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. Deals Our friend and plug-in guru Michael Carnes at Exponential Audio is having a sale. Now Exponential Audio sales are rare, perhaps only happening a couple of times a year. Until 22nd June 2…

Russ, Mike and Julian talk about whether our 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. Deals Our friend and plug-in guru Michael Carnes at Exponential Audio is having a sale. Now Exponential Audio sales are rare, perhaps only hap…

Russ, James and Kevin discuss monitor choice, innovation in DAW features and share community feedback and their finds of the week. Deals For the rest of May, our friends at Sonnox are running an exclusive discount for the Production Expert community - An amazing 50% off the Sonnox Elite Bundle, which is made up of The Elite Bundle consists of 7 wor…

In this Podcast Extra interview, Pro Tools Expert Technical Editor James Ivey talks to Producer, Mixing & Mastering Engineer Dax Liniere at his Puzzle Factory Sound Studio in North London that was recently built. Australian Dax is clearly able to turn his hand to most things of a creative nature and the Puzzle Factory is clearly no exception. The f…

Dan, James and Alan discuss Vocal Comping, Studio Errors and share community feedback and their finds of the week. Deals For the rest of May, our friends at Sonnox are running an exclusive discount for the Production Expert community - An amazing 50% off the Sonnox Elite Bundle, which is made up of The Elite Bundle consists of 7 world class plug-in…

In this Podcast Extra for Production Expert, Technical Editor James Ivey sits down with Matt Ward and David 'Saxon' Greenep of Jigsaw24 at the Jigsaw24 London headquarters in Golden Square, to talk about all things Audio Over Internet Protocol or AoIP as it is better known. In this podcast Matt, Saxon and James try their best to cut through the jar…

Dan, James and Julian discuss studio acoustics and Pro Tools bugs, and share community feedback and their finds of the week. Deals Production Expert has teamed up with Signum Audio to offer the community their brand new product - the Bute Loudness Suite at a 20% discount, so that's £199 (ex taxes) for the Surround version and £159 (ex taxes) for th…

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. Deals Production Expert has teamed up with Signum Audio to offer the community their brand new product - the Bute Loudness Suite at a 20% discount, so that's £199 (ex taxes) for the Sur…

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. Deals Production Expert has teamed up with Signum Audio to offer the community their brand new produ…

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. Deals Check out the deals from our Partners in the Partner Deals section of the Deals page. Talking Points Kindly Sponsored By Universal Audio Do your vocal recordings…

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. Deals Check out the deals from our Partners in the Partner Deals section of the Deals page. Talking Points Kindly Sponsored By Universal Audio Do your vocal recordings need more shine? Are you in…

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. Deals Check out the deals from our Partners in the Partner Deals section of the Deals page. Talking Points K…

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 its the gear). They reflect on just how believable our April Fool's story on the new Audio Bin feature on Pro Tools sounds and th…

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. Deals Production Expert has teamed up with Pro Sound Effects to o…

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. Deals Production Expert has teamed up with Pro Sound Effects to off…

In this Podcast Extra Interview, Technical Editor, James Ivey chats with Matt Boudreau, host of the Working Class Audio podcast. Matt has been involved in music for 33 years. First as a drummer then moving behind the class as a mixing engineer, recording engineer and producer. Matt Boudreau grew up in Southern New Mexico, moving to San Francisco in…

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. Deals Production Expert has teamed up with …

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. Deals Production Expert has teamed up with Pro Sound Effects to offer a one-off Exclusive Bundle Deal - The Cinematic Sound Effects Bundle, combining three sound effects libraries by the mas…

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. Deals We've teamed up with e-instruments to offer an exclusive bundle that gives you two amazing Session Keys Grand Pianos at almost two…

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. Deals We've teamed up with e-instruments to offer an exclusive bundle that gives you two amazing Session Keys Grand Pianos at almost two for the price of one! Normally each piano sells f…

James, Alan and Julian discuss shortcuts (not the keyboard kind), the merits of software subscription, competitions, answering questions from the community and sharing their finds of the week. Deals We've teamed up with e-instruments to offer an exclusive bundle that gives you two amazing Session Keys Grand Pianos at almost two for the price of one…

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. Deals Check out the deals from our Partners in the Partner Deals section of the Deals page. Talking Points Kindly Sponsored By Universal Audio Looking to get that big an…

This is a refeed of Eposode 304 with the correct audio. Russ, Mike and Alan get together to digest the news from NAMM 2018, competitions answering questions from the community and sharing our finds of the week. Deals Check out the deals from our Partners in the Partner Deals section of the Deals page. Talking Points Kindly Sponsored By Universal Au…

Russ, Mike and Alan get together to digest the news from NAMM 2018, competitions answering questions from the community and sharing our finds of the week. Deals Check out the deals from our Partners in the Partner Deals section of the Deals page. Talking Points Kindly Sponsored By Universal Audio Looking to get that big analog console sound from yo…

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 and our finds of the week. Deals Check out the deals from our Partners in the Partner Deals section of the Deals page. Talking Points Kindly Sponsored By Universal Audio Looking to get that bi…