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Brian Hood (0:29)

say it, glasses, how do you say that? Glasses-ed, glasses-ed.

Chris Graham (0:34)

Glasses-ed.

Brian Hood (0:35)

Podcast co-host, Chris Graham. How are you today, man?

Chris Graham (0:38)

I'm good, I got special glasses. These have a flat frequency response, unlike normal glasses, which can cause comb filtering.

I'm kidding.

Brian Hood (0:50)

The only thing I noticed, you were cleaning your glasses a second ago, and they're like, they're so wobbly, like the screw's so loose, I would tighten it up, my friend. It's like, they're really loose.

And I was like, maybe it's because they're special glasses. I don't, maybe I just don't know.

SPEAKER_3 (1:02)

You might consider taking the vocals and boosting, you know, 0.1 dB at 10K.

Brian Hood (1:11)

I hate everything that's happening right now.

Chris Graham (1:12)

It's all good. Dude, what's new with you, man?

Brian Hood (1:15)

What's new with me?

Chris Graham (1:16)

Let me interrupt. We should probably not talk about our lives while we're prepping these episodes, so that there's more excitement.

Brian Hood (1:23)

That's true. We always talk first.

Chris Graham (1:25)

Yeah.

Brian Hood (1:25)

That's interesting.

Chris Graham (1:27)

Yeah. I already know most of what's going on in your life, but for the sake of quality podcast, we gotta leave some mystery.

You gotta save something new to tell me for our podcast intro.

Brian Hood (1:38)

I would agree with you, Chris. We talked too much before the episode, so I don't have anything new to talk about.

And you know what? Our listeners are like, thank God. We don't have to listen to them banter for 30 minutes this episode. There's one thing we do need to talk about, though.

Chris Graham (1:51)

Here's what's going on, guys. I don't know if we're ever gonna do a real sponsor. That just sounds like a pain in the buns.

Like, every week to have to say something, hey, this product's really good. Maybe we will someday.

But one of the things Brian and I have been trying to navigate is that I'm addicted to free gear. I somehow feel validated when someone gives me free gear.

Brian Hood (2:11)

It's true.

Chris Graham (2:12)

And I'm navigating that maturity issue. But if it's gear that will help us record the podcast better and have a better time while we're doing it, help us be more relaxed, help the podcast sound better, then we're all for it. So here's the thing. When Brian and I record an episode, I record in Westerville, Ohio, in Logic.

We have a video chat, and at the same time, Brian records in Pro Tools. So we have two DAWs running for an hour to two hours on the hope that neither will crash when we're recording.

Brian Hood (2:44)

Which is a lot to ask of Pro Tools.

Chris Graham (2:46)

Yeah, it's an awful lot to ask.

Brian Hood (2:47)

And lately, it's been a lot to ask of Logic.

Chris Graham (2:50)

Lately of Logic. So let me tell you guys a story.

Our good friend, Matt Boudreau, of the Working Class Audio Podcast recently purchased something called a Sound Devices MixPre 6

Brian Hood (3:02)

Are we allowed to put a gear slot alert on our sponsors?

Chris Graham (3:04)

No, we can't.

Brian Hood (3:05)

Yeah, we are. We're totally doing it. We can gear slot our sponsors.

Chris Graham (3:09)

So Matt was like, dude, I've been recording the podcast with this thing.

It's sort of like a portable SD recorder, kind of like the Zoom units that are out there, the H5s and all that stuff.

Except it sounds amazing, and the preamps are incredible, and the stats, like the total harmonic distortion and noise floor and all that stuff. They're like science fiction. They're so off the charts crazy. So Matt was like, this thing's awesome, and I don't use a DAW to record the podcast anymore. I record right into this SD recorder, and it sounds amazing. And I was like, really? Oh, we could record our podcast and not have to think about anything.

Brian Hood (3:42)

And here's the reason I'm OK with this on this podcast. I'm very anti-gear, as everyone is very aware of by this point. If you've been listening to the podcast, we're a podcast in the recording world, probably the only recording podcast that doesn't talk about gear on the Internet right now.

Chris Graham (3:56)

Probably the only form of recording media.

Brian Hood (3:58)

Yeah, to the point where we have a gear slut alert anytime someone mentions a specific piece of gear because we do not support gear as a whole. But the reason we're making an exception here is because anything that allows us to get out of technician mindset, where we get out of the created mode, out of the flow of what we're trying to do, I am all about that. And that's kind of what this thing has done.