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Brian Hood (0:29)

Brian, you're so calm, so it doesn't do that stupid radio announcer voice, Chris Graham. Chris, how are you doing, Data Buddy?

Chris Graham (0:34)

I'm good, Brian. I'm very excited to be hanging out with you.

Brian Hood (0:37)

I'm pleased with that sort of response versus your normal like, hey, I'm Chris Graham.

Chris Graham (0:43)

Yeah, I really shouldn't, I don't even like that, but I get uncomfortable when you call me beautiful.

Brian Hood (0:49)

Well, when I hype you up, I'm trying to like, you know, pump you up for the podcast, and like get you going, and like get some energy, and then like, too much. Literally like you short-circuited your energy.

Chris Graham (0:58)

It's too much.

Brian Hood (0:58)

It's too much. You literally cannot handle the amount of energy that I'm putting out there, and so you short-circuited.

Chris Graham (1:04)

I don't need uppers, man.

Brian Hood (1:05)

Yeah, no, you don't need uppers at all. How have you been, my friend?

Chris Graham (1:08)

Man, it's been an intense month, frankly. We're rolling out a new version of Bounce Butler that'll probably be out, at least in our like secret experimental beta phase by the time this episode drops.

But it's got way, way more features. Basically everything everyone has requested is going to be a feature, so.

Brian Hood (1:26)

That is amazing. If you don't know what Bounce Butler is, it's Chris Graham's app that essentially allows you to queue up a bunch of sessions to bounce all at once, whether you're on Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, whatever other DAW you support. I don't know, Chris, doesn't matter.

Chris Graham (1:39)

Pretty much all of them by the time it drops.

Brian Hood (1:41)

And then you can queue up these things, and that way you can bounce out hundreds of songs at one time, essentially. And then it puts it into Dropbox, it texts you when you're done, and you can go off and wander around the world and play video games and eat good food.

Chris Graham (1:55)

Yeah, I'm pumped.

Brian Hood (1:56)

That's the short and quick pitch for your thing. But I'm glad that you're putting this new version out, and I know how big of a deal it is to put a new version of an app out, because...

Chris Graham (2:03)

So much work.

Brian Hood (2:03)

Yeah, it's a lot of work that goes into that stuff.

Chris Graham (2:05)

Frankly, it's been kind of weird balancing that with like the dad game, the husband game, and the mastering engineer thing.

Brian Hood (2:12)

I want to pick your brain about that a little bit more, but I just want to say, we haven't talked about this, and I feel like in a couple episodes, but if you go to bouncebotler.com, right, it's free right now?

Chris Graham (2:19)

Yep, it's free for now.

Brian Hood (2:21)

Yeah, so you can actually start using it to bounce down all the stems and the vocal up version and the instrumental versions and all this stuff that you have to do every week. It takes up a ton of time.

Chris Graham (2:29)

Let me shout out, I've gotten tagged in so many Instagram stories of guys that are like, I'm a new dad. I went on a walk with my dog. I had dinner with my wife. Well, BounceBotler, bounce all my stems, wee.

Brian Hood (2:40)

I hope they don't sound like that, because that's awful.

Chris Graham (2:43)

Most of them do, surprisingly.

Brian Hood (2:46)

I like to imagine they're sending you videos on their walk like, oh my God, I'm on a walk. I can't even talk that high. How do you talk that high? I have to do this weird thing with my throat to even like falsetto that.

Chris Graham (2:56)

I don't know. I have, I've always had a strong falsetto.

Brian Hood (3:00)

Okay.

Chris Graham (3:00)

I've always been able to talk really high.

Brian Hood (3:03)

Oh my God, you like clipped the preamp there.

Chris Graham (3:06)

Probably, but I've got a built-in limiter on my lovely MixPre from Sound Devices.

Brian Hood (3:10)

Oh, okay.

Chris Graham (3:11)

All right.

Brian Hood (3:12)

And that's that gear slot alert. Okay, so moving on. You were talking about it's been rough doing all that and bouncing family and stuff. We talked about this way back in the day on episode 73, the struggle of running a successful studio at home with your family. Not only are you trying to run a successful studio from your home with a family, you're also trying to run and build a completely different business called Bounce Butler from home with a family on top of that. So I can see why that would be stressful for you.