Geeks and God Podcast

On last week's Geeks and God podcast we dove into some audio processing plugins and hardware boxes and described what it was that those did to your audio. On this week, we try and get a little bit more practical by telling you how to acually use those devices, give advice on settings to start with and much more.

We talk primarily about EQ and compression, but delve into gates, effects, and a few more other things. We talk about compression threshold, ratio and attack release, and we try and give you some good settings to start with. When we talk about EQ, Rob attempts to give you some general ideas about frequency ranges to keep in mind when you're trying to make your audio sound a bit better...

But, before all this, we talk (ahem..or rant) about YouVersion and give some insight into some new OpenDNS features...

Quite a while ago, a G&G Blog existed. As usually happens, we got lazy and never updated it, so we nixed it....But, looking at our web stats at the time, we saw just how many people frequented Rob's blog entries about Audio Processing basics. So, we figured we'd take the need we saw and try to fill it with a pair of episodes...

This week, we begin with Audio Processing basics. We talk about EQ (equalization), Compressors, DeEssers, Expanders/Gates, Limiters, and Feedback Exterminators. But, alas...we don't stop there.

Rob goes off (possibly unfairly) on people that use (or overuse) effects. We talk about Reverb, Delay, Pitch and Time (we get a little crazy there), Flanger, Chorus and the like... We also talk for a minute about reducing noise in your recordings.

But, before all this, we talk about the problems everyone seems to be having with DVD and Hard Drive based camcorders that those folks at Best Buy are pushing so hard....