Production Expert Podcast

In this week’s Podcast Julian Rodgers, James Ivey and Audrey Martinovich discuss microphones. Responding to an excellent video produced by Antelope Audio in which studio legend Sylvia Massy goes completely over the top miking Taylor Hawkins’ drums - Excellent!

In this week’s Podcast, Russ Hughes and Julian Rodgers are joined by Mike Exeter. With the return of lockdown conditions in the UK, they discuss what we can all do to look after ourselves both in our work lives and beyond, although the difference between work and home is an increasingly 2019 concept for many of us!

In this week’s Podcast Mike Thornton is joined by Korey Pereira and Chris Roberts. With the return of lockdown conditions in the UK they revisit the subject of remote workflows. How has their experience of remote working in Post been and what have they learned since last year?

In this week’s Podcast Russ Hughes, William Wittman and Chris Vandeviver discuss plugin choice and to what extent peer pressure, Fear Of Missing Out and endorsements influence our choices. It’s tempting to say that the only thing which matters is the sound but can any of us honestly say our choices aren’t influenced by anything else? - Really?

In this week’s Podcast Julian Rodgers, Steve DeMott and James Richmond call out their most mossed discontinued pro audio products, software or hardware. Products often don’t disappear because nobody wants them. What did you miss when it went and would you use it today if it came back?

In this week’s Podcast Mike Thornton, Audrey Martinovich and James Ivey compare notes on Black Friday Weekend. What did we we buy? Big ticket items or sundries?

In this week’s Podcast Julian Rodgers, Eli Krantzberg and James Richmond discuss the release of Apple Silicon based Macs. The potential for performance gains is huge but the practical considerations for such a new development are potentially complex. Who wants one and if so, when?

In this week’s Podcast Russ Hughes, Alan Sallabank and Sara Carter discuss the release of Pro Tools 2020.11 and Pro Tools Carbon. A new audio interface from Avid is something we haven’t seen for years and to see a music focused DSP product along with the most significant Pro Tools release in a while gives the panel a lot to digest.

In this week’s Podcast Mike Thornton, Julian Rodgers and Emma Butt talk about the potential for the new announcement from Townsend Labs about their software fix for reflection filters. Could this be good news for post production?

In this week’s Podcast Julian Rodgers, Sara Carter and William Wittman talk about the role of the engineer and whether one of the most important skills we should develop is learning when to stop?

In this week’s Podcast Julian Rodgers, Steve DeMott and Chris Vandeviver discuss spill in the studio, Whether between mics on a drum kit, that unbelievably loud guitar combo which is all over everything or headphones leaking onto the vocal mic, what do we do to control it and when should we let it… bleed? 

In this week’s Podcast Mike Thornton, James Ivey and Eli Krantzberg discuss the weakness common to the majority of hardware controllers - Plug-in control.

In this week’s Podcast Julian Rodgers, Audrey Martinovich and James Richmond discuss whether technology can address poor tracking spaces? Years ago we would never have believed that we could model a U47 or that RX could ever do what it does. Will we ever be able to call up a useable “Voiceover Booth” preset?

In this week’s Podcast Russ Hughes, Julian Rodgers and Sara Carter discuss their studios and the steps they have taken to make sure they remain healthy and productive. From software tweaks to furniture choice, we spend a lot of time in our studios so how do we make them work for us?

In this Post Production Podcast special Mike Thornton, Emma Butt and Alan Sallabank discuss whether problems with remote working are because because of remote working itself or because of remote working being done badly. Can it work in post production?

With pretty much every part of recording Studios having moved “In the Box” as software, in a new, shorter format podcast Julian Rodgers, Audrey Martinovich and William Wittman discuss what they think is best kept out of the box.

In a new, shorter format podcast Russ Hughes, Sara Carter and James Ivey discuss their first studio setups, what they had and how much they would cost today, the results are surprising!

In a new, shorter format podcast Julian Rodgers, Eli Krantzberg and Chris Vandevivier discuss their audio “lightbulb moments”. Those significant moments  when we notice or learn something about audio which stays with us, learning something new and opening up new ideas.

Mike Thornton, Audrey Martinovich and William Wittman talk about experimentation in the studio. With so much production happening in private studios where the clock isn’t being watched in the same way as it is in a commercial setting, is there more justification for a more open ended approach to recording. Does time pressure keep focus or stifle creativity?

Julian Rodgers, James Richmond and Steve DeMott discuss AVB, how it differs from Dante and how Steve used it to solve a specific problem in his studio. For talking point two a discussion of control surfaces turns into a discussion of Stream Deck. To close they share their finds of the week.

Russ Hughes, James Ivey and Sara Carter share their recording horror stories. As the saying goes, if something can go wrong… To close they share their finds of the week.

Mike Thornton, Julian Rodgers and Emma Butt discuss the importance of training and trainees. What advice do they give to people who are starting out on their audio careers? To close they share their finds of the week.

Mike Thornton, James Richmond and Chris Vanderviver discuss how to make your studio business as profitable as possible. In addition, they talk about the tools they wish they have but aren’t around yet and to close they share their finds of the week.

In this week’s podcast, Julian, Sara and William talk about their experiences of working with orchestral players, either as an orchestra or working with sections of string, brass and woodwind. In addition, they talk about free plug-ins and finds of the week are shared.

In this week’s podcast, Mike, Eli and Steve talk about their buying habits. From semi-necessary guitar purchases to completely unnecessary plugins, we all have gear buying habits which are driven more by our hearts than our heads. Is this a bad thing and could we stop if we wanted to? In addition, the issues presented by recording drums in domestic spaces are discussed and finds of the week are sh...