Production Expert Podcast

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...

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?