Russ Hughes, Mike Thornton, James Ivey and Julian Rodgers bring you a bumper show catching up with talking points, tips, tricks and questions answered.

Groove 3 Titles We Like

• Studio One Effects Explained from our own Marcus Huyskens

• Pro Tools Power User

Competitions

• Winner of An Audient ASP880 8 Channel Microphone Preamplifier And ADC

• Win One Of Ten LVC Audio Limiter Bundles

• Win One Of Two Copies Of Antares New Auto-Tune 8

Deals page

• Virtual CZ From Plugin Boutique £37 - 35% Discount

• Zplane Vielklang Instant Harmony V2.0 Plug-in £59 - 26% Discount

Talking Points Kindly Sponsored By Universal Audio  

• Audient ASP880/Midas XL48 Shootout - The Results

• Sub £1000/$1500 8 Channel Mic Preamps Round Up

• Air Display Updated To V3 With USB Connectivity To Compete With Duet Display

• G-Technology Release G-Raid Drives Using Enterprise Class 6TB or 8TB Drives

• The Little Things - Our Clients Don’t Know When We’ve Done Them But We Do

• Mackie DL32R Preview At NAMM 2015

• A-Z Of Pro Tools - N Is For New Tracks, Nudge, Numeric Keypad And “N”

• Update on the transition to the new version of the site.

Community Feedback Kindly Sponsored by RSPE Audio Solutions

• Espen Hollund enjoys entering mixing contests and he came across a site run by Brent called Mixing Contests

• David Topple wanted to offer a revolutionary new way of collaborating that he would like to suggest Avid might want to investigate further.

• Garrett Miller has found a backwards compatible issue with the new Slate Digital VCC 2.0, not being able to open projects with VCC v1.0 because VCC 2 is inside VMR.

Questions - Kindly Sponsored by Alchemea  

• Lorenzo Arese wants to ask how to be able to compare two selections?

• Johnny Smillie asks because some of us have Slate MTi control surfaces, do they support Touch with Waves ad SSL plug-ins?

• Baz Weston is considering downsizing to an Apogee Thunderbolt Ensemble and wanted to benefit from Russ’s experience with his Ensemble.

• Adrien Maljean is having problems with side chaining and delay compensation and would our advice.

• Glenn Skinner would like our advice on using the latest version of Pro Tools with Mavericks.

Find Of The Week 

• Russ - A new plug-in coming from UAD

• Mike - G-Technology Release G-Raid Drives Using Enterprise Class 6TB or 8TB Drives

• James - Mackie DL32R Rack mounted mixer.

• Julian - Has Espen Hollund looked at a Big library of multitracks of all sizes for educational use, all free put together by Mike Senior.

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