Pro Tools Podcast

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 also discuss the new features in the release 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 are discussing compression and reverb this week. they talk about parallel compression and ask whether it gets over-used. They talk reverb - what are their go-to reverbs and are there any they overlook? They answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.

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.

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 and they discuss why checking mixes in mono is more important than ever. They also answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.

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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 answer your questions. 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 as well as answering some of your questions.

Russ, Mike and Julian talk about whether our home-based 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 finds of the week.

Russ, James and Kevin discuss monitor choice and innovation in DAW features, and share community feedback and their finds of the week.

Dan, James and Alan discuss Vocal Comping, Studio Errors and share community feedback and their finds of the week.

Dan, James and Julian discuss studio acoustics and Pro Tools bugs, and share community feedback and their finds of the week.

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.

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 from the community and share their finds of the week.

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.

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.

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.