Russ, Mike, James and Dan chat through issues from the week's news as well as the usual tips, tricks and questions answered.

Groove 3 Videos That Grabbed Our Attention This Week

For a limited time you can get the All-Access Pass at an unbelievable price. The All-Access Pass gives you instant access to every video on Groove3, and any that are added during your membership.  1 Year - $100, 2 years $175, and 3 years - $225. 

Competitions

• Win One Of Three Copies Of The New Sonnox Envolution Plug-in
• Win The Avid Pro Tools Dock For iPad - Worth £949/$1199

Deals

• Audified InValve 2 Effects Pack - 3 Plugins For £18 - 49% Discount
• Polyverse I WISH Plug-in £55 - 25% Discount

Talking Points Kindly Sponsored By Universal Audio

Purchase and register any new UAD-2 OCTO PCIe Card or UAD-2 Satellite Thunderbolt OCTO Unit (Core, Custom, or Ultimate) from an authorised UA retailer between January 1st and March 31st, 2016, and get the API Vision Channel Strip, Studer A800 Tape Recorder, and Manley Variable Mu Compressor plug-ins free at product registration. No coupons or redemption codes are necessary. The plug-ins will be automatically added to your account once you register your new UAD-2 OCTO DSP Accelerator hardware.

Is It Time To Abandon 44.1kHz?  

This article from Paul Maunder has created a lot of interest, it haven’t read it do check it out and the debate that has developed from the issues raised by Paul….Where do each of us stand on it?

Producing In Pro Tools - Is Self Production A Good Idea?

Take a listen to our discussion on where we stand on this concept.

Community Feedback Kindly Sponsored by RSPE Audio Solutions

Check out the media and Interview pages on the RSPE site. 

• Phil Moakes wanted to share his experience when he started to get AAE Error 35.
• Brian Russ has valued us sharing our career paths and studio setups and is interested in our views on studio ergonomics. Here is information from the UK National Health Service on How To Sit Correctly.  Also Mike’s article in Sound On Sound
• Grant Hall has a suggestion for a copy.com replacement. He has landed on Hubic which is a EU based cross platform 25GB free and 100 GB is €10 per year and €50 per year for 10TB 

Questions From The Community Sponsored By Create Pro

So….. its on… The Mega UAD-2 Octo test…. Just how many UAD-2 Octo cards can you run at the same time using a Cubix expansion chassis. Well all the gear for this mega test is in shipping so watch this space…. Rich from Create Pro and James are going to get UAD’ed and Cubix’ed up to the max. 

• Eric Rasmusson has been having problems opening older and bigger sessions where Pro Tools 11 freezes. What do we suggest as a solution?
• Jonathan Whitehead wants to know if he can take out his Pro Tools HD cards from his dual processor 2GHz Mac Pro 1.1 and put them into a 3.3GHz Mac Pro 5.1 6 core. 
• Wayde Young is planning to update his Mac Pro 2010 Cheesegrater to a Mac Pro trash can as everything is going USB3 and Thunderbolt. What do we suggest?
  • Sonnet Echo Express III-D Desktop Thunderbolt 2 PCIe Expansion Chassis - Review
  • Audio Shootout Between The PreSonus Studio 192, UA Apollo And Apogee Ensemble Thunderbolt
  • Apogee Announce Symphony I/O Mk II With Thunderbolt, Pro Tools HD And Waves Soundgrid Support

Team Find Of The Week Sponsored Eastwood Sound & Vision

Eastwood Sound & Vision  have taken stock of the brand-new Apogee Symphony I/O MK II Thunderbolt in both 8x8 and 16x16 configurations.  For every purchase you will earn £100 worth of loyalty points to spend on your next order. ESV have also released an in depth video of the Apogee Symphony MK II 

• Russ - Corning 10m optical thunderbolt cable
• Mike - Zoom F8 location recorder
• James - SSL XL Desk….. Might it be heading the way of my studio??? 
• Dan -  The Manic Compressor by Boz Digital. 6 compressors in one

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