YOU ARE Rockstars! FROM OZ to NYC, from Serbia to the Phillipines from Paris to L.A….

YOU ARE Rockstars……And I say this from the bottom of my heart. Without you and your suppport, the blog would not be possible! August was our biggest blog month ever and Andre and I want to thank all of you guys for creating something remarkable together and developing a place, imaging guys can go to learn, chat,  share and get inspired! When I started that almost a year ago, I never had a clue that this baby would grow so fast and get so massive! I am proud of every single post, the unbelievable personal stories and the great new connections and relations around the globe for all of us.  I am proud of you!

Thanks for sharing all your tricks, infos, ideas and wisdom. Thanks for your incredible talent, your time, effort, pics, screen caps, videos, audio, posts, comments and and and….We can make the imaging world better, increase the overall quality and develop new talents in our world.

Let’s keep on rocking!

Andy & Andre

Please post your personal blog experience below as a comment or send me an email to blog@benztown.com. Can’t wait to hear your connects and stories!

What’s about a Real Time MASTER Fader in Audition or Nic Kelly is back!

We  haven’t heard from Nic, our Australian wunderkind for a while, but guess what : He is back on the blog with another Nic Kelly Files episode! I emailed Nic and asked him, if he could create a Adobe tutorial, because we recon a big Audition fan base among the younger imaging and production guys.  Learn how to run your master real time. Enter Nic!

From Australia to outer Space or The Nic Kelly Files Part 2

Last week we introduced our brand new category “The Nic Kelly Files” featuring one of the new generation of Imaging guys.  Nic Kelly from Australia!

After showing us how to create stunning beatmixing techniques in Adobe Audition, he’s got something special for you, no matter if you’re using Adobe Audition, Pro Tools, Logic or any other DAW.

Today he shows us his self created Cosmonaut Voice:

Cosmonaut Voice is a stunning plugin which includes telephone voice, CB radio distortion, noise, squelch and even interplanetary effects…

Check out an example by David Konsky himself: just click here

Of course such a great plugin has it’s price which may be to exorbitant for a young producer, which just has started.

So, Nic Kelly created his OWN Cosmonaut Voice:

This example is created without Cosmonaut Voice! You don’t believe it? Then check out Nic’s plugin chain screenshots and take off to outer space.

Get an Imaging Superstar or The Nic Kelly Files!

Nic Kelly  from Oz. Right, there was this 15 year old self marketing imaging genius. In my opinion, Nic is one of the guys, who will rock the imaging scene in the future. I know no guy having his age, who has the same skill set and industry connections. There are great imaging guys, who give feedback to Nic about his work like David Konsky and many others. Nic is a master of self marketing, but also a great imaging talent. Becuase we really believe in his talent, Mike Santos, Oli and I decided to offer Nic the chance to get an Imaging superstar even faster and improve on a weekly basis by getting detailled feedback on productions, challenges, reviews and and and. I won’t call it an education program, because it is far more than that. Why? See the new category on the left – yes, Nic will have his own category on our blog to let you guys know what he did in the last weeks, what he created and achieved. His first post is about beatmixing in Adobe!

Enter Nic and Adobe Audition!

From Sydney to NYC, from Austria to Denver – The World speaks FAME…

Remember our Fame FX Contest? Hundreds of people voted for their favourite interviews – now it’s time for a first review.

Almost three weeks after the big release, we asked the winners and the first purchasers about their thoughts. We’re proud to present the amazing elements, created with Fame FX.

Check out the audio of the Imaging Superstars Mike Santos, All Access Award Nominee Ryan Drean and the young Gun of Imaging from Down Under and Fame-FX contest Winner Nic Kelly + the reviews of Imaging Legends like David Konsky, Dan Kelly and much much more in 3…2…1…

The first elements are from my buddy Mike Santos. He’s a member of the Benztown VO & Imaging Group and an engaged guest author (check out his multi format imaging and his post about PPM). Listen to the brand new stuff he made for Alice 1059:

Check out the other outstanding elements including James Stodd, our contest participant Eban, Ryan Drean & Nic Kelly

FAME FX for FREE and here are THE WINNERS!

The interviews have been read for more than 1460 times within the entire week and 571 people voted for their favorite. Gents, I am proud and happy to present the Winners of our Fame FX contest!

1. Fame FX for free : Nic Kelly & David Konsky

2. 25 hand picked FX from Fame FX: Mike Santos & Ricky Roo

3. 10 hand picked FX from Fame FX: Andrew Choiniere & John Frost

Thank you David, Dave, John and Ricky for helping this younger guys out, joining the contest and sharing your wisdom. I will send out the download info on Monday in an personal email. Have a great weekend! I am looking forward to your feedback on Fame FX.

For all the others might be interested, go to fame-fx.com and check out the great specials Oli and I developed to make Fame FX the first self extending Sound FX library ever, my video interview with ryan and of course the demo

Have a great weekend.

Andy

FAME FX for free or the Battle of THE Imaging LEGENDS! Who will win the brand new Fame FX ? You decide!

I am thrilled to present you our exquisit line up for the Fame FX contest.

1.The world famous Dave Foxx & Eban 2.Australia’s CHR Imaging Icon and a good friend of mine David Konsky & Nic Kelly 3. Musical genius and TM’s VP/creative Ricky Roo & my man Mike Santos 4.The Rock Imaging Pioneer John Frost & Andrew Choiniere.

One of these matching couples of blog users and Imaging icons will get the brand new Fame FX for free (more than 450 Sound FX, Loops and Imaging workparts as bounce outs and subversions for maximum imaging flexiblity), before you can even buy it! 2nd and 3rd place will receive a 25 and a 10 Sound FX package hand picked by Oli and me.

Read the interviews, enjoy the audio bits and vote for your favourite interview.

Emotional Imaging 2011 or beyond beatmatching, stuttering and zip-zaps!

After Nic from Oz sent me his flood packaging in the last article I asked for some pieces you did and Roy from Ireland sent me an incredible piece he did for the King of Pop death last year.

Hey there, was just listening to Nic kellys piece
attached is a generic “plug your id id in and play” piece I did the day after Michael Jackson died for a bunch of clients.
think it works well
cheers, keep up the great work
roy

Roy Hall – Mj here with u trail 2009 by Benztown Branding Blog

In general stuff like Nic’s or Roy’s Audio is still the ultimate and most challenging discipline in imaging to me. Why? It is hard to get great footage material, the right bed (catching the emotion perfectly), the matching PlugINs + the perfect tone of the Voice Over Guy…

Always think the listener doesn’t care about your new FX-Library or stutter effects you created. Remember yourseld being an ordiniary listener having no idea of radio imaging, – programing, its techniques, rules and magic tricks. The listener  can be easily touched through emotion; combined with your great production techniques you create a powerful weapon sets your station apart from the pack. Listen to the benztown MJ piece and learn more.

Australia Flood Catastrophy Imaging by Nic Kelly

One of the worst natural catastrophies ever hit Australia in the last weeks. A lot of my friends in radio live there and our prayers and thoughts are with them, especially with my guys Rick and Simon both living in Brisbane and had no electric power yesterday.

My mate Nic Kelly sent through a great piece of Imaging. Please take the time and listen to that promo below – to me it is a perfect example for emotional imaging. In my opiion much more difficult to do than a zip zap festival….

Nic Kelly, 15 Year Old Oz Imaging Wunderkind or Benztown Xmas Contest Winner Part3!

A 15 year old imaging guy? How many do you know by name working on a national late night show and will be having a Q/A with Harry Legg in NYC?

I know exactly one! Nick from OZ and he is getting better each time I listen to his work sent to me by email. To me, Nick is THE upcoming talent in the imaging world: He is hungry to lear new stuff and recieving regular feedback from guys like Konsky and me. For our Xmas Contest he was sending great infos, audio and screenshots. Enjoy!