Russ, Mike, Neil and James bring you another show with talking points, tips, tricks and questions answered.

 Groove 3 Titles We Like

• Groove 3 have their White December sale including the All Access Pass $99 for the year

• Virtual Mix Rack Explained from our old friend Eli Krantzberg

• Eiosis AirEQ Explained also from Eli Krantzberg

Review Of 2014 And Looking Forward To 2015 Podcast Specials

We will be doing two special podcasts over the holiday period. The first that will be in a week’s time will be our review of 2014. We will be sharing ours, but please let us have yours and also recording disasters and triumphs too. Please the Contact page on the site. 

Then at the beginning of January we will be looking forward to what 2015 will bring. Do you have any new years resolutions, or hopes and dreams for 2015? If so do share them but please tell us have them this week as well.

Competitions

• 5 Chances To Win An Editors Keys Dual Layer Pop Filter & Blast Shield

Deals page

• Pro Tools Expert Exclusive Loops & Samples Bundle From ModeAudio £60 - 50% off

• Bad Cat Samples’ Bad Cat Pack - 6 Sample Packs Bundled Together £42 - 33% Discount

Talking Points Kindly Sponsored By Universal Audio  

• Buy an Apollo before 31 December this year and receive up to 5 free plug-ins valued at up to $1295 or buy a 4-710d Mic Pre and get a FREE UAD-2 Quad DSP Accelerator (PCIe or Satellite) Also New UAD version 7.11 software featuring new Manley Stereo Variable Mu Limiter Compressor

• Audio Equipment Manufacturers - It’s Time To Take Fan Noise Seriously

• Help Please With Audio Quality Control (QC) Issues With “Audio Tics”

• Pro Tools Expert Control Surface Survey - Complete Results Available To Download

• Which Is The Best VO Mic? - The Pro Tools Expert Voiceover Microphone Shoot Out Blind Listening Test - Part 1

• Apogee Ensemble Thunderbolt Review - Thunderbolt 2 Audio Interface For Mac

• Drobo Mini External Hard Drive Review And Tested With Pro Tools

Community Feedback Kindly Sponsored by RSPE Audio Solutions

• Check out the December Deals at RSPE including offers from McDSP, Waves, Sonnox, Universal Audio and more.

• Jared Steinfeld comments that since he moved to Pro Tools he has found the Artist series of controllers were much more unreliable.

• Jacob Clayton shares a tip for double mixing guitar cabinets and mixing them that he found by accident.

• Help for Lorenzo please. He would like advice and help of exporting from FCP to Digital Performer. Russ suggested the MOTU forum. Also he is prepared to pay for some tutorials. If you can help then contact us using the Contact page on the site. 

• Justin B asked about loudness of production music mixes following Mike’s loudness videos.

Questions - Kindly Sponsored by Alchemea  

• Dates have been announced for the Summer 2015 courses in association with Sample Magic

• Alan Sallabank who is a Windows evangelist for Pro Tools.  He reached out to us as he is buying a refurbished MacBook Pro for a mobile Pro Tools rig and what tips and utilities would we recommend. For Antivirus recommended a feature from MacWorld

Find Of The Week 

• Mike - Avastor XR4 rack mount trayless solution 

• Neil - Alex Shore JP4C Free Reaktor SuperSaw Ensemble

• James - BasKey drum mat markers

• Russ - Apogee Ensemble Thunderbolt

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