Spanish Love or Clash Of The Titans – Great Audio and an useful link for imaging in Spanish!

Raul Segura is one of the many imaging talents, I met through this blog. Inspired by our blog and its success, Raul started his own Spanish imaging blog to share his experiences with the Spanish-speaking imaging society! Raul, I love the idea and your dedication. Guys, pls check and leave Raul a comment.

http://thejinglebox.wordpress.com/

Raul shares imaging tricks, techniques and inspirational audio to the Spanish imaging community and for one of his first posts, he managed to get the best of the best.

We’re honored to be mentioned with some of the greatest talents in the business like Dave Foxx, Matt Nikolic, David Konsky, Brendan Tacey and many more.

Check out the work of the Imaging Dream Team collected by the new upcoming blogging superstar : RAUL!

It’s great to know that there are other dedicated bloggers out there, it’s always a big win for the imaging community.

Best wishes to Raul and his blog. Keep on rockin!

HALLOWEEN Voice Over FX with Ryan “CHARLIE” Drean….Trick or Audio Tutorial!

Trick or….Ryan “CHARLIE” Drean, the Benztown Country Imaging Expert, did a short audio tutorial about VO treatment for a fast and easy to do, but really useful and scary VO effect.  The treatment works  perfect for Halloween or a Horror scene and the best is you donz need fancy or ultra expensive plugINs for it.

Ryan used the KSCS Voice Over Talent to show you how to create a similar effect with your Voice Over Guy / Girl in seconds. Enjoy and Thanks to Ryan for sharing this first audio tutorial! I also add recent audio Ryan did for Benztown Country to give you an impession of his great work including his latest audio bits for Halloween!

9/11 – One single day changed the world or Imaging 9/11

It has been 10 years now, exactly, when the world was hit by the most brutal act of terrorism ever. An entire nation was shocked, thousands of innocent victims found dead and the entire world was looking to NYC – this song was the soundtrack to it.

Here is the best Imaging pieces I could find covering the tragedy of that day, which changed the world. Thanks to all the contributers! I am honored to be able t0 post material, created by the best of the best in the imaging world including David Konsky, Dave Foxx, Sidey, Ryan Drean, John Masecar, Matthieu Blaise – just to name a few!

Audio Pieces examples:

Australia’s finest, David Konsky, sent us this piece, he created for 2DayFM

Z100’s legend himself, Dave Fox, created this series of elements

Triple MMM’s multi award wining Australian Imaging and VO artist Michael ‘Sideshow’ Andersen with his 10 years tribute

Ryan’s KSCS Country tribute to 9/11, amazing VO by John Willyard.

Canadian Imaging Legend John Masecar sent this piece, which was done right after the attacks.

Adam created this masterpiece including Ray Charles’s great song ‘America the beautiful’

Matthieu Blaise’s Europe 1 tribute to 9/11

Benztown’s 10 years tribute.

James Stodd sent us a link to this interview with Lee Harris of 1010WINS in New York City, who was on air when the planes hit the World Trade Center. Also check James’ blog for more great radio content.

Ryan IN the Radio or Radio Imaging Icons, VO legends and gun smoking Imaging from Texas

I don’t know, if I need to explain to you who Ryan Drean is or what he does. I bet you all know Ryan from his legendary website and blog,  as the head of imaging for KSCS in Dallas, as the imaging guy for the Benztown country library, as stunning Voice Over Artist or as the guy being nominated for the first ever All Access award in the category Imaging. ….did I forget something? I bet!

To me Ryan is one of the best Imaging guys you in the world, a country imaging legend and a true radio expert. I am honored to work with him at Benztown and interview the man, who usually interviews the stars of our scene.

Check Ryans Imaging and VO demo, his screen shots including plugIN settings, learn production tricks and read how it feels to interview all this legendary people….ENTER Ryan!

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!

Webinar RECAP or join THE Screen Shot Festival

For all who missed it….Here is the screencap video of the first ever benztown webinar – My promise: A screen shot festival!

Learn about Session Setup & Routing, VO Treatment, EQing, Compression, Aux PlugINs and and and. Check Multiple Format Imaging Superstar Mike Santos explain his ProTools and Adobe settings + all the screencaps and written instruction (Benztown_webinar_RyanDrean) from benztown country imaging director Ryan Drean and some stuff from me as well.

Mike and I wanna say thank you for your time and if you have ideas for the next webinar, please send to blog@benztown.com.

Here’s the download link to the video (you have to wait a few seconds):

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GV8AGBWD

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

The BEST production blogs worldwide – Useful Links Part. 1

Gents, I want to present: a new category : Useful Links

We will feature web- / blog sites about radio imaging, great pop culture websites, shops for studio gear and much more in the following weeks. Today I want to feature the best radio imaging blogs / radio websites. The guys running these, do a fantastic job influencing, updating almost daily and inspiring the imaging community and the radio world. These links are must go to’s – go check it out.

A MASSIVE PAIN KILLER or Import PlugIn Settings from other DAWs to ProTools – Ryan’s Video Tutorial

I know many of our readers are experienced in working with Pro Tools, but some guys like Mike Santos (Our Multi-Imaging Rockstar) always preferred audition and just made the switch to Pro Tools and are really new to it. When you’re working for years with another DAW, it’s hard to start with Pro Tools.

My buddy Ryan, our Country Imaging Director and nominee for the first “Radio summit industry award” takes care of the Pro Tools beginners and made a short and easy tutorial. This time, he shows you how to save and load plugIn presets. Never lose time by setting up your plugIns for every session, just save it as preset and it’s available everytime in seconds

3 Reasons why Ryan, Matt and Paul should win the 1st Worldwide Radio Summit Industry Awards

The first Worldwide radio Summit Awards are scheduled for April 28th-30th at the W Hotel in Hollywood and I am really honored to present you 3 true friends and Imaging guys of the Benztown crew being nominated for VO/Imaging & Production. Ryan and Paul have been feartured on the blog already and are really incredible talented Imaging guys.

Nominated domestically: Ryan Drean our Country Imaging Director, Imaging Director of KSCS in Dallas and founder of the blog Ryan on the radio. You also know Ryan from his great video tutorials here on the blog.

other nominees are (and you see Ryan is in good company):

Jake Kaplan – KAMP, KROQ – Los Angeles, Josh Ross – WBBM – Chicago, Kelly Doherty – Kelly Kelly Kelly – KIIS – Los Angeles

Also Nominated domestically (part of the benztown VO group and an incredible talent) : Matt Anthony – Digital Sound and Video.

Nominated Internationally: Paul Armstrong. Paul is part of the world famous internatinal Imaging task Force, benztownimaginggroup (listen to Paul’s XFM Demo here), multi award winner and founder of the company Redefined Media.

Why this guys should win?