In this edition Julian & Ashea are joined by Miles Fulwider,  Producer, Engineer & Educator working extensively in Immersive formats and CEO of ADK Microphones. where they discuss how to take the simplistic, ‘less is more’ approach by capturing the best sound at source.  

Talking Points:

• You can’t polish a ****, why capturing the best sound in the recording process will make your life easier.
• Mic and recording techniques for a ‘Grammy’ worthy sound. 
• The only gear you’ll ever need. If we could only use a handful of tools for the rest of our careers, what would they be and why
• How might these approaches and philosophies apply to audio education?
• Applications in immersive audio (such as off-axis freq response). 

Finds of the week:
Julian: Airsound
Ashea:Charli XCX Album- Brat
Miles: Maag PreQ2

In this edition Julian is joined by William Wittman & Steve DeMott, where they discuss transparency vs colour.

Talking Points:

• Coloured Vs Transparent gear,(mics, etc)  when, why and how do you use it?
• Arguments for and against.
• Gear recommendations.

Recommended by Steve: Q2 Audio

Finds of the week:

Julian: New IEMs
William: youtube channel : Sorted Food  
Steve: Netflix DocuSeries - Rise of Empires: Ottoman 

In this week’s edition Julian and  Ashea joined by Anna Bulakh of Respeecher, where they discuss the importance of ethics in AI and how to proceed with caution.

Talking Points:

• What are some of the current threats AI poses in society/the audio and music industry today?
• Synthetic media, voice cloning software and other tools are still in their early stages but are incredibly powerful tools that can all be really useful if used wisely, however there needs to be ethical principles in place. 
• The dangers of Deepfakes
• Provenance.
• Please tell us about Respeecher, what this tool offers and how you are putting ethical practices and policies at the forefront of your company.

Damian’s article On Respeecher 

Finds of the week:
Julian: Now TV has ads
Ashea: Notion App
Anna: Brief History Of AI - Michael Aldridge, Chip War Michael Phillips

In this week's podcast Steve DeMott and William Wittman share their experience of conducting a converter shootout between four alternatives including a DSD unit. Find out how they conducted the test and what they found.

Finds Of The Week

• Julian - Freqport FT-1 Freqtube
• Steve - Tomo Audiolabs LISA dynamic EQ
• William - KIT Plug Ins Mo-Q Equaliser

In this week's episode Julian is joined by Mike Exeter and Dom Morley, these two Grammy winners share their thoughts on mixing with particular reference to Russ' recent article 3 Reasons You Think Your Mixes Aren't As Good As Other People's.

Finds Of The Week

Mike - The Sparks Brothers
Dom - Sessionwire
Julian - PreSonus Revelator Mic

In this week's episode Julian is joined by Russ and James Richmond as they discuss the new products and releases of April. There were a lot, including some significant releases!

Finds of The Week

Russ - PG-8X 2.0
James - Fabfilter Pro-G
Julian - Avid SynthCell

In this week's episode Julian speaks. with Nir Averbuch, CEO and co-founder of Sound Radix, one of the most innovative plugin companies out there.

Finds Of The Week

Nir - Midnight Asia
Julian - Somebody Feed Phil - Tel Aviv

In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Daniel Rowland from LANDR to discuss what this company do and why they do it. You probably know about he mastering already but there's much more to say here.

Find Of The Week

Daniel - dopr
Julian - Waves Clarity Vx

In this episode Julian speaks with Andrew Scheps about Bounce Factory, his new software which automates even the most complex bouncing tasks from Pro Tools

Finds Of The Week

Andrew: Freakshow Industries Plugins

Julian: UAD Spark

In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Russ and Dom Morley who share their thoughts on the new products released in March 2022.

Finds Of The Week:

In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Mark Wherry and Russ Hughes who discuss the new Mac Studio, Studio Display and Logic's update.

Finds Of The Week

Mark - Mac Studio
Russ - Waves Clarity Vx, The Dropout
Julian - Logic 10.7.3

In this week's episode Thomas Koritke and Iain Horrocks from e-instruments join Julian. they share the story of the company and their sampled instruments including the extraordinary lengths they had to go to to sample some very valuable Italian violins in Cremona.

 Finds Of The Week

Iain - Tape Notes Podcast
Thomas - David Byrne's American Utopia
Julian - Tease Announcement Of New Mac Pro

In this week's episode we have Tim Carroll, CEO of Focusrite as our guest. We discuss the history and future of the company, the products and the customers who make Focusrite and the associated brands in the Focusrite group what it is today.

Finds of the week:

Tim - Bright Sparks, YouTube documentary on Tom Oberheim created by G Force
Julian - Midiflow Splitter, iOS app for creating keyboard splits with iPad instruments

In this week's edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Steve DeMott, where they discuss the music industry Gatekeepers of today, who are they and are they worse?

Talking Points:

• Social Media age and the “democratization” of the industry.
• Labels vs the new A.I/Digital gatekeepers
• Youtube, Google and artist revenue

Finds of the week:
Julian: High Strung/Nashville Strings
Ashea: MCenter
Steve: Pulsar 1178 

In this week's episode Julian is joined by Mike Exeter and Russ Hughes to discuss the new gear announced in February 2022 including the new mics from Universal Audio, Waves' CR8 and Cosmos and the PSP Impressor.

Finds Of the Week

Russ - Modo Drums
Mike - Origin Effects Bassrig
Julian - We Are England - When The Boats Come In

In this episode Julian is joined by Russ Hughes who expands on his thoughts on the future of the DAW as proposed in his recent article Is The DAW As We Know It Heading For Extinction?

Finds Of The Week:
Russ - Dopesick
Julian - This video of the TC Helicon Voicelive Touch 2 in use!

In this episode Steve DeMott hosts a discussion with Kevan Gallagher, William Wittman and Russ Hughes about songwriting.

In this episode Julian is joined by Dom Morley and Russ Hughes to discuss the new products announced in Januaury

In this week's episode Julian is joined by Nathaniel Reichman and Mark M Thompson. They discuss the role of Albums in a streaming world.

In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Damian Kearns and Steve DeMott. Experienced post and music mixers respectively, and we examine the differences and similarities between the two career paths.

In this week's episode, the first of 2022, Julian, Russ and James Richmond look at the highs and lows of the year just passed.

Back in 2012 Russ sat down with Steven Slate to talk about his work in production, Slate drums and analogue modelled plug-ins.

In this week’s edition Julian and  Ashea are joined by Reid Caulfield, where they discuss a recent article from the LA Times and ask ‘Is AI coming for our jobs, and should we be worried?’

Talking Points:

LA Times Article:
https://www.latimes.com/.../ai-artificial-intelligence...

From the article:

"In the music and sound-recording industry, the tasks most likely to  be affected by AI are voice generation and cloning, music generation and  recording and lyrics composition,  followed by mastering, mixing and  tools programming, according to the study.

More than 50% of survey  participants anticipated that AI would displace sound designers in the  next three years, while more than 40% saw AI coming for music editors,  audio technicians and sound engineers. Roughly a third of respondents  predicted a similar fate for songwriters, composers and studio  engineers."

Our thoughts on the survey

Bearing this in mind how should audio professional go about keeping themselves valuable (better than A.I)?

How can we use A.I to our advantage?

Finds of the week:
Julian: PSI Audio A17-M
Ashea: Landscape With Invisible Hand
Reid: Altiverb 8, Arrival

In this episode Julian is joined by Russ and William Wittman to discuss the new products released in November 2021. 

In this week's episode Julian is joined by Mike Exeter and Dom Morley for a discussion on Intention in mixing. We spend so much time discussing how to do mixes but less time on how we decide what needs doing in the first place! Two experts help unpack the issues. 

In this week's episode Julian is joined by Emre Ramazanoglu and Edgar Rothermich, both people with knowledge of and experience in mixing music for Dolby Atmos. They bring fascinating insight into this rapidly developing area which will affect anyone mixing music today.

In this week's episode Damian Kearns talks to Justin Webster of the Cargo Cult, the company behind products such as Envy, Spanner and Slapper. As well as a discussion of some of the most innovative products available to Post mixers the interview is also interrupted by an earthquake! (really)

You might have seen the job title music editor on a credit roll and wondered what a music editor does and perhaps wondered why do we need music editors? To help us understand, in this week’s Production Expert podcast, we are joined by two music editors: Paul Apelgren and Nathaniel Reichman.

In this week’s edition, we are joined by Bob Katz and Rob Byers to discuss the new updated audio streaming and on-demand services tech recommendations TD1008 from the AES, which we explored recently on Production Expert. 

In this week's episode Julian is joined by Russ and Damian as they look over the product releases from October and pronounce them to be "hit", "miss" or occasionally "hiss" (should that be "mit"?).

In this episode Julian is joined by William Wittman and Steve DeMott for a discussion on songwriting. With free and unrestricted access to studios and more and more music being written directly into the timeline of a DAW, what do we gain and is anything lost?

In this week's podcast Julian is joined by Russ Hughes and Katie Tavini and they discuss clients - How to get good ones and how to make sure everyone leaves happy after a successful project.

On request of our listeners. In this week's episode Ashea is joined by Russ Hughes and Paul Maunder where they give tried and tested advice on  how to make a living in today's audio industry.


Talking Points:

• What was your first pro gig and how did that come about?
• Getting work in a traditional studio setting
• Freelancing
• Types of clients and how to deal with them
• Balancing a day job
• When/how to transition into full time

Finds of the week:

Ashea: All You Need To Know About The Music Business
Russ: Criminal Record Show , i73 Pro
Paul: Deity Theos digital radio mics

In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Audrey Martinovich and Luke Goddard. In this week’s podcast we’re discussing approaches and techniques for recording acoustic instruments and the musicians who play them.

In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Mike Exeter and Koery Pirera. As September is all but passed we’re going to talk about what’s happened in Pro Audio in the last month.

In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Damian Kearns and James Richmond. This week we are talking about things in the studio we think are still worth doing the hard way - outside the computer.

In this week’s podcast, in this week’s edition, Julian joined by Mark Wherry and Russ Hughes. With the recent release of Studio One 5.4, a fully native version of a DAW other than Apple’s Logic Pro for Apple Silicon we are going to discuss the performance gains such a move has indicated and what this means for workflows and user experience.

Note On Audio Quality - The quality of Mark’s audio suffered a little on its journey to us from LA. Please bear with it as what he says is well worth hearing.

In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Korey Pereira and Steve DeMott. We discuss sounds we can’t, or won’t, hear. From the merits of high sampling rates to the effect of lossy compression, should we be worrying about stuff no-one will hear?

In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Luke Goddard and Robbie Dwyer. Two Pro Tools users who are happy to use whichever DAW gets the job done. We discuss what life is like outside out personal comfort zones.

In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by James Ivey and Gareth Young. Both guests are at opposite ends of significant builds and share their experience in the planning and execution of a recording studio project.

In this week’s podcast, Mike is joined by Damian Kearns and Chris Roberts to talk about dialogue editing. From acquisition, through editing and processing to output and deliverables, how do these experts approach their dialogue?

In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by Mark Wherry and James Richmond to talk about the future of computers in audio. Do they do what we need them to and how might they change over the next few years?

In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by by William Wittman and Damian Kearns to talk about DAWs in the broadest sense. Do they offer the tools we actually need?

In this week’s edition Julian & Ashea are joined by Oliver Thomas and Maurice Patist from PMC.

Talking Points:

PMC & its history - background of company

Relationship with UGM/Dolby

PMC and suitability for Immersive - any particular features which you think make them particularly suitable?

How does an ATL differ from a ported or band pass cabinet in performance?

PMC and DSP, Network Control

What, if anything, can you share about future developments at PMC?

Finds of the week:
Julian: Focusrite Vocaster Two
Ashea: Crumple Pop Plosive Remover
Maurice: Voyage Audio Spatial Mic, Julia Holter Something In The Room She Moves
Oliver: Audient Oria

In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by by Mike Thorne and Steve DeMott to talk about moving to Dolby Atmos as a music mixer.

In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by by Mike Exeter and Luke Goddard to talk about the use and abuse of processing in the studio.

In this week’s podcast, Julian is joined by by Mike Thornton and Russ Hughes to talk about how to stay healthy in the studio.