Input Output Podcast

In Part 2, Geoff & Eli get Ian's views on recording as sonic illusion -- "if it's done well, then the seams don't show" -- the story of an ill-fated Fugazi / Steve Albini session -- "one of the greatest sessions we ever did" -- and thoughts about the music business today. The guys talk about the modern music economy, and the new realities facing music producers and consumers, hitting on Dischord's label model and Fugazi's negotiations with Ticketmaster as a precedent for how some artists are working to establish lower ticket prices today.

As a member of seminal hardcore punk bands The Teen Idles, Minor Threat and Fugazi, and a founder of the pioneering indie label, Dischord Records, Ian MacKaye started a musical movement out of Washington, D.C. in the early 80s that continues to ignite and inspire bands all over the world. With Dischord as its engine, the D.C. hardcore and post-hardcore punk scene generated bands like Rites of Spring, Nation of Ulysses, Jawbox, Shudder to Think, Fugazi, Q and Not You, Faraquet and Beauty Pill. The label and the bands, and MacKaye himself, came to stand for a DIY ethic about music distribution and recording before things like Pro Tools and Kickstarter made it easy to be DIY. This was also the scene that spawned our own InputOutput hosts, Eli Janney and Geoff Sanoff – they came up playing in and eventually recording bands out of D.C., looking up to MacKaye and engineers and producers like Don Zientara and Ted Nicely. On this episode of InputOutput, Geoff and Eli reconnect with MacKaye for an in-depth conversation about his life as a musician and a producer, what inspires him, his relationship with technology, his approach to production (John Frusciante, Bikini Kill and Rollins Band), and more. And this is only Part 1!

Hosts Geoff and Eli review bx_RockRack, the new amp simulator plugin from Brainworx. Join them for an in-depth audio tour of the plugin with help from guitarist Robbie "Seahag" Mangano. How does it sound? How does stack up against what's already out there? And how does Brainworx' proprietary plugin authorization system compare to the current market leader, Pace iLok?

An interview with Jeremy deVine of Temporary Residence Records.

In this episode of Input Output, Geoff and Eli talk to David Lowery, the former frontman for Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven, who is now an economics professor at the University of Georgia.

Geoff and Eli talk about inventive control surfaces, new software for mixing music on iPads, and programs that allow you to conduct remote mix sessions, whether the artist and engineer live right down the block or are halfway around the world.

Kevin Killen talks about ITB (In-the-Box) Mixing, and working with U2, Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois.

Geoff and Eli review Pro Tools 10, discussing the benefits of clip gain, real-time fades, longer delay compensation, 32-bit floating point processing, OMF/AAF/MXF file interchange, and disk cache – the full power of which is only accessible to Pro Tools HD10 and Complete Production Toolkit users (PT10 native users get 1GB of disk cache) – among other new features.

Geoff and Eli interview Avid’s Tony Cariddi on some of Pro Tools 10’s more elusive features, advanced functionality, the new AAX plug-in format, and the future of the platform.

In this third edition of the "Input/Output" series of podcasts, hosts GRAMMY-winning engineer Geoff Sanoff (Green Day, Fountains of Wayne, America) and top mixer Eli Janney (GVSB, Ryan Adams, Motion City Soundtrack) beam out fresh audio engineering knowledge from New York City recording studio Stratosphere Sound. Their guest today: Niklas Odelholm, one of the chief architects of revered audio plugin developer Softube (www.softube.se). Odelholm explains the design philosophy and process for the creators of popular emulations ranging from compressors (Summit Audio TLA-100A, Valley People Dyna-Mite), EQs (Tube-Tech PE 1C, Trident A-Range), effects and amp simulators. This is an essential listen for audio plugin users and developers!

Eli Janney and Geoff Sanoff, hosts of the "Input/Output" podcast, review the Universal Audio UAD-2 Studer A800 Multichannel Tape Recorder plug-in. Recorded at Stratosphere Sound, NYC, and produced by SonicScoop.com.

The Input Output podcast series, hosted by GRAMMY-winning engineer/mixer Geoff Sanoff (Green Day, Fountains of Wayne, The Secret Machines) and top mixer/producer Eli Janney (GVSB, The Obits, Motion City Soundtrack), officially debuts. Recorded at NYC’s Stratosphere Sound, IO launches with this essential installment, hosting all-world record producer/engineer/mixer Chris Shaw.