Russ, Mike, James and Julian catch up with talking points, tips, tricks and questions answered.
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- Tim Crowther wanted to share with us guides for minimising the health risks from soldering fumes from the UK government Health & Safety Executive
- David Topple following up from Mike’s comments in Podcast 185 don’t get on with glass screens as opposed to using hardware controllers.
- Bob Salsberry has found a pleasant surprise in Pro Tools 12.2.1In the Window pull down menu, way at the bottom of the pull down is an item labeled Eleven Rack. When you select that, it launches the Eleven Rack standalone editor.
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- Ed Mehrzad would like us have a section on recording and mixing heavy metal in Pro Tools as he cannot find any resources to help him.
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- Andy Smit is looking for broadcast delivery standards for Egypt, Morocco and Lebanon as doesn’t know what level to mix to.
- oe Badlotto wants to know if his Apple Mac pro-8-core 2.4 GHz will be OK for Pro Tools 12 and should be add RAM and how to allocate and use drives.
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- Garrett Miller has a 2010 Mac Pro 2x2.66 GHz 6 core Intel Xeon mac with 32 GB RAM wants to upgrade from Pro Tools 9 HD and asks if he should upgrade to PT11HD or PT12HD with an HDX system and what OS should he use.
- Erlend Persen had PT 11.3.1 HD and the whole AIR instrument expansion pack installed. When he updated to PT11.3.2 HD the AIR instrument expansion pack is not showing up in PT. Can we help?
- Derek Olivier is having trouble syncing PT12 on his Win7/64bit Dell laptop with an Mbox3to his Mac/G4/Os10 with a Mix system running PT6. Do we have any advice for him?
Team Find Of The Week
- Russ - Cheatsheet and El Capitan but not for DAWs yet.
- Mike - iZotope RX5
- James - has seen the AB Phase Popper in use and is now looking for one. Its a simple system for checking the polarity for large numbers of mics. The details are that its a Goldline APT2B Polarity/Phase Analyzer Tester Set (with Balanced I/O) and he is looking for a set of two. Can you help him?
- Julian - Roland Boutique Synths