Pro Tools Podcast

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 the community and share their finds of the week.

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 (spoiler alert - they don't think it's the gear). They reflect on just how believable our April Fool's story on the new Audio Bin feature on Pro Tools sounds and they answer questions from the community and share their finds of the week.

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 Pro Tools. They answer questions from the community and share their finds of the week.

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 goods. They answer questions from the community and share their finds of the week.

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 Brown on Sound parody tutorial! They answer questions from the community and share their finds of the week.

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. 

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 finds of the week. 

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. 

James, Alan and Julian discuss shortcuts (not the keyboard kind), the merits of software subscription, competitions and answering questions from the community and share their finds of the week. 

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.

Russ, Mike and Alan get together to digest the news from NAMM 2018, including Pro Tools 2018, competitions and answering questions from the community and sharing our finds of the week. 

Mike, Dan and Julian get together with discussions about the venerable C|24, our case study on building a powerful, inexpensive PC based system, competitions answering questions from the community and sharing our finds of the week. 

Mike, Dan and James get together with discussions about our relationship with the gear we own. Avid's engagement with their community, competitions and our finds of the week. 

Russ, Dan and Julian get together for the first podcast of the year with discussions about our predictions for 2018, software piracy, competitions and our first finds of the week of the new year. 

Mike, Dan, James, Julian and Alan (Russ is poorly) get together for the last podcast of the year and podcast number 300 musing on our finds of the year.

Russ, Julian and Alan chat through issues and highlights from the week's news as well as the usual Pro Tools tips, tricks and community questions answered.

Russ, Mike and Dan chat through issues and highlights from the week's news as well as the usual Pro Tools tips, tricks and community questions answered.

Mike, Julian and Alan chat through issues and highlights from the week's news as well as the usual Pro Tools tips, tricks and community questions answered.

Mike, Julian and James chat through issues and highlights from the week's news including a discussion on minimising click track bleed as well as the usual Pro Tools tips, tricks and community questions answered.

In a break with the norm, Dan and James chat through issues and highlights from the week's news as well as the usual Pro Tools tips, tricks and community questions answered in the same room, at the same time - no virtual table this week. Brought to you from Dan's shiny new studio.

Dan, Alan and Julian host this week's podcast, with talking points about managing recall when using outboard equipment, whether or not we need routing automation in Pro Tools and questions from the community about Dolby Atmos, control surfaces and low latency monitoring in native systems. 

Mike, James and Julian chat through the issues of the day including a discussion on the implications of the results of our polls asking the community what they might replace their ageing Mac Pro "Cheesegraters" with and asking which of three AI mastering products sounded best. Questions from the community include questions on the difference between the sound of the mic preamps on two popular, high end interfaces and which interface would suit someone working in surround.

Russ, Dan and Julian chat through the issues of the day including a discussion on the new cloud based iLok service and the recent launch of Pro Tools 12.8.2. Questions from the community include questions on tracking through Auto-Tune and the best way to remove snare bleed from a kick drum track.

Russ, Dan and James  chat through the issues of the day including a discussion on the merits of room correction software, our attitudes to AI and mastering software. Questions from the community include a request for advice on interfaces with AoIP and Russ reports back after a day with Jacob Collier. 

Dan, James and Julian chat through the issues of the day. In talking points, they discuss our mastering shootout between a mastering engineer, a mix engineer and LANDR, an AI based software mastering service, and how we feel when listening back to old mixes. We have some great feedback from the communityand a question about MIDI timing issues when using Pro Tools with external hardware.

Russ, Mike and Julian chat through issues and highlights from the week's news as well as the usual Pro Tools tips, tricks and community questions answered. In talking points, they discuss the question of whether TV mixes are getting too big for the domestic living room as well as the benefits of good old-fashioned collaboration and playing to your strengths and getting other people to help to cover your weaknesses. The team also answer questions on monitor controller recommendations and real-time surround upmixing.

James, Dan and Julian chat through the issues of the day. In talking points, they discuss our article on options for owners of Mac Pro cheese-graters looking for a replacement, and our poll asking what control surface you all use. We have some great community feedback and a question about what sample rate and bit depth to use. 

This week Mike, James and Julian in talking points they unpack the changes in the Pro Tools Road Map and the thorny area of intelligibility on TV shows. In community feedback, Mike answers a follow-up question about routing Mac audio digitally into a Pro Tools interface, and in questions from the community, they explore suggestions for hardware recorders for songwriters and musicians and how to get the best out of a legacy Pro Tools 7.0HD system.

This week Mike, James and Julian unpack the area of whether using presets is a good idea or not and the discuss the state of new interfaces following the results of the recent shootout between the Apogee Ensemble and a PreSonus Quantum. In questions from the community, they look at a recommendation for an appropriate Mac to replace a MacBook Pro system, what the costs of mixing and mastering an album and why the computer audio won't come out of a Pro Tools HD hardware.