Mike, James 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.Podcast Sponsor - Smart StudioOur sponsors for July are Smart Studio. Smart Studio are disrupting the studio design and build industry with their new modular concept. They design and build your studio off-site and then assemble it in your chosen space. It reduces both time and cost of building a professional recording studio and means you are up and running and making money faster! Visit the Smart Studiowebsite to find out more.DealsBlue Cat Audio Destructor: This month we are giving you the opportunity to get 30% off Blue Cat's powerful distortion and amp plug-in Destructor - Get For £63Blue Cat Audio MB-7 v3 Mixer: This month we are giving you the opportunity to get 25% off Blue Cat's clever MB-7 v3 mixer plug-in that allows users to host VST and AU plug-in in Pro Tools - Get For £85Also, don’t forget to check out deals from our Partners in the Partner Deals section on our Deals page.Talking Points Kindly Sponsored By Universal AudioOffer extended until 31st August 2017 -  Buy any award-winning Apollo rackmount audio interface and get an analog dream studio filled with up to $3,500 of genuine UAD plug-ins from Studer, Lexicon, AKG, Pultec, Fairchild, Teletronix, and more! Buy an Apollo Duo or Apollo Firewire and get a plugin bundle worth $1200, buy an Apollo 8P, Apollo 8 Quad, or Apollo 16 and get a plugin bundle worth $2000, or buy any 2 Apollo rack mounted interfaces, and get a plugin bundle worth $3500. For more details please visit the Universal Audio website.How Bullshit Took Over The Recording Industry - Why Critical Thinking Matters  If I Had To Buy My First Pro Tools Home Studio Today On A £3,000 Student Budget - What Would I Buy?CompetitionsWin one of three copies of TrainYourEars, EQ Edition 2, frequency ear training software, which is a standalone application for both Mac and PC, designed to help you understand equalisers and frequencies like never before.Don’t forget to check out our Win page, to discover more opportunities to win pro audio software and gear from our Partners, in the Partner Win section, on our Win page.Community Feedback Kindly Sponsored by RSPE Audio SolutionsOur friends at RSPE Audio Solutions invite you to join Grammy award-winning engineer Mick Guzauski (Daft Punk, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and way more) and Antelope Audio for an exclusive inside look at Orion32 HD and FPGA FX! On this Thursday 20th July. At the event you will learn about Antelope’s newest devices: Orion32 HD, Zen Studio+, Orion Studio Rev.2017 & Goliath HD. Experience Antelope’s FPGA FX and emulations. There will also be a Q&A session with Mick & a Zen Studio+ Giveaway (must be present to win). Note that seats are limited. RSVP Today to secure your spot. If you can’t make the event in person, not to worry, RSPE will be streaming in on YouTube. Just subscribe to RSPE on YouTube and be you will be notified when the event goes live on the RSPE YouTube channel. Anthony Dominello, perhaps better known to the community as “Proposal Guy” As he proposed to his wife on the podcast and he is now “happily married guy”!  Anthony wanted to share his experience using the Dialog Isolate module in iZotope’s RX6.  He was able to pull out almost unintelligible speech from a music bed.Work In Surround Audio And Have A 5.1 Monitoring System? We Need Your HelpRecently we posted the article Shootout - The Best Upmix Plug-ins - Can You Tell The Difference? ( ) which is a blind listening test, comparing three market-leading Upmixer plug-ins. Immersive Sound is big news at the moment. With expanded surround workflows being integrated into Pro Tools HD and major broadcasters only accepting and distributing 5.1 mixes, the role and use of upmix plug-ins have become increasingly rel