Pro Tools Podcast

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. 

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.