In the show, Andrew would teach his audience what he was learning at that time, as he considered himself to be a beginner as well. This sparked my interest in other recording-themed podcasts, and I began listening to them religiously. Home Recording Odyssey allowed their listeners to submit segments to the show, and I included a segment in episode 34 about amp modeling.

I noticed one thing lacking in the podcasts I would listen to about recording. None of them were focusing on heavy music. A fan of heavy music myself, and knowing a thing or two about recording it, I began contemplating starting my own podcast focused on recording rock and metal. After much soul searching and debate, I decided to give it a go. And so, The Metal Shop Podcast was born!

For more information on my other musical aspirations, please check out the following myspace profiles.

• My Online Musical Resume
  What i've been up to for the last decade....
  http://www.myspace.com/bshiremusic

• Brandon S. Hire - Producer
  Samples of my freelance audio work, as well as rate information.
  http://www.myspace.com/hireproductions

• Day Nine
  The band I left behind in Columbus Ohio, now on hiatus.
  http://www.myspace.com/day9

• Brandon S. Hire - Solo Artist
  My solo musical project.
  http://www.brandonshire.net
  http://www.myspace.com/brandonshire

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My name is Brandon S. Hire, your host for The Metal Shop Podcast! This podcast is for beginners, intermediates, and professionals who are producing rock and metal recordings! We share tips on how to get the best out of many different studio types, from the studio-in-a-box hobby studio to the ga-gillion dollars per hour studios.

Here's a list of some of the topics I hope to cover on this podcast:

• Interviews with producers
  
• Guitar Doubling And Panning
  
• Getting That Guitar Tone
  
• Use The Right Amp For The Job
  
• Bass Distortion
  
• Modulation Effects
  
• Keeping Your Vocalists Voice In Tact
  
• How Do They Do That? (several segments)
  
• Amp Micing Techniques
  
• Bass Guitar, Direct or Mic'd?
  
• Drum Micing Techniques
  - mic everything
  - mic just the tops
  - mic the ambience
  
• Orchestration
  
• Clean tones
  
• Acoustic Music
  
• Producer Tips:
  - Making A Part More Interesting
  - Keeping the vocalist comfortable
  - How to deal with an out of time drummer
  
• Loops & Samples
  
• Vocal Processing & Eq-ing
  
• Guitar Processing & Eq-ing
  
• Bass Processing & Eq-ing
  
• Drum Processing & Eq-ing
  
• Drum Mixing
  
• Drum Machines
  
• Mixing the song as a whole
  
• Guerilla Soundproofing
  
• Guitar amps vs. modelers
  
• Free Plug-ins
  
• Stompboxes vs. multi-fx units
  
• The Right Mic For The Job
  
• Recording Piano And Other Ambient Instruments
  
• Mic Placement
  
• Avoiding pops without a windscreen
  
• How much gain do I need?
  
• Keeping inactive strings quiet while recording
  
• Side Chains And NIN
  
• Vocal Recording Technique
  
• Need big tone? Use big strings

.....And More