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	<title>The Stereo Bus Blog - Daily Music Production Tips</title>
	<link>http://thestereobus.com</link>
	<description>Music production, pro audio and engineering tips &#38; secrets in a daily dose.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New Music About my Favorite Politician</title>
		<link>http://thestereobus.com/2008/04/02/new-music-about-my-favorite-politician/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Connor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[download]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[free]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gravel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mike]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mp3]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been working on this cheeseball song about Presidential Candidate Senator Gravel for about two months and just finished it.
I think it&#8217;d be really fun to make a remix competition for it.  I could post the raw tracks on a site of my design for people to download and reuse.
Dan Connor - The Mike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So I Haven&#8217;t Been Posting Much Lately&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/27/so-i-havent-been-posting-much-lately/</link>
		<comments>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/27/so-i-havent-been-posting-much-lately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Connor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[music producer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably noticed that I haven&#8217;t been posting here much lately.  I&#8217;m not dead!  I&#8217;ve kicked up my French horn practice schedule to 2-3 hours a day and have been working harder at trying to sell our house.  I don&#8217;t currently have the time to make daily posts, unfortunately.  I will post when I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Second Opinion of Friends and Colleagues</title>
		<link>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/23/the-second-opinion-of-friends-and-colleagues/</link>
		<comments>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/23/the-second-opinion-of-friends-and-colleagues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Connor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Intermediate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[second opinions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ambience]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[choir]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[de-esser]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[listening]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[orchestral]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[samples]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sharing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[strings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[theatrical]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is about sharing our work with other musicians, producers, and folks in-the-know that we trust to get a second opinion on things.
A couple of days ago I was sitting on my computer getting ready to do some work when a friend of mine from high school came online.  He&#8217;s been doing very well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Hum Your Way to Better Compositions</title>
		<link>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/22/humming-your-way-to-better-compositions/</link>
		<comments>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/22/humming-your-way-to-better-compositions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Connor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Intermediate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[composing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[humming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[inuitive]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recording]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post focuses on the somewhat strange practice of humming to compose music.
At some point in my songwriting process I got tired of the pressure of trying to perform parts as I composed them.  Ever since I  was a kid I would hum and form musical parts with my mouth by vocalizing what, in effect, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mastering Experiment: &#8220;But They Do&#8221; with the Focusrite Liquid Mix</title>
		<link>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/08/mastering-experiment-but-they-do-with-the-focusrite-liquid-mix/</link>
		<comments>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/08/mastering-experiment-but-they-do-with-the-focusrite-liquid-mix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Connor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[advanced]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mastering]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[challenge]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[clipping]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[compression]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cubase]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[drums]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[experiment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[focusrite]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[izotope]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lca-2b]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[levels]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[limiting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[liquid]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ludwig]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[manley]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mix]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ozone 3]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ratio]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[strings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tech]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tube]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[variable]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post focuses on an experiment with my new Focusrite Liquid Mix, with which I mixed and mastered a song of mine that was in need of polishing.
First of all, I will be out of town until the 19th&#8230; meaning that I won&#8217;t be making any posts here at TSB until then.  But, I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Group Tracks to Save DAW CPU</title>
		<link>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/08/how-to-group-tracks-to-save-daw-cpu/</link>
		<comments>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/08/how-to-group-tracks-to-save-daw-cpu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Connor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[beginner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[grouping tracks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blend]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[compression]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CPU]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[daw]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dsp]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[eq]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[glue]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[group]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pro Tools]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[processor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tracks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vocal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post focuses on how to group tracks to save CPU or DSP processing.
When I first started mixing using a computer, I would throw up inserts on everything.  Everything was processed independently.  As you might imagine, my mixes were insanely CPU intensive and hard to manage.  Soon I realized that many of the tracks were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaker Placement: Nearfield Monitors</title>
		<link>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/07/speaker-placement-nearfield-monitors/</link>
		<comments>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/07/speaker-placement-nearfield-monitors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Connor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Intermediate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[monitor placement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[acoustics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[geometry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[height]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[length]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[monitors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[nearfields]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[parallel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[placement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Room]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[speakers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[walls]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[width]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post focuses on some of the basics of nearfield speaker placement, where and why and a little how.
It used to be that studios had huge wall-mounted speakers that required equally large rooms to work properly.  Commercial studios are carefully acoustically tweaked.  I won&#8217;t go into acoustic treatments here, but needless to say a properly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Create Depth in a Mix</title>
		<link>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/06/how-to-create-depth-in-a-mix/</link>
		<comments>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/06/how-to-create-depth-in-a-mix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Connor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[beginner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[creating depth]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bright]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cathedral]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dark]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[delay]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[depth]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[equalization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[feedback]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hall]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[resonance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reverb]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reverberation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Room]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[special]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[stereo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post focuses on the topic of creating a sense of depth in mixes.
It&#8217;s not too hard to make things sound big.  It&#8217;s not too hard to make things sound wide.  But it is very hard to do both while also creating a sense of depth.  There are a myriad of tools available to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Guide to Creative Commons: Giving it Away</title>
		<link>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/05/a-guide-to-creative-commons-giving-it-away/</link>
		<comments>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/05/a-guide-to-creative-commons-giving-it-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Connor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Intermediate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[creative commons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[attribution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[copy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[distribution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[duplicate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[flickr]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[internet archive]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[license]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[open courseware]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[share]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/05/a-guide-to-creative-commons-giving-it-away/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post focuses on Creative Commons, a collection of licenses designed help give creators of intellectual property the ability to reduce the strength of their copyright.
Creative Commons was created in 2002 and has since shown a substantial amount of support from the community.  Essentially, when a person creates something they receive a copyright for it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Use Visual Audio Analyzers and Scopes</title>
		<link>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/04/how-to-use-visual-audio-analyzers-and-scopes/</link>
		<comments>http://thestereobus.com/2008/03/04/how-to-use-visual-audio-analyzers-and-scopes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Connor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[advanced]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[visual analyzers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[analyzers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[curve]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[frequency]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[phase]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[range]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[response]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[visual]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post focuses on ways to use visual audio scopes to gain more understanding about what&#8217;s going on in your audio.
It&#8217;s important to state right off the bat that working with audio should primarily be an auditory experience.  In general people won&#8217;t be looking at visual representations of audio as much as they will be [...]]]></description>
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