Production Expert Podcast: Recent Episodes
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In this edition Ashea is joined by Mat Pataki and Andreas Pohl from remote collaboration platform Sync DNA. Where they discuss how, Sync DNA is helping audio professionals and artists get in the zone without being in the room together aka the 'Now' moment.
About Our Guests:
https://www.syncdna.com/
Mat: Chief Architect
Mat Pataki is Chief Architect at SyncDNA™. He's built cloud platforms that serve millions of users at companies like Uken Games and Jam City. But he's also spent years in Toronto
music studios on both sides of the glass—as an engineer and a performer. That combination of building massive-scale systems and actually living in professional audio workflows means he knows what creative professionals need, and how to deliver it.
Andreas: Chief Architect
Andreas brings deep expertise in audio and video networking software and scalable systems, with experience at internet pioneering companies like AOL and Yahoo. As Chief Architect, Andreas designs our core audio/video processing infrastructure, DAW/NLE integration, and hardware integration. Combined with his perspective as a practicing musician, this combination of engineering expertise and artistic insight makes him an ideal fit for SyncDNA.
Talking Points:
- A bit about you and your background.
- What is Sync DNA and How did you form?
- Creating the “Now moment” - Synchronization & Latency
- Sync DNA & Track Record
- Why choose Sync DNA?
Finds of the week:
Each week our guests share something they have found, (usually audio related but it doesn´t have to be; it can be anything from audio software to movies or even a jar of pickle):
Mat:For live shows I’ve been using this Allen and Heath SQ-5 digital mixer. Its graphic EQ “fader flip” function is pretty amazing.
Andreas:The Commoners Band
In this podcast episode Russ Hughes talks film scoring with Stephen Gallagher & Mark Willsher (Lord Of The Rings).
Learn More About Stephen Gallagher Here:
https://bio.site/StephenGallagher
Learn More About Mark Willsher Here:
https://bio.site/pin3hot
Finds Of The Week:
Mark:
Apple & Blackberry Bakewell Tart
Stephen:
A Sunny Place For Shady People by Mariana Enriquez
Russ:
The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis
In this episode Ashea is joined by Shane Lavin, founder of Sonic Summit, where they discuss the power that paradise can have on our creative abilities.
Learn more about Sonic Summits here:
https://linktr.ee/sonic_summit
In this 2 part interview, Ashea chats with Producer, Musician & Immersive Mix Engineer Justin Grey about his new fully immersive album Immersed.
Experience the album and learn more about Justin here:
https://justingraysound.com/immersed/
In this two part interview, Ashea chats with Producer, Musician & Immersive Mix Engineer Justin Gray about his new fully immersive album Immersed.
Experience the album and learn more about Justin here:
https://justingraysound.com/immersed/
Talking Points:
- Inspiration for the album & The writing process
- The expressive use of space (reverb)
- Connecting audio and visuals to tell a story
- Capturing sound in 3D
- How using a Dolby Atmos playback system helped artists with their creativity
In this edition Ashea & Julian are joined by Oxford based producer/engineer & former SSL James Richmond and Production Exoert’s Luke Goddard, where they discuss the things they’re loving in the world of audio right now.
About Our Guests:
James is a producer/engineer based in Oxfordshire, UK.
Luke Goddard is one of Production Experts very own. You can see his videos and read his articles on the blog.
Finds Of The Week:
Ashea:New Studio Chair (Inexpensive and comfy)
Luke: Tape Bowing Ensemble by The Open Reel Ensemble.
Magnetic tape + bamboo bows + effects. This is a trio performance on the “JIGAKKYU,” a traditional folk instrument made by stretching magnetic tape across bamboo.
James: Yuzu Keycaps (for custom Pro Tools labelling)
Julian Sound of Noise - Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers
In this podcast short, Ashea narrates an article by Luke Goddard about the importance of getting a second opinion, even when ‘solo mastering’.
Read The Article Here:
https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/self-mastering-doesnt-have-to-mean-solo-mastering
In this edition Ashea and Julian are joined by James Richmond (former SSL) & Production Experts Luke Goddard where they walk through Julians checklist from his blog article: Is Your Studio Resilient ?
About Our Guests:
James Richmons is a producer/engineer based in Oxfordshire, UK.
Production Expert’s very own Luke Goddard. Yes that one!
In this podcast short, Ashea narrates an article by Russ Hughes about the dangers of saying yes to everything.
Read Along With The Article:
https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/drowning-in-ideas-how-audio-pros-can-learn-to-say-no
In this edition, Julian & Ashea are joined by Will Shanks and James Santiago of Universal Audio, where they discuss UA’s impact on bringing hardware magic to the digital age.
About Our Guests:
Will Shanks: Senior Product Designer / Professional Plugins
James Santiago: Senior Product Designer / Guitar Products
Talking Points:
- The Secret History of the A-Type Processor
- A-Type processor, and how UA pushed it even further with modern circuit mods and expanded creative features.
- A-Type as historic preservation tool of a particular era of recorded music
- Analogue Vs Digital Vs Analogue Emulation with additional features.
- UA’s impact on bringing hardware magic to the digital age
About A-Type Multiband Dynamic Enhancer
For modern music producers, the name “A-Type” conjures images of analog recording studios and ancient equipment used for workhorse tasks like noise reduction and tape transfers to digital. But such associations don’t tell the whole story. The legacy of the Dolby A-Type noise reduction system* isn’t just about preservation — it is also a story of transformation. What began as a groundbreaking noise reduction circuit in the golden age of magnetic tape quietly shaped the sound of some of the most iconic records of all time as a creative effect. Now, reimagined as a modern tool for music producers and engineers working in DAWs, the UAD A-Type Multiband Dynamic Enhancer plug-in brings this forgotten “studio secret” back into the spotlight.
A-Type Blog - https://www.uaudio.com/blogs/ua/making-of-uad-a-type
Finds of the week:
Each week our guests share something they have found, (usually audio related but it doesn´t have to be; it can be anything from audio software to movies or even a jar of pickle):
Julian: Surrounded by Sound: Ray Dolby and the Art of Noise Reduction
Ashea: https://wiredmasters.co.uk/ (Tape Baking Story)
Will: Amazon Pants
James:Installation of tone makers in Times Square Max Neuhas -
In this edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Christian Luther of Playfair Audio, where they discuss tips, tricks and gear to assist mix engineers and producers with their creativity.
About Our Guest: Christian Luther:Christian is the founder of Playfair Audio and a seasoned audio software developer from Hannover, Germany. With a background in electrical engineering and years of experience at companies like Kemper Amps and Sennheiser, he’s spent his career building tools that make audio production more intuitive. Through Playfair Audio, he focuses on solving the technical challenges so others can focus on being creative.
Talking Points:
- The interplay between creativity and technical ability
- Using technology for a more seamless creative mixing process
- Careful consideration vs instinct while mixing
- How tools, interfaces and working environments shape the creative process
- The role of dynamics when mixing
Finds of the week:
Each week our guests share something they have found, (usually audio related but it doesn´t have to be, it can be anything from audio software to movies or even a jar of pickle):
Ashea: Logic Pro Latest Updates- Stem Splitter Improvements
Christian: https://www.keybr.com/
In this edition Ashea chats to Alex West (music manager, radio presenter for BBC, KM FM and Reprezents Radio in London) about the pros and cons of being Neurodivergent (ADHD and Autistic) while working in the music industry.
In this episode Ashea and Julian are joined by Auribus CEO Juan Elias and CFO Neal Gustafson where they discuss how AI software is changing the industry, possibly like we've never encountered before. Is it time to embrace change in an ethical way?
Talking Points:
- The AI revolution in the audio industry and why choosing ethical options is so important.
- A literal game-changer, despite this phrase being embarrassingly over used- let’s discuss the ways that Auribus is changing how we make music.
- Voice by Auribus Features:
Finds of the week:
Julian: Air Fryer! - me too… Snootiful Hound sighthound harness
Ashea: Monument Valley Game
Juan: Anthony Hopkins film Hitchcock - title: “Hitchcock”
Neal: Air Fryer, Factotum Movie,
In this podcast short we bring you an informal yet very informative casual chat between Nathaniel Reichman and Mark Donahue of sound mirror on the mysteries of Direct Stream Digital.
In this edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Thomas Lund from Genelec and Stephen Wheatley from HearAngel where they discuss the importance of safe listening levels and how to protect our most valuable asset that we have as audio and music professionals... Our Ears.
About our guests:
Thomas is convenor of the EU working group to prevent hearing loss in music listening and gaming; and researcher at Finnish monitoring company, Genelec. Out of a medical background, Thomas has worked in Danish healthcare, and contributed to international standardisation on sound.
Stephen: Stephen’s company, LimitEar, have supplied hearing safeguarding technologies for headphone users at The BBC, Global Radio, BSkyB, F1, amongst others. He is the Chair of the UK Make Listening Safe Campaign, a WHO initiative, a Trustee of the UK Hearing Conservation Association and an Invited Expert to the ITU’s Safe Listening safety standards groups.
https://www.hearangel.com/the-company/
Stephen: History Rage Podcast
Finds of the week:Julian: Steinberg SpectraLayers
Ashea: Ear Peace Music Pro
Thomas: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/noise/about/app.html
https://www.museepicassoparis.fr/en/degenerate-art-modern-art-trial-under-nazis
Stephen: History Rage Podcast
In this podcast episode, Ashea has a candid chat with Artist, Producer, Singer/Rapper, youth mentor and Big Brother UK 2024 runner up Marcello Spooks, about tough beginnings inspiring creativity, being under immense public scrutiny and whether, being 'delulu' the 'solulu' to making your best work.
Listen To Marcellos New Music Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y7BLmHCX9A
Keep Up With Marcello's Delusion:
https://www.instagram.com/marcellospooks?igsh=MTducHRocGY2Z2QwcQ==
In this edition Ashea and Julian are joined by Source Elements technical co-founder and CEO Rebekah Wilson and principal inventor and co-founder, Robert Marshall, where they deep dive into the beginnings, the middle and the future of Source Elements, and why it's at the forefront of seamless, stress free remote recording.
About Our Guests:
Robert Marshall: Principal inventor and co-founder, overseas product development concepts and sales & support teams. He is the recording /mixing engineer for SUM1 in Chicago and works daily with our remote tools around the world in that capacity. He also has an extraordinary daughter who just started film school who is showing that the next generation is full of talent and good spirits.
Rebekah Wilson: Technical co-founder and CEO, overseas engineering and product teams and general business functions. Originally trained as classical & electronic composer in conservatory-style, before source elements she toured as a composer/performer and worked in an experimental music institute in Amsterdam, work that merged into her interest of using tools such as Source-Connect for networked music performance and avant garde music, primarily as teacher and researcher.
In this edition, Julian and Ashea are joined by Grammy winning producer/engineer and extremely tired touring musician William Wittman and engineer/producer & indie label owner Steve DeMott, where they discuss the latest things they love and perhaps don't love so much in audio right now.
In this podcast short Ashea narrates an article by Russ Hughes discussing the genius creative work behind the Netflix show Adolescence.
Click here to follow along with the article:
In this podcast short Ashea narrates an article by Russ Hughes, discussing the disastrous predictions about the audio and music tech industry that have yet to come true.
Read The Article Here:
https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/three-music-technology-predictions-that-never-came-true
In this edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Korey Pereira, Mike Thorne and Reid Caulfield, where the guests unpack what they believe helped them develop such successful careers so far, along with sharing some no-nonsense advice about what they would do differently if they were to build an audio business from scratch in 2025.
About Our Guests:
Korey Pereira is a Dialogue Editor and Sound Supervisor for film and television< a member of the Motion Picture Sound Editors Board of Directors as well as a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mike Thorne is a studio owner in Kent- Rimshot productions: https://www.rimshotstudio.co.uk/
Reid Caulfield is an LA based re-recording mixer & sound editor.
Finds Of The Week:
Julian: The Synths Behind Don't You Want Me - Video by Alex Ball
Mike: Meter Plugs Perception AB Chord Electronics Alto
Korey: Tascam DR-07XP Adjustable mics between AB/XY, 32-bit float
Soundfield ST450mkii
In this podcast short, Julian explains why, unlike some audio pros (who use different DAWs for different tasks such as writing vs mixing) he only uses Pro Tools.
Link to the Article:
https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/why-i-only-use-pro-tools-as-my-daw-of-choice
In this edition, Julian & Ashea are joined by sound designer, re-recording and score mixer Roger Guerin and Production Expert founder Russ Hughes, where they delve into the past and present of sampling for TV & Film, and discuss industry tips for professional and aspiring sound designers & producers.
Talking Points:
- A history of sampling.
- Present day sampling practices.
- Tips and industry insights for sound designers & producers in TV & Film.
Finds of the week:
Julian: UAD Polymax For Free For Pro Tools Customers Via Inner Circle
Ashea: Warp- Baby Audio X Andrew Huang
Roger: Silk Vocal from Waves
Russ:
In this podcast short, Ashea narrates an article by Russ Hughes, where he delves into his experience with depression and anxiety. Creative people are more likely to experience mental health issues, partly due to the immense pressure we are often put under, so it´s important to take time for ourselves to reflect and be attentive to our mental and physical health. The holidays can be a good time to do this.
If you are affected or know someone who is struggling with the issues mentioned in this podcast short, please know that you are not alone and there most definitely is hope.
Helpful links:
https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/
https://www.mind.org.uk/donate/acq-christmas-2024/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA1Km7BhC9ARIsAFZfEIv-nrundcUa2BAWKmRI3WnNoK41m4IrGj3aDxZrnlNvNA7bM-Zd1wYaAh3YEALw_wcB
In this podcast short, Ashea narrates an article by Russ Hughes, where he delves into his experience with depression and anxiety. Creative people are more likely to experience mental health issues, partly due to the immense pressure we are often put under, so it´s important to take time for ourselves to reflect and be attentive to our mental and physical health. The holidays can be a good time to do this.
If you are affected or know someone who is struggling with the issues mentioned in this podcast short, please know that you are not alone and there most definitely is hope.
Helpful links:
https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/
https://www.mind.org.uk/donate/acq-christmas-2024/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA1Km7BhC9ARIsAFZfEIv-nrundcUa2BAWKmRI3WnNoK41m4IrGj3aDxZrnlNvNA7bM-Zd1wYaAh3YEALw_wcB
In this podcast short, Ashea narrates an article by Russ Hughes, on the perils the instant success trend plaguing the audio industry right now, and what we as professionals can do to address it.
Welcome to the Production Expert podcast. In this edition Julian and Ashea are joined by President of the AES Leslie Gaston Bird & audio engineer Ephie De Angelis, where they discuss their journeys into the world of audio and music production.
Talking Points:
- Our journey into audio and production
- What we get out of it
- Inspiring others- the importance of representation, (you can’t be what you cant see).
- AES and advocacy.
Learn more about AES here:
https://aes2.org
In this Podcast Short Julian explains his reasons for nominating 5 skills which he thinks every engineer would benefit from learning, and 3 which, while very worthwhile, don't make the list.
The original article can be found here and the article by Damien Kearns referenced in the podcast can be found here.
Welcome to the Production Expert podcast. In this edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Andy Bensley & Marcel Schechter of Genelec. Where they discuss why a great listening environment is the best time saver, and how to get the best setup for our individual needs.
About Our Guests:
Andy Bensley: joined Genelec as Regional Business Development Manager in 2019. Based in the UK, Andy has huge experience in analysing and tuning the in-room performance of loudspeaker systems in a wide range of studios — from the smallest bedroom to the largest post-production studio.
Marcel Schechter: joined Genelec as Customer Experience Specialist in 2021, before that he already spent seven years as a product specialist for the German distributor Audio Pro. He worked for ten years as a sound engineer and uses his practical experience to advise customers on choosing, optimising and calibrating loudspeaker systems.
Talking Points:
- Why a great listening environment is the best time saver and other benefits.
- What to do about less than ideal rooms.
- Using referencing to improve our mixes.
Finds of the week:
Julian: Zennor Sounds
Ashea: Hydraulic Press Channel
Marcel: The YouTube channel Audio University
Andy: Cory Wong - The Sorcerer
In this edition Julian and Ashea are joined by producer & mega musician Mark Thompson, where they discuss new tips, tricks, and things they generally love (or hate) right now.
Talking Points:
- Good advice or cool production tips you´ve learned that you´d like to share.
- Plugins or hardware that people need to know about.
Finds Of The Week:
Julian: Krotos Ambience generator
Ashea: Waves Center
Mark: Orla Gartland
Russ wonders if all this modern recording technology is actually damaging our creativity rather than enabling us?
In this edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Luke Steven Ramsay and Luke Goddard, where they break down songs from the 80s until now and ask, what makes a hit?
Talking Points:
- Pick 2-3 tracks you love from the 80s-today.
- We compare why. Production, musicality, expression, cultural influences, demographic.
Ashea´s Tracks:
Back Bone- Chase & Status & Stormzy
Charlie XCX Sympathy Is A Knife
Luke R´s Tracks :
The 1975 - Oh Caroline
Sam Fender - Spit of You
Luke G’s tracks:
Tears For Fears -Seeds of Love
Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue
Royals - Lorde
Julian’s Tracks
Madonna Vogue
Sabotage Beastie Boys
Get Lucky - Daft Punk
In this podcast short Russ Hughes says; "You are going to come up against all sorts of problems when recording and mixing. Occam’s Razor is an indispensable tool we ignore at our peril."
In this edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Luke Goddard and Paul Maunder, where they discuss tried and tested production rules and ask, does anyone care about that anymore and if so, why?
Talking Points:
- Being in the room with the artist/client, is it still necessary? Does it even matter?
- Have listeners' ears become accustomed to things like Auto tune, heavy compression, would anyone care if we stopped doing these things?
- Loudness Wars- does anyone care anymore?
- Mix Assistants E.g EZ mix, is it cheating?
Finds of the week:
Julian:Using what you already have in the studio (Carbon story, Caldigit Ethernet, audio key on piano)
Ashea: Audio Ease- Speakerphone 3
Paul: BlackMagic UltraStudio Recorder
Luke: Leaf Audio
In this podcast short Russ Hughes explores how audio professionals can get ahead in marketing. "I remember being on Zoom call with some of the most respected names in music production some time ago. I was talking about marketing strategies to help them get new clients and to grow their businesses. As we went through the Q&A time and the session drew to a close one of them said; “What we really want is for you to do this for us!” They weren’t joking, they all knew how important marketing is, but all hate the thought of doing it.
If that’s you, then here’s my attempt at helping those of you who want to get ahead in audio when you hate the thought of marketing."
In this edition Julian & Ashea are joined by Miles Fulwider, Producer, Engineer & Educator working extensively in Immersive formats and CEO of ADK Microphones. where they discuss how to take the simplistic, ‘less is more’ approach by capturing the best sound at source.
Talking Points:
- You can’t polish a ****, why capturing the best sound in the recording process will make your life easier.
- Mic and recording techniques for a ‘Grammy’ worthy sound.
- The only gear you’ll ever need. If we could only use a handful of tools for the rest of our careers, what would they be and why
- How might these approaches and philosophies apply to audio education?
- Applications in immersive audio (such as off-axis freq response).
Finds of the week:
Julian: Airsound
Ashea:Charli XCX Album- Brat
Miles: Maag PreQ2
In this edition Julian is joined by William Wittman & Steve DeMott, where they discuss transparency vs colour.
Talking Points:
- Coloured Vs Transparent gear,(mics, etc) when, why and how do you use it?
- Arguments for and against.
- Gear recommendations.
Recommended by Steve: Q2 Audio
Finds of the week:
Julian: New IEMs
William: youtube channel : Sorted Food
Steve: Netflix DocuSeries - Rise of Empires: Ottoman
In this edition Julian & Ashea are joined by David Barber, President of the Motion Picture Sound Editors. Reid Caulfield, sound editor, mixer & audio consultant in Los Angeles & Alex Gregson, head of audio & Post Production mentor at 344 Audio, where they discuss how to adapt to the shifting goal posts in Post Production.
Talking Points:
- Post Production, post Covid, How has it changed? Has remote working affected/improved things for you, if so how?
- With so many AI and other new tools, the requirements of audio engineers in Post seem to be changing. What kind of changes are you seeing in your work and how are you adapting to these changes?
- What tools are you adding to your workflow to assist with new demands, or improve the quality in general?
- Scaling your team and business sustainably during challenging times
Finds of the week:
Julian: 1985 Aria Pro II Laser Electric Classic
Ashea: Rule Tec Heritage Pro
David: Matrix 20th anniversary event
Reid: Relab VSR REV6000
Alex: Streamdeck and Auto Hotkey
In this edition Julian & Ashea are joined by Justin Webster of The Cargo Cult and Mixing Engineer Paul Maunder, where they discuss ways in which we can apply tools used in Post Production to improve our immersive music mixes.
Talking Points:
- What are some techniques that you often hear/use in Post Production that could benefit music mixes?
- Perfecting the low end, LFE channel. (Subquake)
- Panning tricks
- Cutting/Creating in Stereo vs surround.
- Human Perception in 3D
- Downmixing
- Atmos objects vs fixed channel formats
Finds of the week:
Julian: Brunost
Ashea: Noise Works Audio- Gain Amp Pro
Justin: Godzilla Minus One!
Paul: Marantz AV10 Audio Processor
In this edition, Julian & Ashea are joined by Noam Levinberg of Safari Pedals & Mark Gittins from Sensound, where they discuss how to break free from outdated schools of thought during the production and mixing process.
Talking Points:
- Wild thoughts on classic studio techniques- what are some new, out there or avant-garde techniques or practices that work well work for you and conversely, what are some outdated tips/workflow?
- Breaking free from limiting schools of thought examples
- Mix sounding a little too tame? How to inject some excitement
- Plugins and tools that add interest
Finds of the week:Julian: Antares Vocal Deesser
Ashea: Minimal Audio- Flex Chorus
Noam: Oeksound Bloom
Mark: SSL DrumStrip
In this edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Grammy Award-winning Producer, Engineer & Musician Chris Shaw & Multi-Platinum Engineer Bainz , where they discuss ways in which we can streamline our workflow to help stay in the creative zone.
Talking Points:
What are some repetitive & time consuming tasks in our production/mixing workflows and what can we do to cut back on them and stay creative?
Finds of the week:Julian: The Sopranos
Ashea: Sonicbox Studios
Bainz: VLC Mixwave Audio Channel Strip
Chris: Lean into frustration when mixing
In this edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Eli Krantzberg, where they discuss the newly released Logic 11.
Talking Points:
New Logic Session Players
Global Track and Region Chords
Stem Splitter
ChromaGlow
Dolby Atmos Enhancements
Sound & Producer Packs
Pitch Source Parameter
Logic Pro for iPad 2
Finds of the week:
Julian: Universal Audio SD 3, 5 & 7 Hemisphere Mics Ashea: LED Strip Lights Eli: Star Trek Continues
In this week’s edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Mark Gittins, where they discuss some of the secrets behind a successful immersive mix.
Talking Points:
Mixing the new Judas Priest album
How does your approach differ when mixing in Atmos vs stereo?
Important things to consider
Maintaining the feel of the stereo mix
Workflow
Rooms, headphones ,monitors, home setups and tips for mixers getting started with immersive mixing.
Finds of the week:
Julian: Shure Nexadyne Mics Ashea: Glaze 2 Mark: Safari Pedals Plugins
In this week’s edition Julian & Ashea are joined by Paul Maunder, where they discuss some of the best advice, tips and tricks they've learned during their careers to date.
Talking Points:
Workflow tips, shortcuts and things you’ve discovered along the way
Recording, production and mixing tricks.
Things you wish you knew when you first started out
Mindset tips
How has your approach changed since entering into this industry?
Who were your mentors, inspiration and reasons for adopting a different approach, workflow or mindset?
Must have plugins or gear.
Finds of the week:
Julian: DX7 Podcast On SOS
Ashea: PSP Bin Amp
Paul: Beyer DT700 Pro X
In this week’s edition Ashea is joined by Dallas Taylor from Defacto Sound & Twenty Thousand Hertz Podcast, where they discuss the sound design process behind some of the world's most famous brands.
Talking Points:
Working to a brief: What is your process for capturing the mood and creating an experience that complements the visual storytelling?
Sound choice, inspiration, foley etc.
What makes a sound instantly recognizable, e.g Netflix. What is the process like getting to that point?
Optimising workflow: Tools, gear, deadlines.
Emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities facing sound designers in an ever-evolving industry.
Finds of the week:
Ashea: Waves Stream
Dallas: Buy Back Your Time- Dan Martell
In this week’s edition Julian and Ashea joined by Anna Bulakh of Respeecher, where they discuss the importance of ethics in AI and how to proceed with caution.
Talking Points:
- What are some of the current threats AI poses in society/the audio and music industry today?
- Synthetic media, voice cloning software and other tools are still in their early stages but are incredibly powerful tools that can all be really useful if used wisely, however there needs to be ethical principles in place.
- The dangers of Deepfakes
- Provenance.
- Please tell us about Respeecher, what this tool offers and how you are putting ethical practices and policies at the forefront of your company.
Damian’s article On Respeecher
Finds of the week:Julian: Now TV has ads
Ashea: Notion App
Anna: Brief History Of AI - Michael Aldridge, Chip War Michael Phillips
In this week's edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Steve DeMott, where they discuss the music industry Gatekeepers of today, who are they and are they worse?
Talking Points:
- Social Media age and the “democratization” of the industry.
- Labels vs the new A.I/Digital gatekeepers
- Youtube, Google and artist revenue
Finds of the week:Julian: High Strung/Nashville Strings
Ashea:MCenter
Steve: Pulsar 1178
In this week’s edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Reid Caulfield, where they discuss a recent article from the LA Times and ask ‘Is AI coming for our jobs, and should we be worried?’
Talking Points:
LA Times Article:
https://www.latimes.com/.../ai-artificial-intelligence...
From the article:
"In the music and sound-recording industry, the tasks most likely to be affected by AI are voice generation and cloning, music generation and recording and lyrics composition, followed by mastering, mixing and tools programming, according to the study.
More than 50% of survey participants anticipated that AI would displace sound designers in the next three years, while more than 40% saw AI coming for music editors, audio technicians and sound engineers. Roughly a third of respondents predicted a similar fate for songwriters, composers and studio engineers."
Our thoughts on the survey
Bearing this in mind how should audio professional go about keeping themselves valuable (better than A.I)?
How can we use A.I to our advantage?
Finds of the week:Julian: PSI Audio A17-M
Ashea:Landscape With Invisible Hand
Reid: Altiverb 8, Arrival
On request of our listeners. In this week's episode Ashea is joined by Russ Hughes and Paul Maunder where they give tried and tested advice on how to make a living in today's audio industry.
Talking Points:
- What was your first pro gig and how did that come about?
- Getting work in a traditional studio setting
- Freelancing
- Types of clients and how to deal with them
- Balancing a day job
- When/how to transition into full time
Finds of the week:
Ashea: All You Need To Know About The Music Business Russ: Criminal Record Show , i73 Pro Paul: Deity Theos digital radio mics
In this week’s edition Julian & Ashea are joined by Oliver Thomas and Maurice Patist from PMC.
Talking Points:
PMC & its history - background of company
Relationship with UGM/Dolby
PMC and suitability for Immersive - any particular features which you think make them particularly suitable?
How does an ATL differ from a ported or band pass cabinet in performance?
PMC and DSP, Network Control
What, if anything, can you share about future developments at PMC?
Finds of the week:Julian: Focusrite Vocaster Two
Ashea: Crumple Pop Plosive Remover
Maurice: Voyage Audio Spatial Mic, Julia Holter Something In The Room She Moves
Oliver: Audient Oria
Talking Points:
In this episode Ashea is joined by Russ Hughes & Lexie Morgan of HHB London and formerly iZotope, to give three different perspectives on the recent UK government report about the obstacles women are met with while pursuing a career in the music industry.
Summary of the UK Government report:
The Report:
Production Expert Article:
Let’s briefly discuss how we feel about this report and how our experiences correspond with the data from the report.
Sexual Harassment & Safety Issues:What safety & other measures do studios and workplaces need to put into place? What desperately needs changing?
Dismantling The Bias:Change needs to take place from within. As well as the wonderful work that women (and men) are already doing to improve things, we also need to get more help from our male colleagues, bosses, fellow artists etc. What can men do to be better ‘allies’?
Mentioned In This Podcast:
https://www.production-expert.com/home-page/2017/7/31/pro-tools-expert-podcast-episode-280
Finds of the week:Ashea: Quickbooks App
Russ: Billy Joel - Turn The Lights Back On
Lexie: Poor Things Movie
In this week’s edition Julian & Ashea are joined by Eli Krantzberg where they discuss some of the stand out gear and plugins from NAMM 2024.
Talking Points:Wolff Audio Console
Heritage Audio i73
SSL 360
Blue Cat Audio
Yamaha- Seq track
Raven MTi2
Beyerdynamic -DT-770-pro
ACE Studio - AI vocal synthesizer
Finds Of The Week:
Julian: Kii SEVEN
Ashea:Solodome
Eli: The red plastic water flask my wife got me for NAMM
In this week's edition Julian & Ashea are joined by audio engineer and current student James Watts, where they discuss whether music education is adapting to meet the evolving needs of students and the industry.
Talking Points:
How much emphasis is placed on the following?
- Hands on experience, using hardware, navigating a mixing desk and traditional studio setups.
- A.I and one knob plugins: How granular are you taught to get with plugins?:
- Career Goals & Prospects: Training for commercial studio vs freelancer.
- The role of entrepreneurship, how the industry,networking and career advancement is changing.
Finds of the week:Julian: Avid NAMM Tech Preview
Ashea: VEA
James: Pythogorean Tuning
In this week’s edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Steve DeMott where they discuss the importance and power of saying 'no' in a music production environment.
Talking Points:‘The Power of No’ in music production, recording & mixing.
Expanding on William Wittmans article:
Finds of the week:Julian: PMC 6-2
Ashea: Sketch Casette 2
Steve: Zoom H6 field recorder
In this week’s edition Julian & Ashea are joined by James Richmond where they discuss some of the stand out developments of last year.
In the final edition of 2023, Ashea is joined by Russ Hughes & Reid Caulfield. Where they discuss the important topic of managing mental health, particularly in the audio industry.
Talking Points:
- Dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues that plague freelancers and audio professionals.
- The stigma attached to mental health issues.
- The role of social media and how it can affect our mental health.
- Coping and good practices to reduce stress etc.
Finds of the week:
Russ: A Therapeutic Journey Book Ashea: Contact- Movie Reid: The Demon- Haunted World , Blink, McDSP SA3
In this week’s edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Ary Maudit, where they discuss studio roles, terminology and definitions, are they changing, if so how?
Talking Points
- As an engineer at Strongroom, what is your role, and what are the main things you get asked to do? Have you witnessed people’s role changing/morphing over time, if so how?
- Producer, beatmaker, songwriter let’s discuss our interpretations of those roles and how they have developed/changed.
- Stems,multitracks. Any definitions that are commonly confused?
- Our thoughts on Russ’ article. https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/its-none-of-your-business-how-people-choose-to-make-music
Finds of the week:Julian: PSP Auralcomp
Ashea: Nutribullet Blender
Ary: Amedeo Modigliani
In this week’s edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Nathaniel Reichman, where they discuss the things they loved in the month of November.
Talking Points:
- Universal Audio Opens LUNA to All Mac Users in Inclusive Software Update
- Avid Now A Private Company As STG Completes Acquisition
- Apple Logic Pro For Mac And iPad Updated - Includes Mastering Assistant And More
- Serato Unexpectedly Announce Native Apple Silicon Support For Pitch 'n Time Plugin
- Steinberg Nuendo 13 Announced : A Comprehensive Update for Post-Production Professionals
- Slate and SSL Gobbler
- Universal Audio Sound City Plugin Announced
- Spatial Audio And Using Audiomovers Binaural Renderer For Apple Music
- Ginger Audio iRender Spatial Released
- SSL E 4K released
Finds of the week:
Julian: Loudspeakers For Music Recording And Reproduction Ashea: Fletcher & Mills Studio Desk Nathaniel: ChatGPT 3.5’s new voice conversation feature
In this week's episode Julian and Ashea are joined by Graham Kirkman, where they discuss the gear and software that they wouldn't want to live without.
Talking Points:
- Let’s discuss some of the gear/software that we find ourselves relying on and why that is.
- Open Back Headphones,
- Sit Stand Desk,
- Macbook Pro,
- VisLM,
- Celemony Melodyne.
- Neve 1073 Mic Pre,
- Neumann U87.
- Logic Pro
Finds of the week:
Julian: Caldigit TS3 Plus -
Ashea: Waves Silk Vocal
Graham: Supperware Bridgehead
In this week’s edition Julian & Ashea are joined by Eli Krantzberg, where they dissect the meaning of the commonly used term 'Sounds Like A Record'.
Talking Points:
- We hear the terms ‘radio ready’ and ‘sounds like a record’ used a lot in this industry, so let’s break down the elements that make a song worthy of that statement, and why do some songs fail to sound like this?
- Music is constantly changing, and so the definition of a ‘record’ surely has too. Let's compare some hits of yesteryear and how they match up to those of today.
- Can a great production/mix make an average song sound like a record?
- Gear and tools used on many of the great records.
- Eli, as we have you on, let’s discuss the new Logic Pro updates.
Finds Of The Week:
Julian: Sonos Era 300 Ashea: Witness For The Prosecution Play Eli: Model N Channel
In this week’s edition Julian & Ashea are joined by Steve DeMott, where they discuss the future of music production and emerging trends in the world of audio.
Talking Points:
- Let’s discuss some of the new trends and practices we are seeing pop up in the industry in general.
- Steve, you mentioned a few days ago that you’ve noticed a trend in audio plugins, how they seem to be geared towards improving subpar recording techniques- Let’s discuss this point.
- Are there any areas that need more attention in terms of technological development?
- Are there areas that we feel would be best left to traditional practices and can’t/shouldn’t be solved by a plugin?
Finds of the week:
Julian: McDSP SA3
Ashea: Miloco Gear's Pro Audio Showcase Returns
Steve: KiiveAudio Complexx
In this week’s edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Luke Steven Ramsay, where they discuss how to revive and make use of old material, that’s currently collecting dust on our hard drives.
Talking Points
- Do you have a lot of unfinished material sitting around on your hard drive? If so, why do you think that is?
- Let’s discuss some useful ways as producers we can make use of the old unfinished material.
- Are there some good tools you know of to speed up & help the process of finishing songs?
- Platforms that allow us to put our work to good use, e.g beatstars, sample libraries etc
Finds of the week:Julian: Live From Daryl’s House Glenn Tilbrook
Ashea: New Logic Pro Updates
Luke: Middle Kids Dramamine
In this week’s edition Julian & Ashea are joined by William Wittman, where they discuss the things they loved in October.
Talking Points:
- Supertone- Clear Voice Separator (Goyo)
- Gik Acoustic- SlatFusor 4S
- Harrison Audio Mixing Console
- Landr Mastering Plugin,*
- Presonus- Open Source DAW Collaboration
- Maag Audio Pre Q2
Finds Of The Week:
Julian - New Macbook Pro
Ashea-New Super Atomic Material William -Eventide MicroPitch Immersive
In this week’s edition Julian is joined by Ashea & Siobhan Anderson. Where they compare 3 of the most well known DAWs and ask, ´Does your DAW do this?´
Talking Points:
- What first attracted you to your DAW of choice?
- Let’s briefly discuss platform compatibility for Logic X, Pro Tools & Ableton
- What do you like about your DAWs user interface? Have you tried other DAWs, what didn’t you like about them?
- MIDI, Virtual Instruments and samplers: What is this like with the DAW you use, is there room for improvement?
- Audio Recording and Editing.
- How does your DAW of choice fit into your workflow?
Finds Of The Week: * Julian - 32 Classic Mixing Console * Ashea-LANDR Mastering Plugin * Siobhan - Natural Symphony
In this week’s edition Julian is joined by Ashea & Marcel Schechter from Genelec , where they discuss ‘Solving Room Acoustics For Better Mixes ’
Talking Points
- What are some common acoustic problems in recording studios, and how can they be solved?
- How can room size and shape impact the acoustics of a recording space?
- Are there specific materials or treatments that are essential for improving room acoustics in a studio?
- .What role does speaker placement play in achieving optimal room acoustics for mixing and monitoring?
- What advice do you have for home studio owners on a budget who want to improve their room acoustics for better audio quality?
- Are there any myths or misconceptions about room acoustics that you'd like to debunk?
- What are some common mistakes that recording engineers make when dealing with room acoustics, and how can they be avoided?
- Let's Talk SAM, GLM, GRADE Reporting etc
- How can the UNIO Audio Monitoring Platform help with the points we’ve just discussed?
Finds Of The Week:
- Julian - Lola Young Conceited
- Ashea-UAD Free Plugin LA 2A
- Marcel - Jacob Collier Little Blue
In this week’s edition Julian is joined by Ashea, Paul Maunder and Roger Guerin, where they discuss the pros and cons of an education in audio.
Talking Points:
- How has education helped you in terms of knowledge and your career?
- There’s a plethora of free material online, on Youtube etc, how valuable is learning via this method?
- The value of structured courses. ‘You don’t know what you don’t know’
- Should we learn from the very beginning? Can learning backwards be a thing?
- Online vs attended courses.
- How important is studying audio engineering in the era of A.I & assisted mixing etc. Can you still be a good producer/engineer without this knowledge?
Finds Of The Week:
- Julian - Shure SM7dB
- Ashea-Antares- Spanish Language
- Paul - Soundly Cloud libraries
- Roger-Amie (by Meyer)
In this week’s edition Julian is joined by Ashea and Steve DeMott. Where they discuss the ‘Things We Loved In September ’
Talking Points:
- Export Selection In Pro Tools 2023.9
- Autobounce
- Pro Tools Sketch
- DX Revive
- Nugen AB Assist
- Sontec MES-439-D9D
- Mixland Vac Attack Vacuum Tube Limiter
Finds Of The Week: * Julian - Kii Seven * Ashea-Encounters- Docuseries Netflix * Steve- Sontec MES-439-D9D
In this week’s edition Julian is joined by Ashea and James Richmond, where they discuss Perpetual Licences vs Subscription Models.
Talking Points
Pro Tools Perpetual Licences are now available for sale exclusively through authorised Avid resellers, they will not be sold via the Avid Web Store, thoughts on this?
Pros and cons of perpetual licences vs subscription-based models from both the consumer and companies perspective.
Compatibility issues- Operating Systems- Backwards forwards compatibility- legacy versions.
What considerations should audio professionals keep in mind when deciding between perpetual licenses and subscription-based access for their software tools?
How do perpetual licenses affect software updates and support? Are there potential drawbacks in terms of staying up-to-date with technology? (Avids announcement re updates).
Are there specific scenarios or types of users for whom perpetual licenses make more sense, and conversely, situations where subscription models might be preferable?
In the ever-evolving world of audio technology, how do perpetual licenses impact the long-term sustainability and compatibility of software tools?
With the rise of cloud-based services and remote collaboration, how do perpetual licenses fit into the changing landscape of audio production and software accessibility?
What advice would you give to audio professionals looking to make informed decisions about licensing models and software access in today's market?
How do licensing models impact the relationship between software developers and users? Are there community and support differences between perpetual and subscription models?
Finds of the week:Julian - Blue Cat Audio Axiom
Ashea-Slate Digital- Infinity Bass
James- Razer Basilisk V3 Pro mouse and SteerMouse
In this week’s edition Ashea is joined by Russ Hughes & Vincent Hervy, where they discuss, how A.I and new technology is changing the audio industry.
- Ways in which A.I/ new technology has changed the way we work in music up until now
- How will our jobs need to evolve with the ever improving advances in technology?
- How can we make A.I work to our advantage?
Finds of the week:
Toy Box Audio- Thump One The Godfather Of Harlem - TV Series
In this week’s edition Julian is joined by Ashea and William Wittman, where they discuss the hottest new releases for August.
Talking Points:
- Avid Pro Tools Sketch
- Focusrite Scarlett 4th Gen Interface
- Sonnox Voc
- STL Tones Control Hub
- UJAM UFX Reverb
- Allen & Heath CQ Series Mixers
Finds of the week:
Julian - Audio Plugin Uninstaller
Ashea-Acon Digital Remix Real-Time AI Stem Separation Plugin
William- TONEX Pedal
In this week’s edition Julian is joined by Ashea and Gareth Nuttall, where they discuss how arrangement can affect the mix.
Talking Points:
- How often do you end up changing parts of the arrangement to improve a mix?
- The importance of sound selection, layers and instrument placement.
- Frequency masking and arrangement tricks that can help.
- Filling in frequency gaps:
- Combining kick and bass, for a better low end.
- Vocal layers and processing
Finds Of The Week:
- Julian - Miso Gochujang noodles
- Ashea- Sonnox Voca
- Gareth - Korneff Audio- Amplified Instrument Processor
In this week’s edition Julian is joined by Ashea, Graham Kirkman and Steve DeMott who discuss ‘Plugin UIs. What are the important things that developers need to consider?’
Talking Points:
- How important are visuals to us?
- Visual, graphical displays vs skeuomorphic designs, what are some of the pro’s and cons?
- What Plugin UI features do you think improve your mix/production decisions and why?
- Inter-Plugin communication and why is that useful to us?
- How can plugin developers make better use of the technology available today?
Finds of the Week:
Julian - David Bennet Piano Beatles 7 Modes Ashea-Mixing Night Audio- LOL Comp Graham - Mix To Mobile Steve - Fender J Bass
In this week's podcast, Ashea is joined by Russ Hughes and Karen Down (SSL) who discuss 'Mental Health In The Music Industry'.
- What are some of the challenges and pressures that audio professionals face in the music industry that might impact their mental health?
- Pressures of freelancing-How do we address the financial and emotional pressures that audio professionals might experience, and how does this impact their mental well-being?
- How does the music industry handle issues like sickness burnout, anxiety, and depression, which can be prevalent in this field?
- How do you address the stigma around mental health in the music industry and create a supportive environment for musicians/artists?
Finds Of The Week
- Russ- Colin From Accounts- Tv Show
- Ashea- Essentialism- Book
- Karen- Sound Of Silence- Song by Disturbed
In this week’s podcast Julian is joined by Ashea, Dom Morley and Steve DeMott who discuss ‘How much do traditional analogue rules still apply today?’
- All four of us are producers/mixers of slightly different vintage, so it would be interesting to go around the table and hear a little about which techniques & practices we learned from and perhaps how that affects our workflow today.
- Gainstaging,
- 32 bit recording- Is anyone working with this?
- Analogue workflow (e.g. making decisions early, capturing “the sound” from the start vs. capturing a clean sound to manipulate later, etc).
- Mixing/Producing in and out of the box, we compare techniques and results.
- Favourite analogue emulation plugins, how do they compare to the real deal?
Finds Of The Week
- Julian - The Rest Is Politics Podcast
- Ashea -Techivation M-De-Esser
- Dom - PSP Audio BinAmp
- Steve- Dynaudio 9S subwoofer
In this week's Episode Julian is joined by Ashea and James Richmond, they discuss the new product releases of July 2023.
Talking Points
Air- Sprite
SSL G3
Scheps Omni Channel 2
Slate Digital VIRTU
WavesFactory Equaliser
RME Fireface
Sound Particles Audio MatrixFind Of The Week
- Julian - Focusrite Vocaster
- Ashea-Oura Ring
- James- DADlink from DAD/Avid
In this week's episode Julian and Ashea are joined by George Tizzard and Rick Parkhouse of SUPER-Hi talking about the creative vision and technical decision making behind a chart hit.
Talking Points
- Starting a track, what is your approach, does it change depending on the vibe/artist?
- Producing for very established artists, what is the process, how involved are the labels/artist in the sound and how does that differ to writing your own material?
- Making the ‘right’ decisions in production is very important, how do you deal with decision making?
- Samples, presets, sound design, any go to plugins that you use.
- Behind the track: Choose a track, either as Super-Hi or Red Triangle that you’d like to share with us. What was the production process ?
- Working together, do you have set roles? How to work successfully as a production duo
- Thoughts on A.I, are you already embracing this, if so how?
- Favourite studio gear and why?
Find Of The Week
- Julian - The Songs Of David Bowie - Songbook 1973
- Ashea- Sonible- Smart Gate
- Rick- Kilohearts Trancegate, Underwater jet pack
- George - Sheet Music Could Have Been Me The Struts
In this week's Podcast Julian is joined by Ashea and Ian Shepherd for a discussion about about mastering in the streaming age.
Ian Shepherd is a mastering engineer of 25 years experience who has become well known for his work around the detrimental effects of the loudness wars. He runs the Production Advice blog and hosts The Mastering Show podcast.
Talking Points
- Mastering for Streaming Platforms, let’s talk specifics
- Loundness Normalisation and Album Normalisation
- Loudness Wars, are they still a thing? Do we still need loud masters?
- True Peak Limiters vs normal limiters
- Clipping
- Widening mixes
Finds Of The Week
- Julian - Genelec GRADE Reports
- Ashea - Pope Audio
- Ian - AM coustics, Who Killed the KLF
In this weeks podcast Julian is joinned by Ashea and Eli Krantzberg. We have a belated discussion of the new releases in June 2023 and having two experienced Logic users on the show we have a discussion of Logic and the significance of the coming of Logic to the iPad.
Finds of The Week
- Julian - Genelec 8341 and 7350A
- Ashea- Cableguys Shaperbox
- Eli - The Private Equity Buyout Of Music Production
Following up from our podcast looking at how post mixers use the new expanded Track Widths in Pro Tools 2023.6 Julian and Ashea are joined by Steve Genewick and Nathaniel Reichman to discuss Atmos for Music and whether track widths beyond 7.1.2 are significant for music mixers.
Finds Of The Week
- Ashea - Gearfest UK
- Nathaniel - Auto Align 2
- Steve - Vanguard Audio V44S
- Julian - UAD Capitol Mastering Compressor
In this week’s Podcast Julian is joined by Ashea, Gareth Nuttall and William Wittman who discuss fixing in the mix. Can it be done successfully?
Finds Of The Week:
- Julian - Space Lens in Clean My Mac
- Ashea- Avid Collab with Audio Movers or CHAPEA
- Gareth - Hi Hat Bleed Trick
- William- Dr. Tver Robert pedal by Aclam
In this weeks episode Julian is joined by Ashea, Roger Guerin and Korey Pereira. They discuss the extended track widths introduced in Pro Tools 2023.6 and what they mean for Atmos mixers.
- Let’s go round the table and talk about each of your current work and how affected by Atmos it is.
- What has changed in Pro Tools 2023.6 regarding Track Widths?
- What is the 7.1.2 ceiling and why does it exist?
- How is greater track widths better? Lets talk about beds vs objects and channel agnosticism. Why is 7.1.4 better than 7.1.2. What about 9.1.6, how does speaker density affect the listening experience?
- What about the two approaches to getting greater widths out of pro tools beds vs static objects. To what extent is this new?
- Are these changes going to affect how you work?
Finds Of The Week
- Julian - The Loudspeaker Design Cookbook 8th Edition Vol 1
- Ashea - Steinberg Spectralayers
- Roger - Amie loudspeakers by Meyer Sound
- Korey - Kraken DET Speech Recognition Beta
In this week's episode Julian and Ashea are joined by Greg Tan and Steve DeMott to discuss producing music for picture.
Talking Points
What is the creative process when composing music for movies/video games. How do you approach capturing the desired mood and atmosphere?
What’s the collaborative process like with directors, producers, and other members of the creative team to understand their vision and translate it into musical compositions?
When/how does a brief arrive?
What factors do you consider when creating a score that complements the visual content?
Working with Deadlines: How do you manage your time and resources effectively?
Working with sound libraries or creating custom sound effects for TV and movies? How do you ensure that the sound effects align with the overall audio mix?
Best Software synths, plugins, gear etc…
Are there any specific strategies you use for revisions, feedback, project management, storage space and backups?
**Talking Points
Greg - Agency on Netflix Steve - Audioscape D-Comp Limiter Ashea - Spatial Audio Festival at Media City Salford Julian -** Batch Converter in Rogue Amoeba's Fission
In this week’s edition Julian is joined by Ashea, Reid Caulfield and James Richmond. We discuss the announcements made at Apple’s WWDC 2023, particularly the much anticipated Apple Silicon Mac Pro. Talking Points
- Mac Pro - Who needs it when the Mac Studio exists?
- PCI cards - how relevant in 2023?
- Upgradeable SSD is back (kind of)
- New Mac Studio and M2 Ultra
- Game Mode in macOS Sonoma
- Apple Vision Pro
Find Of The Week
- Julian - Waterhaul
- Ashea -Meta AI Tool
- Reid - Goyo
- James - Auto Bounce
In this week's Podcast Julian and Ashea are joined by Russ Hiughes. they discuss the new releases of May 2023.
Talking points
- Genelec 8381A Monitors Announced | Production Expert
- AIR Music Technology Delay Pro Plugin Released | Production Expert
- Apple Logic Pro For iPad Announced | Production Expert
- Plugin Alliance BX Masterdesk PRO
- Toontrack EZkeys 2 Released
Find Of The Week
Russ - Akai MPC Key 61
Ashea - UMG- AI Startup Partnership
Julian - Mimestream
In this week's Podcast Ashea is joined by Russ Hughes and Alex West, a BBC Radio DJ who works with up and coming bands as part of BBC Introducing. They discuss what makes a radio hit in 2023?
Finds Of The Week
Russ - I/O by Peter Gabriel
Alex - Fizz At Great Escape
Ashea - Slate Digital Storch Filter
In this week's podcast Julian and Ashea are joined by Ary Maudit and Iggy B, both working engineers who spend part of their time working at Strongroom Studios in London. In this podcast we discuss the role of studios in 2023.
Finds Of The Week
- Ashea - Flower Pot Dessert at Bill’s
- Julian - Mix To Mobile, routing to a Wifi Speaker
- Ary - Bloody Mary
- Iggy - Kara Jackson
in this week’s episode Julian and Ashea are joined by songwriter producer publisher and A&R Greig Watts. We talk about songwriting, the role of producers inthe songwriting process and Eurovision.
Talking Points
- To what extent these days are songs written in a DAW?
- How involved are producers these days in the development of a song and how has that changed over the years?
- How many unfinished songs/tracks do you have on your hard drive and do you ever go back to finish them, if not why would you abandon them?
- When is your favourite time to write, during the day/at night and do you think that can affect your perception?
- How important is the overall mix, production, and song when pitching to labels/publishing?
- Eurovision
- What are 3 plugins that you can’t live without?
Finds Of The Week
Greig - Jailhouse cafe
Ashea - Softube Model 80
Julian - Christmas Beach Barbecue
In this week's podcast Ashea is joined by Russ Hughes and Reid Caulfield. They discuss the importance of workflow, as inspired by Russ' article Sound or Workflow - What Matters Most?
Talking points
- Russ, in your article you talk about the importance of workflow, what inspired that article?
- In his recent article on plugins which he uses on every mix Julian found that none of the plugins he listed were there exclusively because of their sound, it came down to familiarity, ubiquity because they were stock plugins or workflow because they were available as AAX DSP plugins, Does this illustrate this point?
- Examples of gear/plugins and have significantly helped speed up or simplify your workflow?
- A.I and how that will help us as producers and engineers.
Find Of The Week
Russ - Acon Digital Dialog Extract
Reid - Soundflow
Ashea - Waves Superapp Performer
In this week's Podcast Julian and Ashea are joined by Russ Hughes to discuss the new products released in April 2023.
- Toontrack EZkeys 2 Announced
- Neumann MT 48 Audio Interface Announced
- Sound Radix Auto-Align 2 Released
- Antares Auto-Tune EFX+ 10.0 and Auto-Key 2 Released
- Speed Up Collaborative Mixes With Nugen Jotter
Finds Of The Week
Julian - Sonnox Envolution
Ashea - Grimes AI 50% Royalties
Russ - Freakonomics Podcast - Swearing
In this week's episode Julian is joined by Ashea and NAMM stalwart James Ivey to discuss the show and the products which were being shown!
Julian
- Sound Radix Auto Align 2
- Yamaha DM3
- Sound Particles Skydust 3D
- Yamaha CK88
James
- Vangard Audio Labs - Stereo Tube/Valve Condenser Mic
- Nektar CS12 Channel Strip Controller.
- Antelope Audio Atlas i8 Active Speakers
- Fender Rhodes Mk8
Ashea
- Dreamtonics VStudio
- Eclipsed Sounds
In this week's Podcast Julian is joined by Stian Aagedal of Acon Digital. They discuss Plugins, computers, processing and AI.
**Finds Of The Week
Stian - MusicLM from Google Research Julian - Benidub Audio Electronics Digital Echo**
In this weeks edition Julian is joined by Russ and Platinum selling songwriter and producer Ashea. They discuss developments and releases in March, including a discussion of the Waves subscription announcement and subsequent retraction.
- Waves…
- Audient iD24 1st look
- Fabfilter Twin 3 Synth Virtual Instrument - Expert Review
- Pro Tools 2023.3
- Cranborne Audio Carnaby 500 Harmonic EQ Announced
Finds of the Week
Ashea - Musikhack Master Plan
Russ - Cranbourne Audio Camden EC1 Preamp
Julian - The Lazarus Heist
In this week's Podcast Julian is joined by Matt Lange and Greg Chin of Avid. We discuss Avid’s new monthly content program Sonic Drop.
Finds Of The Week
- Julian - Kimchi Grilled Cheese
- Matt - Cello bow on Jackson 8 string
- Greg - Aikido Pioneers - Prewar Era by Stanley Pranin
On this week's Podcast Julian is joined by Roland Stenz of Eve audio and Tonmeister Sebastian Breiter. They discuss designing and testing studio monitors and the philosophy behind Eve Audio.
Finds Of The Week
Julian - Rediscoverng a clear desk
Roland - Reading real books
Sebastian - Streaming masters to a smartphone using Sonobus
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Mike Thorne and Paul Maunder. Three Pro Tools users, they discuss potential new features they would like to see in a future version of Pro Tools.
Finds Of The Week
Mike - Massenburg Design Works MDWDRC2
Paul - Synology 8 Bay NAS
Julian - The massive waves at his local beach this morning!
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Russ Hughes and Mike Exeter to discuss the new releases of February 2023.
- DAW Survey results
- UAD Native
- FabFilter Twin 3 Released
- Flux Evo series bundle - first look
- Softube Icons: The Compressor Collection Released
- Tierra New Twenties
Finds Of The Week
- Julian - Charity Shop guitar stand
- Russ - The Gold
- Mike - Massenburg Dynamic Range Controller
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Steve DeMott and Luke Goddard for a discussion on microphone polar patterns. Cardioid might be the default choice for many but many issues can be solved by using the alternative patterns.
Finds Of The Week
Steve - JBL 104-BT
Luke - Third Man Hardware x Coppersound Triplegraph Pedal
Julian - Yum Audio Spread Light
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by William Wittman who follows up his excellent article The Great Balance Mix Off in which he tasked three experienced mixers to mix the same track using a restricted set of tools as would be found in the monitor section of a split console.
William is joined by mixers John Agnello and JJ Blair who both participated in the challenge, hear their thoughts on the challenge.
Finds Of The Week
Because of the change in format for this week's podcast there are no finds of the week this week.
In this week's podcast Julia n is joined by Korey Pereira and Reid Caulfield. they discuss use of headphones both by professionals and by consumers and how this affects their work.
Finds Of The Week
Reid - AI Plugins like Waves Clarity
Korey - Pro Tools Aux IO
Julian - Laoganma Crispy Chilli Oil
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Russ and Mike Thorne to discuss releases and products we've liked in January 2023.
- Universal Audio Release Successors To Townsend Labs Sphere L22
- Steven Slate Audio VSX Headphone Mixing System Tested
- Apple Announce New Mac Mini and MacBook Pro With M2 Pro And M2 Max
- Audient EVO SP8 Smart Mic Preamp Announced
Finds of The Week
- Julian - Steel Plate in Lustrous Plates
- Russ - Pro Tools Carbon
- Mike - PACE ZDT
In this week's Podcast Julian is joined by Steve DeMott and Nathaniel Reichman. they discuss Stock Plugins. Which do they use, and why if they have premium alternatives availble?
Finds Of the Week
- Julian - Adobe Podcast
- Steve - Great River Electronics Harrison 32EQ
- Nathaniel - Cory Doctorow’s new book “Chokepoint Capitalism”
In this week’s edition Julian joined by Steve DeMott and Luke Goddard. We’re going to be talking about the 'secret' to a good mix.
Finds Of The Week
Julian - 5 Old But Gold Pro Tools Plugins
Steve - United Studio Technologies UT-Twin87
Luke - Big Fat Snare Drum- Snare-Bourine-Donut
In this week's Podcast Julian is Joined by James Richmond, who has just bought his second Mac Studio, and Russ Hughes who has just bought his first. With some real world experience and very different reasons for moving to the Mac Studio we hear the backstories of these two users.
Finds Of The Week
- Julian - Expressive E Osmose
- Russ - Empower Station Mac Studio Rackmount Kit
- James - Timbral
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Mixer/Engineer/Producer Craig Bauer and Joel Heatley from Synchro Arts. They discuss the new RePitch plugin and vocal production.
Finds Of The Week
- Julian - Focusrite Customer Aftercare
- Craig - Paul McCartney: The Stories Behind 50 Classic Songs, 1970-2020
- Joel - Brian Eno's Book A Year Of Swollen Appendices
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Ephie DeAngelis, Nathan Cable and Carlos Mas, we’re going to be talking about studio personnel, with a particular focus on the role of Assistant Engineer
Finds O
- Julian - Karen Down’s SSL Video for SOS
- Nathan - Avid LoFi
- Carlos - Simon Gallup (Cure Bassist)
- Ephie - Chipotle Cholula Hot Sauce
In this, the last podcast of 2022, Julian is joined by Russ Hughes and Luke Goddard, talking about the developments in audio in 2022 in our review of the year.
May
- Sonarworks Sound ID Reference Multichannel
- Logic 10.7.3 with binaural spatial/Atmos monitoring
- Three Body Technology Kirchhoff EQ - Expert Review
- Pro Tools ARA Integration With Melodyne
- Mac Studio
- PT 2022.9 - Aux IO
- Studio One 6
- Toontrack Hugh Padgham's Hitmaker SDX
- MBOX Studio
- PT Intro
- Exclusive: Avid Slash Price Of Pro Tools For Pro Users
Finds Of The Week
- Russ - Mac Studio
- Luke - SSL UF8
- Julian - Nord Electro 6D
In this week's Production Expert podcast. I’m Julian Rodgers and in this week’s edition Julian is joined by Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe & Tom Griffin from Nugen Audio.
Finds Of The Week:
- Julian - bx_bassdude - Free with the Avid Inner Circle offer
- Tom - ‘Rock in a hard place’
- Freddy - Oeksound Soothe 2
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Damain Kearns talking about podcasting. The equipment, approach, techniques and pitfalls to be found when creating a podcast.
Finds of the Week
Julian - My overlooked AKG D112
Damian - Accentize Deroom Pro
In this weeks Podcast Julian is joined by Russ and Dom Morley. They discuss the new products released in November 2022 and share their finds of the week.
- New Hitsville Reverb Chambers And PolyMax Synth Announced In UAD v10.2
- Exclusive: Avid Slash Price Of Pro Tools For Pro Users
- Massenburg DesignWorks MDWDRC2-Native Released
- Waves BB Tube & Lil Tube
- elgato Stream Deck Plus Programmable USB Controller Released
Finds Of The Week
- Julian - Yamaha FC7 Expression pedal
- Russ - Dexed DX7 VI
- Dom - Heritage Audio Successor
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Francois Quereuil and David Toomey of Avid to discuss changes to the Pro Tools software lineup, new hardware and new developments at Avid.
**Finds Of The Week
Francois - Strymon BigSky Reverb Plugin David - McCartney 1,2,3 on Hulu Julian -** IK Multimedia iLoud Precision 5
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Eric Horstmann and Andy Bensley from Genelec. They discuss the company, its history, its approach to sustainbility abd developments in immersive monitoring including GLM, Aural ID and GRADE reporting.
Finds of the Week
- Julian - PureMix’s new series on Brauerising in the box
- Eric - 360 Sony
- Andy - Rhodes Mk8
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Bob Brown from Evergreen Audio Design Group who have just released Massive Meter, an interesting product which, for those working on the biggest post production stages, provides the answer to a problem which was previously very difficult to address.
- Julian - Free Plugin TAL Vocoder
- Bob - Ron Carter's Finding the right notes
In this week's Podcast Julian is joined by Russ and James Richmond to discuss the new products released in October 22.
- MBOX Studio
- SSL Origin 16
- Evergreen Massive Meter
- Process Audio Spicerack
- Inner Circle - Get any of 130 PA plugins free
Finds Of The Week
- Julian - Keeping it simple (compressor gig story)
- Russ - Listen bus in Pro Tools
- James - Apple Shortcuts & Smart Plugs
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Mattias Eklund and Rikk Currence from Toontrack for an enlightening conversation about all things Toontrack.
Finds Of The Week
Mattias - It’s colder in Chicago than he expected (and Mattias is from Sweden…)
Rikk - Love Is Blind on Netflix
Julian - Sydney Morning Herald Fairlight CMI Documentary
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Audrey Martinovich and Steve DeMott. They discuss setting up headphone mixes in the studio and the newly announced MBOX Studio from Avid.
Finds Of The Week
Julian - MBOX STUDIO
Audrey - Abbey Road De-mix
Steve - SoundSkulptor MP-AB528 EMI style 500 series preamp
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Mike Exeter and Luke Goddard. They discuss tracking. Passing over conversations about what mic to point where, instead they talk about when, where and how to track and talk about common issues.
Finds Of The Week
Julian - Xpand! 2
Luke - Acon Digital DeVerberate 3
Mike - Kurzweil K2000
In this week's Podcast Julian is joined by Russ and Paul Maunder. they discuss the new releases of September 2022, a month which saw new versions of Pro Tools, Studio One and iZotope RX.
Finds of The Week
Russ - Toontrack Hugh Padgham's Hitmaker SDX Julian -Pro Tools 2022.9 Paul - Accentize Chameleon 2
In this week’s edition we're joined by Saf Elmansour and Henrik Bridger From Antares. We discuss all things Auto-Tune and more.
Finds Of The Week:
- Julian - Dolby Atmos Music Training
- Henrik - Noble Amps Preamp
- Saf - Grace Jones is still performing
In this weeks episode Julian is joined by Damian Kearns and Mariana Hutton discussing developments in Post in August 2022, with a focus on recent content on Post Production related content on Production Expert.
Finds Of The Week
Julian - Rode Fuzzmeasure Mariana - Unfiltered Audio Tails Damian - Waves Sibilance
In this weeks episode Julian is joined by Robbie Dwyer and Luke Goddard to discuss the new products released in August 2022
Finds Of The Week
Robbie - Origin Effects 65 black panel
Luke - Eventide Physion
Julian - Adam A4V
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Stephen Wheatley of LimitEar, a company who specialise in the issues around professional users of headphones. He shares important information about the nature of the risks and what you might do to minimise the potential damage to your hearing.
Finds Of the Week
Steven - Article on link between hearing loss and dementia
Julian - DDFM Plugin Doctor V2
In this week's Episode Julian is joined by Grammy award winning engineer and producer Dom Morley and platinum selling songwriter, producer & audio engineer Ashea to discuss exactly what 'producer' means in today's industry.
Finds Of The Week:
Dom - NFT university course
Ashea - FN Meka Becomes first AI rapper dropped by major label
Julian - Melodyne ARA Integration With Pro Tools Announcement
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Russ and Matt Hill of Liquidsonics and Christian Scheuer of SoundFlow in a podcast which discusses how the size of the companies you deal with affects your experience, particularly when it comes to pro audio brands.
Finds Of The Week
Christian - The subtle art of not giving a F*CK
Matt - Quantum 2772 Evolution
Russ - Songfacts
Julian - Netflix - We Are The Champions (Cheese Rolling Episode)
This week's episode expands on the subject matter of our article 6 Audio Interfaces That Changed The World... Possibly. Julian is joined by Russ and James Richmond as they discuss interfaces they have owned, the good the bad and the no longer supported...
Finds Of The Week:
- Julian - Blackstar Ampfly 2
- James - Cableguys Shaperbox Bundle
- Russ - 'The Boys' on Amazon Prime
In this week's episode Julian is joined by Luke Goddard and Nathanial Reichman to discuss the new releases of July 2022.
- Krotos studio
- Acon Digital Extract Dialogue plugin update
- Sennheiser Acquires Merging Technologies
- Netflix Roll Out Spatial Audio Support
- Vienna Symphonic Library Vienna MIR Pro 3D Released
- Three Body Technology Kirchhoff EQ - Expert Review
- Why You Shouldn't Ignore The IK Multimedia MODO Bass 2
- Neumann Announce M49V Reissue
Finds Of The Week
Nathaniel - new workflow: real-time Spatial Audio monitoring while mixing
Luke - Sound Radix Powair
Julian - K&M 18950 table Style Keyboard Stand
In this week's podcast, following on from Russ' article 5 Things That Defined The Sound Of 80s Music Production Julian is joined by Steve DeMott and William Wittman to discuss the music, the studios and the gear of the 1980s.
In this week's episode Julian is joined by Matthew Collings from Krotos and Post Production specialist Paul Maunder to discuss Krotos's products and their use in Post.
Finds Of The Week
Matthew - Interview with Andrew Belt, creator of VCV Rack
Paul - PMC 6 monitors
Julian - Tech 21 MIDI Mouse
In this week's episode Julian is joined by Russ Hughes and Dom Morley to discuss new products which were launched in June. Being the first time NAMM has happened in a long time that gets a mention along with products from Neve to Ikea!
Finds Of The Week
- Julian - Apogee Soft Limit
- Russ - Rolling Stones documentary from BBC
- Dom - ‘Factfulness’ Hans Rosling
In this week's episode Julian is joined by Bjorn and Max from Elk Audio, a company who are behind the Elk operating system which is designed from the ground up to minimise audio latency. They discuss this and also Elk Live, a system with which performers can collaborate in real time over a standard internet connection without unacceptable latency.
Finds Of The Week
Bjorn - NI Maschine
Max - Fractal Audio Axe FX
Julian - Novation Mininova
In this week's episode Julian is joined by Andy Allen and Steve Flower from Audient who talk about the company, their products and their approach to audio.
Finds Of the week
Andy - Secret Labs Magnus Metal Desk
Steve - (Not Boring) Habits app by Andy Works
Julian - Instrument Track Trick
In this week's episode Julian is joined by Mark Wherry and Russ Hughes to discuss the announcements at WWDC. The new M2 processors, a couple of new laptops and PHRTFs for Spatial Audio. We consult Mark Wherry, the man who knows more about computers than anyone we know!
Finds Of The Week
Russ - Audient EVO16
Mark - Sound Particles’ Density
Julian - My New T Shirt
In this week's podcast Julian in joined by Daniel Moyler and Cameron Gower-Poole to talk about vocal production. Cameron is a nominee for the Best Vocal Producer award at the MPG awards. This new category is sponsored by Synchro Arts.
Finds Of The Week
Cameron - Valhalla Delay
Daniel - Laundromat
Julian - Waterfall B3
In this week's Podcast Julian speaks with Katie Tavini and Stephen Kerrison of Weird Jungle, a new UK based mastering collective.
Finds Of The Week
Katie - Quinquis - Seim
Stephen - Radiooooo
Julian - Sonarworks SoundID Reference Multichannel
In this week's episode Julian in joined by Russ and James Ivey who discuss the new product releases of May 2022.
Finds Of The Week
Russ - EZ Drummer 3
James - Rode Podcast Pro II
Julian - Rotosound Lemon Oil
In this week's Podcast Julian is joined by Colin McDowell of McDSP. They discuss the company and the products of this stalwart of the Plugins industry.
Finds Of The Week
Colin - My Dad's engineering books
julian - Genelec GLM 4.2
In this week's podcast Steve DeMott and William Wittman share their experience of conducting a converter shootout between four alternatives including a DSD unit. Find out how they conducted the test and what they found.
Finds Of The Week
- Julian - Freqport FT-1 Freqtube
- Steve - Tomo Audiolabs LISA dynamic EQ
- William - KIT Plug Ins Mo-Q Equaliser
In this week's episode Julian is joined by Mike Exeter and Dom Morley, these two Grammy winners share their thoughts on mixing with particular reference to Russ' recent article 3 Reasons You Think Your Mixes Aren't As Good As Other People's.
Finds Of The Week
Mike - The Sparks Brothers
Dom - Sessionwire
Julian - PreSonus Revelator Mic
In this week's episode Julian is joined by Russ and James Richmond as they discuss the new products and releases of April. There were a lot, including some significant releases!
Finds of The Week
Russ - PG-8X 2.0
James - Fabfilter Pro-G
Julian - Avid SynthCell
In this week's episode Julian speaks. with Nir Averbuch, CEO and co-founder of Sound Radix, one of the most innovative plugin companies out there.
Finds Of The Week
Nir - Midnight Asia
Julian - Somebody Feed Phil - Tel Aviv
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Daniel Rowland from LANDR to discuss what this company do and why they do it. You probably know about he mastering already but there's much more to say here.
Find Of The Week
Daniel - dopr
Julian - Waves Clarity Vx
In this episode Julian speaks with Andrew Scheps about Bounce Factory, his new software which automates even the most complex bouncing tasks from Pro Tools
Finds Of The Week
Andrew: Freakshow Industries Plugins
Julian: UAD Spark
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Russ and Dom Morley who share their thoughts on the new products released in March 2022.
Finds Of The Week:
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Mark Wherry and Russ Hughes who discuss the new Mac Studio, Studio Display and Logic's update.
Finds Of The Week
Mark - Mac Studio
Russ - Waves Clarity Vx, The Dropout
Julian - Logic 10.7.3
In this week's episode Thomas Koritke and Iain Horrocks from e-instruments join Julian. they share the story of the company and their sampled instruments including the extraordinary lengths they had to go to to sample some very valuable Italian violins in Cremona.
Finds Of The Week
Iain - Tape Notes Podcast
Thomas - David Byrne's American Utopia
Julian - Tease Announcement Of New Mac Pro
In this week's episode we have Tim Carroll, CEO of Focusrite as our guest. We discuss the history and future of the company, the products and the customers who make Focusrite and the associated brands in the Focusrite group what it is today.
Finds of the week:
Tim - Bright Sparks, YouTube documentary on Tom Oberheim created by G Force
Julian - Midiflow Splitter, iOS app for creating keyboard splits with iPad instruments
In this week's episode Julian is joined by Mike Exeter and Russ Hughes to discuss the new gear announced in February 2022 including the new mics from Universal Audio, Waves' CR8 and Cosmos and the PSP Impressor.
Finds Of the Week
Russ - Modo Drums
Mike - Origin Effects Bassrig
Julian - We Are England - When The Boats Come In
In this episode Julian is joined by Russ Hughes who expands on his thoughts on the future of the DAW as proposed in his recent article Is The DAW As We Know It Heading For Extinction?
Finds Of The Week:
Russ - Dopesick
Julian - This video of the TC Helicon Voicelive Touch 2 in use!
In this episode Steve DeMott hosts a discussion with Kevan Gallagher, William Wittman and Russ Hughes about songwriting.
In this episode Julian is joined by Dom Morley and Russ Hughes to discuss the new products announced in Januaury
In this week's episode Julian is joined by Nathaniel Reichman and Mark M Thompson. They discuss the role of Albums in a streaming world.
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Damian Kearns and Steve DeMott. Experienced post and music mixers respectively, and we examine the differences and similarities between the two career paths.
In this week's episode, the first of 2022, Julian, Russ and James Richmond look at the highs and lows of the year just passed.
Back in 2012 Russ sat down with Steven Slate to talk about his work in production, Slate drums and analogue modelled plug-ins.
In this episode Julian is joined by Russ and William Wittman to discuss the new products released in November 2021.
In this week's episode Julian is joined by Mike Exeter and Dom Morley for a discussion on Intention in mixing. We spend so much time discussing how to do mixes but less time on how we decide what needs doing in the first place! Two experts help unpack the issues.
In this week's episode Julian is joined by Emre Ramazanoglu and Edgar Rothermich, both people with knowledge of and experience in mixing music for Dolby Atmos. They bring fascinating insight into this rapidly developing area which will affect anyone mixing music today.
In this week's episode Damian Kearns talks to Justin Webster of the Cargo Cult, the company behind products such as Envy, Spanner and Slapper. As well as a discussion of some of the most innovative products available to Post mixers the interview is also interrupted by an earthquake! (really)
You might have seen the job title music editor on a credit roll and wondered what a music editor does and perhaps wondered why do we need music editors? To help us understand, in this week’s Production Expert podcast, we are joined by two music editors: Paul Apelgren and Nathaniel Reichman.
In this week’s edition, we are joined by Bob Katz and Rob Byers to discuss the new updated audio streaming and on-demand services tech recommendations TD1008 from the AES, which we explored recently on Production Expert.
In this week's episode Julian is joined by Russ and Damian as they look over the product releases from October and pronounce them to be "hit", "miss" or occasionally "hiss" (should that be "mit"?).
In this episode Julian is joined by William Wittman and Steve DeMott for a discussion on songwriting. With free and unrestricted access to studios and more and more music being written directly into the timeline of a DAW, what do we gain and is anything lost?
In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Russ Hughes and Katie Tavini and they discuss clients - How to get good ones and how to make sure everyone leaves happy after a successful project.
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Audrey Martinovich and Luke Goddard. In this week’s podcast we’re discussing approaches and techniques for recording acoustic instruments and the musicians who play them.
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Mike Exeter and Koery Pirera. As September is all but passed we’re going to talk about what’s happened in Pro Audio in the last month.
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Damian Kearns and James Richmond. This week we are talking about things in the studio we think are still worth doing the hard way - outside the computer.
In this week’s podcast, in this week’s edition, Julian joined by Mark Wherry and Russ Hughes. With the recent release of Studio One 5.4, a fully native version of a DAW other than Apple’s Logic Pro for Apple Silicon we are going to discuss the performance gains such a move has indicated and what this means for workflows and user experience.
Note On Audio Quality - The quality of Mark’s audio suffered a little on its journey to us from LA. Please bear with it as what he says is well worth hearing.
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Korey Pereira and Steve DeMott. We discuss sounds we can’t, or won’t, hear. From the merits of high sampling rates to the effect of lossy compression, should we be worrying about stuff no-one will hear?
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Luke Goddard and Robbie Dwyer. Two Pro Tools users who are happy to use whichever DAW gets the job done. We discuss what life is like outside out personal comfort zones.
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by James Ivey and Gareth Young. Both guests are at opposite ends of significant builds and share their experience in the planning and execution of a recording studio project.
In this week’s podcast, Mike is joined by Damian Kearns and Chris Roberts to talk about dialogue editing. From acquisition, through editing and processing to output and deliverables, how do these experts approach their dialogue?
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Mark Wherry and James Richmond to talk about the future of computers in audio. Do they do what we need them to and how might they change over the next few years?
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by by William Wittman and Damian Kearns to talk about DAWs in the broadest sense. Do they offer the tools we actually need?
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by by Mike Thorne and Steve DeMott to talk about moving to Dolby Atmos as a music mixer.
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by by Mike Exeter and Luke Goddard to talk about the use and abuse of processing in the studio.
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by by Mike Thornton and Russ Hughes to talk about how to stay healthy in the studio.
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by by James Richmond and John Cornfield to discuss DAW choice.
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by by Dom Morley and Russ Hughes to talk about the principles which should guide us in our careers as audio professionals.
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by James Richmond and Steve DeMott to talk through the release of Pro Tools 2021.6. We knew the HDX Hybrid Engine was coming but there was more to this release than that. What do we think?
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Dom Morley and and William Wittman (and William’s cat, who can be heard in places, very insistently wanting to join us from the other side of a closed door) to discuss EQ strategies when mixing, specifically the increasingly mainstream “EQ Carving technique”. Is it useful or is it somehow missing the point?
In this week’s podcast, Mike is joined by Garrard Whatley and Howard Bargroff to discuss the changes we see in post production, both those caused by COVID and those caused by technology and other trends in the industry.
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Paul Mortimer and Andy Bensley to discuss speaker calibration. What is it, what can it achieve and how does it sit with traditional acoustic treatment?
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by William Wittman and Mike Exeter to discuss whether or not the attention paid to mastering might be better spent by engaging the services of a mix engineer?
In this week’s podcast, Mike is joined by Reid Caulfield and Kevin Dallas to discuss what the future might hold for post production sound.
In this week’s podcast, Russ is joined by Julian and Mike to discuss Macs. What are we using? Why? Did we make the right choice and what, if anything, would we change?
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by mastering engineers Katie Tavini and Mike Thorne to discuss mastering. In a time when everyone has access to tools similar to those used by mastering engineers, what can a mastering engineer bring to a project?
In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Nir Averbuch and Michael Carnes to explore phase. This fundamental characteristic of audio is much misunderstood and can seem mysterious in a way which other characteristics of audio signals like frequency and amplitude are not. What Is phase and is it really so mysterious?
In this week’s podcast, Russ is joined by Ed Gray and Slau Halatin to explore the challenges around developing audio software for visually impaired and non-sighted people. As our tools have moved from hardware into software some developers have worked hard to make these tools accessible to all but there is still a lot to do. We discuss the issues and the solutions.
In this week’s podcast, Mike is joined by Guillaume Jeulin and Matt Hill to explore the challenges are developing audio software for the Apple Silicon platform as well as what the audio software and pro audio industries might look like a couple of years once ARM-based computers have matured.
In this week’s podcast Julian Rodgers is joined by Mike Exeter and Mike Thorne and asks - If you had to choose between a mixer and a control surface, which would you choose?
In this week’s podcast, Mike Thornton is joined by Roger Guerin and Graham Kirkman to discuss their journey to Dolby Atmos as small one-man-band audio post-production facilities. We explore Dolby Atmos, why make the jump, what creative opportunities it gives, how workflows have changed, handling remote previews and more.
Last month Avid announced its 4th quarter and financial results. It’s not something we often report on here at Pro Tools Expert but one stat jumped out at us, that there was a 54.9% year over year growth in subscription revenue growth in the fourth quarter. What this appeared to show is that there is a significant growth in subscriptions and this was something we wanted to investigate. So we asked Avid some questions and rather than give us a statement, Francois Quereuil who is now Vice President Audio, Product Management offered to sit and chat this through and we also discussed now Avid had restructured the business during the pandemic as well as future plans for HDX and the Hybrid Engine.
In this week’s podcast Russ Hughes is joined by Olga Fitzroy and Dom Morley asks for a discussion on approaches to recording and mixing.
In this week’s podcast Julian Rodgers is joined by a pro Tools user and someone who doesn’t use Pro Tools to answer the question Is Pro Tools a “must have” for a pro engineer?
In this weeks podcast Russ Hughes is joined by Wesley Devore of PreSonus and Matt Hill of Liquidsonics to discuss the challenges of product development. How do these experienced industry insiders balance the conflicting demands of making a product as good as it can be with making it affordable to the people who need it, and most importantly getting it out on the market in a timely way.
In this week’s podcast Mike Thornton is joined by William Wittman and Audrey Martinovich to discuss approaches to recording groups of musicians in the studio. From technical matters like headphone mixes and mic strategies to the all important people skills we share the approaches and opinions of two working engineers.
In this week’s Production Expert Podcast Mike Thornton is joined by Russ Hughes and PJ Gibbs both of whom have considerable experience of specialist marketing in the Pro Audio sector. they shed some light on how effective marketing can be achieved by single-person freelance creative businesses by following some simple principles and avoiding some common pitfalls.
In this edition of The Production Expert Podcast Russ Hughes is joined this week by Mark M Thompson and James Ivey to discuss all things guitar, from playing arranging and recording through to hiring a player
In this edition of The Production Expert Podcast Mike Thornton, Reid Caulfield and Emma Butt look at all things dialogue for both factual and drama audio post-production, including the way we lay out sessions, the use of colour, how we handle processing and matching different takes.
In this week’s Podcast Mike Thornton, William Wittman and Julian Rodgers consider the emergence of Artificial Intelligence in Plugins. Can AI ever really make contextually appropriate mix decisions and if it can does that help or threaten mix engineers?
In this week’s Podcast Julian Rodgers, James Richmond and Chris Vandeviver loog down into the dusty corners of their Plugin folders and ask why they stopped using some of their plugins?
In this week’s podcast Mike Thornton, Eli Krantzberg and Steve DeMott consider the potential of music streaming. Much has been said about how musicans rewarded (or mot) from streaming. What about the studio business?
In this week’s Podcast Julian Rodgers, James Ivey and Audrey Martinovich discuss microphones. Responding to an excellent video produced by Antelope Audio in which studio legend Sylvia Massy goes completely over the top miking Taylor Hawkins’ drums - Excellent!
In this week’s Podcast, Russ Hughes and Julian Rodgers are joined by Mike Exeter. With the return of lockdown conditions in the UK, they discuss what we can all do to look after ourselves both in our work lives and beyond, although the difference between work and home is an increasingly 2019 concept for many of us!
In this week’s Podcast Mike Thornton is joined by Korey Pereira and Chris Roberts. With the return of lockdown conditions in the UK they revisit the subject of remote workflows. How has their experience of remote working in Post been and what have they learned since last year?
In this week’s Podcast Russ Hughes, William Wittman and Chris Vandeviver discuss plugin choice and to what extent peer pressure, Fear Of Missing Out and endorsements influence our choices. It’s tempting to say that the only thing which matters is the sound but can any of us honestly say our choices aren’t influenced by anything else? - Really?
In this week’s Podcast Julian Rodgers, Steve DeMott and James Richmond call out their most mossed discontinued pro audio products, software or hardware. Products often don’t disappear because nobody wants them. What did you miss when it went and would you use it today if it came back?
In this week’s Podcast Mike Thornton, Audrey Martinovich and James Ivey compare notes on Black Friday Weekend. What did we we buy? Big ticket items or sundries?
In this week’s Podcast Julian Rodgers, Eli Krantzberg and James Richmond discuss the release of Apple Silicon based Macs. The potential for performance gains is huge but the practical considerations for such a new development are potentially complex. Who wants one and if so, when?
In this week’s Podcast Russ Hughes, Alan Sallabank and Sara Carter discuss the release of Pro Tools 2020.11 and Pro Tools Carbon. A new audio interface from Avid is something we haven’t seen for years and to see a music focused DSP product along with the most significant Pro Tools release in a while gives the panel a lot to digest.
In this week’s Podcast Mike Thornton, Julian Rodgers and Emma Butt talk about the potential for the new announcement from Townsend Labs about their software fix for reflection filters. Could this be good news for post production?
In this week’s Podcast Julian Rodgers, Sara Carter and William Wittman talk about the role of the engineer and whether one of the most important skills we should develop is learning when to stop?
In this week’s Podcast Julian Rodgers, Steve DeMott and Chris Vandeviver discuss spill in the studio, Whether between mics on a drum kit, that unbelievably loud guitar combo which is all over everything or headphones leaking onto the vocal mic, what do we do to control it and when should we let it… bleed?
In this week’s Podcast Mike Thornton, James Ivey and Eli Krantzberg discuss the weakness common to the majority of hardware controllers - Plug-in control.
In this week’s Podcast Julian Rodgers, Audrey Martinovich and James Richmond discuss whether technology can address poor tracking spaces? Years ago we would never have believed that we could model a U47 or that RX could ever do what it does. Will we ever be able to call up a useable “Voiceover Booth” preset?
In this week’s Podcast Russ Hughes, Julian Rodgers and Sara Carter discuss their studios and the steps they have taken to make sure they remain healthy and productive. From software tweaks to furniture choice, we spend a lot of time in our studios so how do we make them work for us?
In this Post Production Podcast special Mike Thornton, Emma Butt and Alan Sallabank discuss whether problems with remote working are because because of remote working itself or because of remote working being done badly. Can it work in post production?
With pretty much every part of recording Studios having moved “In the Box” as software, in a new, shorter format podcast Julian Rodgers, Audrey Martinovich and William Wittman discuss what they think is best kept out of the box.
In a new, shorter format podcast Russ Hughes, Sara Carter and James Ivey discuss their first studio setups, what they had and how much they would cost today, the results are surprising!
In a new, shorter format podcast Julian Rodgers, Eli Krantzberg and Chris Vandevivier discuss their audio “lightbulb moments”. Those significant moments when we notice or learn something about audio which stays with us, learning something new and opening up new ideas.
Mike Thornton, Audrey Martinovich and William Wittman talk about experimentation in the studio. With so much production happening in private studios where the clock isn’t being watched in the same way as it is in a commercial setting, is there more justification for a more open ended approach to recording. Does time pressure keep focus or stifle creativity?
Julian Rodgers, James Richmond and Steve DeMott discuss AVB, how it differs from Dante and how Steve used it to solve a specific problem in his studio. For talking point two a discussion of control surfaces turns into a discussion of Stream Deck. To close they share their finds of the week.
Russ Hughes, James Ivey and Sara Carter share their recording horror stories. As the saying goes, if something can go wrong… To close they share their finds of the week.
Mike Thornton, Julian Rodgers and Emma Butt discuss the importance of training and trainees. What advice do they give to people who are starting out on their audio careers? To close they share their finds of the week.
Mike Thornton, James Richmond and Chris Vanderviver discuss how to make your studio business as profitable as possible. In addition, they talk about the tools they wish they have but aren’t around yet and to close they share their finds of the week.
In this week’s podcast, Julian, Sara and William talk about their experiences of working with orchestral players, either as an orchestra or working with sections of string, brass and woodwind. In addition, they talk about free plug-ins and finds of the week are shared.
In this week’s podcast, Mike, Eli and Steve talk about their buying habits. From semi-necessary guitar purchases to completely unnecessary plugins, we all have gear buying habits which are driven more by our hearts than our heads. Is this a bad thing and could we stop if we wanted to? In addition, the issues presented by recording drums in domestic spaces are discussed and finds of the week are shared.
In this week’s podcast, Julian, Audrey and James talk about breaking the “rules”. Maybe better referred to as conventions, there are some ways of doing things which are so common that we sometimes follow them unquestioningly but as the saying goes - rules are to be broken!
In this week’s podcast, Russ, Julian and Sara discuss Apple’s announcement of their move to ARM based chips in future Macs. What does it mean for audio professionals and what effect will it have on developers? They also discuss the use of the word ‘Stem” in audio and share their finds of the week.
In this week’s podcast, Mike, Alan and Emma discuss their experiences of working in post-production during COVID. How have things changed? To what extent have remote working practices replaced face to face interactions and when people are actually in the same building, how is safety maintained?
In this week’s podcast Julian and Audrey are joined by James Richmond. They discuss mix references. We all have tracks with which we assess and judge our mixes, equipment and environments. Why do we choose particular tracks and what are the reasons behind these choices? They also consider the development of audio recording and ask whether there was a sweet spot and if so, when it happened.
In this week’s podcast Russ and Sara are joined by William Wittman. They discuss mixing, specifically the mistakes they keep seeing, or making. Over-compression? Monitoring too loud? Not using a reference? Confusing louder with better? There are so many pitfalls, which do they single out as their personal bugbear?
In this week’s podcast Julian and Chris are joined by Steve DeMott. They discuss the use of additional screens in the studio, whether carrying Apps which supplement DAWs or anything else and the wisdom of buying cheap equipment.
In this week’s podcast Mike, James and Audrey discuss channel strips and studio security, Do we use channel strip plug-ins or do we create our own from individual EQs and compressors? Is there a sonic benefit in using the same processes across every channel?
In this week’s podcast Julian and Eli welcome James Richmond to a podcast in which they discuss the relevance of analogue consoles to production work in 2020. Most of us admire them but would we actually use one if it were available. Let alone pay for one and tolerate the running costs?
In this week’s podcast Russ, Dan and Sara are discussing the practicalities of using a laptop as the only computer in a professional studio. Laptops have been suitable for pre-production, songwriting, tracking, mixing and many other things for a long time but so many of us own a desktop for the studio and a second laptop in addition - Why?
In this week’s podcast Mike and Julian catch up with Emma, who has been busier than she expected. What opportunities are out there for people working in post and are is all the work being done remotely or are parts of the industry starting to adapt to social distancing? Dolby Atmos is here to stay so is it time to get educated? The team discuss…
Like most of us Julian, Dan and Sara are all spending even more time in their studios during lockdown, On this week’s podcast we discuss what we’ve done to ensure our studios don’t damage our bodies, and hopefully our minds. What have we done and what changes would we like to make to create spaces which don’t risk RSI, poor posture and all the other issues extended sedentary work can cause.
James and Julian welcome Chris Vandeviver from Logic Pro Expert to the podcast and discuss monitors, specifically what we are using, what we like and what we’d like to try. Coaxial monitors, Beryllium tweeters and the merits of inexpensive monitors get discussed along with deals, our finds of the week and the inevitable, and unavoidable Coronavirus.
Mike, Dan and Eli swap tips and ideas about production, arrangement and mixing. Vocal tuning, intelligent virtual player plugins, the merits or otherwise of analogue emulations… In these days of few technical limitations do we embrace this freedom or does it make things more difficult to make decisions?
The long anticipated LUNA launch happened last week to much excitement but James, Julian and Audrey ask why we should try it and what does it bring to the DAW landscape?
Acoustic Treatment is important but how much difference does it make and how much should acoustic performance affect how you use your studio space? Russ, Julian and Sara discuss in this week’s production Expert Podcast.
In our latest Post Production Special with the profound effect of COVID-19 on the industry there has never been so much to talk about. We hear the perspectives of Mike Alan and Emma on this rapidly changing situation.
With so many working from home how do we best face the challenges both practical, social and emotional that this can present, especially if you aren’t used to it? There’s probably 50 years combined experience of working from home between the podcast team, what advice can they share?
It wouldn’t be possible for us to avoid the subject of the spread of coronavirus around the world. We’ll leave the health advice to others but do we have any advice for people working in audio who find themselves affected by the changes these events are causing in our working lives?
James, Dan and Eli discuss templates. With Dan having recently moved over on to a PC and Studio One, James being a Pro Tools user on PC and Eli being a Logic user is is very much a mixed environment but does that affect their approach to templates?
Russ, Julian and Sara discuss client approvals and the tools we can use to share and get feedback on work. Are you still happy sending dropbox links and getting email lists of revisions or are you using something more sophisticated? This week’s Production Expert Podcast also includes new competitions for March and random discussions about AMSR.
In a break from the norm we have Eli, Emma and Audrey presenting the Production Expert Podcast. Talking points include which plug-ins they reach for when starting a mix and what they do to improve their skills, something which is particularly relevant in an industry in which so many freelancers don’t have the regular contact with colleagues and peers which people in other industries enjoy.
Which is the best audio interface? That largely depends on what features you need it to have and as we find out in this week’s Production Expert Podcast, that very much depends on who you are and what you do.
In this week’s podcast the team talk about the new Mac Pro. HDX users wanted a machine with PCI slots for their cards but our recent power test proved that there was so much power available in the Mac Pro that the processing power of HDX is largely unnecessary for most users. Aren’t the people who really benefit from the power of the Mac Pro people working in Dolby Atmos? However because of the way Dolby Audio Bridge works those users can’t use their HDX processing. The team talk through the issues.
Russ, James and Alan talk about the differences between working in Post and Music, and whether or not immersive audio is driving new demand?
James, Julian and Dan discuss what other skills you need to run a successful audio business.
In this Production Expert podcast Russ, Mike and Sara discuss how as freelancers and small businesses we promote ourselves. They also talk about their top picks of NAMM 2020.
In this Production Expert podcast Russ, Mike and Eli discuss whether access to so much information, experts are no longer required. They also talk about what they hope to see at NAMM 2020.
In the Production Expert podcast James, Julian and Audrey discuss how they set their prices and what they hope to see at NAMM 2020.
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, Julian and Dan discuss their finds of 2019 and share some suggestions from the community.
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, Julian and Dan discuss subscriptions. How many do we have, what for and are they necessarily a bad thing?
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, Alan and Emma present the second of our Post Production specials. Among other things they discuss whether or not stems should be dipped and whether feature length content is best tackled in reels or full length super-sessions?
In the Production Expert podcast Russ, Eli and James discuss whether Apple products cost the environment as well as our pockets?
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, Russ and James discuss making a living in Pro Audio and the announcement of the new Behringer Wing digital mixer.
In the Production Expert podcast James, Julian and Alan discuss Hackintoshes. Are they worth it or are they too much hassle?
In the Production Expert podcast Julian, Eli and Audrey discuss our relationship with gear. We all love buying new stuff but we feel guilty if we don’t use the gear we have as much as we could. Should be be sensible or give in to gear lust and break out the plastic?
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, James and Julian discuss the role and merits of training and experience and how each can help your career. They also share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast James, Dan and Julian discuss the news from AES 2019 in New York. They also share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast James, Dan and Julian ask whicj piece of gear they sold and later regretted? They also share their finds of the week
In the Production Expert podcast Russ, Dan and Eli ask why Apple users are so loyal? They also share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, Julian and Audrey consider what career advice they would give their 18 year old selves. They also share their finds of the week.
In the first Production Expert podcast Post Production special Mike, Alan and Emma talk about their favourite tools for Post and the significance of working in your own studio. They also share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast James, Julian and Eli talk about New York style compression, what is it, how do you do it and why would you do it? They also discuss studio cleanliness and share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast Russ, Julian and Audrey talk about the quality of consumer playback and why compact disc represented a high water mark for domestic audio.
In the Production Expert podcast as we approach the trade show season Mike, James and Julian ask how trade shows are relevant in the online world of 2019. They also discuss what new features they would like to see in Pro Tools beyond the usual suspects - “New” new features!
In the Production Expert podcast James, Julian and Alan consider what’s really important if you want to make money from your audio skills.
In the Production Expert podcast Russ, Dan and Emma talk about managing client relationships and what you can do when that relationship gets difficult?
In the Production Expert podcast Russ, James and Dan talk about the significance of the popularity of wireless speakers in the home, should we mix for them?
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, James and Audrey talk about their strategies (or lack of strategy) when it comes to tracking their time on projects.
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, Julian and Eli ask whether hardware channel strips are still useful in 2019 when we have high quality mic preamps in our interfaces and plug-in channel strips?
In the Production Expert podcast Russ, Julian and Alan look at the new controls surfaces announced by Avid. Is the S1 going to find its way onto a desktop near any of them anytime soon?
In the Production Expert podcast Julian, Eli and Emma talk about DSP in speakers. What is it, why is it there and is it better? They also ask whether “everything” plug-in bundles are good value.
In the Production Expert podcast James, Julian and Dan talk about EQ. How to use it? how much does it matter what you use, and does anyone actually use EQ presets? They also share their finds of the week.
The Music Modernization Act was signed into law in the United States in October 2018. This might be good news for engineers and producers, but potentially not-so-good news for independent songwriters. Audrey sat down with with entertainment lawyer Elizabeth Russell of Russell Law to try and figure out what it all means.
In the Production Expert podcast Russ, Julian and Audrey talk about the difference between live performance and recordings and ask what it is which sometimes gets lost in the studio? They also share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast James Eli and Julian discuss tracking through analogue consoles vs more modern alternatives. While the idea of using a large format console is appealing, the options, convenience and reduced cost offered by digital might be even more appealing? They also share their finds of the week
In the Production Expert podcast Russ, James and Dan ask whether analogue tape is undergoing a renassance and if so whether it goes further than large format professional machines? Is there a difference between the people who used tape in the pre-digital days and those who have come to it as “digital natives”. They also share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, James and Alan talk about the whether the new Mac Pro 7,1, with 8 PCI-e card slots, up to 28 cores, 1.5TB of RAM is too expensive and take a detailed look at what will be inside, the components Apple have selected, the comparisons people are making with other computers and whether they would buy one or not. They also share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, Dan and Eli talk about the new Modular Cheese-grater Mark 2 Mac Pro, with 8 PCI-e card slots, up to 28 cores, 1.5TB of RAM and share their first reactions as well as the new Pro Display and macOS 10.15 - Catalina. In contrast with the new Mac Pro they discuss the free DAW - Cakewalk that already has ARA2 support as well as share their favourite free plug-ins and software. They also share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, Audrey and Julian talk about monitoring, They discuss the results from our speaker isolation poll and ask why some monitors are popular in different parts of the industry? They also share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, James and Julian discuss compression and headphone monitoring. They also share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast Russ, Dan and Eli discuss running their audio business from home, many of us are doing it but are we all making the same mistakes? They also share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, Julian and Dan talk about talk about the role of luck in their careers, and how they approach recording unfamiliar instruments, What’s your go to mic for a Hang? Condenser or ribbon on Nyckelharpa? They also share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast Russ, James and Alan talk about how it’s not just our studios which might benefit from looking at whether consumption is getting in the way of productivity? They also share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast Russ, Eli and Julian discuss One Knob style plug-ins. Do we use them? Is it OK never to learn to do it “properly”? They also share their finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, Dan and Julian discuss monitor Isloation. Do we do It? Does it make any difference? They also share their Finds of the week.
In the Production Expert podcast Russ, James and Audrey discuss our exclusive interview with François Quereuil, Avid’s Director of Audio Product Management and where Avid should go next. They also share their Finds of the week.
Ever since we announced the new feature Avid have been working on for a Pro Tools 2019 release we have seen speculation as to when we would see the first release of Pro Tools in 2019. Would it be 2019.1? No, so would it be 2019.2? No, surely it’s going to be a 2019.3 release and March came and went without a Pro Tools 2019 release.
Rather than us speculating as to what has happened,we asked Avid to explain the challenges they must have been experiencing and we have an interview with François Quereuil who is Avid’s director of audio product management to get the inside story straight from the horse’s mouth to find out what has caused the delays with the first Pro Tools release of 2019.
In our recent poll on what type of audio interface our community were using USB emerged as the clear winner. Mike, James and Eli discuss why this might be.
In the Production Expert podcast, James, Julian and Dan talk about the new SSL SiX and find they don’t agree, Julian doesn’t even agree with himself!
In the Production Expert podcast episode 361, brought to you with the support of Nugen Audio. Russ, Julian and Eli discuss the findings of Nugen’s recent survey about our preferences about computers, software and licensing as well as sharing their Finds Of The Week.
In this week’s Production Expert podcast, brought to you with the support of Nugen Audio, Mike, Julian and Alan discuss the 21 options for possible future development in Pro Tools presented by Avid for consideration in the ACA survey.
In this week’s Production Expert podcast James, Julian and Alan ask whether legacy hardware represents good value for money or is just a way to paint yourself into a corner. They also answer your questions and share their finds of the week.
In this week’s Production Expert podcast Russ, Dan and Eli discuss loudness, the new Mac Mini and also answer your questions and share their finds of the week.
In this week’s Production Expert podcast Mike, Julian and Dan discuss 192KHz. The workflow, the differences in sound, the equipment and ask why we don’t all record at the “best” quality? The team also answer your questions and share their finds of the week.
In this week’s Production Expert podcast James, Alan and Dan discuss Avid’s recent announcement of extra voices for Ultimate users. The team also answer your questions and share their finds of the week.
In this week’s podcast, the first Production Expert podcast Russ, Mike and Dan share their highlights from all the news from NAMM 2019. The team also answer your questions and share their finds of the week.
In this week’s podcast, Mike, Julian and James look forward to the NAMM show, discussing the products they are excited about seeing, they also pick up the 10 year challenge but instead of thinking about how they looked ten years ago, considering how their studios have changed in ten years. The team also answer your questions and share their finds of the week.
In this week’s podcast, Russ, Julian and Alan discuss our recent series on third party plug-ins, asking Alan what he would need in addition to the stock Pro Tools plugins to get his post work done. They answer your questions and share their finds of the week.
In this week’s podcast, Mike and James are joined by Eli Krantzberg, editor of Logic pro Expert to discuss our industry predictions for the year. They answer your questions and share their finds of the week.
In this week’s podcast, James, Dan and Julian discuss bleed between microphones. Is it always a bad thing? They answer your questions and share their finds of the week.
In this week’s podcast, Russ, Mike and Alan discuss the recent announcement that Avid will be discontinuing native support for many video codecs and they talk about audio summing. They answer your questions and share their finds of the week.
In this week’s podcast, Mike, Dan and James discuss the recent announcement that Avid will be bundling UVI’s Falcon with active subscriptions, they look at some of the areas for potential confusion. They answer your questions and share their finds of the week.
In this week’s podcast, Mike, Alan and Julian discuss the role critical thinking and the importance of asking questions and testing our assumptions about audio. They answer your questions and share their finds of the week.
In this week’s podcast, Russ, Dan and Julian discuss the effect too many resources have on our knowledge and our learning. They answer your questions and share their finds of the week.
In this week’s podcast, Mike, James and Julian talk about whether Avid should stay in the native audio interface market, if they brought something new out what should it be like? They share community feedback and their finds of the week. Also in this week's Podcast, there is an opportunity to get an exclusive discount of an Exponential Audio plug-in, but you have to listen to the podcast to get the discount code!
In this week’s podcast, James, Dan and Mike talk about the wisdom of trying to market audio products specifically to women, they share community feedback and their finds of the week. Also in this week's Podcast, there is an opportunity to get an exclusive discount of an Exponential Audio plug-in, but you have to listen to the podcast to get the discount code!
In this week’s podcast, James, Dan and Alan discuss what it is which drives our equipment choices, they share community feedback and their finds of the week. Also in this week's Podcast, there is an opportunity to get an exclusive discount of an Exponential Audio plug-in, but you have to listen to the podcast to get the discount code!
In this week’s podcast, Russ, Mike and Julian discuss the potential imminent release of a more pro focussed Mac Mini and what that means for studio users, Mike updates us on his trip to AES in New York, they share community feedback, and their finds of the week. Also in this week's Podcast, there is an opportunity to get an exclusive discount of an Exponential Audio plug-in, but you have to listen to the podcast to get the discount code!
In this week’s podcast, Russ, Dan and Julian discuss ask whether bug fixes should only be availble to current Pro Tools subscribers, they talk about the choices at the inexpensive end of the monitor market, they share community feedback, and their finds of the week. Also in this week's Podcast, there is an opportunity to get an exclusive discount of an Exponential Audio plug-in, but you have to listen to the podcast to get the discount code!
In this week’s podcast, Alan, James and Julian discuss our recent piece asking whether we power off our monitors overnight and discuss studio power and working practices, they talk about their experiences on a recent location recording, share community feedback, and their finds of the week. Also in this week's Podcast, there is an opportunity to get an exclusive discount of an Exponential Audio plug-in, but you have to listen to the podcast to get the discount code!
In this week’s podcast, Mike, James and Julian discuss the recent announcement that Pro Tools isn’t compatible with Mojave, they discuss online collaboration, answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week. Also in this week's Podcast, there is an opportunity to get an exclusive 35% off Exponential Audio stereo reverbs, but you have to listen to the podcast to get the discount code!
n this week's Podcast, there is an opportunity to get an exclusive 35% off Exponential Audio stereo reverbs, but you have to listen to the podcast to get the discount code!
Russ, Dan and Julian discuss the health implications of studio work, they answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week
In this week’s Podcast, there is an opportunity to get an exclusive 35% off Exponential audio stereo reverbs, but you have to listen to the podcast to get the discount code! Russ, Mike and Alan discuss whether products like iZotope RX 7 Advanced and Revoice Pro 4 killing our creativity, enabling clients to say “we can fix that in the mix can’t we?” they answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.
This podcast extra interview was recorded at the press launch of the new Universal Audio Apollo x series of interfaces held at the stunning AIR studios in London. James Ivey say down with producer, engineer and owner of Flux studios in New York City, Fab Dupont to talk about his roll in the event, the new Universal Audio Apollo x range and a string of other music and recording related subjects, like, “Why are the drum room mics outside the booth”?
In this week’s Podcast, there is an opportunity to get an exclusive 35% off Exponential audio stereo reverbs, but you have to listen to the podcast to get the discount code!
Russ, Mike and Dan discuss the value of old or discontinued Avid hardware, they discuss the value of limitations in production, they answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.
In this weeks Podcast there is an opportunity to get an exclusive 35% off Exponential audio stereo reverbs, but you have to listen to the podcast to get the discount code!
Mike, Julian and Alan discuss Netflix's changes to their loudness specs, they speculate on the contents of the new release of RX7, they answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.
With Pro Tools 2018 And A Good Computer You Can Do A Lot. Who Still Needs An HDX System Today?
Mike, Julian and James ask exactly who still needs an HDX rig? Pro Tools 2018.7 Ultimate with a modern computer offers nearly everything an HDX rig does. They answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.
Russ, Dan, and James discuss the recent changes on the Expert sites, whether gear is always our friend and the effect of sound quality on how listeners perceive information. They answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.
Dan, Alan and Julian discuss whether Mac users should be afraid of making the switch over to PCs and Windows? They answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.
Mike, James and Julian discuss condenser mics in this week's podcast. There are so many good, inexpensive mics available. Do you need to spend more? They discuss the releases of Pro Tools 2018.7 and they answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.
Russ, Dan and Kevin are trying their hardest not to sound like grumpy old men as they discuss the effect the democratisation of audio technology has had on standards in the music industry. They answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.
Mike, James and Alan are discussing the new MacBook Pro. It's powerful but is it suitable for running Pro Tools? They talk compressors and answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.
James, Dan and Julian discuss parallel compression, asking why it is as popular as it is and under what circumstances it is useful.
Julian, Alan and Kevin are discussing gear this week. Firstly with the announcement of the latest version of Neyrinck's V Control Pro bringing back Pro Controls and Control 24s back from the dead. Secondly they discuss monitor choice and answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.
Russ, Julian and Alan get controversial, examining Julian's recent comment that the SM57 and the SM7B are overrated (light blue touch paper and stand well back...). They also answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.
This podcast extra is part of a complete article documenting the development of Pro Tools 2018 from January to the publish date in late June. Go to the story on Production Expert to see in-depth coverage of all the new features introduced in the first half of 2018.
Russ, Dan and James are in high spirits this week as they talk about the great products from Avid's back catalogue which didn't make the impression they should have. They discuss why checking mixes in mono is more important than ever. They answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.
Mike, Dan and Julian talk about bad habits in production and the merits or otherwise of speaker calibration or "room correction" hardware and software. They share community feedback and their finds of the week.
Russ, James and Dan talk about handling criticism, protecting yourself from RSI in your studio and they share community feedback and their finds of the week.
Russ, Mike and Julian talk about whether our studios work for us or whether we work for them?
They discuss gender imbalance in the Pro Audio industry and share community feedback and their find of the week.
Russ, James and Kevin discuss monitor choice, innovation in DAW features and share community feedback and their finds of the week.DealsFor the rest of May, our friends at Sonnox are running an...
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In this Podcast Extra interview, Pro Tools Expert Technical Editor James Ivey talks to Producer, Mixing & Mastering Engineer Dax Liniere at his Puzzle Factory Sound Studio in North London that...
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Dan, James and Alan discuss Vocal Comping, Studio Errors and share community feedback and their finds of the week.
In this Podcast Extra for Production Expert, Technical Editor James Ivey sits down with Matt Ward and David 'Saxon' Greenep of Jigsaw24 at the Jigsaw24 London headquarters in Golden Square,...
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Dan, James and Julian discuss studio acoustics and Pro Tools bugs, and share community feedback and their finds of the week.DealsProduction Expert has teamed up with Signum Audio to offer the...
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Dan, James and Julian discuss the role of rough mixes, microphone choices, receive some community feedback from a Pro Audio celeb and share their finds of the week.DealsProduction Expert...
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Russ, James and Julian discuss the results of our Pro Tools satisfaction survey, the role of workflow when developing new products, our newest team member Woody Brown on and they answer questions...
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Russ, Dan and Kevin revisit last week's discussion on studio security, share tips for recording vocals and they answer questions from the community and share their finds of the week.DealsCheck out...
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James, Julian and Alan discuss studio security, talk about news from Messe and they answer questions from the community and share their finds of the week.DealsCheck out the deals from our...
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Mike, James and Julian discuss the release of Pro Tools 2018.4 with its new , less confusing name for Pro Tools HD, they discuss the role of talent in production and they answer questions from...
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Russ and James are joined by new team member Kevin Becka for this week's podcast in which they discuss whether it is the gear or the skills and experience which give a professional value...
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Dan, Julian and Alan discuss two subjects which some of the community hold strong opinions about: Software subscription and the possibility of a driver to bring unsupported control surfaces back to...
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Mike, James and Dan question the widely held belief that Pro Tools subscriptions have driven up the cost of staying up to date with Pro Tools and how responsibly audio brands approach packaging their...
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In this Podcast Extra Interview, Technical Editor, James Ivey chats with Matt Boudreau, host of the Working Class Audio podcast.Matt has been involved in music for 33 years. First as a drummer then...
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Russ, Dan and Julian discuss the release of Pro Tools 2018.3, the danger that gear sometimes obscures the importance of talent and talk about the biggest story of the week on Production Expert - the...
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Mike. Dan and Alan discuss greedy plug-ins and hardware speaker correction systems. They answer questions from the community and share their finds of the week.DealsProduction Expert has teamed up...
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Russ, Julian and Dan discuss the merits of the Avid ACA survey, whether we really can be good at everything and the history of Pro Tools. They answer questions from the community and share their...
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Russ, Mike and Dan discuss the effect Facebook has on us, the benefits of a simple setup, answering questions from the community and share their finds of the week. DealsWe've teamed up with...
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James, Alan and Julian discuss shortcuts (not the keyboard kind), the merits of software subscription, competitions, answering questions from the community and sharing their finds of the...
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Mike, James and Julian discuss our equipment choices, the much anticipated 2018 Mac Pro , competitions and answering questions from the community and sharing our finds of the week. DealsCheck...
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This is a refeed of Eposode 304 with the correct audio.Russ, Mike and Alan get together to digest the news from NAMM 2018, competitions answering questions from the community and sharing our finds of...
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Russ, Mike and Alan get together to digest the news from NAMM 2018, competitions answering questions from the community and sharing our finds of the week. DealsCheck out the deals from our...
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