In this week’s podcast Julian and Audrey are joined by James Richmond. They discuss mix references. We all have tracks with which we assess and judge our mixes, equipment and environments. Why do we choose particular tracks and what are the reasons behind these choices? They also consider the development of audio recording and ask whether there was a sweet spot and if so, when it happened.

In this week’s podcast Russ and Sara are joined by William Wittman. They discuss mixing, specifically the mistakes they keep seeing, or making. Over-compression? Monitoring too loud? Not using a reference? Confusing louder with better? There are so many pitfalls, which do they single out as their personal bugbear?

In this week’s podcast Julian and Chris are joined by Steve DeMott. They discuss the use of additional screens in the studio, whether carrying Apps which supplement DAWs or anything else and the wisdom of buying cheap equipment.

In this week’s podcast Mike, James and Audrey discuss channel strips and studio security, Do we use channel strip plug-ins or do we create our own from individual EQs and compressors? Is there a sonic benefit in using the same processes across every channel? 

In this week’s podcast Julian and Eli welcome James Richmond to a podcast in which they discuss the relevance of analogue consoles to production work in 2020. Most of us admire them but would we actually use one if it were available. Let alone pay for one and tolerate the running costs?

In this week’s podcast Russ, Dan and Sara are discussing the practicalities of using a laptop as the only computer in a professional studio. Laptops have been suitable for pre-production, songwriting, tracking,  mixing and many other things for a long time but so many of us own a desktop for the studio and a second laptop in addition - Why?

In this week’s podcast Mike and Julian catch up with Emma, who has been busier than she expected. What opportunities are out there for people working in post and are is all the work being done remotely or are parts of the industry starting to adapt to social distancing? Dolby Atmos is here to stay so is it time to get educated? The team discuss…

Like most of us Julian, Dan and Sara are all spending even more time in their studios during lockdown, On this week’s podcast we discuss what we’ve done to ensure our studios don’t damage our bodies, and hopefully our minds. What have we done and what changes would we like to make to create spaces which don’t risk RSI, poor posture and all the other issues extended sedentary work can cause.

James and Julian welcome Chris Vandeviver from Logic Pro Expert to the podcast and discuss monitors, specifically what we are using, what we like and what we’d like to try. Coaxial monitors, Beryllium tweeters and the merits of inexpensive monitors get discussed along with deals, our finds of the week and the inevitable, and unavoidable Coronavirus.

Mike, Dan and Eli swap tips and ideas about production, arrangement and mixing. Vocal tuning, intelligent virtual player plugins, the merits or otherwise of analogue emulations… In these days of few technical limitations do we embrace this freedom or does it make things more difficult to make decisions?