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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