Russ Hughes, Mike Thornton, Neil Hester and James Ivey are back together to bring you a bumper show catching up with talking points, tips, tricks and questions answered.

 Groove 3 Titles We Like

• UAD Fatso Explained everything you need to know about this unique Tape Simulator and Compressor.

Competitions

• Win An Audient ASP880 8 Channel Microphone Preamplifier And ADC

Deals page

• Sounds In Sync EdiLoad v3.2 Offer £336 - 40% Discount ends this week.

• New Deal - Unique Sound Effects Bundle From Tim Nielsen £79 - 22% Discount

Talking Points Kindly Sponsored By Universal Audio  

• Review: Focusrite Red 2 EQ & Red 3 Compressor Plug-ins

• Pro Tools Tip: 10 Pro Tools Keyboard Shortcuts I Use All The Time

• Free Tutorial: Using iZotope Insight For Loudness Metering

• Other loudness news…

  • Mike speaking at BVE in London

  • VSonics VMeters now AAX

  • Nugen Audio Announce Updates for their loudness related products

  • Julian’s article on the Bob Katz K system

  • 5 Things Every Professional Sound Engineer Should Know… For Starters

  • Exponential Audio Reveal Their New Product Excalibur - A Multi-Effects Plug-in

  • User Story: Alan Elliot’s Experiences Using the Avid S3 - Parts 1 to 3

Community Feedback Kindly Sponsored by RSPE Audio Solutions

• Chaz Charlton wanted to share his discovery of Impact Sound Works’ Shreddage 2 guitar sound library

Questions - Kindly Sponsored by Alchemea  

• Josh Doyle asks what system we use to keep track of updates for software and plug-ins. We recommend Plugin Update from Kasrog

• Henry Bowers-Broadbent is having some issues with MIDI clips merging or changing size and wanted to know what is going on?

• Dave Hedin is having occasional CPU spikes in Pro Tools after which the audio is distorted and needs a restart to clear. What do we think the problems is?

• Ryan Miller wants to be able to find out what plug-ins are used in a session without opening the session.

• Alastair Blackwood wants to know how Russ is getting on with his Apogee Ensemble Thunderbolt interface.

Find Of The Week 

• Russ - Exponential Audio Excalibur

• Mike - Unique Sound Effects Bundle From Tim Nielsen £79 - 22% Discount

• Neil - Plugin Alliance 1000 plugins for $100

• James - Mackie DL32R

Team Announcement

Neil Hester has decided to move on and will be stepping down as a team member. We would like to thank you Neil for all you have done for the community.

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