In this week’s edition Julian is joined by Ashea, Reid Caulfield and James Richmond. We discuss the announcements made at Apple’s WWDC 2023, particularly the much anticipated Apple Silicon Mac Pro.

Talking Points

• Mac Pro - Who needs it when the Mac Studio exists?
• PCI cards - how relevant in 2023?
• Upgradeable SSD is back (kind of)
• New Mac Studio and M2 Ultra
• Game Mode in macOS Sonoma
• Apple Vision Pro

Find Of The Week

• Julian - Waterhaul
• Ashea -Meta AI Tool
• Reid - Goyo
• James - Auto Bounce

In this week's Podcast Julian and Ashea are joined by Russ Hiughes. they discuss the new releases of May 2023.

Talking points

• Genelec 8381A Monitors Announced | Production Expert
• AIR Music Technology Delay Pro Plugin Released | Production Expert
• Apple Logic Pro For iPad Announced | Production Expert
• Plugin Alliance BX Masterdesk PRO
• Toontrack EZkeys 2 Released

Find Of The Week

Russ - Akai MPC Key 61
Ashea - UMG- AI Startup Partnership
Julian - Mimestream

In this week's Podcast Ashea is joined by Russ Hughes and Alex West, a BBC Radio DJ who works with up and coming bands as part of BBC Introducing. They discuss what makes a radio hit in 2023?

Finds Of The Week

Russ - I/O by Peter Gabriel
Alex - Fizz At Great Escape
Ashea - Slate Digital Storch Filter

In this week's podcast Julian and Ashea are joined by Ary Maudit and Iggy B, both working engineers who spend part of their time working at Strongroom Studios in London. In this podcast we discuss the role of studios in 2023.

Finds Of The Week

• Ashea - Flower Pot Dessert at Bill’s 
• Julian - Mix To Mobile, routing to a Wifi Speaker
• Ary - Bloody Mary
• Iggy - Kara Jackson

in this week’s episode Julian and Ashea are joined by songwriter producer publisher and A&R Greig Watts. We talk about songwriting, the role of producers inthe songwriting process and Eurovision.

Talking Points

• To what extent these days are songs written in a DAW?
• How involved are producers these days in the development of a song and how has that changed over the years?
• How many unfinished songs/tracks do you have on your hard drive and do you ever go back to finish them, if not why would you abandon them?
• When is your favourite time to write, during the day/at night and do you think that can affect your perception?
• How important is the overall mix, production, and song when pitching to labels/publishing?
• Eurovision
• What are 3 plugins that you can’t live without?

Finds Of The Week

Greig -  Jailhouse cafe
Ashea - Softube Model 80
Julian - Christmas Beach Barbecue

In this week's podcast Ashea is joined by Russ Hughes and Reid Caulfield. They discuss the importance of workflow, as inspired  by Russ' article Sound or Workflow - What Matters Most?

Talking points

• Russ, in your article you talk about the importance of workflow, what inspired that article?
• In his recent article on plugins which he uses on every mix Julian found that none of the plugins he listed were there exclusively because of their sound, it came down to familiarity, ubiquity because they were stock plugins or workflow because they were available as AAX DSP plugins, Does this illustrate this point?
• Examples of gear/plugins and have significantly helped speed up or simplify your workflow?
• A.I and how that will help us as producers and engineers.

Find Of The Week

Russ - Acon Digital Dialog Extract
Reid - Soundflow
Ashea -  Waves Superapp Performer

In this week's Podcast Julian and Ashea are joined by Russ Hughes to discuss the new products released in April 2023.

• Toontrack EZkeys 2 Announced
• Neumann MT 48 Audio Interface Announced
• Sound Radix Auto-Align 2 Released
• Antares Auto-Tune EFX+ 10.0 and Auto-Key 2 Released
• Speed Up Collaborative Mixes With Nugen Jotter

Finds Of The Week

Julian - Sonnox Envolution
Ashea - Grimes AI 50% Royalties
Russ - Freakonomics Podcast - Swearing

In this week's episode Julian is joined by Ashea and NAMM stalwart James Ivey to discuss the show and the products which were being shown!

Julian

• Sound Radix Auto Align 2
• Yamaha DM3
• Sound Particles Skydust 3D
• Yamaha CK88

James

• Vangard Audio Labs - Stereo Tube/Valve Condenser Mic
• Nektar CS12 Channel Strip Controller.
• Antelope Audio Atlas i8 Active Speakers
• Fender Rhodes Mk8

Ashea

• Dreamtonics VStudio
• Eclipsed Sounds

In this week's Podcast Julian is joined by Stian Aagedal of Acon Digital. They discuss Plugins, computers, processing and AI.

Finds Of The Week

Stian - MusicLM from Google Research
Julian  - Benidub Audio Electronics Digital Echo

In this weeks edition Julian is joined by Russ and Platinum selling songwriter and producer Ashea. They discuss developments and releases in March, including a discussion of the Waves subscription announcement and subsequent retraction.

• Waves…
• Audient iD24 1st look
• Fabfilter Twin 3 Synth Virtual Instrument - Expert Review
• Pro Tools 2023.3
• Cranborne Audio Carnaby 500 Harmonic EQ Announced

Finds of the Week

Ashea - Musikhack Master Plan
Russ - Cranbourne Audio Camden EC1 Preamp
Julian - The Lazarus Heist